Connecticut Foundations of Reading
Exam Practice Test #1
"Verbal dyspraxia" refers to: - answerConfusing word or sentence order while speaking
Assist ELLs with developing phonemic awareness skills - answerPracticing Phonemic
Awareness skills on familiar vocab words in English
Demonstrates a child who has not yet developed understanding of book concepts -
answerA preschool student often holds books upside down and turns pages randomly
What have some teachers discovered when teaching students nonverbal
communication skills? - answerNonverbal communication should be taught using
appropriate situations
A kindergarten teacher asks students to say the word cart. She then tells them to take
away the /t/ sound and tell her what they get. Which type of phonemic awareness
activity are students practicing? - answerPhoneme deletion
Alex is a first grade student. His teacher notices that he commonly substitutes words
that make sense in the sentences but don't match the print. He recently said "The car
drove down a street". The text actually said "The car drove down THE street." Which
cueing system is Alex using? - answerSemantic
A first-grade teacher wants to help students compare and contrast short vowel sounds.
Which activity would best assist students with this skill? - answerSegmenting words with
short vowel sounds using Elkonin boxes
A first-grade student struggles to decode words containing 00 in their spellings because
that vowel combination makes two common sounds. Which prompt would be most likely
to assist the students with decoding these words when encountered in texts? -
answerLook for parts of the word you already know
What is true about pre-production activities that teachers can use to encourage English-
language speech by ELL Students? - answer(GO BACK TO) The activities that teachers
use should involve hands-on learning
According to recent research findings, diagnosed reading difficulties such as dyslexia
are primarily _ in origin - answerNeurological and developmental
A preschool teacher is reading nursery rhymes to students, putting deliberate emphasis
on the rhyming words. Which reading-related skill is she trying to develop in her
students? - answer(GO BACK TO) Phonemic awareness
Exam Practice Test #1
"Verbal dyspraxia" refers to: - answerConfusing word or sentence order while speaking
Assist ELLs with developing phonemic awareness skills - answerPracticing Phonemic
Awareness skills on familiar vocab words in English
Demonstrates a child who has not yet developed understanding of book concepts -
answerA preschool student often holds books upside down and turns pages randomly
What have some teachers discovered when teaching students nonverbal
communication skills? - answerNonverbal communication should be taught using
appropriate situations
A kindergarten teacher asks students to say the word cart. She then tells them to take
away the /t/ sound and tell her what they get. Which type of phonemic awareness
activity are students practicing? - answerPhoneme deletion
Alex is a first grade student. His teacher notices that he commonly substitutes words
that make sense in the sentences but don't match the print. He recently said "The car
drove down a street". The text actually said "The car drove down THE street." Which
cueing system is Alex using? - answerSemantic
A first-grade teacher wants to help students compare and contrast short vowel sounds.
Which activity would best assist students with this skill? - answerSegmenting words with
short vowel sounds using Elkonin boxes
A first-grade student struggles to decode words containing 00 in their spellings because
that vowel combination makes two common sounds. Which prompt would be most likely
to assist the students with decoding these words when encountered in texts? -
answerLook for parts of the word you already know
What is true about pre-production activities that teachers can use to encourage English-
language speech by ELL Students? - answer(GO BACK TO) The activities that teachers
use should involve hands-on learning
According to recent research findings, diagnosed reading difficulties such as dyslexia
are primarily _ in origin - answerNeurological and developmental
A preschool teacher is reading nursery rhymes to students, putting deliberate emphasis
on the rhyming words. Which reading-related skill is she trying to develop in her
students? - answer(GO BACK TO) Phonemic awareness
