CT Foundations of Reading Test
Phonological Awareness (2 parts) - answerPhonemic Awareness and Phonics
HIM (Phonemic Awareness) stands for? - answerHear, Identify, Manipulate
Phonemic Awareness can be done in the ________. - answerDark
Phonics is the second you introduce ______. - answerPrint
Levels of Phonemic Awareness - answerOBACSS
O=Onset/Rime
B=phoneme blending
A=phoneme approximation
C=phoneme counting
Se=phoneme segmentation
Su=phoneme substitution
Mantra for ELL student - answerFind out what he/she knows and then teach what
he/she DOESN'T know.
Concepts of Print (8) - answerPrint Awareness
One-One Correspondence
Directionality
Letters,words and sentences
Upper and Lowercase
Parts of a book
First and Last
Beginning, Middle and End
Phonemic Awareness - Onset/Rime - answerSeparating the first part of the word from
the rest of the word. Ex: /st/ onset and /ick/ rime. Stick.
Phonemic Awareness - Phoneme Blending - answerBlending individual sounds to form
a word. Ex: /s/, /i/, /t/ makes "sit".
Phonemic Awareness - Phoneme Approximation - answerIdentifying where a given
sound is heard in a word. Ex: Where is the /s/ in "sat"?
Phonemic Awareness - Phoneme Counting - answerCounting the number of phonemes
in a word. Ex: How many sounds are in bread? (4)
, Phonemic Awareness - Phoneme Substitution - answerHighest level - child substitutes
a sound at the beginning, middle and end of a word. If you know "sat" then you know
"mat".
Concepts of Print - Print Awareness - answerchild understands that print carries a
message
Concepts of Print - One to One Correspondence - answerchild recognizes a match
between each word read and each word printed as text on a page
Concepts of Print - Directionality - answerchild holds book correctly and "reads" from left
to right and top to bottom. (tracking)
Concepts of Print - Letters, words and sentences - answerchild recognizes and
distinguishes between letters, words and sentences
Concepts of Print - Upper and Lowercase - answerchild recognizes and distinguishes
between upper and lowercase letters and punctuation.
Concepts of Print - Parts of a book - answerchild recognizes author, title, and front/back
of book.
Concepts of Print - First and last - answerchild has knowledge of first and last
Concepts of Print - Beginning, middle and End - answerpart of book handling skills
Alphabetic Principle - answerAssumption that each sound is represented by a
grapheme or letter.
How many sounds in the alphabet? - answer44
Instructional sequence for Word Study - answerSingle Consonant Sounds
Consonant Clusters (bl, gr, and sp)
Consonant Digraphs (sh, ch and th)
Short Vowels
Long Vowels
Vowel Teams (digraphs and dipthongs)
What are the 2 approaches to teaching phonics? - answerExplicit and implicit.
Explicit approach to phonics is ___________. - answerDirect instruction (synthetic or
sound by sound). This is done first before Implicit (reinforcing)
Implicit approach to phonics is _________. - answerIs used after Direct Instruction to
reinforce skill taught. It is analytic (embedded).
Phonological Awareness (2 parts) - answerPhonemic Awareness and Phonics
HIM (Phonemic Awareness) stands for? - answerHear, Identify, Manipulate
Phonemic Awareness can be done in the ________. - answerDark
Phonics is the second you introduce ______. - answerPrint
Levels of Phonemic Awareness - answerOBACSS
O=Onset/Rime
B=phoneme blending
A=phoneme approximation
C=phoneme counting
Se=phoneme segmentation
Su=phoneme substitution
Mantra for ELL student - answerFind out what he/she knows and then teach what
he/she DOESN'T know.
Concepts of Print (8) - answerPrint Awareness
One-One Correspondence
Directionality
Letters,words and sentences
Upper and Lowercase
Parts of a book
First and Last
Beginning, Middle and End
Phonemic Awareness - Onset/Rime - answerSeparating the first part of the word from
the rest of the word. Ex: /st/ onset and /ick/ rime. Stick.
Phonemic Awareness - Phoneme Blending - answerBlending individual sounds to form
a word. Ex: /s/, /i/, /t/ makes "sit".
Phonemic Awareness - Phoneme Approximation - answerIdentifying where a given
sound is heard in a word. Ex: Where is the /s/ in "sat"?
Phonemic Awareness - Phoneme Counting - answerCounting the number of phonemes
in a word. Ex: How many sounds are in bread? (4)
, Phonemic Awareness - Phoneme Substitution - answerHighest level - child substitutes
a sound at the beginning, middle and end of a word. If you know "sat" then you know
"mat".
Concepts of Print - Print Awareness - answerchild understands that print carries a
message
Concepts of Print - One to One Correspondence - answerchild recognizes a match
between each word read and each word printed as text on a page
Concepts of Print - Directionality - answerchild holds book correctly and "reads" from left
to right and top to bottom. (tracking)
Concepts of Print - Letters, words and sentences - answerchild recognizes and
distinguishes between letters, words and sentences
Concepts of Print - Upper and Lowercase - answerchild recognizes and distinguishes
between upper and lowercase letters and punctuation.
Concepts of Print - Parts of a book - answerchild recognizes author, title, and front/back
of book.
Concepts of Print - First and last - answerchild has knowledge of first and last
Concepts of Print - Beginning, middle and End - answerpart of book handling skills
Alphabetic Principle - answerAssumption that each sound is represented by a
grapheme or letter.
How many sounds in the alphabet? - answer44
Instructional sequence for Word Study - answerSingle Consonant Sounds
Consonant Clusters (bl, gr, and sp)
Consonant Digraphs (sh, ch and th)
Short Vowels
Long Vowels
Vowel Teams (digraphs and dipthongs)
What are the 2 approaches to teaching phonics? - answerExplicit and implicit.
Explicit approach to phonics is ___________. - answerDirect instruction (synthetic or
sound by sound). This is done first before Implicit (reinforcing)
Implicit approach to phonics is _________. - answerIs used after Direct Instruction to
reinforce skill taught. It is analytic (embedded).
