CDT Phonological Awareness & Phonics Instruction 2

Question 1

A grapheme is best defined as:

Accepted Answer

A letter or combination of letters that represents a single phoneme

Answer

A grapheme is a letter or group of letters (such as 'sh,' 'ch,' or 'igh') that together represent one phoneme in the writing system.

Question 2

Analytic (whole-to-part) phonics instruction:

Accepted Answer

Begins with whole words already known to students and then identifies common phonics patterns within them

Answer

Analytic phonics starts with whole words that students already recognize and then analyzes the phonics patterns contained within those words, moving from whole to part.

Question 3

Digraphs are defined as:

Accepted Answer

Two letters — consonants or vowels — that together represent one phoneme

Answer

Digraphs are two letters that together represent a single phoneme, such as 'sh,' 'ch,' 'th,' 'ph,' or the vowel digraph 'ea.'

Question 4

Phoneme segmentation drills primarily help students:

Accepted Answer

Break spoken words into their individual phonemes and identify each one

Answer

Phoneme segmentation drills build the ability to identify and separate all individual sounds within spoken words, a critical foundation for both reading (decoding) and spelling (encoding).

Question 5

An open syllable is one that:

Accepted Answer

Ends with a vowel sound, which typically produces the long vowel sound

Answer

An open syllable ends with a vowel that is not closed off by a consonant in that syllable; the vowel typically says its long sound, as in 'me,' 'no,' or 'ba-' in 'baby.'

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CDT Phonological Awareness & Phonics Instruction 2