Foundations of Reading Practice Test (OAE 190) questions with complete solutions

As students begin to read, the ability to blend phonemes orally contributes to their reading development primarily because it prepares students to: correct answer: A. recognize high-frequency words in a text automatically. B. combine letter-sounds to decode words. C. guess the meaning of unfamiliar words from their context. D. divide written words into onsets and rimes. Answer: B A teacher is selecting words to use to assess students; ability to segment the individual phonemes in spoken words. Which of the following words would require the highest level of skill with regard to orally segmenting phones? correct answer: A. stamp B. catch C. fudge D. chase Answer: A Which of the following tasks requires the most advanced level of skill along the phonological awareness continuumm? correct answer: A. orally segmenting the phonemes in the word chimp and then substituting short /o/ for short /I/ to make a new word, chomp B. orally segmenting the word wonderful into won/der/ful and then tapping the number of syllables in the word C. listening to the words place and plunk and then orally segmenting each word into its onset and rime D. listening to the words fiddle and fresh and then determining that both words begin with the same phoneme, /f/ Answer: A