MTEL Phonics and Word Recognition 2

Question 1

On the MTEL Foundations of Reading, sight words (also called high-frequency words) are best described as words that:

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Appear frequently in texts and must be recognized automatically; some are irregular, some are decodable

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Are always phonetically irregular and can never be decoded

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Should only be taught after all phonics patterns are mastered

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Are exclusively used in poetry and not in prose

Question 2

A student who understands that the prefix 'un-' means 'not' can figure out the meaning of 'unhappy.' This demonstrates which word recognition skill?

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Morphological analysis

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Phoneme blending

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Context clue use

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Syllabication strategy

Question 3

Which syllable type is present in the first syllable of the word 'silent'?

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Open syllable

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Closed syllable

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R-controlled syllable

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Vowel-team syllable

Question 4

According to the MTEL Foundations of Reading, which approach to phonics instruction has the strongest evidence base?

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Synthetic (systematic) phonics, in which students are explicitly taught to convert letters to sounds and blend them

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Embedded phonics, in which rules are taught only when they appear in authentic texts

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Analytic phonics only, in which words are first presented as whole units

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Incidental phonics, in which the teacher answers student questions about letters as they arise

Question 5

A teacher groups words like 'cat, bat, rat, hat' for instruction. This is an example of which phonics instructional approach?

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Analogy-based phonics using word families

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Synthetic phonics

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Embedded phonics

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Phonics through spelling

Question 6

On the MTEL Foundations of Reading, which multisyllabic word decoding strategy should students apply when they encounter an unfamiliar long word?

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Break the word into recognizable syllables or morphemes and decode each part

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Skip the word and use context to guess its meaning

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Ask a peer to read the word aloud

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Replace the word with a simpler synonym