FOUNDATIONS OF READING: FOUNDATIONS OF EARLY LITERACY & READING INSTRUCTION.

Concepts of Print Correct Answer: awareness of how letters, words, and
sentences are represented in written language
REMINDER (CoP) Correct Answer: recognizing environmental print is not the same
as reading it
Concepts of Print Skills Correct Answer: Print carries meaning
Directionality and tracking
Letter, word, and sentence representation
Book orientation
Phonological awareness Correct Answer: Ability to recognize individual
phonemes, syllables, and words
Phonemic awareness Correct Answer: Ability to hear and use individual units of
sounds or phonemes
Phonemes Correct Answer: The smallest individual sounds of speech/in a word
(English has 44)
Phonlogical Awareness Umbrella Correct Answer: Rhyme/alliteration
Syllable awareness
Onset-Rime
Word awareness
Phonemic awareness
- Isolation

, - Blending
- Segmentation
- Manipulation
• Addition
• Deletion
• Substitution
Rhyme Correct Answer: Ability to hear when words sound the same at the end
(Ex. blue and flew)
Alliteration Correct Answer: Ability to identify when words have the same first
sound (Ex. candy and cookie)
Word awareness Correct Answer: knowing that individual words make up a
sentence
Syllable awareness Correct Answer: the ability to hear the individual units with
vowel sounds that make up a word
Onset-Rime Correct Answer: hearing the sound or sounds before the vowel in a
syllable as the onset and the vowel sound and everything after as the rhyme (Ex.
/f/ /ish/ and /gr/ /ape/)
Phoneme isolation Correct Answer: Ability to separate a single sound in a position
of a word
- Initial isolation: /j/ in jet
- Final isolation: /t/ in jet
- Medial isolation: /e/ in jet
Phoneme blending Correct Answer: the ability to blend individual sounds to make
a word
- /j/ /e/ /t/ makes jet
Phoneme segmentation Correct Answer: the ability to break down a word into
separate sounds