090 OAE Foundations of Reading Questions And Answers All Verified

090 OAE Foundations of Reading Questions And Answers All Verified A kindergarten teacher could best determine if a child has begun to develop phonemic awareness by asking the child to: - ANS say the word cat, then say the first sound the child hears in the word. As students begin to read, the ability to blend phonemes orally contributes to their reading development primarily because it helps students: - ANS use knowledge of letter-sound correspondence to decode words A teacher holds up a series of familiar objects, asking students to name each object and isolate the final sound they hear. This type of activity would be most appropriate for a student who: - ANS needs help developing phonemic segmentation skills. Phonemic awareness contributes most to the development of phonics skills in beginning readers by helping them: - ANS identify in spoken language separate sounds that can be mapped to letters. Phonological Awareness Continuum - ANS Phonemes--> Onset-Rime---> Syllables--> Sentences--> Alliteration--> Rhyming--> Listening closed syllable - ANS A syllable ending in one or more consonants and having a short-vowel sound spelled with one vowel letter (vc, cvc, ccvc, cvcc) open syllable - ANS Vowel is at the end of syllable and is pronounced with its long sound. Ex. she, re/mote scaffolding - ANS Vygotsky's idea that learners should be given only just enough help so that they can reach the next level phonemic awareness - ANS /d/ /o/ /g/ words have sounds The ability to hear, identify,and manipulate the individual sounds, phonemes, in oral language. decoding skills - ANS include being able to (1) know the letters in the word and their appropriate sounds, (2) remember each of these sounds in sequence, and (3) put the sounds together to create a word. phonological awareness - ANS an awareness of an the ability to manipulate the sounds of spoken words; it is a broad term that includes identifying and making rhymes, recognizing alliteration, identifying and working with syllables in spoken words, identifying and working with onsets and rhymes in spoken syllables. onset - ANS beginning sound of a word /c/ of cat rime - ANS the vowel and any consonant sound that follows the onset grapheme - ANS letter that represents a phoneme phoneme - ANS in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit diphthong - ANS is a sound made by combining two vowels, specifically when it starts as one vowel sound and goes to another, like the oy sound in oil [the tongue glides from the first vowel sound to the second] cosonant blend - ANS two or more consecutive consonants in a word whose sounds blend together. Examples: fry, dress, swim and string. digraph - ANS a group of consecutive consonants in a word which join to make one sound.