Name ___________________
Date_____________
Reading Foundations Training Test
Directions: Circle the best answer, or provide the correct responses.
1. What are 3 key Principles of Instruction for students with reading disabilities?
____Systematic_______________
_____Explicit___________
____Multisensory___
2. The term dyslexia refers to:
A) Seeing letters backwards
B) Difficulty processing sounds
C) Visual tracking problem
D) Below average cognitive skills
3. Instruction that is characterized by the use of a method or plan in order to reduce the student’s
cognitive load can be referred to as:
A) Implicit
B) Socratic
C) Experience-based
D) Systematic
4. When a student chooses the mental picture of a house cat in the sentence “The cat brushed up
against my leg.”, he/she is using which processor?
A)orthographic
B) meaning
C) phonologic
D) context
5. True or False:
Formative assessments function to provide short-term information and summative assessments
function to provide long-term information.
6. Struggling Suzie received three weeks of differentiated reading instruction. Afterwards, Mrs.
Wonderful Wiggins uses the results of a curriculum-based measure to determine that Suzie is
responding to additional intervention and does not need a more intensive approach. This is an
example of:
A) Screening
B) Progress monitoring
7. Which word contains a short vowel sound?
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Name ___________________
A)
B)
C)
D)
Date_____________
treat
start
slip
cold
8. A phoneme refers to:
A) a single letter
B) a single speech sound
C) a single unit of meaning
D) a grapheme
9. A pronounceable group of letters containing a vowel is a:
A) phoneme
B) grapheme
C) syllable
D) morpheme
10. A schwa sound is found in the word:
A) cotton
B) phoneme
C) stopping
D) preview
E) grouping
11. A diphthong is found in the word:
A) coat
B) boy
C) battle
D) sing
E) been
12. Example of voiced and unvoiced consonant pair would be:
A) b-d
B) p-b
C) t-f
D) g-j
E) c-s
13. Mark the statement that is false:
A) Phonological awareness is a precursor to phonics.
B) Phonological awareness is an oral language activity.
C) Phonological awareness is a method of reading instruction that begins with individual letters
and sounds.
D) Many children acquire phonological awareness from language activities and reading.
14. A reading method that focuses on teaching the application of speech sounds to letters is called:
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Name ___________________
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Date_____________
phonics
phonemics
orthography
phonetics
either a or d
15. A morpheme refers to:
A) a single letter
B) a single speech sound
C) a single unit of meaning
D) a grapheme
16. Name the six syllable types:
_____Closed____________ ___________Open____________________
_____final silent e ___________R-controlled___________________
____Consonant -le____
Vowel Team_______________________________
17. For the word construction, complete the following word analysis chart.
Word Analysis
construction
Phonology
# of syllables
3
# of sounds
11
Digraphs? Blends?
str
Morphology
Root
struct
Prefix
con
Suffix
tion
Semantics
Definition (including part of speech)
18. If tife were a word, the letter i would probably sound like the i in:
A) if
B) beautiful
C) find
D) ceiling
E) sing
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Name ___________________
Date_____________
19. How many speech sounds are in the word “box”
A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four
20. _________________ is an effective, research-based strategy for improving fluency.
A) Silent Reading
B) Round Robin Reading
C) Guided oral repeated reading
D) Listening to Read Alouds
21. __________________ is the ability to respond or act without conscience effort:
A) Fluency
B) Automaticity
C) Accuracy
D) Prosody
22. How do students in grades K-2 acquire the majority of their new vocabulary?
A) Watching television
B) Exposure to new words through discussion at home and at school; oral vocabulary instruction in
school, including read alouds
C) Primarily through exposure to words in print and number of exposures to new words
23. Which one of these is NOT an essential component of vocabulary instruction?
A) Wide reading
B) Teaching of individual words and word learning strategies
C) Teaching students the effective use of a dictionary
D) Fostering word consciousness
24. True or False: Comprehension simply involves deriving the meanings of individual words and
sentences.
25. A complete plan for teaching comprehension should address four components: Strategies, Text
Structure, Vocabulary, and _____________________.
A) Background Knowledge
B) Silent Reading
C) Computer-based activities
D) Blogging
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