PRAXIS II ELEMENTARY EDUCATION: READING AND
LANGUAGE ARTS (5002) WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100%
Phoneme
The smallest unit of sound.
Phonemic Awareness
Blending sounds in a word in order to say the word; a critical component of reading
Phoneme Addition
Making new words by adding a phoneme to a word (e.g. adding /t/ to "rain" to make "train")
Phoneme Blending
Providing a sequence of spoken phonemes to form a word (e.g. /s/ /i/ /t/ makes "sit")
Phoneme Segmentation
Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them (e.g. there are 3 sounds in the word "pig"
- /p/ /i/ /g/)
Alphabetic Principle
The concept that written language is comprised of letters that represent sounds in spoken words
Blend
A sequence of consonants before or after a vowel in a given syllable (e.g. /tr/ or /sh/)
Decoding
Ability to sound out new words or to interpret a word from print to speech through the skill of sound-
symbol correspondence
Morpheme
The smallest unit of meaningful language that may be part of a word (e.g. syllable, prefix or suffix) or
an entire word
Onset and Rime
Parts of words in the spoken language smaller than syllables; onset is the initial consonant sound;
rime is the portion of the syllable with the vowel and the remainder of the word (e.g. in "star" - /st/ is
the onset and /ar/ is the rime)
Phonics
Promotes understanding of alphabetic principles and the relationships between phonemes (sounds)
and graphemes (letters)
Phonological Awareness
Listening skills and ability to understand that sounds are related to written words
LANGUAGE ARTS (5002) WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100%
Phoneme
The smallest unit of sound.
Phonemic Awareness
Blending sounds in a word in order to say the word; a critical component of reading
Phoneme Addition
Making new words by adding a phoneme to a word (e.g. adding /t/ to "rain" to make "train")
Phoneme Blending
Providing a sequence of spoken phonemes to form a word (e.g. /s/ /i/ /t/ makes "sit")
Phoneme Segmentation
Breaking a word into separate sounds and counting them (e.g. there are 3 sounds in the word "pig"
- /p/ /i/ /g/)
Alphabetic Principle
The concept that written language is comprised of letters that represent sounds in spoken words
Blend
A sequence of consonants before or after a vowel in a given syllable (e.g. /tr/ or /sh/)
Decoding
Ability to sound out new words or to interpret a word from print to speech through the skill of sound-
symbol correspondence
Morpheme
The smallest unit of meaningful language that may be part of a word (e.g. syllable, prefix or suffix) or
an entire word
Onset and Rime
Parts of words in the spoken language smaller than syllables; onset is the initial consonant sound;
rime is the portion of the syllable with the vowel and the remainder of the word (e.g. in "star" - /st/ is
the onset and /ar/ is the rime)
Phonics
Promotes understanding of alphabetic principles and the relationships between phonemes (sounds)
and graphemes (letters)
Phonological Awareness
Listening skills and ability to understand that sounds are related to written words
