RVE PRACTICE STUDY QUESTIONS
Affix - Answers :A morpheme or meaningful part of a word attached before or after a
root or base word to modify its meaning; a category that includes prefixes and suffixes.
Alphabetic Principle - Answers :The use of letters and letter combinations to represent
phonemes in an orthography.
Automaticity - Answers :Fluent performance without the conscious deployment of
attention
Base word - Answers :A free morpheme, usually of Anglo-Saxon origin, to which affixes
can be added.
Blend - Answers :A consonant sequence before or after a vowel within a syllable, such
as cl, br, or st; also called "consonant blend."
Book talk - Answers :A discussion of one or more books by a teacher, librarian, or
student to introduce books and to induce others to read them.
Bound morpheme - Answers :A morpheme, usually of Latin origin in English, that
cannot stand alone but is used to form a family of words with related meanings. A
bound root (such as -fer) has meaning only in combination with a prefix and/or a suffix.
Cloze procedure - Answers :Any of several ways of measuring a person's ability to
restore omitted portions of an oral or written message by reading its remaining context.
Comprehension Monitoring - Answers :The mental act of knowing when one does and
does not understand what one is reading.
Consonant - Answers :A phoneme that is not a vowel and is formed with obstruction of
the flow of air with the teeth, lips, or tongue; also called a closed sound in some
instructional programs; English has 40 or more consonants; also may refer to an
alphabet letter used in representing any of these sounds.
Consonant digraph - Answers :Written letter combination that corresponds to one
speech sound but is not represented by either letter alone, such as th or ph.
Context - Answers :The sounds, words, or phrases adjacent to a spoken or written
language unit.
Context clue - Answers :Information from the immediate textual setting that helps
identify a word or word group, as by words, phrases, sentences, illustrations, syntax, or
typography.
, Contextual analysis - Answers :The search for the meaning of an unknown word
through an examination of its context; the use of a larger linguistic unit to determine the
meaning of a smaller unit.
Continuant - Answers :Speech sound that can be spoken uninterrupted until the
speaker runs out of breath (/m/, /s/, /v/).
Decodable text - Answers :Text in which a large proportion of words (approximately
70%-80%) comprise sound-symbol relationships that have already been taught; used to
provide practice with specific decoding skills and to form a bridge between learning
phonics and applying phonics in independent reading of text.
Decoding - Answers :Ability to translate a word from print to speech, usually by
employing knowledge of sound-symbol correspondences; also, the act of deciphering a
new word by sounding it out.
Dialect - Answers :A social or regional variety of a particular language with
phonological, grammatical, and lexical patterns that distinguish it from other varieties.
ESL students - Answers :Students who are learning English as a second language;
Limited English Proficiency (LEP) students.
Etymology - Answers :The study of the history and development of the structures and
meanings of words; derivation
Expressive Vocabulary - Answers :The vocabulary used to communicate in speaking
and writing.
Figurative Language - Answers :Language enriched by word images and figures of
speech.
Figure of speech - Answers :The expressive, nonliteral use of language for special
effects, usually through images, as in metaphor and personification.
Free morpheme - Answers :A morpheme that can stand alone in word formation.
Grapheme - Answers :A letter or letter combination that spells a single phoneme; in
English, a grapheme may be one, two, three, or four letters, such as e, ei, igh, or eigh.
High-frequency word - Answers :A word that appears many more times than most other
words in spoken or written language. The best way to learn high-frequency words is
through practice with predictable texts.
Idiom - Answers :An expression whose meaning may be unrelated to the meaning of its
parts.
Affix - Answers :A morpheme or meaningful part of a word attached before or after a
root or base word to modify its meaning; a category that includes prefixes and suffixes.
Alphabetic Principle - Answers :The use of letters and letter combinations to represent
phonemes in an orthography.
Automaticity - Answers :Fluent performance without the conscious deployment of
attention
Base word - Answers :A free morpheme, usually of Anglo-Saxon origin, to which affixes
can be added.
Blend - Answers :A consonant sequence before or after a vowel within a syllable, such
as cl, br, or st; also called "consonant blend."
Book talk - Answers :A discussion of one or more books by a teacher, librarian, or
student to introduce books and to induce others to read them.
Bound morpheme - Answers :A morpheme, usually of Latin origin in English, that
cannot stand alone but is used to form a family of words with related meanings. A
bound root (such as -fer) has meaning only in combination with a prefix and/or a suffix.
Cloze procedure - Answers :Any of several ways of measuring a person's ability to
restore omitted portions of an oral or written message by reading its remaining context.
Comprehension Monitoring - Answers :The mental act of knowing when one does and
does not understand what one is reading.
Consonant - Answers :A phoneme that is not a vowel and is formed with obstruction of
the flow of air with the teeth, lips, or tongue; also called a closed sound in some
instructional programs; English has 40 or more consonants; also may refer to an
alphabet letter used in representing any of these sounds.
Consonant digraph - Answers :Written letter combination that corresponds to one
speech sound but is not represented by either letter alone, such as th or ph.
Context - Answers :The sounds, words, or phrases adjacent to a spoken or written
language unit.
Context clue - Answers :Information from the immediate textual setting that helps
identify a word or word group, as by words, phrases, sentences, illustrations, syntax, or
typography.
, Contextual analysis - Answers :The search for the meaning of an unknown word
through an examination of its context; the use of a larger linguistic unit to determine the
meaning of a smaller unit.
Continuant - Answers :Speech sound that can be spoken uninterrupted until the
speaker runs out of breath (/m/, /s/, /v/).
Decodable text - Answers :Text in which a large proportion of words (approximately
70%-80%) comprise sound-symbol relationships that have already been taught; used to
provide practice with specific decoding skills and to form a bridge between learning
phonics and applying phonics in independent reading of text.
Decoding - Answers :Ability to translate a word from print to speech, usually by
employing knowledge of sound-symbol correspondences; also, the act of deciphering a
new word by sounding it out.
Dialect - Answers :A social or regional variety of a particular language with
phonological, grammatical, and lexical patterns that distinguish it from other varieties.
ESL students - Answers :Students who are learning English as a second language;
Limited English Proficiency (LEP) students.
Etymology - Answers :The study of the history and development of the structures and
meanings of words; derivation
Expressive Vocabulary - Answers :The vocabulary used to communicate in speaking
and writing.
Figurative Language - Answers :Language enriched by word images and figures of
speech.
Figure of speech - Answers :The expressive, nonliteral use of language for special
effects, usually through images, as in metaphor and personification.
Free morpheme - Answers :A morpheme that can stand alone in word formation.
Grapheme - Answers :A letter or letter combination that spells a single phoneme; in
English, a grapheme may be one, two, three, or four letters, such as e, ei, igh, or eigh.
High-frequency word - Answers :A word that appears many more times than most other
words in spoken or written language. The best way to learn high-frequency words is
through practice with predictable texts.
Idiom - Answers :An expression whose meaning may be unrelated to the meaning of its
parts.
