Foundational Skills

What is the human brain naturally hard-wired for?

• Reading

• Writing

• Spoken language

• Mathematics

What is Scarborough's Reading Rope made up of?

• Grammar

• Language Comprehension

• Word Recognition

• Cursive

Which of the following is a subcategory of phonological awareness?

• Vocabulary

• Fluency

• Writing

• Phonemic Awareness

What does phonics teach students?

• To understand rhyming words

• To break a word into syllables

• To learn the relationship between sounds and symbols

• To notice and manipulate individual sounds in words

Which of the following is NOT a skill included in phonemic awareness?

• Blending

• Sentence segmentation

• Substitution

• Phoneme isolation

What is the smallest unit of sound?

• phonics

• phoneme

• morpheme

• letters

Click on the two truths.

• Phonemic Awareness and Phonological Awareness are interchangeable terms.

• Phonological Awareness is an awareness of various speech sounds such as syllables, rhyme, and individual phonemes.

• Phonemic Awareness refers to the ability to consciously manipulate individual phonemes in a spoken language.

According to the National Reading Panel, which of the following is one of the five pillars of reading?

• Phonemic Awareness

• Phonics

• Fluency

• Storywriting