MTEL 190 Foundations of Reading Exam
Questions & Answers
Phonological awareness - ANSWERSSounds of language
sound units vary in sizes
whole sentences, words, syllables, rimes
Phonemic Awareness - ANSWERSSmallest unit of sound in language
only level of phoneme
Particular kind of phonological awareness
Phonics - ANSWERSthe sounds that letters make and the letters that are used to represent
sounds
Concepts of Print - ANSWERSBasic understanding about the way print works including the
direction of print, spacing, punctuation, letters, and words
Alphabetic Principle - ANSWERSRecognition that phonemes are represented by graphemes
(letters and sounds)
graphemes represent phonemes
,Syllables - ANSWERSParts of words that contain one and only one vowel sound
ex. Hat= one syllable
Heat= one syllable but has two vowel letters -ONLY ONE VOWEL sound
Clap hands together and find them
Rhyming - ANSWERSPhonological awareness Skill
recognize some words sound alike
onsets= do not need to be the same
Rimes= do have have to be spelled the same to rhyme
Phoneme blending - ANSWERSputting sounds together
Phoneme segmenting - ANSWERSTaking apart syllables or words into separate phonemes
onsets - ANSWERSconsonants that go before the rimes
/bl/= blue
rimes - ANSWERSpart of syllables that begin with the vowel and extend to the end of the
syllable
,/ew/= chew
consonance - ANSWERSrepetition of a consonant sound usually the end or middle of words
ex. school- the l sound
black- the k sound
Assonance - ANSWERSrepetition of vowel sounds usually in the middle or end of words - NO
RHYMING
Words start with a vowel- involves repetition of vowels
ex. Lake -a sound
Onomatopoeia - ANSWERSWords that make the same sound as it sounds
ex. bang, meow
Automaticity - ANSWERSReading with accuracy and speed
contributes to fluency
Fluency - ANSWERSreading running records with text accuracy, quickly and with prosody
, necessary but not sufficient for comprehension
Grapheme - ANSWERSthe written symbols= LETTERS that denote phonemes
May contain more than one letter
EX. bed - indicates a short vowel sound
A one to one correspondence between graphemes and phonemes
Consonant Digraph - ANSWERS2 consonants that go together to make a new word
ex. shower= /sh/ over powers everything
DO NOT BLEND
Consonant blends - ANSWERS2 or 3 consonants that BLEND together and ALL sounds are heard
appear in the beginning or ends of single syllables
ex. start, team = no overpowering= team work
Decoding - ANSWERSProcess of recognizing a written word by applying letter sound
correspondence or using analytic skills= break them down
start= st ar t = the hoops
Questions & Answers
Phonological awareness - ANSWERSSounds of language
sound units vary in sizes
whole sentences, words, syllables, rimes
Phonemic Awareness - ANSWERSSmallest unit of sound in language
only level of phoneme
Particular kind of phonological awareness
Phonics - ANSWERSthe sounds that letters make and the letters that are used to represent
sounds
Concepts of Print - ANSWERSBasic understanding about the way print works including the
direction of print, spacing, punctuation, letters, and words
Alphabetic Principle - ANSWERSRecognition that phonemes are represented by graphemes
(letters and sounds)
graphemes represent phonemes
,Syllables - ANSWERSParts of words that contain one and only one vowel sound
ex. Hat= one syllable
Heat= one syllable but has two vowel letters -ONLY ONE VOWEL sound
Clap hands together and find them
Rhyming - ANSWERSPhonological awareness Skill
recognize some words sound alike
onsets= do not need to be the same
Rimes= do have have to be spelled the same to rhyme
Phoneme blending - ANSWERSputting sounds together
Phoneme segmenting - ANSWERSTaking apart syllables or words into separate phonemes
onsets - ANSWERSconsonants that go before the rimes
/bl/= blue
rimes - ANSWERSpart of syllables that begin with the vowel and extend to the end of the
syllable
,/ew/= chew
consonance - ANSWERSrepetition of a consonant sound usually the end or middle of words
ex. school- the l sound
black- the k sound
Assonance - ANSWERSrepetition of vowel sounds usually in the middle or end of words - NO
RHYMING
Words start with a vowel- involves repetition of vowels
ex. Lake -a sound
Onomatopoeia - ANSWERSWords that make the same sound as it sounds
ex. bang, meow
Automaticity - ANSWERSReading with accuracy and speed
contributes to fluency
Fluency - ANSWERSreading running records with text accuracy, quickly and with prosody
, necessary but not sufficient for comprehension
Grapheme - ANSWERSthe written symbols= LETTERS that denote phonemes
May contain more than one letter
EX. bed - indicates a short vowel sound
A one to one correspondence between graphemes and phonemes
Consonant Digraph - ANSWERS2 consonants that go together to make a new word
ex. shower= /sh/ over powers everything
DO NOT BLEND
Consonant blends - ANSWERS2 or 3 consonants that BLEND together and ALL sounds are heard
appear in the beginning or ends of single syllables
ex. start, team = no overpowering= team work
Decoding - ANSWERSProcess of recognizing a written word by applying letter sound
correspondence or using analytic skills= break them down
start= st ar t = the hoops
