Unit 3 - Learning how to read

To better help children learn the sounds of English, kids should not be asked to produce the sounds at the first stage of phonics instruction.

• True

• False

Which set of letters would you consider more suitable to teach kids over the course of a week?

• dba

• dag

• bap

• nom

Lack of code-related skills and/or oral language skills can limit children's ability to develop literacy.

• True

• False

Phonological awareness is not about ...

• blending sounds

• substituting sounds

• deleting sounds

• knowledge of graphemes

Which of the following is not a code-related skill?

• Knowledge of conventions of print

• Vocabulary knowledge

• Knowledge of graphemes

• Phonological awareness

In synthetic phonics, children are introduced to letters in alphabetic order.

• True

• False

During a phonics class, children are taught the letter’s name, rather than the letter’s sound.

• True

• False

To develop phonological awareness, a teacher can help children play with the length of stressed syllables.

• True

• False

Reading is an active skill requiring ________ written language and understanding its meaning.

• encoding

• transforming

• decoding

• developing

To be able to read, a kid needs to identify the letters in a word (S H I P), transpose each letter or letter cluster into speech sounds (/ʃ/, /ɪ/, /p/), and _ _ e _ _ the speech sounds into a word to utter it aloud (/ʃɪp/).