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 is spoken)
Morphology ✔✔
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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 is 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
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