Structured Literacy and Decoding Skills

Structured literacy is a systematic approach to teaching literacy, starting with phonological awareness, focusing on rhymes and syllables. It progresses to phonemes and graphemes, teaching phoneme-grapheme correspondence. Students learn to encode and decode words, read sentences, and use decodable texts to practice reading. The method is structured in six steps: phonological awareness, phonemes, graphemes, words, sentences, and decodable texts.

What is the primary focus of structured literacy?

• Memorizing long texts

• Learning complex grammar rules

• Systematic approach to teaching literacy

• Teaching advanced vocabulary

What is the main goal of structured literacy?

• To memorize texts

• To systematically teach reading

• To learn complex grammar

• To write essays

What is the first step in phonological awareness?

• Identifying graphemes

• Breaking words into syllables

• Understanding word meanings

• Learning complex sentences

Which of the following is NOT a part of phonological awareness?

• Complex sentences

• Syllables

• Rhymes

• Phonemes

Which of the following is an example of a phoneme?

• The letter 'A'

• The sentence 'The cat sat.'

• The sound 'k' in 'cat'

• The word 'cat'

What is phoneme-grapheme correspondence?

• Reading complex texts

• Writing sentences

• Matching sounds to letters

• Learning new vocabulary

What is the role of graphemes in literacy?

• To write essays

• To create complex sentences

• To form units of sound

• To memorize vocabulary

What does encoding involve?

• Memorizing poems

• Understanding grammar rules

• Writing complex essays

• Breaking down sounds to form words

What does decoding involve?

• Learning new vocabulary

• Writing complex essays

• Breaking down sounds to understand words

• Memorizing poems

What skill is used to read a sentence?

• Writing essays

• Guessing meanings

• Memorizing words

• Blending sounds