Virginia Reading Assessment Vocabulary Quiz
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This is a quiz to study for the Virginia Reading Assessment. It contains vocabulary used in reading assessment standards and related literature.
- 1.
- A.
A morpheme that cannot stand alone but is used to form a family of words with related meanings. A bound root has meaning only in combination with a prefix and/or a suffix.
- B.
Written letter combination that corresponds to one speech sound but is not represented by either letter alone, such as th or ph.
- C.
A morpheme that can stand alone in word formation.
- D.
A letter or letter combination that spells a single phoneme.
- 2.What is a consonant digraph?
- A.
A letter or letter combination that spells a single phoneme.
- B.
Written letter combination that corresponds to one speech sound but is not represented by either letter alone.
- C.
A graphic sequence comprised of a vowel grapheme and an ending consonant grapheme.
- D.
Unit of pronunciation that is organized around a vowel.
- 3.What is phonemic awareness?
- A.
A spelling pattern in which two or more adjoining letters represent a single vowel sound.
- B.
The study of relationships between letters and the sounds they represent.
- C.
The conscious awareness that words are made up of segments of our own speech that are represented with letters in an alphabetic orthography.
- D.
Metalinguistic awareness of all levels of the speech sound system, including word boundaries, stress patternes, syllables, onset-rime units, and phonemes.
- 4.What is phonics?
- A.
Metalinguistic awareness of all levels of speech sound system.
- B.
The study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent.
- C.
The conscious awareness that words are made up of segment of our own speech that are represented with letters in an alphabetic orthography.
- D.
Speed of reading.
- 5.What is a phonogram?
- A.
A morpheme that cannot stand alone but is used to form a family of words with related meanings.
- B.
A speech sound that combines with others in a language system to make words.
- C.
A phoneme that is not a vowel and is called a closed sound in some instructional programs.
- D.
In word recognition, a graphic sequence comprised as a vowel grapheme and an ending consonant grapheme.
- 6.How many consonant sounds are there in the English language?
- A.
40
- B.
26
- C.
5
- D.
21
- 7.How many vowel phonemes are in the English language?
- A.
5
- B.
10
- C.
15
- D.
7
- 8.What is a discussion of one or more books by a teacher, librarian, or student to introduce books and to induce others to read them?
- A.
Language Experience Approach
- B.
KWL
- C.
Literature Circle
- D.
Book talk
- 9.What is the part of a literature-based reading program in which students meet to discuss books they are reading independently called?
- A.
Literature Circle
- B.
Language Experience Approach
- C.
Decodable text
- D.
English as a Second Language
- 10.What is a spelling pattern in which two or more adjoining letters represent a single vowel sound?
- A.
Grapheme
- B.
Idiom
- C.
Inflection
- D.
Vowel combination
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