Foundations of Reading 190 - AL Practice Test Questions with
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As students begin to read, the ability to blend children in the following Say It and Move It
phonemes orally contributes to their reading activity.
development primarily because it prepares • The teacher says a two-phoneme word slowly
students to: (e.g., ape, bee, day, eat, go, she, toe).
A. recognize high-frequency words in a text • The children slowly repeat the word.
automatically. • The children move a plain wooden block as they
B. combine letter-sounds to decode words. say each phoneme, lining up the two blocks from
C. guess the meaning of unfamiliar words from left to right.
their context. Once the children demonstrate mastery of this
D. divide written words into onsets and rimes. - activity, which of the following strategies would
ANSWER -B be most appropriate for the teacher to use next to
build the children's phonemic awareness?
A. writing pairs of words on the board that differ
by one phoneme (e.g., ape, cape) and pointing
A teacher is selecting words to use to assess out to the children that the second word contains
students' ability to segment the individual more phonemes than the first
phonemes in spoken words. Which of the B. exchanging the plain blocks for alphabet letter
following words would require the highest level of blocks and then helping the children do the Say It
skill with regard to orally segmenting phonemes? and Move It activity with relevant letter blocks,
A. stamp using pairs of words that have two and three
B. catch phonemes (e.g., go, goa - ANSWER -D
C. fudge
D. chase - ANSWER -A
Use the table below to answer the question that
follows. Line Target Word Number of Speech
Which of the following tasks requires the most Sounds
advanced level of skill along the phonological Line-target-# of speech sounds
awareness continuum? 1 though 2
A. orally segmenting the phonemes in the word 2 best 3
chimp and then substituting /ŏ/ for /ĭ/ to make a 3 fresh 5
new word, chomp 4 scratch 6
B. orally segmenting the word wonderful into In which line in the table is a word accurately
won/der/ful and then tapping the number of matched to the number of phonemes the word
syllables in the word contains?
C. listening to the words place and pluck and A. Line 1
then orally segmenting each word into its onset B. Line 2
and rime C. Line 3
D. listening to the words fiddle and fresh and D. Line 4 - ANSWER -A
then determining that both words begin with the
same phoneme, /f/ - ANSWER -A
A prekindergarten teacher asks a small group of
children to listen to and repeat what the teacher
A kindergarten teacher engages a small group of says. First, the teacher says the word mop and
,Foundations of Reading 190 - AL Practice Test Questions with
100% Verified Answers
then pronounces it as /m/ and [ŏp]. Next, the
teacher says the word take and then pronounces
it as /t/ and [āk]. This activity is likely to promote
A kindergarten teacher encourages beginning
the children's phonological awareness primarily readers to "write" their own captions beneath
by: their drawings. This practice is most likely to lead
A. modeling how to separate the syllables in to which of the following outcomes?
spoken words. A. The children's grasp of the alphabetic principle
B. showing them how to segment words into will be reinforced as they apply phonetic spelling.
onsets and rimes. B. The children may become frustrated by the
C. promoting their awareness of each phoneme difficulty of the English spelling system and lose
in a spoken word. interest in writing.
D. teaching them how to distinguish between C. Because of the reciprocity between decoding
consonants and vowels. - ANSWER -B and encoding, the children's reading progress
may be adversely affected by any uncorrected
spelling errors.
D. The children will tend to develop automatic
A prekindergarten teacher is reading a storybook word-recognition skills by engaging in spelling
to the class so that the children can see the practice. - ANSWER -A
words and pictures while the teacher points to
the line of print. This activity best contributes to
the children's emergent reading development
primarily by: A kindergarten teacher is reading a big book to a
A. promoting their development of letter- group of children. The teacher periodically points
recognition skills. to the beginning consonant of selected words
B. helping them recognize the function of spaces and accentuates its initial phoneme as the
between words. teacher reads the word aloud. The teacher's
C. developing their awareness of left-to-right practice is most likely to reinforce the children's:
directionality. A. awareness of word boundaries in text.
D. promoting their understanding of letter-sound B. awareness of letter-sound correspondences.
correspondence - ANSWER -C C. ability to segment the sounds of spoken
words.
D. ability to apply phonemic blending skills. -
ANSWER -B
Having kindergarten children practice tracing the
letters of the alphabet in sand is most
appropriate for children who need additional
support in: A fourth-grade student who reads on grade level
A. internalizing the alphabetic principle and and consistently performs well on spelling tests
letter-sound correspondences. that are part of weekly word study activities often
B. recognizing that print carries meaning. misspells the same words, and other familiar
C. understanding the relationship between words, in everyday writings. The following table
spoken and written language. shows examples of typical errors the student
D. developing letter-formation skills. - makes on class writing assignments and in
ANSWER -D informal notes to friends.
split spilt
, Foundations of Reading 190 - AL Practice Test Questions with
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printed pinted A. a student who, after being shown a letter of
dependent depedent the alphabet, can orally identify its corresponding
The student's overall spelling performance sound(s)
suggests that the student would benefit most B. a student who listens to the words sing, ring,
from a targeted intervention focused on which of fling, and hang and can identify that hang is
the following foundational skills? different
A. applying common orthographic rules to C. a student who, after hearing the word hat, can
inflected words orally identify that it ends with the sound /t/
B. sounding out and blending letter-sounds to D. a student who listens to the word magazine
decode a word and can determine that it contains three syllables
C. discriminating between consonant and vowel - ANSWER -C
sounds in words
D. segmenting all the phonemes in a word
sequentially - ANSWER -D
Several children in a kindergarten class have
mastered orally blending sets of spoken sounds
together to make words. Which of the following
A first-grade teacher administers a spelling additional skills demonstrated by the children
assessment midway through the school year. would best indicate that they are ready to begin
Afterward, the teacher analyzes students' instruction in decoding simple words?
spelling errors and categorizes the errors A. identifying key parts of a book consistently,
according to their most likely cause. Phonemic such as the front, back, and title, when prompted
Awareness—The spelling error indicates difficulty by the teacher and pointing to the first page
perceiving all the sounds in words. Code—The B. tracking print directionality with a pointer on a
spelling error indicates a code-based difficulty big book of a predictable text after the teacher
(i.e., mastery of specific phonics/morphemic models reading and tracking the text C.
elements and associated orthographic patterns). identifying letter-sound correspondences
Several students in the class make spelling consistently for several high-utility letters, such as
errors that primarily fall under the category of a, m, t, and s, when prompted by the teacher
phonemic awareness. The students' spelling D. recalling the letters of the alphabet in
development would benefit most from an sequence when prompted by the teacher using
intervention focused on promoting their ability to an alphabet banner and the alphabet song -
apply which of the following foundational skills? ANSWER -C
A. identifying orally the onset and rime of a series
of spoken words
B. substituting target phonemes in spoken words
to create new words Which of the following statements provides the
C. segmenting sequentially all the phonemes best rationale for incorporating spelling
that make up a - ANSWER -C instruction into a first-grade reading program?
A. Spelling instruction promotes phonological
sensitivity by teaching students to break words
into onsets and rimes and recognize common
Which of the following students is demonstrating phonograms.
the specific type of phonological awareness B. Spelling instruction streamlines the reading
known as phonemic awareness? process by focusing on a finite set of
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As students begin to read, the ability to blend children in the following Say It and Move It
phonemes orally contributes to their reading activity.
development primarily because it prepares • The teacher says a two-phoneme word slowly
students to: (e.g., ape, bee, day, eat, go, she, toe).
A. recognize high-frequency words in a text • The children slowly repeat the word.
automatically. • The children move a plain wooden block as they
B. combine letter-sounds to decode words. say each phoneme, lining up the two blocks from
C. guess the meaning of unfamiliar words from left to right.
their context. Once the children demonstrate mastery of this
D. divide written words into onsets and rimes. - activity, which of the following strategies would
ANSWER -B be most appropriate for the teacher to use next to
build the children's phonemic awareness?
A. writing pairs of words on the board that differ
by one phoneme (e.g., ape, cape) and pointing
A teacher is selecting words to use to assess out to the children that the second word contains
students' ability to segment the individual more phonemes than the first
phonemes in spoken words. Which of the B. exchanging the plain blocks for alphabet letter
following words would require the highest level of blocks and then helping the children do the Say It
skill with regard to orally segmenting phonemes? and Move It activity with relevant letter blocks,
A. stamp using pairs of words that have two and three
B. catch phonemes (e.g., go, goa - ANSWER -D
C. fudge
D. chase - ANSWER -A
Use the table below to answer the question that
follows. Line Target Word Number of Speech
Which of the following tasks requires the most Sounds
advanced level of skill along the phonological Line-target-# of speech sounds
awareness continuum? 1 though 2
A. orally segmenting the phonemes in the word 2 best 3
chimp and then substituting /ŏ/ for /ĭ/ to make a 3 fresh 5
new word, chomp 4 scratch 6
B. orally segmenting the word wonderful into In which line in the table is a word accurately
won/der/ful and then tapping the number of matched to the number of phonemes the word
syllables in the word contains?
C. listening to the words place and pluck and A. Line 1
then orally segmenting each word into its onset B. Line 2
and rime C. Line 3
D. listening to the words fiddle and fresh and D. Line 4 - ANSWER -A
then determining that both words begin with the
same phoneme, /f/ - ANSWER -A
A prekindergarten teacher asks a small group of
children to listen to and repeat what the teacher
A kindergarten teacher engages a small group of says. First, the teacher says the word mop and
,Foundations of Reading 190 - AL Practice Test Questions with
100% Verified Answers
then pronounces it as /m/ and [ŏp]. Next, the
teacher says the word take and then pronounces
it as /t/ and [āk]. This activity is likely to promote
A kindergarten teacher encourages beginning
the children's phonological awareness primarily readers to "write" their own captions beneath
by: their drawings. This practice is most likely to lead
A. modeling how to separate the syllables in to which of the following outcomes?
spoken words. A. The children's grasp of the alphabetic principle
B. showing them how to segment words into will be reinforced as they apply phonetic spelling.
onsets and rimes. B. The children may become frustrated by the
C. promoting their awareness of each phoneme difficulty of the English spelling system and lose
in a spoken word. interest in writing.
D. teaching them how to distinguish between C. Because of the reciprocity between decoding
consonants and vowels. - ANSWER -B and encoding, the children's reading progress
may be adversely affected by any uncorrected
spelling errors.
D. The children will tend to develop automatic
A prekindergarten teacher is reading a storybook word-recognition skills by engaging in spelling
to the class so that the children can see the practice. - ANSWER -A
words and pictures while the teacher points to
the line of print. This activity best contributes to
the children's emergent reading development
primarily by: A kindergarten teacher is reading a big book to a
A. promoting their development of letter- group of children. The teacher periodically points
recognition skills. to the beginning consonant of selected words
B. helping them recognize the function of spaces and accentuates its initial phoneme as the
between words. teacher reads the word aloud. The teacher's
C. developing their awareness of left-to-right practice is most likely to reinforce the children's:
directionality. A. awareness of word boundaries in text.
D. promoting their understanding of letter-sound B. awareness of letter-sound correspondences.
correspondence - ANSWER -C C. ability to segment the sounds of spoken
words.
D. ability to apply phonemic blending skills. -
ANSWER -B
Having kindergarten children practice tracing the
letters of the alphabet in sand is most
appropriate for children who need additional
support in: A fourth-grade student who reads on grade level
A. internalizing the alphabetic principle and and consistently performs well on spelling tests
letter-sound correspondences. that are part of weekly word study activities often
B. recognizing that print carries meaning. misspells the same words, and other familiar
C. understanding the relationship between words, in everyday writings. The following table
spoken and written language. shows examples of typical errors the student
D. developing letter-formation skills. - makes on class writing assignments and in
ANSWER -D informal notes to friends.
split spilt
, Foundations of Reading 190 - AL Practice Test Questions with
100% Verified Answers
printed pinted A. a student who, after being shown a letter of
dependent depedent the alphabet, can orally identify its corresponding
The student's overall spelling performance sound(s)
suggests that the student would benefit most B. a student who listens to the words sing, ring,
from a targeted intervention focused on which of fling, and hang and can identify that hang is
the following foundational skills? different
A. applying common orthographic rules to C. a student who, after hearing the word hat, can
inflected words orally identify that it ends with the sound /t/
B. sounding out and blending letter-sounds to D. a student who listens to the word magazine
decode a word and can determine that it contains three syllables
C. discriminating between consonant and vowel - ANSWER -C
sounds in words
D. segmenting all the phonemes in a word
sequentially - ANSWER -D
Several children in a kindergarten class have
mastered orally blending sets of spoken sounds
together to make words. Which of the following
A first-grade teacher administers a spelling additional skills demonstrated by the children
assessment midway through the school year. would best indicate that they are ready to begin
Afterward, the teacher analyzes students' instruction in decoding simple words?
spelling errors and categorizes the errors A. identifying key parts of a book consistently,
according to their most likely cause. Phonemic such as the front, back, and title, when prompted
Awareness—The spelling error indicates difficulty by the teacher and pointing to the first page
perceiving all the sounds in words. Code—The B. tracking print directionality with a pointer on a
spelling error indicates a code-based difficulty big book of a predictable text after the teacher
(i.e., mastery of specific phonics/morphemic models reading and tracking the text C.
elements and associated orthographic patterns). identifying letter-sound correspondences
Several students in the class make spelling consistently for several high-utility letters, such as
errors that primarily fall under the category of a, m, t, and s, when prompted by the teacher
phonemic awareness. The students' spelling D. recalling the letters of the alphabet in
development would benefit most from an sequence when prompted by the teacher using
intervention focused on promoting their ability to an alphabet banner and the alphabet song -
apply which of the following foundational skills? ANSWER -C
A. identifying orally the onset and rime of a series
of spoken words
B. substituting target phonemes in spoken words
to create new words Which of the following statements provides the
C. segmenting sequentially all the phonemes best rationale for incorporating spelling
that make up a - ANSWER -C instruction into a first-grade reading program?
A. Spelling instruction promotes phonological
sensitivity by teaching students to break words
into onsets and rimes and recognize common
Which of the following students is demonstrating phonograms.
the specific type of phonological awareness B. Spelling instruction streamlines the reading
known as phonemic awareness? process by focusing on a finite set of
