WPM Phonics & Decoding Skills Flashcards

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

Answer: Synthetic phonics

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

What is a grapheme in the context of phonics instruction?

Answer: A written letter or letter combination representing a single sound

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'.

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

Answer: Phonemic awareness

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

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

Answer: Chunk or pattern recognition

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

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

Answer: Language comprehension

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

Which of the following is an example of a consonant digraph?

Answer: ch

A consonant digraph is two consonants that together represent one sound; 'ch' makes the /ch/ sound and is a classic example.