Phonics: Assessment and Practice

In PreK and kindergarten, the primary word recognition focus should be on phonemic awareness and basic__.

By first grade, students should understand --- combinations.

Students in second and third grades should receive focused instruction on ...

• Rhyming and sentence segmentation

• Onset-Rime

• Complex sounds and fluency

• Decoding words with two to three syllables

What is orthographic mapping? How do you use it in your instruction?

Phonics instruction should be (a)   ​ (b)  

• explicit
• systematic
• pragmatic
• automatic
• syntactic

Which of these statements about phonics assessment data is NOT true?

• Using phonics assessment data is critical to ensure students are making progress.

• Teachers should use phonics assessment data to determine student grouping.

• Phonics assessment data is not as important as phonemic awareness data.

• Phonics assessment data is used to progress monitor students' skill development.

Discuss how you might evaluate your school's curriculum to ensure it follows a structured literacy instructional approach supported by the Science of Reading.