Kana
noun
The temporary names. These are the kana (that's hiragana and katakana). Why are the "temporary names" kana, though? Perhaps they were never meant to be a main way to write the names of the kanji... They are just a temporary way to write the name of kanji you don't know how to write the "correct" way (aka kanji)? That's just a guess, but it should help you to remember that this word means "kana," at least.
The reading for 仮 is the one you learned with the kanji. The 名 portion is not, however, and uses its kun'yomi reading (な), which you saw with the vocabulary word 名 (な). How to remember all this, though? Think of it this way:
The people who made kanji really don't want you to know kana. It's bad for business. They want anyone who uses the word "kana" to suffer, so they decided to make one part on'yomi and another part kun'yomi. Don't let them get you!
仮名の文
a sentence written in kana
仮名の文字
kana character
仮名の形
the shape of kana
もう全ての仮名を学びましたか？
Have you learned all the kana?
仮名だけで書かれた文は、分かりにくいです。
Sentences written only in kana are difficult to understand.
この本には、ふり仮名がついてますか？
Does this book have kana?