WPM WPM Phonics & Decoding Skills

Question 1

Which phonics approach teaches letter-sound relationships by moving from individual sounds to whole words?

Accepted Answer

Synthetic phonics

Answer

Synthetic phonics teaches students to convert individual letters into sounds and blend them together to form words.

Question 2

What is a grapheme in the context of phonics instruction?

Accepted Answer

A written letter or letter combination representing a single sound

Answer

A grapheme is the written representation of a phoneme, which can be a single letter or a group of letters such as 'sh' or 'igh'.

Question 3

Which term describes the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words?

Accepted Answer

Phonemic awareness

Answer

Phonemic awareness is the specific ability to work with individual phonemes, the smallest units of spoken language.

Question 4

What decoding strategy involves recognizing common letter patterns such as '-ight' or '-tion' as a unit?

Accepted Answer

Chunk or pattern recognition

Answer

Chunk or pattern recognition allows readers to decode multisyllabic words faster by identifying familiar spelling patterns as a whole unit.

Question 5

In the Simple View of Reading, decoding combines with which other skill to produce reading comprehension?

Accepted Answer

Language comprehension

Answer

The Simple View of Reading (Gough & Tunmer, 1986) states that Reading Comprehension = Decoding × Language Comprehension.

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