STR Study Guide 2026

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📋 STR Exam Format at a Glance

Questions

285 min

Time Limit

70.00%

Passing Score

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📚 STR Topics to Study (36)

Phonics and Decoding · 7 cards Phonics and Decoding · 7 cards Phonics and Decoding · 7 cards Literacy Assessment and Intervention · 6 cards Literacy Assessment and Intervention · 6 cards Literacy Assessment and Intervention · 6 cards Oral Language and Listening Comprehension · 6 cards Oral Language and Listening Comprehension · 6 cards Oral Language and Listening Comprehension · 6 cards Phonemic Awareness · 6 cards Phonemic Awareness · 6 cards Phonological Awareness · 6 cards Phonological Awareness · 6 cards Reading Comprehension · 6 cards Reading Comprehension · 6 cards Reading Comprehension · 6 cards Reading Fluency · 6 cards Reading Fluency · 6 cards Reading Fluency · 6 cards Spelling and Writing Connections · 6 cards Spelling and Writing Connections · 6 cards Spelling and Writing Connections · 6 cards Structured Literacy and Dyslexia · 6 cards Structured Literacy and Dyslexia · 6 cards Structured Literacy and Dyslexia · 6 cards Text Structure and Academic Language · 6 cards Text Structure and Academic Language · 6 cards Text Structure and Academic Language · 6 cards Vocabulary Development · 6 cards Vocabulary Development · 6 cards

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✍️ Sample STR Questions & Answers

1. Which error pattern would MOST indicate a student has a phonological processing deficit rather than a phonics knowledge gap?

✓ Unable to blend sounds even when shown individually

Difficulty blending sounds presented individually suggests a phonological processing deficit — the student cannot manipulate phonemes even without the spelling layer.

2. Progress monitoring assessments should be administered to at-risk students at least:

✓ Every 1–2 weeks during intervention

Research recommends weekly or biweekly progress monitoring during intervention to determine if the intervention is effective.

3. Why is background knowledge particularly important for reading comprehension?

✓ It allows readers to make inferences, fill gaps, and build mental models of text meaning

Background knowledge provides the conceptual scaffold for inference-making and mental model construction, which are essential for deep comprehension.

4. A student can blend phonemes into words but struggles with segmenting words into phonemes. Which instructional strategy would be MOST effective?

✓ Use Elkonin boxes or counters to make segmentation concrete and systematic

Elkonin boxes provide a concrete, kinesthetic scaffold that helps students physically separate phonemes, directly targeting the segmentation skill gap.

5. A student understands individual sentences but struggles to understand the whole text. This is BEST described as a problem with:

✓ Text-level comprehension (global coherence)

Difficulty integrating sentences into a coherent whole reflects a problem with global coherence or text-level comprehension.

6. Which definition of dyslexia is used by the International Dyslexia Association?

✓ A specific learning disability characterized by difficulties with accurate and fluent word recognition, poor decoding and spelling, rooted in a phonological processing deficit

The IDA defines dyslexia as a specific, neurobiological learning disability rooted in a phonological processing deficit, affecting word recognition and decoding despite adequate instruction.

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