ICLA STANDARD 1 ACTUAL EXAM SOLVED
QUESTIONS COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● 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.
QUESTIONS COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● 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.
