CANNON TRUST SCHOOL I EXAM 2
COMPREHENSIVE SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEED TO PASS
◉ phonetics. Answer: the study of speech sounds in spoken
language
◉ phonological awareness. Answer: the ability to focus on units of
sound in spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and
phoneme levels
◉ phonemic awareness. Answer: awareness of speech sounds or
phonemes in spoken words
◉ phonics. Answer: instruction that connects sounds and letters
◉ synthetic phonics. Answer: explicitly teaches individual
grapheme-phoneme correspondences before they are blended to
form syllables or whole words
◉ alphabetic principle. Answer: the understanding that spoken
sounds are represented in print by written letters
,◉ consonant. Answer: blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class
of speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
◉ vowel. Answer: open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech
sounds produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
◉ phonology. Answer: the rules that determine how sounds are used
in spoken language
◉ fluency. Answer: reading with rapidity and automaticity with
prosody
◉ prosody. Answer: the rhythmic flow of oral reading
◉ pragmatics. Answer: set of rules that dictate communicative
behavior and use of language, rules we communicate by
◉ syntax. Answer: sentence structure, grammar, usage
◉ semantics. Answer: content of language, used to express
knowledge of the world around us - meaning
◉ phoneme. Answer: smallest unit of sound in a syllable
,◉ spelling. Answer: sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme,
connect grapheme to phoneme
◉ orthography. Answer: the spelling of written language
◉ orthographic memory. Answer: memory of letter patterns and
word spellings
◉ metalinguistics. Answer: awareness of language as an entity
◉ guided discovery. Answer: a method of leading students to new
learning through questioning
◉ Heuristic. Answer: means to discover by demonstration
◉ grapheme. Answer: a letter or letter cluster that represents a
single speech sound
◉ decoding. Answer: word recognition in which the phonetic code is
broken down to determine a word
, ◉ blending. Answer: fusing individual sounds, syllables or words
into meaningful units
◉ reading. Answer: symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
◉ morpheme. Answer: the smallest meaningful unit of language - a
suffix, prefix, root or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part
such as cat, man. etc.
Knowledge of word meaning, rapid word recognition, and spelling
ability greatly depend on knowledge of word structure at the level of
morphemes.
◉ morphology. Answer: the study of word formation patterns,
meaningful units that make words
◉ fricative. Answer: a sound produced by forcing air through a
narrow opening between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
◉ nasal sound. Answer: a sound produced by forcing air out through
th nose / n / / m /
◉ continuant sound. Answer: a sound prolonged in its production /
m//s//f/
COMPREHENSIVE SCRIPT 2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEED TO PASS
◉ phonetics. Answer: the study of speech sounds in spoken
language
◉ phonological awareness. Answer: the ability to focus on units of
sound in spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and
phoneme levels
◉ phonemic awareness. Answer: awareness of speech sounds or
phonemes in spoken words
◉ phonics. Answer: instruction that connects sounds and letters
◉ synthetic phonics. Answer: explicitly teaches individual
grapheme-phoneme correspondences before they are blended to
form syllables or whole words
◉ alphabetic principle. Answer: the understanding that spoken
sounds are represented in print by written letters
,◉ consonant. Answer: blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class
of speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
◉ vowel. Answer: open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech
sounds produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
◉ phonology. Answer: the rules that determine how sounds are used
in spoken language
◉ fluency. Answer: reading with rapidity and automaticity with
prosody
◉ prosody. Answer: the rhythmic flow of oral reading
◉ pragmatics. Answer: set of rules that dictate communicative
behavior and use of language, rules we communicate by
◉ syntax. Answer: sentence structure, grammar, usage
◉ semantics. Answer: content of language, used to express
knowledge of the world around us - meaning
◉ phoneme. Answer: smallest unit of sound in a syllable
,◉ spelling. Answer: sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme,
connect grapheme to phoneme
◉ orthography. Answer: the spelling of written language
◉ orthographic memory. Answer: memory of letter patterns and
word spellings
◉ metalinguistics. Answer: awareness of language as an entity
◉ guided discovery. Answer: a method of leading students to new
learning through questioning
◉ Heuristic. Answer: means to discover by demonstration
◉ grapheme. Answer: a letter or letter cluster that represents a
single speech sound
◉ decoding. Answer: word recognition in which the phonetic code is
broken down to determine a word
, ◉ blending. Answer: fusing individual sounds, syllables or words
into meaningful units
◉ reading. Answer: symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
◉ morpheme. Answer: the smallest meaningful unit of language - a
suffix, prefix, root or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part
such as cat, man. etc.
Knowledge of word meaning, rapid word recognition, and spelling
ability greatly depend on knowledge of word structure at the level of
morphemes.
◉ morphology. Answer: the study of word formation patterns,
meaningful units that make words
◉ fricative. Answer: a sound produced by forcing air through a
narrow opening between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
◉ nasal sound. Answer: a sound produced by forcing air out through
th nose / n / / m /
◉ continuant sound. Answer: a sound prolonged in its production /
m//s//f/
