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TEACH phonics quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How many phonemes are in the word 'ditch'?

a)

3

b)

4

c)

5

d)

1

2.

In the word 'thing' /th/ is a ___

a)

digraph

b)

consonant blend

c)

schwa

d)

dipthong

3.

There are ____ phonemes in spoken English

a)

44

b)

26

c)

52

d)

200

4.

The grapheme /ch/ can represent how many phonemes?

a)

3

b)

2

c)

1

d)

0

5.

How many phonemes are in the word 'fox'?

a)

3

b)

1

c)

2

d)

4

6.

What percentage of English words cannot be read or spelled accurately using knowledge of phonics and morphology (sub-word level meanings)?

a)

4

b)

50

c)

80

d)

10

7.

In English there are approximately 44 speech sounds represented by 26 letters. How many are consonant sounds and how many are vowel sounds?

a)

24 consonants and 20 vowels

b)

21 consonants and 5 vowels

c)

13 consonants and 13 vowels

d)

39 consonants and 5 vowels

8.

When 'y' is the only vowel and the final letter in a one syllable word, it is most likely to be pronounced as

a)

ee as in see

b)

i as in ice

c)

a as in play

d)

y as in yet

9.

At the beginning of a word, the letter g is often pronounced like the j in jam when it is followed by

a)

a schwa

b)

a, o or u

c)

a vowel-team

d)

e, i or y

10.

A syllable always contains

a)

a hyphen

b)

a consonant blend

c)

a vowel

d)

a morpheme

11.

Synthetic phonics means

a)

teaching letter-sound correspondences in a systematic and structured way

b)

teaching only fake words

c)

teaching only phonics to the exclusion of other aspects of literacy

d)

encouraging children to use pictures to guess words they don't know

12.

Choose the word containing a digraph

a)

man

b)

fish

c)

blast

d)

edge

13.

Choose the word containing a trigraph

a)

man

b)

fish

c)

blast

d)

edge

14.

Phonics is

a)

the identification and manipulation of parts of spoken language

b)

knowledge of how letters or clusters of letters represent the sounds of speech

c)

a speech sound that combines with others to make spoken word

d)

only useful in the context of authentic text

15.

"Meaning-based" / "context-based" phonics teaching is

a)

synthetic but not explicit

b)

explicit but not systematic

c)

neither systematic nor explicit

d)

systematic and explicit