Teaching Reading: Phonics and Word Analysis Flashcards

Which word contains an open syllable?

Answer: he

'He' ends in a vowel, making it an open syllable with a long vowel sound.

A teacher says 'cake' and asks students to change the /k/ to /l/. This phonemic awareness task is:

Answer: Phoneme substitution

Replacing one phoneme with another to make a new word is phoneme substitution.

Which is the best example of a vowel team (vowel digraph)?

Answer: boat

'Boat' uses the vowel team 'oa,' two vowels working together to make one long /o/ sound.

When a student decodes 'rabbit' as 'rab-bit,' splitting between the double consonants, the student is applying:

Answer: Syllable division rules

Dividing between two consonants (VCCV pattern) is a standard syllabication rule for multisyllabic words.

The hard and soft sounds of 'c' depend on the letter that follows. 'C' is usually soft (/s/) when followed by:

Answer: e, i, or y

The letter 'c' typically makes the soft /s/ sound before e, i, or y, as in 'cent,' 'city,' and 'cycle.'

A first grader reads slowly and sounds out every word but comprehends little. Instruction should next emphasize:

Answer: Building reading fluency through repeated practice

Accurate but slow, labored decoding indicates a need for fluency practice so reading becomes automatic.

Which word pair best illustrates a minimal pair useful for teaching phoneme discrimination?

Answer: bat / pat

'Bat' and 'pat' differ by a single phoneme, making them a minimal pair for practicing sound discrimination.