Teaching Language Skills Quiz

Which of the following is a major difference between English and Chinese writing systems?

• Chinese uses only consonants

• English spelling is often not phonetic

• English has no silent letters

• Chinese uses the Roman alphabet

Which skill is an example of a bottom-up reading strategy?

• Predicting the story ending

• Using phonics to decode a word

• Connecting the text to personal experience

• Summarizing the main idea

What is the main goal of synthetic phonics?

• Memorize sight words

• Teach grammar rules

• Blend individual sounds to form words

• Guess words from pictures

What is fluency in reading?

• Reading as fast as possible

• Reading with accuracy, speed, and expression

• Memorizing the text

• Skipping difficult words

Which strategy involves students reading aloud together with the teacher?

• Timed reading

• Choral reading

• Skimming

• Annotation

Which of the following is a pre-reading strategy?

• Summarizing the text

• Activating prior knowledge

• Underlining key words

• Rereading for fluency

What is a morpheme?

• A type of punctuation

• A unit of meaning in a word

• A compound sentence

• A reading strategy

Which of the following is a compound noun?

• Unhappy

• Quickly

• Second-hand

• Running