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Foundations of Reading Pearson #190 Exam
Study Guide.
Phonological awareness - answer✔The ability to recognize and work with sounds in a spoken
language. ***ONLY SOUND***
Rhyme - answer✔-End sounds (cat, hat, bat, sat)
-Sits under phonological awareness
-Easiest phonological awareness skill
Alliteration - answer✔-Same beginning sound (Ten Tiny Tadpoles)
-Sits under phonological awareness
-Second easiest phonological awareness skill
Put the PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS skills in order from LEAST complex to the MOST
complex:
- Alliteration
- Sentence segmentation
- Syllables
- Rhyme
- (Phonemes) Phonemic Awareness
- Onset-Rime - answer✔1-Rhyme
2-Alliteration
3-Sentence segmentation
4-Syllables
5-Onset-Rime
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6-(Phonemes) Phonemic Awareness
Sentence Segmentation - answer✔-Word sounds in sentences (The[1] dog[2] ran[3] away [4])
-Sits under phonological awareness
-3rd on the complexity level of phonological awareness
Syllables - answer✔-Blending syllables to say words/segmenting spoken words into syllables
(/mag/ /net/ /pa/ /per/)
-Sits under phonological awareness
- 4th on the complexity level of phonological awareness
Onset and Rime - answer✔-O- initial consonant
-R-vowel sound after (/m/ /ice/ /sh/ /ake/)
-Sits under phonological awareness
- 5th on the complexity level of phonological awareness
Phonemes - answer✔-(phonemic awareness) individual sounds in words
- /k/ /a/ /t/ /sh/ /i/ /p/ /s/ /t/ /o/ /p/
-Sits under phonological awareness
- Hardest phonological awareness skill to obtain
Phonemic awareness - answer✔-ability to identify and manipulate sounds in words
Put the PHONEMIC AWARENESS skills in order from LEAST complex to the MOST
complex:
-segmentation
-isolation
-blending
-deletion
-substitution - answer✔1-isolation
2-segmentation
3-blending
4-substitution
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5-deletion
Phonics - answer✔Letter to sound relationship to determine pronunciation (spelling)
Decoding - answer✔-ability to apply your knowledge of letter-sound relationships and letter
patterns to correctly pronounce written words
***Phonics Skill***
Sound-letter recognition - answer✔-See the letter, hear the sound
-Consonants are easiest (/s/ is s) , then Vowels (/a/ is a)
-Sound-> print-> letter
***Phonics Skill***
Blending and Reading short vowel words - answer✔-VC (at)
-CVC (cat)
***Phonics Skill***
Consonant Digraphs - answer✔-2 letters that make one sound (mouth doesn't move)
-wh, ch, sh, th, ck, ff, ll, ss, s, ing, ong
***Phonics Skill***
Consonant Blend - answer✔-2 consonants (mouth moves)
-fl, st, bl, cl, dr, pl, pr, br, fr, gr, str
***Phonics Skill***
English Language Rule - answer✔-Long vowel, silent e (CVCe- ade, ide, ode, ube, ote, one)
-R- controlled vowels (reading ony) ar, or, er, ir, ur -> car
-Advanced consonant (tch, dge, x, qu, soft c, soft g, kn, gh, rw)
***Phonics Skill***
Vowel teams - answer✔1) Digraph (mouth does not move)- ai,ay,ee,ea,ey
2)Dipthong (mouth moves)- oi,oy,ou,ow
***Phonics Skill***
Multisyllabic Words - answer✔-Reading and spelling (learning chunking)
-Dis-pute, Chat-ter, Dis-rupt, Pic-nic, Cat-nip, Cup-cake
