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2024/2025
1. Which statement best describes the relationship between reading comprehension and word decoding
in a beginning reader's development?
c. Accurate, fast word recognition is necessary for development of reading fluency and text
comprehension.
2. Near the close of the day, a kindergarten teacher guides the students in conversation about the day's
activities. She writes down what is said on large chart paper, then reads it to the class. This activity
would aid their literacy development primarily by promoting which skill?
a. oral language comprehension
3. What is the most important implication of the Four-Part Processing Model for Word Recognition?
D. Reading depends on constructing pathways between the phonological, orthographic, and meaning
processors.
4. After results of a winter screening, six second-graders scored in the "somewhat at risk" range. What is
the next step the teacher team should take?
B. Analyze the screening results and gather additional diagnostic assessment data.
5. How is the word sn - ow divided?
, B. onset-rime
6. How many spoken syllables are there in frightening?
C. 3
7. How many spoken syllables are there in cleaned?
A. 1
8 What is the main reason that the ability to identify, segment, blend, and manipulate individual
phonemes in spoken words is important for reading an alphabetic writing system?
This skill ultimately supports the ability to read words "by sight."
9. Students with relative weaknesses in basic phonemic awareness are most likely to make progress if
the teacher provides which practice?
asks students to look in a mirror while they describe the way that target phonemes are formed in the
mouth
10. Which student is demonstrating the most advanced level of phonemic awareness?
the student substituting a sound in a given word and saying the new word
A student spells skin as "sgin." What type of phonological error did she make?
substitution of a voiced for an unvoiced consonant