SUBTEST 1 SECTION 1
Phonemic Awareness and Language Skills Quiz
Test your knowledge on phonemic awareness, language structure, and reading comprehension with our engaging quiz. This 25-question quiz is designed to challenge your understanding of various language concepts and provides valuable insights into the mechanics of reading and language acquisition.
- Multiple choice format
- Covers a range of topics related to phonics and language structure
- Perfect for educators, students, and language enthusiasts
Some common vowel patterns are associated with more than one pronunciation (e.g., steam and bread). Which of the following nonsense words illustrates a vowel pattern that is highly consistent in its pronunciation?
Stook
Troan
Spow
Mough
Oral rhyming activities are most likely to promote phonemic awareness by helping a child learn to:
Attend to the sounds shared by words in the same word family.
Identify the junctures between syllables in spoken words.
Recognize how the structure of a word relates to its meaning.
Identify spelling patterns that correspond to specific sounds.
The languages of the world are most similar in which of the following respects?
The basic principles of phrase structure (e.g., the subject-predicate structure of sentences)
The speech sounds that are used to form words
The basic rules of morphology (e.g., adding s to a singular noun to make a plural)
The role of volume in communicating information
Which of the following statements best explains how knowing a language that is historically related to English (e.g., German, French, Spanish) can facilitate an individual's acquisition of English as a second language?
Many words and roots are likely to have similar spellings and meanings in English and in the individual's first language.
English prefixes and suffixes are likely to resemble the affixes used in the individual's first language.
The most frequently occurring speech sounds in English and in the individual's first language are likely to be the same.
Social conventions relating to language use are likely to be similar in English and in the individual's first language.
According to current research, reading difficulties that are not the result of limited intelligence or lack of educational opportunity are most often caused by:
Poorly developed visual discrimination skills
A deficit in phonological processing
Poorly developed oral language abilities
A lack of motivation
An extensive oral vocabulary is most likely to contribute to a reader's decoding skills by helping the reader:
Apply phonics generalizations to sound out a word.
Use syntactic cues to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
Relate an unfamiliar word to known words with similar spellings.
Recognize a word after sounding it out.
Which of the following phonemic awareness skills typically is easiest for children to acquire?
Identifying the initial sound in a word (e.g., /b/ in bed)
Recognizing that two words contain the same sound (e.g., thin and path)
Blending sounds together to form a spoken word (e.g., /t/ + /a/ + /g/ = tag)
Identifying a word that does not belong in a group of three spoken words (e.g., gate, game, shake)
Which of the following word identification strategies typically is most advanced?
Applying phonics knowledge
Using context clues
Recognizing sight words
Analyzing word structure
According to current research, which of the following competencies best predict a child's success in learning to read in the primary grades?
Logical and analytical abilities
Letter knowledge and phonemic awareness
Perceptual and motor skills
Concept knowledge and oral vocabulary
Which of the following sentences contains a relative clause?
The circus that came to town in August has an excellent trapeze act.
After looking in the attic, I gave up my search for the records.
As the waiter walked toward the table, he slipped and fell.
They ran down the street, but they couldn't catch the ice cream truck.
In which of the following sentences is the underlined word used correctly?
When my supervisor spoke with me, she inferred that I'd better start showing up on time.
To what do you infer this sudden change in the weather?
When I made that remark, I didn't mean to imply that you had caused a problem.
I'm not sure it's possible to imply much of anything from this data.
Which of the following changes could best improve the logical organization of the passage?
Move Sentence 4 so that it follows Sentence 1.
Move Sentence 4 so that it follows Sentence 6.
Move Sentence 7 so that it follows Sentence 1.
Move Sentence 7 so that it follows Sentence 4.
Which of the following revisions of a sentence would best improve the style of the passage?
Sentence 1: Political opposition in Congress led to the defeat of John Quincy Adams by Andrew Jackson in the presidential election of 1828.
Sentence 3: The opposition was led by Senator Martin Van Buren, who hailed from New York.
Sentence 5: Van Buren cleverly made it appear that Adams had raised tariffs on imported goods.
Sentence 7: The party that occurred during the inauguration could not be contained within the walls of the White House.
Which of the following is the topic sentence of this paragraph?
Sentence 1
Sentence 2
Sentence 3
Sentence 4
Which of the following would be most important to include in the introduction to a persuasive essay?
An explanation of why the issue addressed by the essay is important
A description of the author's credentials and qualifications
A detailed summary of the logical steps in the essay's argument
A rebuttal of alternative points of view
Increasing the rate of speech in an oral presentation would be most effective for:
Compensating for poor acoustics in a room.
Conveying a feeling of excitement.
Stating the conclusion of a logical argument.
Emphasizing an important point.
A lack of variation in rate, pitch, and rhythm is most likely to undermine the delivery of an oral presentation by:
Diminishing the presentation's emotional effect.
Interfering with the logical continuity of the presentation.
Causing some audience members to feel excluded.
Requiring the audience to attend to multiple stimuli.
Which sentence most strongly suggests that the speech is persuasive in its intent?
Sentence 1
Sentence 2
Sentence 4
Sentence 5
Which of the following research questions would provide the most appropriate starting point for an objective investi- gation of issues raised in this excerpt?
Are there other respects in which D.C. Residents lack full citizenship rights?
Are there any groups of citizens other than felons who are denied voting rights?
Why do D.C. Residents pay relatively high per capita income taxes?
What arguments are raised by opponents of Congressional representation for D.C.?
Which of the following qualitative factors would likely contribute most significantly to the difficulty level of the passage for sixth-grade students?
The author's use of conventions of the memoir genre
Demands on students' knowledge of a specific setting
The author's use of figurative language to express ideas
Demands on students' knowledge of archaic language
This passage is typical of many traditional folk tales in its:
Subtle characterization.
Satire of inept government officials and political factions.
Intricate plot.
Inclusion of a character who is a trickster.
The style of the passage most clearly reflects the style of many traditional folk tales in its:
Use of a simple narrative structure with repeated words and phrases.
Reliance on dialogue rather than exposition to advance the plot.
Use of personification to develop psychological complexity.
Reliance on extended metaphor to develop the primary theme.
In this poem, the repetition of words and rhythms reinforces the poem's:
Metrical regularity
Mood of anxiety
Rhetorical emphasis
Hostile tone
The last two lines of the poem most clearly support which of the following themes?
The importance of perseverance
The cowardice of individuals who deny their true feelings
The triumph of courage over fear
The isolation and alienation of modern life
In this poem, the image of "the creature" most clearly symbolizes the:
Psychological disorientation that results from loss of religious faith.
Self-destructive dimensions of human behavior.
Fragmented consciousness that results from self-deception.
Unavoidable, persistent anguish of personal loss.
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