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Wisconsin Foundations of Reading Exam
Study Guide Solutions
Accuracy (part of fluency) - ANSWER✔✔-Reading words in text with no errors.
Academically Engaged - ANSWER✔✔-Students participating in activities/instruction in a meaningful way
and understanding the tasks in which they are involved.
Affix - ANSWER✔✔-A general term that refers to prefixes and suffixes.
After-Reading Comprehension Strategies - ANSWER✔✔-Strategies that require the reader to actively
transform key information in text that has been read (e.g., summarizing, retelling)
Aligned Materials - ANSWER✔✔-Student materials (texts, activities, manipulatives, homework, etc.) that
reinforce classroom instruction of specific skills in reading.
Alphabetic Principle - ANSWER✔✔-The concept that letters and letter combinations represent individual
phonemes in written words.
Ample Opportunities for Student Practice - ANSWER✔✔-Students are asked to apply what they have
been taught in order to accomplish specific reading tasks. Practice should follow in a logical relationship
with what has just been taught. Once skills are internalized, students are provided more opportunities to
independently implement previously learned information.
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Analogy - ANSWER✔✔-Comparing two sets of words to show some common similarity between the sets.
When done as a vocabulary exercise this requires producing one of the words (e.g., cat is to kitten as dog
is to_______?).
Antonym - ANSWER✔✔-A word opposite in meaning to another word.
Automaticity - ANSWER✔✔-Reading without conscious effort or attention to decoding.
Background Knowledge - ANSWER✔✔-The knowledge and understandings of the world that students
have acquired through their everyday experiences - riding in cars or buses, playing and talking with other
children and adults, that help them to make sense of the texts they read.
Base Word - ANSWER✔✔-A unit of meaning that can stand alone as a whole word (e.g., friend, pig). Also
called a free morpheme.
Before-Reading Comprehension Strategies - ANSWER✔✔-Strategies employed to emphasize the
importance of preparing students to read text (e.g., activate prior knowledge, set a purpose for reading).
Blending - ANSWER✔✔-The task of combining sounds rapidly, to accurately represent a word.
Bloom's Taxonomy - ANSWER✔✔-A system for categorizing levels of abstraction of questions that
commonly occur in educational settings. Includes the following competencies: Knowledge,
comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation
Choral Reading/Chanting - ANSWER✔✔-Two or more individuals reading aloud from the same text. This
can help students to develop oral reading fluency.
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Chunked Text - ANSWER✔✔-Continuous text that has been separated into meaningful phrases often
with the use of single and double slash marks (/ and //). The intent of using chunked text or chunking
text to give children an opportunity to practice reading phrases fluently.
Chunking - ANSWER✔✔-A decoding strategy for breaking words into manageable parts (e.g.,
yes/ter/day). ___________ also refers to the process of dividing a sentence into smaller phrases where
pauses might occur naturally (e.g., When the sun appeared after the storm, / the newly fallen snow.
shimmered like diamonds).
Comprehension - ANSWER✔✔-Understanding what one is reading, the ultimate goal of all reading
activity.
Comprehension Questions - ANSWER✔✔-Questions that address the meaning of text, ranging from
literal to inferential to analytical.
Concepts about print/conventions of print - ANSWER✔✔-The understanding an individual has about the
rules or accepted practices that govern the use of print and the use of written language. Including:
reading left to right, top to bottom, words are made of letters, use of spaces between words, use of
upper case letters, spelling patterns, punctuation, etc.
Concept Definition Mapping - ANSWER✔✔-Provides a visual framework for organizing conceptual
information in the process of defining a word or concept. The framework contains the category,
properties, and example of the word or concept.
Connected Text - ANSWER✔✔-Words that are linked (as opposed to words in a list) as in sentences,
phrases, and paragraphs
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Wisconsin Foundations of Reading Exam
Study Guide Solutions
Accuracy (part of fluency) - ANSWER✔✔-Reading words in text with no errors.
Academically Engaged - ANSWER✔✔-Students participating in activities/instruction in a meaningful way
and understanding the tasks in which they are involved.
Affix - ANSWER✔✔-A general term that refers to prefixes and suffixes.
After-Reading Comprehension Strategies - ANSWER✔✔-Strategies that require the reader to actively
transform key information in text that has been read (e.g., summarizing, retelling)
Aligned Materials - ANSWER✔✔-Student materials (texts, activities, manipulatives, homework, etc.) that
reinforce classroom instruction of specific skills in reading.
Alphabetic Principle - ANSWER✔✔-The concept that letters and letter combinations represent individual
phonemes in written words.
Ample Opportunities for Student Practice - ANSWER✔✔-Students are asked to apply what they have
been taught in order to accomplish specific reading tasks. Practice should follow in a logical relationship
with what has just been taught. Once skills are internalized, students are provided more opportunities to
independently implement previously learned information.
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Analogy - ANSWER✔✔-Comparing two sets of words to show some common similarity between the sets.
When done as a vocabulary exercise this requires producing one of the words (e.g., cat is to kitten as dog
is to_______?).
Antonym - ANSWER✔✔-A word opposite in meaning to another word.
Automaticity - ANSWER✔✔-Reading without conscious effort or attention to decoding.
Background Knowledge - ANSWER✔✔-The knowledge and understandings of the world that students
have acquired through their everyday experiences - riding in cars or buses, playing and talking with other
children and adults, that help them to make sense of the texts they read.
Base Word - ANSWER✔✔-A unit of meaning that can stand alone as a whole word (e.g., friend, pig). Also
called a free morpheme.
Before-Reading Comprehension Strategies - ANSWER✔✔-Strategies employed to emphasize the
importance of preparing students to read text (e.g., activate prior knowledge, set a purpose for reading).
Blending - ANSWER✔✔-The task of combining sounds rapidly, to accurately represent a word.
Bloom's Taxonomy - ANSWER✔✔-A system for categorizing levels of abstraction of questions that
commonly occur in educational settings. Includes the following competencies: Knowledge,
comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation
Choral Reading/Chanting - ANSWER✔✔-Two or more individuals reading aloud from the same text. This
can help students to develop oral reading fluency.
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Chunked Text - ANSWER✔✔-Continuous text that has been separated into meaningful phrases often
with the use of single and double slash marks (/ and //). The intent of using chunked text or chunking
text to give children an opportunity to practice reading phrases fluently.
Chunking - ANSWER✔✔-A decoding strategy for breaking words into manageable parts (e.g.,
yes/ter/day). ___________ also refers to the process of dividing a sentence into smaller phrases where
pauses might occur naturally (e.g., When the sun appeared after the storm, / the newly fallen snow.
shimmered like diamonds).
Comprehension - ANSWER✔✔-Understanding what one is reading, the ultimate goal of all reading
activity.
Comprehension Questions - ANSWER✔✔-Questions that address the meaning of text, ranging from
literal to inferential to analytical.
Concepts about print/conventions of print - ANSWER✔✔-The understanding an individual has about the
rules or accepted practices that govern the use of print and the use of written language. Including:
reading left to right, top to bottom, words are made of letters, use of spaces between words, use of
upper case letters, spelling patterns, punctuation, etc.
Concept Definition Mapping - ANSWER✔✔-Provides a visual framework for organizing conceptual
information in the process of defining a word or concept. The framework contains the category,
properties, and example of the word or concept.
Connected Text - ANSWER✔✔-Words that are linked (as opposed to words in a list) as in sentences,
phrases, and paragraphs
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