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Research has analyzed many predictors of students' success in learning to read in early grades. This research has found that which of the following abilities are the best predictors of good readers? A) Ability to produce words following a pattern of alliteration. B) Knowledge of letters and phonemic awareness skills. C) Ability to infer information from a written text. D) Knowledge of common phonics patterns. - ANSWER B) Knowledge of letters and phonemic awareness skills. Which question assesses a student's understanding of phoneme blending? A) Teacher asks, "How many sounds are there in the word 'seat?" B) Teacher asks, :Which of these words starts with the sound /k/?" C) Teacher asks, "The sounds /n/ /a/ /p/ make what word?" D) Teacher asks, "What is the first sound in 'car?" - ANSWER C) Teacher asks, "The sounds /n/ /a/ /p/ make what word?" How many phonemes are in the word "spit"? A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 - ANSWER D) 4 How many phonemes are in the word "thought"? A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 – ANSWER C) 3 A teacher says "an" and asks students to repeat it with the /p/ sound at the beginning. Which phonemic skills are students practicing in this activity? A) Phoneme segmentation B) Phoneme substitution C) Phoneme addition D) Phoneme deletion - ANSWER C) Phoneme addition Early childhood learners that have not developed phonological and phonemic awareness may: SELECT ALL THAT APPLY A) have a lack of early parental bonding. B) have a learning disability C) have had less time in practicing the skill set. D) be English Language Learners. - ANSWER B) have a learning disability C) have had less time in practicing the skill set. D) be English Language Learners. Which prompt below would a teacher use to assess a student's understanding of phoneme substitution? A) What word is made by adding the sound /s/ to the beginning of the word "cat"? B) What word is made by the sounds /c/, /a/, and /t/? C) Say the word "cat." Now change the last sound in "cat" to /r/. What is the word now? D) Say the word "cat." What is the first sound? - ANSWER C) Say the word "cat." Now change the last sound in "cat" to /r/. What is the word now? The teacher reads a passage and asks students to listen for rhyming words. She instructs students to put their finger on their nose when they hear a rhyme on the page. Which of the following would this activity be used in assessing? A) Syntax B) Phonological awareness C) Phonemic manipulation D) Vowel and consonant rules - ANSWER B) Phonological awareness A 1st grade student can identify individual phonemes and is beginning to work on segmentation skills. Which activity would help the student practice segmentation? A) Identify words from a list that contain the same specific vowel sound. B) Use Elkonin boxes to show how many sounds he hears in spoken words. C) Identify rhyming words form a set of three. D) Say the entire word after a teacher or aide says each phoneme. - ANSWER B) Use Elkonin boxes to show how many sounds he hears in spoken words. During a short story reading, a teacher points out an example of alliteration. "The story says, 'Timmy took his time traveling down the trail.' What sound do we hear repeated in that sentence? I'll read it again. 'Timmy took his time traveling down the trail.'" What phonemic awareness skill are the students practicing? A) Phoneme segmentation B) Phoneme blending C) Phoneme substitution D) Phoneme identification - ANSWER D) Phoneme identification A teacher wants to help students practice phoneme segmentation. Which activity would be the most appropriate for practicing this task? A) Clapping their hands while saying each sound in a word. B) Changing a letter of a word to different sounds. C) Adding sounds to a word to create new words. D) Removing sounds from a word to create new words. - ANSWER A) Clapping their hands while saying each sound in a word. At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher plans various activities to begin informally assessing a wide range of her students' skills, including their emergent reading skills. During class, the teacher writes a sentence on the board and asks her class to clap for each word while she reads it aloud. Then, she reads the sentence again, this time asking the students to count how many words are in the sentence. The teacher is using this activity to evaluate which of the following skills? A) Phonemic awareness B) Alphabetic knowledge C) Concepts of print D) Word awareness - ANSWER D) Word awareness Which activity would help students practice the concepts of onset and rime? A) Ask students to create as many words as possible by adding consonant sounds before the sound "-in" B) Ask students to hold up the number of fingers that correspond to syllables in a word said by the teacher. C) Ask students to count the number of sounds in a provided word. D) Ask students to create as many words as possible by changing one letter in the word "bat". - ANSWER A) Ask students to create as many words as possible by adding consonant sounds before the sound "-in". Which of the following skills is not part of phonological awareness? A) Syllable awareness B) Letter awareness C) Sound awareness D) Rhyme awareness - ANSWER B) Letter awareness Which of the following is the most appropriate way for a teacher to help young students develop an understanding of print elements? A) Encourage greater access to preschool in their community. B) Provide time for students to practice reading o each other. C) Provide direct and indirect instruction on concepts like punctuation, the progression of text, and the difference between letters, words, and sentences. D) Send a letter home to remind parents to read to their children every night. - ANSWER C) Provide direct and indirect instruction on concepts like punctuation, the progression of text, and the difference between letters, words, and sentences. A teacher shows a student a written letter and asks the student to say the sound the letter makes. Next, the teacher says a sound and asks the student to write the letter. The student is demonstrating mastery in: A) phoneme blending. B) phoneme segmentation. C) phoneme isolation. D) phoneme-grapheme correspondence. - ANSWER D) phoneme-grapheme correspondence. As a teacher reads a large print books to the class, she points to each word as she moves along the page. This instructional strategy is beneficial for teaching: A) print awareness. B) phonemic awareness. C) word awareness D) morphological awareness - ANSWER A) print awareness. Mrs. Morrell has noticed some of her kindergarten students continue to struggle with print concepts. Which of the following are ways she could support student understanding? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY A) Provide letter tiles to each student and work with them to create words. B) Prioritize opportunities for students to observe her reading. C) Provide direct instruction on punctuation. D) Assign independent reading of low level books. - ANSWER B) Prioritize opportunities for students to observe her reading. C) Provide direct instruction on punctuation.