Phonics Instruction PD Pre-Survey

The English language has 26 speech sounds.

• True

• False

Phonics explicitly teaches the relationship between letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes).

• True

• False

Phonics is a strategy necessary for decoding new words and for storing those words in orthographic memory.

• True

• False

Phonics instruction should be differentiated to meet the needs of individual students and only used in small groups.

• True

• False

Teachers should provide frequent opportunities for children to apply what they are learning about letters and sounds.

• True

• False

Leveled texts are the best type of text to use with phonics instruction.

• True

• False

Phonics instruction teaches students to decode and encode.

• True

• False

Phonics and phonological awareness are one in the same.

• True

• False

Phonics is one of the six components of reading instruction that works to create literate students.

• True

• False