Chapter 5 Quiz

The smallest units of speech are known as:

• morphemes
• graphemes
• phonemes
• phonics

Research suggests that of the following, the most powerful predictor of later reading achievement appears to be a child’s:

• social maturity
• visual discrimination
• fine-motor skills
• phonemic awareness

Of the following, the activity which would most likely give students opportunities to apply phonics concepts is:

• interactive writing
• handwriting practice
• grand conversation
• viewing

Six-year-old Rachel proudly said she could read the word fish because it looked like the word dish. This child was:

• decoding by analogy
• participating in interactive writing
• sounding out a word
• applying a phonics generalization

In the word star, the vowel sound is best described as:

• short
• schwa
• r-controlled
• diphthong

Of the following, the best way to help children learn to segment words would be to use:

• Elkonin Boxes
• reading response journals
• repetends
• consonant digraphs

A teacher wrote the words say, play, may, and tray on a whiteboard. In these words, the ay can be referred to as:

• an onset
• a rime
• a morpheme
• an inflection

In the word chime, the ch is an example of a:

• consonant blend
• consonant digraph
• morpheme
• diphthong

Phonemic awareness instruction should be:

• emphasized at all grade levels
• isolated to emphasize phonics skills
• used only with children with limited exposure to the English language
• integrated with other components of a balanced literacy program

Seven-year-old Anna was born in Mexico and learned to read before transferring to a second grade classroom in the United States. Research suggests that if children can read in their native language, they most likely:

• have developed phonemic awareness
• will struggle when learning to read in an additional language
• will find graphemes confusing
• will translate all texts into their native language