CERTIFICATION TEST PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GUARANTEED TO PASS
◉ Grapheme. Answer: smallest part of written language that represent a
phoneme in the spelling of a word
◉ Phonemic awareness. Answer: ability to hear, identify, and manipulate
the individual sounds phoneme in words. The understanding that that
sounds work together to make words. Helps in reading
◉ Decoding. Answer: analysis of spoken or written symbols in order to
understand their meaning
◉ blending. Answer: when children combine individual phonemes to
form words.
◉ morpheme. Answer: unit of meaning that cannot be divided into
smaller elements such as the word "book"
◉ semantics. Answer: the analysis and study of meaning of words,
phrases and sentences
, ◉ syntax. Answer: examination of various ways that words combine to
create meaning, the study of how sentences are formed
◉ Fast mapping. Answer: young children are able to use context to
arrive at a quick guess of a words meaning
◉ Reading assessments. Answer: formal and informal reading
assessments. Aphabet knowledge, concepts about print, phonemic
awareness, phonics test, high frequency word recognition, oral reading
inventory, spelling inventory.
◉ How to teach phonemic awareness. Answer: 1. teacher says "im going
to say the sounds in the word jam. 2. say the word out loud 3. write the
word down, 4. read the word together
◉ Phonological awareness. Answer: not the same as phonemic
awareness. Phonemic awareness is narrow-identifying and manipulating
individual sounds. Phonological awareness is broad- includes identifying
and manipulating larger parts of spoken language such as words,
syllables, onsets and rhymes as well as phonemes
◉ phonics. Answer: teaches children the relationship between the
letters(graphemes) of written language and the individual
sounds(phonemes) of spoken language. Critisism is the english spellings
are too irregular for phonics to help.