STR Exam Questions and Answers Graded A

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STR Exam Questions and Answers Graded A Phonology ✔✔The study of sound patterns and their meaning, it observes sound patterns across a language (Ex. Phonetics how the letter t in the word tip i ... s spoken) Morphology ✔✔The study of words, the structure of words (ex. Stems, prefixes, suffixes) Syntax ✔✔The formation of words into sentences (Ex. subject + verb + direct object formula) Lexicon ✔✔The set of meaningful vocabulary in a language (ex. A dictionary) Semantics ✔✔study of meaning. Ex.) destination and last stop. (They mean the same thing) Phonemes ✔✔Smallest unit of sound (ex. letter sounds, "c") Phonological Awareness ✔✔identifying and manipulating oral language. (sound structure of words) Morpheme ✔✔- The smallest unit of language (ex. Prefix like pre, or suffix like -ed) Syllables ✔✔Sound units in language that include a vowel typically surrounded by a consonant. Ex.) "book" - 1 syllable, "reading" 2 syllables R Controlled Syllables ✔✔A syllable with a vowel which is controlled by the letter "r" or the /r/ sound. Ex.) Tar, far, car, bar, star Onset ✔✔the initial phonological unit of any word (c in cat) Rime ✔✔refers to the string of letters that follow (example: at in cat) Blending ✔✔a way of decoding words and building the different sounds together. (ex. Breakfast and lunch to brunch or m-o-m- to mom) Segmenting ✔✔this involves hearing a word and splitting it up into phonemes, into individual sounds (example: r-u-n) Substitution in a Running Record ✔✔the student substitutes a word in the text for another word and replaces the original word (Example: child reads went instead of want in text without correcting themselves) Omission in a Running Record ✔✔the students leave out a word or a phrase in a sentence when reading it. Example: In the sentence, "The family went to the park.", the student leaves out the "the" in the sentence reading " The family went to park." Addition in a Running Record ✔✔The student adds in a word or phrase in the text that wasn't there. (EX: The dog ran in the park. The student reads 'The dog ran fast in the park.') Graphemes ✔✔letters that represent a sound (ex. th or -ch) is the smallest unit in the writing system Consonant ✔✔A basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable. (EX: B, T, H, and G) Open Syllable ✔✔A word that ends with a vowel (ex. He) Multisyllabic words ✔✔has more than one vowel or syllable sound. (ex. Bacon, basketball, anybody Graphophonemic Skills ✔✔recognition of letters and the understanding of sound-symbol relationships and spelling patterns. Often referred to as phonics. Consonant Digraphs ✔✔Combination of two consonant letters that form one single speech sound. Example: "ch" in church Diphthongs ✔✔a sound formed by the combination of two vowels in one syllable Examples: "ou" in cloud, house, loud Diacritical Marks ✔✔symbols that tells a reader how to pronounce a letter. Diacritical marks can be lines, or dots, and can hover above a letter or be attached to it. Examples: ā, ē, ī, ō Alphabetic Principle ✔✔the ability to connect letters with sounds, and to create words based on thee associations. Environmental Print ✔✔Print in everyday life. Examples: street signs, logos, and labels. Word Walls ✔✔Walls with certain words under the appropriate letter Example: Sight word walls, subject content words Vowel ✔✔A, E, I, O, U Closed Syllable ✔✔is a vowel followed by a consonant. Examples: cap, sit, cat, pet Inflectional Endings ✔✔Group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning. Examples: adding -s or -es to the end of a word makes it plural. Dog to dogs. Genre ✔✔A genre is a category of a composition. Examples: Poetry, non-fiction, fiction, drama, etc. Concepts of Print ✔✔Can be described as a "set of rules" followed by readers and writers. Knowing the orientation of a book, reading left to right, awareness of books, pages, words and letters, and just know that print relays a message. Literary Analysis ✔✔examining all the par [Show More]

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