Reading-Literary.1: Reading Standards

What is a consonant?

• A vowel sound

• A speech sound that is not a vowel

• A punctuation mark

• A type of sentence

What does "phonemic skills" refer to?

• Understanding letter sounds

• Writing long sentences

• Memorizing books

• Learning new languages

What does "phonic skills" mean?

• The ability to write stories

• The ability to identify and use letter sounds correctly

• Reading only short words

• Learning how to type

The phrase "sight words" refers to words that:

• Are difficult to spell

• Should be recognized immediately

• Are always nouns

• Are spoken with a loud voice

What does "decode a word" mean?

• Understanding the meaning of a word by identifying its parts

• Removing letters from a word

• Writing words backward

• Creating new words

If a student "isolates" a sound in a word, they:

• Remove it from the word

• Pronounce it separately

• Ignore it

• Change its meaning

What does "concepts" mean in the sentence: "Students should understand that words represent different concepts."

• Meanings or ideas

• Numbers and symbols

• The sounds of words

• Sentences

What does "memorize" mean?

• To forget something

• To learn something so well that you remember it automatically

• To write something down

• To ignore something

The phrase "word-decoding strategies" refers to:

• Techniques to understand a word by breaking it into parts

• Writing words in a different order

• Deleting words from sentences

• Guessing words

What does "build literacy skills" mean?

• Improve reading and writing abilities

• Make words longer

• Create new languages

• Read silently