How well can you teach literacy skills?

phonics based systems focus on teaching students______

• sounds

• words

• singular letters

• punctuation

The basic sounds made in the English language that are taught in a phonics-based system are called_____

• phonemes

• syllables

• words

• plurals

What skill helps you take different sounds and blend them to make words?

• Encoding

• Decoding

• Envision

• Description

What does encoding refer to?

• The process of blending letters together as one reads

• The process of attaching appropriate letters to sounds when one writes

• The process of naming all the letters of the alphabet in correct order

• The process of segmenting words as one reads

How many different phonemes are there in the English language?

• 26

• 49

• 24

• 44

What is phonemic awareness?

• A child’s ability to associate letter shapes with letter sounds

• A child’s ability to name the letters of the alphabet

• A child’s awareness that pictures and text tell a story

• A child’s understanding and conscious awareness that speech is composed of identifiable units, such as spoken words, syllables, and sounds

• None of the above

All of the following are dimensions of phonemic awareness EXCEPT:

• The ability to associate letter shapes with letter sounds

• The ability to hear syllables within a word

• The ability to hear initial letter sounds or recognize alliteration

• The ability to distinguish rime and rhyme

• The ability to distinguish oddity

What is the task of either substituting or deleting sound?

• Oddity

• Manipulation

• Segmenting

• Blending

• None of the above

What is the ability to pull sounds apart after hearing the entire word?

• Blending

• Segmenting

• Manipulating

• Distinguishing rime

• None of the above

What is a grapheme?

• The smallest unit of sound

• The representation of a phoneme

• The twenty six letters of the alphabet

• The smallest unit of meaning

• None of the above