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Literacy Knowledge Feb 2021

Total questions: 49

Worksheet time: 42mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following students is demonstrating the specific type of phonological awareness known as phonemic awareness?

a)

A student who, after being shown a letter of the alphabet, can orally identify its corresponding sound(s).

b)

A student who listens to the words sing, ring, fling, and hang and can identify that hang is different.

c)

A student who, after hearing the word hat, can orally identify that it ends with the sound /t/

d)

A student who listens to the word magazine and can determine that it contains three syllables.

2.

As students begin to read, the ability to blend phonemes orally contributes to their reading development primarily because it helps students:

a)

recognize and understand sight words in a text.

b)

use knowledge of letter-sound correspondence to decode words.

c)

guess the meaning of unfamiliar words from their context.

d)

divide written words into onsets and rimes.

3.

Phonemic awareness contributes most to the development of phonics skills in beginning readers by helping them:

a)

recognize different ways in which one sound can be represented in print.

b)

count the number of syllables in a written word.

c)

identify in spoken language separate sounds that can be mapped to letters.

d)

understand the concept of a silent letter.

4.

Which of the following first-grade students has attained the highest level of phonemic awareness?

a)

a student who, after hearing the word hot and the sound /ĭ/, can substitute /ĭ/for /ŏ/ to make the word hit

b)

a student who can orally segment the word wonderful into won-der-ful

c)

a student who after hearing the words fish and fun, can identify that they both begin with the same phoneme, /f/

d)

a student who can orally segment the word train into its onset and rime

5.

A kindergarten teacher asks a small group of students to repeat after her. First, she says the word grape and then pronounces it as gr and ape. Next, she says the word take and then pronounces it as t and ake. This activity is likely to promote the students' phonemic awareness primarily by:

a)

helping them recognize distinct syllables in oral language.

b)

encouraging them to divide words into onsets and rimes.

c)

teaching them how to distinguish between consonants and vowels.

d)

promoting their awareness of letter-sound correspondence.

6.

A teacher shows a student pictures of familiar objects. As the teacher points to the first picture, she asks the student to name the object in the picture. Next, she asks the student to count on his fingers the number of sounds he makes as he says the word again. This activity is most likely to promote which of the following?

a)

understanding of the alphabetic principle

b)

phonemic awareness skills

c)

development of letter-sound correspondence

d)

word identification skills

7.

A fourth-grade student reads on grade level. However, the student often misspells the same words in everyday writings. The following list shows examples of typical errors the student makes: girl/gril; instead/intead; decided/decideded; independent/indepednent;


The student's overall spelling performance suggests that the student most likely has a weakness in which of the following foundational skills?

a)

detecting syllable boundaries in words

b)

sounding out and blending letter-sounds to make words

c)

discriminating between a word's root morpheme and affixes

d)

segmenting and sequencing phonemes in words

8.
Phonics is 
a)
study of the sound system
b)
An emphasis of sound to symbol relationship
c)
An individual unit of sound
d)
the context processor
9.

Phonological Awareness is

a)

Individual unit of sound

b)

Matching sounds to letters and patterns.

c)

The ability to notice, think about, and manipulate sounds in words

d)

the study of the sound system of languages

10.

How many syllables in the word slivers?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

11.
Which of the following is an example of phoneme segmentation?   
a)
a. a child telling his teacher that the first sound in run is /r/
b)
b. a child sounding out an unknown word ("/b/ /e/ /s/ /t/ ... best")
c)
c. a child telling his teacher there are four sounds in truck, /t/ /r/ /u/ /ck/
d)
d. a child telling his teacher that the last sound in cup is /p/ 
12.

Which of the following is an example of phonics?

a)

a. a child telling his teacher that the first sound in run is /r/

b)

b. a child sounding out an unknown word ("/b/ /e/ /s/ /t/ ... best")

c)

c. a child telling his teacher there are four sounds in truck, /t/ /r/ /u/ /ck/

d)

d. a child telling his teacher that the last sound in cup is /p/

13.

How many phonemes are in the word 'fox'?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

14.

1. What 3 letters will change C to the /s/ sound and G to /j/ within words? ____, _____, and _____.

a)

ei, ey, and oy

b)

e, i, u

c)

e, i, y

d)

a, i, y

15.

What is the purpose of the K in frolicking, panicking, and mimicking?

a)

To keep i from changing c to /s/.

b)

To make it look right.

c)

To make it easier to read.

d)

Because the words are Latin-based.

16.

English words do not end in what 4 letters?

a)

i, u, v, j

b)

i, g, v, f

c)

u, o, p, v

d)

i, v, f, j

17.

When is the only time dge is used to spell the /j/ sound at the end of a word?

a)

After a long vowel sound

b)

In a one syllable word

c)

After a vowel team

d)

Right after a short vowel

18.

What sound does y make at the end of a one syllable word like cry?

a)

/ee/

b)

/ie/

c)

/oe/

d)

/ue/

19.

Is u acting like a vowel when it is next to q in a word?

a)

yes

b)

no

20.

Which is not a characteristic of reading fluency?

a)

accurate, effortless, and automatic word identification

b)

scooping or chunking

c)

decoding

d)

prosody

e)

reading rate

21.

Oil, out, and down are all examples of ...

a)

vowel digraphs

b)

consonant blends

c)

r controlled vowels

d)

diphthongs

22.

Reading with the proper expression, timing, phrasing, emphasis, and intonation is called

a)

automaticity

b)

prosody

c)

chunking

23.

This is an informal assessment procedure with high reliability that informs teachers regarding students’ decoding development.

a)

PALs

b)

Running Record

c)

Acadience

d)

Progress monitoring

24.

Under the umbrella of phonological awareness, this is the ability to (orally) recognize and manipulate phonemes in a word, such as segmenting a word into phonemes (“bag” is b-a-g) or blending phonemes to make a word (p-o-t is “pot”).

a)

Rhyming

b)

Syllables

c)

Phonemic Awareness

d)

Onset and Rime

25.

Reading the same text at least five practice repetition that leads to automaticity

a)

Paired Reading

b)

Repeated Reading

c)

Echo Reading

d)

Silent Sustained Reading (SSR)

26.

The level at which a student is completely unable to read with adequate word identification or comprehension. 89% or lower

a)

Independent

b)

Instructional

c)

Frustration

27.

Teacher: Which word doesn't belong? run, rake, toy

Student : Toy doesn't belong because it begins with /t/

This is an example of ...

a)

phoneme isolation

b)

phoneme deletion

c)

phoneme categorization

d)

phoneme addition

28.

Teacher: The word is run. Change /n/ to /t/. What's the new word?

Student: The new word is rut.

a)

phoneme substitution

b)

phoneme addition

c)

phoneme deletion

d)

phoneme blending

29.

The oral miscues, repetition and self-correction, are not counted as errors on a Running Record.

a)

True

b)

False

30.

What type of syllable in spin?

a)

Open

b)

Closed

c)

long vowel, sile-e

d)

Vowel team

31.

Which syllable type if found in thief?

a)

vowel-r

b)

Closed

c)

long vowel, sllent-e

d)

Vowel team

32.

What type of syllable is /ze/ in zero?

a)

Open

b)

vowel-r

c)

long vowel, silent-e

d)

Vowel team

33.

What type of syllable is /ro/ in robot

a)

Open

b)

vowel team

c)

Consonant +le

d)

long vowel, silent-e

34.

What type of syllagle is vine?

a)

Open

b)

Closed

c)

long vowel, silent-e

d)

Vowel team

35.

Which of the following words contains a schwa sound?

a)

baited

b)

through

c)

found

d)

happen

36.

Which of the following words is irregularly spelled?

a)

fig

b)

the

c)

crunch

d)

energy

37.

Which word is irregularly spelled?

a)

drop

b)

dive

c)

done

d)

dog

38.

Choose the best answer:

A morpheme has

a)

just meaning and no grammatical function

b)

grammatical function or meaning

c)

grammatical function but no meaning

d)

smallest part of a word that can have a meaning

39.

How many morphemes are in childhood?

a)

1

b)

3

c)

2

40.

What's the correct morphological representation in

REPEATED

a)

repeat - ed

b)

re - peat - ed

c)

re - peated

41.

Identify the FREE morpheme

Autograph

a)

auto

b)

graph

42.

What's the correct morphological representation in preschoolers?

a)

pre - schooler - s

b)

pre - school - er - s

c)

preschool - er - s

d)

pre - school - ers

43.

Name (first and last)

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44.

School

4 lines
45.

University you attended for bachelors degree

4 lines
46.

What grade do you teach?

4 lines
47.

How many years have you taught?

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48.

List three prompts that would be most helpful to this student:


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49.

List three prompts that would be helpful for this student.

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