ICLA Standard 1 Practice Test Questions With
100% Correct Answers 2024.
phoneme
is the basic unit of spoken language. It is a speech sound as it exists in the mind of the speaker
A voiced speech sound made without stoppage or friction of the air flow as it passes through the
vocal tract.
Vowel
A meaningful linguistic unit that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful elements, as the word
book, or that is a component of a word, as s in books.
Morpheme
A development of association of print with meaning that begins early in a child's life and continues
until the child reaches the stage of conventional reading and writing. Examines changes over time in
how the child thinks about literacy and in the strategies the child uses.
Emergent literacy
A conventional writing system in a given language
Orthography
In a syllable, a sequence of two or more distinguishable consonant sounds before or after a vowel
sound, as /skr/ and /mz/ in screams. The term refers only to sounds, not to letters representing
sounds.
Consonant blend
The study of meaning in language, as the analysis of the meanings of words, phrases, sentences,
discourse, and whole texts.
Semantics
Instruction that guides the student to formulate generalizations without direct instruction.
Implicit instruction
The identification of word-meaning elements, as re and read in reread, to help understand the
meaning of a word as a whole. Commonly involves the identification of roots, affixes, compounds,
hyphenated forms, inflected and derived endings, contractions, and, in some cases syllabication. Is
sometimes used as an aid in pronunciation or in combination with phonic analysis.
Structural analysis
The ability to hear and manipulate the constituent sounds of words.
Phonemic awareness
Which of the word(s) have exactly five (5) phonemes?
frost
telephone
bank
, bread
song
stand
Frost & Stand
Which of the word(s) have exactly four (4) phonemes?
digit
cloth
listen
stock
toenail
sheep
Stock & Cloth
Which of the word(s) have exactly seven (7) phonemes?
candid
arboretum
magpie
through
eight
stopped
arboretum
Which of the word(s) have exactly three (3) phonemes?
bomb
industry
bonnet
climb
coin
cabbage
bomb & coin
Which of the word(s) have exactly four (4) phonemes?
listen
bombed
bonnet
candy
cloth
crossed
bombed & cloth
Which of the word(s) have exactly three (3) graphemes?
rigid
floppy
lemon
host
whale
straight
whale what you can see
Which of the word(s) have exactly four (4) graphemes?
100% Correct Answers 2024.
phoneme
is the basic unit of spoken language. It is a speech sound as it exists in the mind of the speaker
A voiced speech sound made without stoppage or friction of the air flow as it passes through the
vocal tract.
Vowel
A meaningful linguistic unit that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful elements, as the word
book, or that is a component of a word, as s in books.
Morpheme
A development of association of print with meaning that begins early in a child's life and continues
until the child reaches the stage of conventional reading and writing. Examines changes over time in
how the child thinks about literacy and in the strategies the child uses.
Emergent literacy
A conventional writing system in a given language
Orthography
In a syllable, a sequence of two or more distinguishable consonant sounds before or after a vowel
sound, as /skr/ and /mz/ in screams. The term refers only to sounds, not to letters representing
sounds.
Consonant blend
The study of meaning in language, as the analysis of the meanings of words, phrases, sentences,
discourse, and whole texts.
Semantics
Instruction that guides the student to formulate generalizations without direct instruction.
Implicit instruction
The identification of word-meaning elements, as re and read in reread, to help understand the
meaning of a word as a whole. Commonly involves the identification of roots, affixes, compounds,
hyphenated forms, inflected and derived endings, contractions, and, in some cases syllabication. Is
sometimes used as an aid in pronunciation or in combination with phonic analysis.
Structural analysis
The ability to hear and manipulate the constituent sounds of words.
Phonemic awareness
Which of the word(s) have exactly five (5) phonemes?
frost
telephone
bank
, bread
song
stand
Frost & Stand
Which of the word(s) have exactly four (4) phonemes?
digit
cloth
listen
stock
toenail
sheep
Stock & Cloth
Which of the word(s) have exactly seven (7) phonemes?
candid
arboretum
magpie
through
eight
stopped
arboretum
Which of the word(s) have exactly three (3) phonemes?
bomb
industry
bonnet
climb
coin
cabbage
bomb & coin
Which of the word(s) have exactly four (4) phonemes?
listen
bombed
bonnet
candy
cloth
crossed
bombed & cloth
Which of the word(s) have exactly three (3) graphemes?
rigid
floppy
lemon
host
whale
straight
whale what you can see
Which of the word(s) have exactly four (4) graphemes?
