Which is NOT true about reading?

•  It is an innate skill

• It offers diverse perspectives.

•  It is an endless imagination.

• It is a gateway to vast knowledge.

Which of the following is NOT a benefit of reading for children?

•  It keeps them safe.

•  It builds independence.

•  It expands their vocabulary.

• It restrains cognitive development.

Which term refers to the ability to recognize and differentiate between visual stimuli such as matching identical letters, words, numbers, pictures, designs, and shapes?

• Visual Discrimination

• Object and Letter Recognition

• Visual Closure

• Spatial Relation

Which is an essential skill for students to understand the relationship between letters and sounds in acquiring word recognition?

• Fluency

• Phonics

• Orthographic Mapping

•  Phonological Awareness

What did Cregan identify as the child's first most important and most frequently used structured medium of communication in 1998?

• Experience

• Phonological Skills

• Oral Language

• Written/Printed Symbols

Which of the following is NOT a component of phonological awareness?

• Rhyming

• Segmenting

•  Blending

• Comprehension

What is the term for the ability to understand that words are made up of individual sounds?

• Phonics and Fluency

• Phonemic Awareness

• Phonological Awareness

•  Oral Language Development

Which of the following tasks is Phonemic Isolation?

• How many sounds do you hear in "write"?

• Tell me the first sound in "hill".

• Tell the sound that is the same in bike, boy, bell.

• Tell me the word that does not belong in the group: gate, gift, seek.

Which is NOT true in teaching phonics?

• There are 4 basic stages in which phonics is taught.

• The 2nd stage in teaching phonics is segmenting.

• The first sounds that are taught are m, o, p, s and t.

• Blending stage is the opposite of the segmenting stage.

What is the term for a collection of familiar words in a person's language that is essential for communication?

• Vocabulary

• Comprehension

• Letter Recognition

• Phonemic Awareness