WPM WPM Phonics & Decoding Skills 3

Question 1

Which instructional approach is most supported by research for teaching students with dyslexia to decode?

Accepted Answer

Structured literacy with explicit phonics

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Whole language

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Balanced literacy

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Implicit phonics through reading

Question 2

What is a 'decodable text' used for in early phonics instruction?

Accepted Answer

Text that contains mostly words students can sound out using taught phonics patterns

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Text written at a student's frustration level to build resilience

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Text chosen by student interest

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Text with controlled vocabulary for fluency practice

Question 3

Which phoneme manipulation task is considered most advanced?

Accepted Answer

Phoneme substitution

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Phoneme isolation

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Phoneme blending

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Phoneme identification

Question 4

The 'schwa' sound in English is best described as:

Accepted Answer

The reduced, unstressed vowel sound /ə/ found in unstressed syllables

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A long vowel sound in stressed syllables

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A consonant cluster

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A silent letter pattern

Question 5

In morpheme-based decoding, what is a 'base word'?

Accepted Answer

The core meaningful unit that can stand alone and to which affixes are added

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The first word in a compound

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Any word with fewer than four letters

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A high-frequency sight word

Question 6

Which activity BEST develops phoneme blending skills in early readers?

Accepted Answer

Having students listen to segmented sounds and identify the whole word

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Asking students to clap syllables in words

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Having students sort pictures by initial letter

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Reading aloud to students daily