Foundations of Reading Flashcards

Which skill is a student demonstrating when they correctly break the word 'sunshine' into 'sun' and 'shine'?

Answer: Compound word analysis

Identifying the two base words within a compound word ('sun' + 'shine') is compound word analysis, a morphological awareness skill.

A teacher asks students to change the /k/ in 'cat' to /b/ to make a new word. This activity targets which skill?

Answer: Phoneme substitution

Phoneme substitution involves replacing one sound in a word with a different sound to form a new word.

According to the Simple View of Reading, overall reading comprehension is the product of which two components?

Answer: Decoding and language comprehension

The Simple View of Reading states that Reading Comprehension = Decoding × Language Comprehension.

Which of the following is an example of an inflectional morpheme?

Answer: The suffix '-ed' in 'walked'

Inflectional morphemes like '-ed' modify a word's tense without changing its part of speech or core meaning.

What does 'print directionality' mean in early literacy development?

Answer: Understanding that English text is read left to right and top to bottom

Print directionality is the understanding that English text is read from left to right and from top to bottom on a page.

A student reads grade-level text accurately but very slowly and without expression. Which reading component is most affected?

Answer: Reading fluency

Reading fluency encompasses accuracy, rate, and prosody (expression); a student who reads slowly and without expression lacks full fluency.

Which of the following words contains a closed syllable?

Answer: mop

A closed syllable ends in a consonant and typically has a short vowel sound; 'mop' (CVC pattern) is a closed syllable.