Foundations of Reading Test Wisconsin
2024/2025 Exam Questions and Detailed
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Initial Consonants - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The Joining of two or more consonant sounds,
represented by letters that begin a word without losing the identity of the
sounds. (Initial Blends)
Examples: /bl/ in black /skr/ in scramble
Initial: /b/ in boat /y/ in yard and /n/ in needle
Reading Comprehension - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The act of understanding what you are
reading.
Intentional, active, interactive process that occurs before, during and after a
person reads a particular piece of writing.
Leveled Texts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Texts that are leveled based on the criteria of the
person or entity leveling the books.
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,Levels:
1) Emergent readers
2) Early Readers
3) Early Fluent Readers
4) Fluent Readers
Structural Analysis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Splitting the words apart and discovering
meaning of unknown words.
Suffix - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An affix added to the end of a word or root in order to
form a new word.
Example: -tion makes nouns
Closed Syllables - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Has 1 and only 1 vowel. Ends in a consonant.
Example: in, ask, truck, stretch, twelfth
Open Syllables - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Has 1 and only 1 vowel and that vowel occurs at
the end of the syllable.
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, Example: no, she, i, a, spry
Trade Books - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A book published for the general public through
book sellers.
Word Boundaries - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The beginning and and of a word. White
spaces where 1 word ends and the other begins.
Constituent Parts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A syntactic unit that functions as part of a
larger unity within a sentence.
Example: verb phrase, noun phrase, PP, and Clause.
Controlled Vowels - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔When a vowel is followed by a specific
consonant, it makes a certain sound.
Example: R /ar/ in car, /ar/ in care, /ir/ in pie,r /ir/ in turnip, /or/ in manor, /er/
in butter.
Explicit Phonics Instruction - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A reading teaching strategy also
known as synthetic phonics.
Goals and activities that are fully and clearly expressed.
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2024/2025 Exam Questions and Detailed
Answers | Get it 100% Correct Answers
Initial Consonants - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The Joining of two or more consonant sounds,
represented by letters that begin a word without losing the identity of the
sounds. (Initial Blends)
Examples: /bl/ in black /skr/ in scramble
Initial: /b/ in boat /y/ in yard and /n/ in needle
Reading Comprehension - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The act of understanding what you are
reading.
Intentional, active, interactive process that occurs before, during and after a
person reads a particular piece of writing.
Leveled Texts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Texts that are leveled based on the criteria of the
person or entity leveling the books.
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619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,Levels:
1) Emergent readers
2) Early Readers
3) Early Fluent Readers
4) Fluent Readers
Structural Analysis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Splitting the words apart and discovering
meaning of unknown words.
Suffix - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An affix added to the end of a word or root in order to
form a new word.
Example: -tion makes nouns
Closed Syllables - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Has 1 and only 1 vowel. Ends in a consonant.
Example: in, ask, truck, stretch, twelfth
Open Syllables - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Has 1 and only 1 vowel and that vowel occurs at
the end of the syllable.
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, Example: no, she, i, a, spry
Trade Books - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A book published for the general public through
book sellers.
Word Boundaries - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The beginning and and of a word. White
spaces where 1 word ends and the other begins.
Constituent Parts - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A syntactic unit that functions as part of a
larger unity within a sentence.
Example: verb phrase, noun phrase, PP, and Clause.
Controlled Vowels - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔When a vowel is followed by a specific
consonant, it makes a certain sound.
Example: R /ar/ in car, /ar/ in care, /ir/ in pie,r /ir/ in turnip, /or/ in manor, /er/
in butter.
Explicit Phonics Instruction - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A reading teaching strategy also
known as synthetic phonics.
Goals and activities that are fully and clearly expressed.
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