ABCTE: ALPHABETICS & FLUENCY
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Alphabetic Principle - Correct Answers -The association of sounds with letters
Vowel Diphthongs - Correct Answers -sounds that consist of a blend of two separate
vowel sounds such as /oi/ in oil or /oy/ in toy
How print moves across and down the page - Correct Answers -is one of the first things
that young students need to learn in order to read any text
Decoding - Correct Answers -crucial skill for fluency
a pair of consonant letters that work together to represent a single consonant sound is
called a - Correct Answers -consonant digraph
building fluency through classroom practice should include - Correct Answers -lengthy,
guided oral readings
which of the following is true about the word "hungry"? - Correct Answers -two syllables
and six phonemes
Fluency instruction based on "repeated reading" - Correct Answers -is a better method
than SILENT READING
contains four phonemes? - Correct Answers -Bright
first grade student struggling to recognize sight words. what is best? - Correct Answers -
working together using letter manipulatives to build sight words
which of the following answers means "the written letters or symbols of a language"? -
Correct Answers -Orthography - set of rules of how to write correctly in a given
language
Systematic phonics instruction is - Correct Answers -explicit in its approach
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Alphabetic Principle - Correct Answers -The association of sounds with letters
Vowel Diphthongs - Correct Answers -sounds that consist of a blend of two separate
vowel sounds such as /oi/ in oil or /oy/ in toy
How print moves across and down the page - Correct Answers -is one of the first things
that young students need to learn in order to read any text
Decoding - Correct Answers -crucial skill for fluency
a pair of consonant letters that work together to represent a single consonant sound is
called a - Correct Answers -consonant digraph
building fluency through classroom practice should include - Correct Answers -lengthy,
guided oral readings
which of the following is true about the word "hungry"? - Correct Answers -two syllables
and six phonemes
Fluency instruction based on "repeated reading" - Correct Answers -is a better method
than SILENT READING
contains four phonemes? - Correct Answers -Bright
first grade student struggling to recognize sight words. what is best? - Correct Answers -
working together using letter manipulatives to build sight words
which of the following answers means "the written letters or symbols of a language"? -
Correct Answers -Orthography - set of rules of how to write correctly in a given
language
Systematic phonics instruction is - Correct Answers -explicit in its approach
