MTEL Foundations of Reading Multiple
Choice questions and answers 2024\2025
GradeA+
When a child is able to hear the sounds that make up a word, such as identifying the initial consonant
sound in the word put, the child has:
a. Syllabification
b. Phonics
c. Phonemic awareness
d. Emergent reading
- correct answer c. Phonemic awareness
A unit of pronunciation having only one vowel phoneme is considered a:
a. syllable
b. morpheme
c. grapheme
d. vowel digraph
- correct answer a. syllable
Two or more consonant letters that combine to make one sound such as those found in the words
church and what are called:
,a. consonant blends
b. consonant digraphs
c. consonant syllables
d. consonant dipthongs
- correct answer b. consonant digraphs
The written representation of sounds is called:
a. phonics
b. roots
c. phonemes
d. graphemes
- correct answer d. graphemes
A child's ability to indicate how many words are found within a sentence that is dictated to them
involves
a. phonological awareness
b. word awareness
c. phonemic awareness
d. sight word knowledge
- correct answer a. phonological awareness
Using the knowledge of the relationship between letters and sounds to blend them together when
decoding is using:
a. sight words
b. emergent reading
c. graphemes
d. phonics
- correct answer d. phonics
, When a child can break up the letters in words into particular sounds, the child is demonstrating the
ability to:
a. blend
b. segment
c. rhyme
d. syllabication
- correct answer b. segment
In the early stages of developing word identification knowledge, words such as the, of, when, because,
and and are considered:
a. vocabulary words
b. phonological words
c. concept words
d. sight words
- correct answer d. sight words
During an instructional activity, the teacher asks the onset of the word shop. The child would be correct
if they responded:
a. s
b. p
c. sh
d. op
- correct answer c. sh
Two or more consonants together that keep their particular sounds such as found in the beginning of
the words climb and straight are called:
Choice questions and answers 2024\2025
GradeA+
When a child is able to hear the sounds that make up a word, such as identifying the initial consonant
sound in the word put, the child has:
a. Syllabification
b. Phonics
c. Phonemic awareness
d. Emergent reading
- correct answer c. Phonemic awareness
A unit of pronunciation having only one vowel phoneme is considered a:
a. syllable
b. morpheme
c. grapheme
d. vowel digraph
- correct answer a. syllable
Two or more consonant letters that combine to make one sound such as those found in the words
church and what are called:
,a. consonant blends
b. consonant digraphs
c. consonant syllables
d. consonant dipthongs
- correct answer b. consonant digraphs
The written representation of sounds is called:
a. phonics
b. roots
c. phonemes
d. graphemes
- correct answer d. graphemes
A child's ability to indicate how many words are found within a sentence that is dictated to them
involves
a. phonological awareness
b. word awareness
c. phonemic awareness
d. sight word knowledge
- correct answer a. phonological awareness
Using the knowledge of the relationship between letters and sounds to blend them together when
decoding is using:
a. sight words
b. emergent reading
c. graphemes
d. phonics
- correct answer d. phonics
, When a child can break up the letters in words into particular sounds, the child is demonstrating the
ability to:
a. blend
b. segment
c. rhyme
d. syllabication
- correct answer b. segment
In the early stages of developing word identification knowledge, words such as the, of, when, because,
and and are considered:
a. vocabulary words
b. phonological words
c. concept words
d. sight words
- correct answer d. sight words
During an instructional activity, the teacher asks the onset of the word shop. The child would be correct
if they responded:
a. s
b. p
c. sh
d. op
- correct answer c. sh
Two or more consonants together that keep their particular sounds such as found in the beginning of
the words climb and straight are called:
