Literacy Midterm questions with
complete solutions
The Science of Reading - correct answer ✔✔ Scientifically based, peer reviewed, high quality
research about reading related to literacy.
Structured Literacy - correct answer ✔✔
Phonological Awareness - correct answer ✔✔ Ability to hear and manipulate larger parts of
spoken language.
Phonemic Awareness - correct answer ✔✔ Ability to focus and manipulate individual sounds in
oral language.
Phoneme - correct answer ✔✔ Smallest unit of sound.
Phonological awareness/assessment Screener - correct answer ✔✔ To identify missing skills,
where to begin instruction, and to monitor progress.
Progression/sequence from Phonological to Phonemic Awareness - correct answer ✔✔ 1)
Awareness of spoken words 2) Awareness of spoken syllables 3) Awareness of phonemes 4)
Ability to manipulate sounds in spoken language
Phonics vs. phonemic awareness - correct answer ✔✔ Phonemic is individual sounds of the
spoken language. Phonics is the relationship between letters and sounds.
, How to teach phonological awareness - correct answer ✔✔ Syllables, rhyming, alliteration,
counting the number of words in an oral sentence.
How to teach phonemic awareness - correct answer ✔✔ Elkonin boxes, segmenting and
blending, onset (insertion and deletion), 'tapping out' the individual sounds in a spoken word.
Onset & Rime - correct answer ✔✔ Onset= beginning sound; Rime= sounds following the onset.
Oral blending- auditory blending test - correct answer ✔✔ Teacher gives the individual sounds,
and the student blends them together to make the spoken word.
Segmenting- phoneme segmenting test - correct answer ✔✔ Teacher gives the spoken word,
and the student must segment the spoken word into the individual sounds.
Grapheme - correct answer ✔✔ Visual representation of a sound. Ex: /o/ could be o or ough.
Consonant blends - correct answer ✔✔ 2 consonants that keep their sound (bl, fl, sp);
Consonant cluster - correct answer ✔✔ 3 consonants that keep their sound (spr, str)
digraph - correct answer ✔✔ 1 sound, two letters (ch, wh, sh)
trigraph - correct answer ✔✔ 1 sound, three letters (tch, dge).
Vowel digraphs - correct answer ✔✔ 2 vowels, 1 sound. Ex: ea, ee, ai, oo.
Diphthongs - correct answer ✔✔ A vowel glide. Ex: oy, oi, ou.
complete solutions
The Science of Reading - correct answer ✔✔ Scientifically based, peer reviewed, high quality
research about reading related to literacy.
Structured Literacy - correct answer ✔✔
Phonological Awareness - correct answer ✔✔ Ability to hear and manipulate larger parts of
spoken language.
Phonemic Awareness - correct answer ✔✔ Ability to focus and manipulate individual sounds in
oral language.
Phoneme - correct answer ✔✔ Smallest unit of sound.
Phonological awareness/assessment Screener - correct answer ✔✔ To identify missing skills,
where to begin instruction, and to monitor progress.
Progression/sequence from Phonological to Phonemic Awareness - correct answer ✔✔ 1)
Awareness of spoken words 2) Awareness of spoken syllables 3) Awareness of phonemes 4)
Ability to manipulate sounds in spoken language
Phonics vs. phonemic awareness - correct answer ✔✔ Phonemic is individual sounds of the
spoken language. Phonics is the relationship between letters and sounds.
, How to teach phonological awareness - correct answer ✔✔ Syllables, rhyming, alliteration,
counting the number of words in an oral sentence.
How to teach phonemic awareness - correct answer ✔✔ Elkonin boxes, segmenting and
blending, onset (insertion and deletion), 'tapping out' the individual sounds in a spoken word.
Onset & Rime - correct answer ✔✔ Onset= beginning sound; Rime= sounds following the onset.
Oral blending- auditory blending test - correct answer ✔✔ Teacher gives the individual sounds,
and the student blends them together to make the spoken word.
Segmenting- phoneme segmenting test - correct answer ✔✔ Teacher gives the spoken word,
and the student must segment the spoken word into the individual sounds.
Grapheme - correct answer ✔✔ Visual representation of a sound. Ex: /o/ could be o or ough.
Consonant blends - correct answer ✔✔ 2 consonants that keep their sound (bl, fl, sp);
Consonant cluster - correct answer ✔✔ 3 consonants that keep their sound (spr, str)
digraph - correct answer ✔✔ 1 sound, two letters (ch, wh, sh)
trigraph - correct answer ✔✔ 1 sound, three letters (tch, dge).
Vowel digraphs - correct answer ✔✔ 2 vowels, 1 sound. Ex: ea, ee, ai, oo.
Diphthongs - correct answer ✔✔ A vowel glide. Ex: oy, oi, ou.
