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Foundations of Reading

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Match the 4 types of cueing systems with their descriptions.

a)

 semantic cueing system

1.

readers use both the picture in the book and his prior knowledge to make sense of the text

b)

syntactic cueing system

2.

readers select words that sound right using knowledge of grammar and sentence structure

c)

graphophonic cueing system

3.

they use knowledge of letter/sound relationships to decode words

d)

pragmatic cues

4.

readers consider their purposes for reading in given situations

2.

What is the smallest unit of spoken sound?

(a)  

3.

In what order do phonological skills develop?

a)

The ability to rhyme

b)

The ability to break words into syllables

c)

The ability to manipulate onsets and rimes

d)

Phoneme isolation and other phonemic awareness skills

1)
2)
3)
4)
4.

Environmental print is the print people see in their everyday lives. Select all the examples of environmental print.

a)

Restaurant logos

b)

Food packaging

c)

Street signs

d)

Teacher prepared word walls

5.

Match the following

a)

Implicit phonics instruction

1.

uses a whole-to-part approach, with students reading whole texts rather than isolated words

b)

Explicit phonics instruction

2.

progresses from part to whole, leads to stronger decoding, spelling, and comprehension skills.

c)

Alphabetic principle

3.

 understanding that each letter of the alphabet makes a predictable sound

d)

Phonological awareness

4.

the ability to identify and manipulate sounds in words

e)

Automaticity

5.

the ability to recognize whole words quickly and effortlessly

6.

 ____________allows students to match their reading rate and expression with others in the group who are modeling fluent reading, including the teacher.

a)

Silent reading

b)

Choral reading

c)

Home reading

d)

Shared reading

7.

Match the following

a)

morpheme

1.

the smallest unit of language with meaning

b)

phoneme

2.

the smallest unit of speech

c)

grapheme

3.

 a letter or group of letters representing a single sound

d)

syllable

4.

a unit of spoken language in a word that contains a single uninterrupted sound

8.

Because scapegoat is a compound word, it is likely that Maria will at least recognize the word goat. This leaves a smaller portion of the word to decode. This decoding strategy is called

a)

chunking

b)

blending

c)

inventing

d)

guessing

9.

Match the following

a)

figurative language in which the entire phrase has a unique meaning that cannot be determined from the meanings of the individual words

1.

idiom

b)

short, well-known sayings that offer wisdom or advice

2.

proverbs

c)

a figure of speech used to compare two things using like or as

3.

simile

d)

a figure of speech used to compare two things without the use of like or as

4.

metaphor

10.

Story maps help students to comprehend

a)

Science books

b)

Test instructions

c)

Fictional texts