Phonics refresher for staff

How many phonemes are there in the English language?

• 26

• 42

• 44

• 52

What is a digraph?

• A letter that makes two sounds

• Two letters that make one sound

• Three letters that make one sound

• A group of letters that form a word

Which of the following is a trigraph?

• sh

• th

• igh

• ch

What does "split digraph" mean?

• Two letters that are separated by a consonant but make one sound

• A single letter sound split between two words

• A digraph that sounds like two separate letters

• Two digraphs used in the same word

Which of the following words contains a split digraph?

• Bed

• Kite

• Mat

• Ball

What is a phoneme?

• The written representation of a sound

• The smallest unit of sound in a word

• A combination of two letters to make one sound

• A punctuation mark

What is a grapheme?

• The visual representation of a phoneme

• A group of letters representing different sounds

• The sound made by two or more letters

• A type of syllable

Which of these terms refers to the initial sound in a word?

• Rime

• Syllable

• Onset

• Consonant

In phonics, what does blending mean?

• Mixing letters to form a new sound

• Combining individual sounds to form a word

• Repeating a sound in a word

• Changing a sound within a word

Which of the following is an example of a consonant cluster?

• pl

• oo

• ai

• ar