TEACHING READING AND WRITING THE
DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH 2026 PRACTICE
TEST SHEET FULL SOLUTIONS CORRECT
ANSWERS GUARANTEED PASS
◉ This diverts attention away from comprehending the text.
Answer: Using reading strategies takes time, which may cause the
reader to slow down. Why is this an issue?
◉ Phrasing & intonation
Answer: Fluency involves reading with appropriate...
◉ High-frequency sight words & explicit phonics instruction
Answer: Providing opportunities for repeated exposure to __________
is an important goal of reading instruction and should be included
along with __________.
◉ Rhyming words
Answer: One of the earliest phonological awareness skills children
develop is the ability to recognize __________.
◉ Onsets
,Answer: What are the initial consonants or consonant blends in
syllables?
◉ Rimes
Answer: What are the vowels and remaining consonants that follow
the initial consonants?
◉ Phonemic awareness
Answer: What is the most advanced phonological awareness skill?
◉ Phonological awareness
Answer: What is the ability to identify and manipulate all sounds in
spoken language?
◉ Phonemes
Answer: What are the smallest units of speech called?
◉ Phonemic awareness
Answer: What is the ability to identify and manipulate sounds at the
smallest level only.
◉ learn rhyming words, make rhyming words, syllables, phonemic
awareness
, Answer: What are the steps of phonological progression?
◉ Phoneme isolation
Answer: What is the ability to identify specific phonemes in spoken
words. [ex: what is the last sound in dog? → /g/]
◉ Phoneme identification
Answer: What is it called when you identify the common sound in a
list of words that have either the same beginning, middle, or end
sound? [ex: what sound is the same in sun, sock, and sand? → /s/]
◉ Phoneme characterization
Answer: What is it called when you identify the word that doesn't
belong? [ex: which word does not belong: cat, car, sun?" → "sun"
because cat and car begin with the /k/ sound, while sun begins with
/s/.]
◉ Blending
Answer: What is it called when you identify a whole word formed by
putting the phonemes together?
◉ Segmentation
Answer: What is it called when you are given a whole word and must
identify the individual phonemes that make up that word?
DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH 2026 PRACTICE
TEST SHEET FULL SOLUTIONS CORRECT
ANSWERS GUARANTEED PASS
◉ This diverts attention away from comprehending the text.
Answer: Using reading strategies takes time, which may cause the
reader to slow down. Why is this an issue?
◉ Phrasing & intonation
Answer: Fluency involves reading with appropriate...
◉ High-frequency sight words & explicit phonics instruction
Answer: Providing opportunities for repeated exposure to __________
is an important goal of reading instruction and should be included
along with __________.
◉ Rhyming words
Answer: One of the earliest phonological awareness skills children
develop is the ability to recognize __________.
◉ Onsets
,Answer: What are the initial consonants or consonant blends in
syllables?
◉ Rimes
Answer: What are the vowels and remaining consonants that follow
the initial consonants?
◉ Phonemic awareness
Answer: What is the most advanced phonological awareness skill?
◉ Phonological awareness
Answer: What is the ability to identify and manipulate all sounds in
spoken language?
◉ Phonemes
Answer: What are the smallest units of speech called?
◉ Phonemic awareness
Answer: What is the ability to identify and manipulate sounds at the
smallest level only.
◉ learn rhyming words, make rhyming words, syllables, phonemic
awareness
, Answer: What are the steps of phonological progression?
◉ Phoneme isolation
Answer: What is the ability to identify specific phonemes in spoken
words. [ex: what is the last sound in dog? → /g/]
◉ Phoneme identification
Answer: What is it called when you identify the common sound in a
list of words that have either the same beginning, middle, or end
sound? [ex: what sound is the same in sun, sock, and sand? → /s/]
◉ Phoneme characterization
Answer: What is it called when you identify the word that doesn't
belong? [ex: which word does not belong: cat, car, sun?" → "sun"
because cat and car begin with the /k/ sound, while sun begins with
/s/.]
◉ Blending
Answer: What is it called when you identify a whole word formed by
putting the phonemes together?
◉ Segmentation
Answer: What is it called when you are given a whole word and must
identify the individual phonemes that make up that word?
