ICLA Standard 1 Test Questions and
All Correct Answers.
Accuracy - Answer The ability to recognize or decode words correctly.
Affix - Answer Most commonly a suffix or prefix attached to a base word, stem, or root.
Aliteracy - Answer Students who can read fairly well but choose not to.
Alliteration - Answer The occurrence in a phase or line of speech of two or more words
having the same beginning sound. Example: Big burly bears bashed berry baskets.
Alphabetic Principle - Answer 1. The principle that letters are used to represent individual
phonemes in the spoken word.
2. Representing the sounds of speech with a set of distinct symbols (letters), each denoting a
single sound.
Analogy Phonics - Answer In this approach, students learn how to use a phonogram, or rime,
in a familiar word to identify an unfamiliar word having the same rime.
Analytic Phonics - Answer Word study that divides words into their elemental parts through
phonemic, orthographic, and morphological analysis.
Automaticity - Answer Refers to the speed and accuracy of the word recognition and spelling.
Automaticity is the goal of word study instruction and frees cognitive resources for
comprehension.
Balanced (integrated) literacy approach to teaching and reading - Answer An approach that
incorporates:
1. Teach Read-Aloud
2. Shared Reading
3. Guided Reading
4. Independent Reading
5. Word Study
Base Word - Answer A word to which prefixes and/or suffixes are added. For example, the
base word of "unwholesome" is "whole"
, *See also root word
*See also free morphemes
Blends - Answer A phonics term for an orthographic unit of two or three letters at the
beginning or end of words that are blended together. There are l-blends such as bl, cl, and fl; r-
blends such as gr, tr, pr; s-blends such as pc, scr, and squ; and final blends such as ft, rd, and st.
every sound represented in a blend is pronounced, if only briefly.
Bound morpheme - Answer Meaning units of the language (morphemes) that cannot stand
alone as a word. "Respected" has three bound morphemes: re+spect-ed.
Choral reading - Answer Oral reading done in unison with another person or persons.
Closed sort - Answer Word or picture sort based on predetermined categories.
Closed Syllable - Answer 1. A syllable that ends with or is "closed" by a consonant sound.
2. A syllable ending in one or more consonants and having a short-vowel sound spelled with one
vowel letter.
Cognates - Answer Words in different languages derived from the same root.
Compound word - Answer Words made up of two or more smaller words. A compound word
may or may not be hyphenated, depending on its part of speech.
Concepts About Print (CAP) - Answer Understandings about how books are organized (front-
to-back page turning, titles, illustrations), how print is oriented on the page (top to bottom, left
to right), and features of print such as punctuation and capitalizations.
Consonant - Answer Letters that are not vowels (a, e, i o, u). Whereas vowel sounds are
thought of as musical, consnoant sounds are known for their noise and the way in which air is
constricted as it is stopped and released or forced through the vocal tract, mouth, teeth, and
lips.
Consonant Blend - Answer 1. Two or more consonants in which you can hear both sounds
blended. The word "blend" begins and ends with consonant blend.
2. Every sound represented in a blend is pronounced, if only briefly.
Consonant Digraph - Answer Two consonant letters with a single sound different from that of
either of the letters: sh, ch, wh, th, ph (the word "digraph" ends with the digraph ph).
All Correct Answers.
Accuracy - Answer The ability to recognize or decode words correctly.
Affix - Answer Most commonly a suffix or prefix attached to a base word, stem, or root.
Aliteracy - Answer Students who can read fairly well but choose not to.
Alliteration - Answer The occurrence in a phase or line of speech of two or more words
having the same beginning sound. Example: Big burly bears bashed berry baskets.
Alphabetic Principle - Answer 1. The principle that letters are used to represent individual
phonemes in the spoken word.
2. Representing the sounds of speech with a set of distinct symbols (letters), each denoting a
single sound.
Analogy Phonics - Answer In this approach, students learn how to use a phonogram, or rime,
in a familiar word to identify an unfamiliar word having the same rime.
Analytic Phonics - Answer Word study that divides words into their elemental parts through
phonemic, orthographic, and morphological analysis.
Automaticity - Answer Refers to the speed and accuracy of the word recognition and spelling.
Automaticity is the goal of word study instruction and frees cognitive resources for
comprehension.
Balanced (integrated) literacy approach to teaching and reading - Answer An approach that
incorporates:
1. Teach Read-Aloud
2. Shared Reading
3. Guided Reading
4. Independent Reading
5. Word Study
Base Word - Answer A word to which prefixes and/or suffixes are added. For example, the
base word of "unwholesome" is "whole"
, *See also root word
*See also free morphemes
Blends - Answer A phonics term for an orthographic unit of two or three letters at the
beginning or end of words that are blended together. There are l-blends such as bl, cl, and fl; r-
blends such as gr, tr, pr; s-blends such as pc, scr, and squ; and final blends such as ft, rd, and st.
every sound represented in a blend is pronounced, if only briefly.
Bound morpheme - Answer Meaning units of the language (morphemes) that cannot stand
alone as a word. "Respected" has three bound morphemes: re+spect-ed.
Choral reading - Answer Oral reading done in unison with another person or persons.
Closed sort - Answer Word or picture sort based on predetermined categories.
Closed Syllable - Answer 1. A syllable that ends with or is "closed" by a consonant sound.
2. A syllable ending in one or more consonants and having a short-vowel sound spelled with one
vowel letter.
Cognates - Answer Words in different languages derived from the same root.
Compound word - Answer Words made up of two or more smaller words. A compound word
may or may not be hyphenated, depending on its part of speech.
Concepts About Print (CAP) - Answer Understandings about how books are organized (front-
to-back page turning, titles, illustrations), how print is oriented on the page (top to bottom, left
to right), and features of print such as punctuation and capitalizations.
Consonant - Answer Letters that are not vowels (a, e, i o, u). Whereas vowel sounds are
thought of as musical, consnoant sounds are known for their noise and the way in which air is
constricted as it is stopped and released or forced through the vocal tract, mouth, teeth, and
lips.
Consonant Blend - Answer 1. Two or more consonants in which you can hear both sounds
blended. The word "blend" begins and ends with consonant blend.
2. Every sound represented in a blend is pronounced, if only briefly.
Consonant Digraph - Answer Two consonant letters with a single sound different from that of
either of the letters: sh, ch, wh, th, ph (the word "digraph" ends with the digraph ph).
