Arkansas Foundations of Reading Exam Phonics and Word Recognition

Question 1

What is the primary purpose of phonics instruction?

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To teach students the relationships between letters and sounds to decode words

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To improve reading fluency rate

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To build oral vocabulary through discussion

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To develop reading comprehension strategies

Question 2

Which word contains a digraph?

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Shop

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Blend

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Strap

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Crab

Question 3

A student reads 'came' as 'cam.' The error suggests difficulty with:

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Silent-e (CVCe) vowel pattern

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Short vowel decoding

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Consonant blend recognition

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Consonant digraphs

Question 4

Which of the following is an example of a closed syllable?

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Cat

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Me

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Like

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Boat

Question 5

The term 'decodable text' refers to text that:

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Is primarily composed of words with phonics patterns students have been explicitly taught

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Contains only high-frequency sight words

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Uses pictures to help students guess unknown words

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Is written at a student's independent reading level

Question 6

Which approach to phonics instruction is best supported by research for beginning readers?

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Systematic and explicit phonics instruction

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Embedded phonics within whole-language reading

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Analytic phonics only

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Incidental phonics when questions arise