STR Exam Study
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Consonant Digraphs - ✔️✔️Combination of two consonant letters that form one single
speech sound. Example: "ch" in church
Diphthongs - ✔️✔️a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in one syllable
Examples: "ou" in cloud, house, loud
Diacritical Marks - ✔️✔️symbols that tells a reader how to pronounce a letter. Diacritical
marks can be lines, or dots, and can hover above a letter or be attached to it. Examples:
ā, ē, ī, ō
Alphabetic Principle - ✔️✔️the ability to connect letters with sounds, and to create words
based on thee associations.
Environmental Print - ✔️✔️Print in everyday life. Examples: street signs, logos, and
labels.
Word Walls - ✔️✔️Walls with certain words under the appropriate letter Example: Sight
word walls, subject content words
Vowel - ✔️✔️A, E, I, O, U
Closed Syllable - ✔️✔️is a vowel followed by a consonant. Examples: cap, sit, cat, pet
Inflectional Endings - ✔️✔️Group of letters added to the end of a word to change its
meaning. Examples: adding -s or -es to the end of a word makes it plural. Dog to dogs.
Genre - ✔️✔️A genre is a category of a composition. Examples: Poetry, non-fiction,
fiction, drama, etc.
Concepts of Print - ✔️✔️Can be described as a "set of rules" followed by readers and
writers. Knowing the orientation of a book, reading left to right, awareness of books,
pages, words and letters, and just know that print relays a message.
Literary Analysis - ✔️✔️examining all the parts of a book, play, short story or poem.
Includes analysis of story elements such as character, plot, and setting, tone and
imagery. Also includes analyzing how the author uses those elements to create certain
effects.
, Book Orientation - ✔️✔️The way that a teacher uses a book to support readers through
engaging readers in active anticipation, monitoring and problem solving as they read a
book for the first time.
Emergent Literacy - ✔️✔️to describe the reading and writing experiences of young
children before they learn to write and read conventionally.
Root Words - ✔️✔️the form of a word after all affixes are removed.
Affixes - ✔️✔️is a letter or series of letters added to a root word that can change its
meaning
Fluency - ✔️✔️rate, accuracy, intonation impact on reading comprehension. Example:
running record, prosody, influence of fluency on comprehension
Syllabication - ✔️✔️the division of words into syllables, either in speech or in writing
Compound words - ✔️✔️When two words are used together to yield a new meaning
Letter Recognition Skills - ✔️✔️being able to differentiate between different letters and
their shapes (Ex: difference between M and W)
Suffix - ✔️✔️a letter or group of letters at the end of a word, that can change the
meaning. (Ex: "ed" "tion")
Prefix - ✔️✔️a letter or group of letters at the beginning of a word, that change the
meaning. (Ex: "de")
Schwa - ✔️✔️a muffled vowel sound that is heard in many English words (Ex: the letter
"a" in zebra makes the "uh" or "Schwa" sound)
Consonant Blend - ✔️✔️when two consonants blend a word sound together. (Ex: "bl"
"br")
High Frequency Words - ✔️✔️the most commonly used words that appear most often in
printed materials (Ex: that, not, look, can, very, etc.)
Semantic Mapping - ✔️✔️a method of using mapping to teach concepts and relations.
(Ex. Rocks, sedimentary, metamorphotic)
Prosody - ✔️✔️The patterns of stress and intonation of a language. (Ex. Pitch, Loudness,
Tempo, etc)
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Consonant Digraphs - ✔️✔️Combination of two consonant letters that form one single
speech sound. Example: "ch" in church
Diphthongs - ✔️✔️a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in one syllable
Examples: "ou" in cloud, house, loud
Diacritical Marks - ✔️✔️symbols that tells a reader how to pronounce a letter. Diacritical
marks can be lines, or dots, and can hover above a letter or be attached to it. Examples:
ā, ē, ī, ō
Alphabetic Principle - ✔️✔️the ability to connect letters with sounds, and to create words
based on thee associations.
Environmental Print - ✔️✔️Print in everyday life. Examples: street signs, logos, and
labels.
Word Walls - ✔️✔️Walls with certain words under the appropriate letter Example: Sight
word walls, subject content words
Vowel - ✔️✔️A, E, I, O, U
Closed Syllable - ✔️✔️is a vowel followed by a consonant. Examples: cap, sit, cat, pet
Inflectional Endings - ✔️✔️Group of letters added to the end of a word to change its
meaning. Examples: adding -s or -es to the end of a word makes it plural. Dog to dogs.
Genre - ✔️✔️A genre is a category of a composition. Examples: Poetry, non-fiction,
fiction, drama, etc.
Concepts of Print - ✔️✔️Can be described as a "set of rules" followed by readers and
writers. Knowing the orientation of a book, reading left to right, awareness of books,
pages, words and letters, and just know that print relays a message.
Literary Analysis - ✔️✔️examining all the parts of a book, play, short story or poem.
Includes analysis of story elements such as character, plot, and setting, tone and
imagery. Also includes analyzing how the author uses those elements to create certain
effects.
, Book Orientation - ✔️✔️The way that a teacher uses a book to support readers through
engaging readers in active anticipation, monitoring and problem solving as they read a
book for the first time.
Emergent Literacy - ✔️✔️to describe the reading and writing experiences of young
children before they learn to write and read conventionally.
Root Words - ✔️✔️the form of a word after all affixes are removed.
Affixes - ✔️✔️is a letter or series of letters added to a root word that can change its
meaning
Fluency - ✔️✔️rate, accuracy, intonation impact on reading comprehension. Example:
running record, prosody, influence of fluency on comprehension
Syllabication - ✔️✔️the division of words into syllables, either in speech or in writing
Compound words - ✔️✔️When two words are used together to yield a new meaning
Letter Recognition Skills - ✔️✔️being able to differentiate between different letters and
their shapes (Ex: difference between M and W)
Suffix - ✔️✔️a letter or group of letters at the end of a word, that can change the
meaning. (Ex: "ed" "tion")
Prefix - ✔️✔️a letter or group of letters at the beginning of a word, that change the
meaning. (Ex: "de")
Schwa - ✔️✔️a muffled vowel sound that is heard in many English words (Ex: the letter
"a" in zebra makes the "uh" or "Schwa" sound)
Consonant Blend - ✔️✔️when two consonants blend a word sound together. (Ex: "bl"
"br")
High Frequency Words - ✔️✔️the most commonly used words that appear most often in
printed materials (Ex: that, not, look, can, very, etc.)
Semantic Mapping - ✔️✔️a method of using mapping to teach concepts and relations.
(Ex. Rocks, sedimentary, metamorphotic)
Prosody - ✔️✔️The patterns of stress and intonation of a language. (Ex. Pitch, Loudness,
Tempo, etc)
