WPM WPM Phonics & Decoding Skills 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which phonics approach teaches letter-sound relationships by moving from individual sounds to whole words?
- Synthetic phonics (Correct answer)
- Analytic phonics
- Embedded phonics
- Onset-rime phonics
Correct answer: Synthetic phonics
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?
- A spoken sound unit
- A written letter or letter combination representing a single sound (Correct answer)
- A syllable boundary marker
- A punctuation symbol
Correct 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'.
Question 3: Which term describes the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words?
- Phonics
- Phonological awareness
- Phonemic awareness (Correct answer)
- Fluency
Correct answer: Phonemic awareness
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?
- Blending
- Segmenting
- Chunk or pattern recognition (Correct answer)
- Phoneme isolation
Correct 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.
Question 5: In the Simple View of Reading, decoding combines with which other skill to produce reading comprehension?
- Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Language comprehension (Correct answer)
- Working memory
Correct answer: Language comprehension
The Simple View of Reading (Gough & Tunmer, 1986) states that Reading Comprehension = Decoding × Language Comprehension.
Question 6: Which of the following is an example of a consonant digraph?
- bl
- str
- ch (Correct answer)
- nd
Correct answer: ch
A consonant digraph is two consonants that together represent one sound; 'ch' makes the /ch/ sound and is a classic example.
WPM WPM Phonics & Decoding Skills 1
Which phonics approach teaches letter-sound relationships by moving from individual sounds to whole words?