RICA VOCABULARY words Actual Exam Questions With Complete Answers.

Phonics - correct answer Knowledge of letter-sound correspondences (Example: Knowing that the letters ph in the word 'phrase' make the /f/ sound). Graphophonemic Relationships - correct answer Sound relationship between the orthography (symbols) and phonology (sound) of a language. Morphology - correct answer The study of word formation. Digraphs - correct answer Two-letter combinations that make one sound. Blends - correct answer Two-or-three-letter combinations, said rapidly, and each letter makes a sound. Onset - correct answer The initial consonant sound or consonant blend. Vowels - correct answer Sounds made when the air leaving your lungs is vibrated in the voice box and there is a clear passage from the voice box to your mouth. Diphthongs - correct answer Glided sounds made by such vowel combinations; for example the /oi/ in oil and the /oy/ in boy. R-Controlled Vowels - correct answer Neither long nor short, as in the sounds /a/ makes in car, /e/ makes in her, /i/ makes in girl, /u/ makes in hurt, and /o/ makes in for. L-Controlled Vowels - correct answer Neither long nor short, as the sound /a/ makes in chalk, /e/ makes in help, /i/ makes in milk, /o/ makes in cold, and /u/ makes in bull. Stop Sounds - correct answer The sounds must be uttered quickly with a "quick" puff of air. Continuous Sounds - correct answer "Hold" the sound and stretch the sound out (/l/ /m/). Pre-Communicative Spelling - correct answer Shows no understanding that letters represent sounds but rather the child "writes" by drawing pictures or making squiggles. Semi-Phonetic Spelling - correct answer Children attempt to use letters to represent sounds. Phonetic Spelling - correct answer Spellers know that letters represent sounds and at least one letter represents each sound in a word. Transitional Spelling - correct answer The child knows most of the orthographic patterns of English Conventional Spelling - correct answer The child spells almost all the words correctly Rime - correct answer The vowel sound and any consonant(s) that follow. Phonograms - correct answer Rimes that have the same spelling; also called word families (Cat, Bat, Fat) 6 ways to Teach Phonemic Awareness - correct answer (1) Sound isolation (2) Sound identity (3) Sound blending (4) Sound substitution (5) Sound deletion (6) Sound segmentation Alphabetic Principle - correct answer English speech sounds are represented by letters (letters represent sounds) Letter Recognition - correct answer The ability to identify both the uppercase and lowercase letters Concepts About Print - correct answer basic principles about how letters, words and sentences are represented in written language. Big Books - correct answer Books used for shared book experiences (oversized picture books with large print) Shared Book Experience - correct answer The goal is to teach concepts about print while allowing students to see that reading is fun. Word identification - correct answer The ability to read aloud, or decode, words correctly (Does not mean knowing the word's meaning) Context clues - correct answer figuring out an unknown word if they know the meanings of the words surrounding the unknown word. Consonants - correct answer speech sounds that occur when the airflow is obstructed in some way by your mouth, teeth or lips Consonant Blends - correct answer blends are two or three combinations, said rapidly and each letter in a blend makes a sound. (bl in blend is a blend!) Systematic Instruction in Phonics - correct answer Clear list of sound-symbol relationships students at their grade level should know. Direct and Explicit Instruction Phonics - correct answer Small group instruction of sound-symbol lessons with students who share the same need to learn the same sound-symbol relationship Whole-to-Part Lesson in Phonics - correct answer A phonics lesson that starts with sentences, then look at words, and "end-up" with the sound-symbol relationship Part-to-Whole Lesson in Phonics - correct answer A phonics lesson that starts with the sound and then children blend the sounds to build words Analogy Phonics - correct answer Students are taught unfamiliar words by comparing them to known words CVC - correct answer A three letter word that sounds out; the medial vowel is short as in man