Foundations of Reading Instruction Flashcards

Which of the following is an example of a multisyllabic word decoding strategy?

Answer: Identifying and reading morpheme chunks within the word

Breaking multisyllabic words into recognizable morpheme chunks (prefixes, roots, suffixes) is an evidence-based strategy for decoding longer words.

The term 'automaticity' in reading refers to:

Answer: Recognizing words accurately and effortlessly without conscious attention

Automaticity means word recognition occurs rapidly and without deliberate effort, freeing cognitive resources for comprehension.

A student reads aloud with 94% accuracy on a grade-level passage. This performance falls in which reading level category?

Answer: Instructional level

The instructional level is typically defined as 90–94% accuracy, indicating the text is appropriately challenging with teacher support.

Which phonics pattern does the word 'cake' exemplify?

Answer: Silent-e (CVCe) pattern

The word 'cake' follows the CVCe (consonant-vowel-consonant-silent e) pattern, where the final silent 'e' makes the vowel 'a' say its long sound.

What is the primary purpose of repeated oral reading with feedback?

Answer: Developing reading fluency

Repeated oral reading with corrective feedback is one of the most evidence-supported methods for building reading fluency, including rate, accuracy, and prosody.

A first-grade teacher introduces letters and sounds in a specific sequence, starting with high-frequency consonants and short vowels. This reflects which instructional principle?

Answer: Systematic and explicit phonics instruction

Systematic phonics instruction introduces letter-sound correspondences in a carefully planned, sequential order rather than incidentally or randomly.

Which activity best develops phonemic awareness in kindergartners?

Answer: Orally blending spoken word parts: '/k/ /æ/ /t/ = cat'

Orally blending phonemes without print is a phonemic awareness activity because it focuses purely on sounds in spoken language.