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A phoneme refers to a

Single letter

Single unit of meaning

Smallest unit of sound

Grapheme

How many phonemes are in the word "tooth"?

In which of the following words is there a double consonant?

Alitteration

Bookcase

Soap box

Sandman

Which word is an example of the ei dipthong?

Paint

Height

Join

There

Which word is an example of the oi dipthong?

Owl

House

Boy

Boat

Which word below is an example of a long vowel sound?

Strand

Grasp

Blast

Today

Phonological awareness is

The ability to use letter-sound correspondences to decode

The understanding of how spoken language can be broken down and manipulated

A teaching method for decoding skills

Teaching method based on letter-sound correspondence

Phonemic awareness is

The same as phonological awareness

The understanding of how letters and sounds are put together to form words

The ability to break down and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken language

The ability to use letter-sound correspondences to spell new words

Which of the following is a practice of phonemic awareness?

Having to break down a word into phonemes

Having to spell a word

Having to say a word aloud

Having to list rhyming words for a specific word

What type of task would the following be? "Say the word 'cat', now say the word without the 'k' sound."?

Phoneme blending

Rhyming

Phoneme segmentation

Phoneme deletion

What type of task would the following be? "Replace the first sound in the man with 'k'?

Phoneme substitution

Phoneme deletion

Phoneme segmentation

Phoneme blending

Identify the pair of words that begin with the same sound

Joke and goat

Chef and shoe

Quiet and giant

Chip and chemist

If "tie" is a word, the letter "i" would probably sound like 'i' in

Beautiful

Find

Sing

If you say the word and then reverse the order of the sounds, "ice" would be

Easy

Sea

Size

Sigh

If you say the word and then reverse the order of the sounds, "enough" would be

Fun

Phone

Funny

One

A combination of two or three consonants pronounced so that each letter keeps its own identity is called

Silent consonant

Consonant diagraph

Dipthong

Consonoant

A "soft c" is in the word

Chicago

Cat

Chair

City

Which of the following words has 2 closed syllables?

Waved

Bacon

Paddle

Napkin

Which of the following words contain an open syllable?

Wave

Bacon

Napkin

Paddle

A morpheme refers to

A single letter

A single speech sound

A single unit of meaning

A grapheme

Which of the following words does not have a silent letter?

Acquit

Plumber

Syrup

Gnaw

The structural organization of English is referred to as

Syntactic system

Semantic system

Phonological system

Morphemic system

The term which refers to the social aspects of language

Syntax

Phonology

Pragmatics

Semantics

What is a grapheme?

The smallest unit of sound

The sound that corresponds to a letter

Smallest unit of a writing system

Vowel combinations

Which of the following is NOT an example of a grapheme?

Alphabetic letters

Punctuation marks

Emoticons

Numerical digits

What is the onset in the word bat?

How many phonemes are in the English language?

Unlimited depending on combination of letters

How many types of syllables are there?

Which of the following words has a vowel-consonant-e syllable?

Compete

Awful

Charter

Damage

A syllable must contain

A vowel

A consonant

Both a vowel and consonant

A meaning

The underlined letters in these words (phone, they, church) are all examples of

Consonant blends

Consonant shifts

Continental shifts

Consonants digraphs

Which is greater, the number of English phonemes or the number of letters in the alphabet?

The number of letters in the alphabet, because they can be combined together to create phonemes

The number of phonemes. A phoneme is the smallest measure of a language sound.

They are identical; each letter denotes a corresponding sound

Neither; phonemes and alphabet letters are completely unrelated

In the words: [tr]ain, [br]ain, [sp]rings, the bold letters are examples of

Consonant digraph

Consonant blend

Consonant shift

Continental shift

All members of a group of kindergarten students early in the year are able to chant the alphabet. The teacher is now teaching the students what the alphabet looks like in written form. The teacher points to a letter and the students vocalize the corresponding sounds. Alternatively, the teacher vocalized a phoneme and a student points to it on the alphabet chart. The teacher is using ______ in her instruction.

Letter-sound correspondence

Rote memorization

Predictive analysis

Segmentation

According to research, the most effective instruction in word recognition emphasizes student's development of

Grapho-phonemic skills

Syntactic skills

Self-monitoring skills

Semantic skills

First grade students practice combining the phonemes /k/a/t/s/ to make the word "cats". What phonemic awareness skill are they using?

Isolating

Segmenting

Blending

Manipulating

How many phonemes are in the word "name'?

Which term refers to the conventional spelling of a language?

Alphabetic principle

Orthographics

Structural analysis

Decoding

The most effective type of instruction when teaching reading is implicit instruction

True

False

Phonics is best taught with authentic reading opportunities

True

False

Which is the rule that governs the use of "c" in the inital position for k?

"C" is used for k in the initial position before e,i, or y

The use of c for k in the initial position is random and must be memorized

"C" is used for k in the initial position before a, o, u, or any consonant

None of the above

What is the rule that governs the use of "k" in the initial position for k?

"K" is used for k in the initial position before e,i or y

The use of "k" for k in the initial position is random and must be memorized

"K" is used for k in the initial position before a, o, u, or any consonant

None of the above

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