Phonics Test: Early Lit 1

consonant "le" syllable

2 syllable words, e is silent (ramble, uncle, table)

vowel team syllable

2 vowel friends have different sounds and are stuck together (sea, feet, paint, boat, zoo, book)

how many phonemes are represented by the word.. boat?

3

how many phonemes are represented by the word.. night?

3

vowel

SOUND represented by a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y and w in the English alphabet. Made without closing or restricting the breath channel.

Grapheme

a letter or combination of letters that represents a phoneme

phonogram

a letter sequence compromised of a vowel grapheme and an ending consonant graphemes

phonograms

a letter sequence compromised of a vowel grapheme and ending consonant grapheme such as -ig in wig, dig, bug or -ack in back, tack and sack

phonics

a method in which basic phonetics, the study of human speech sounds, is used to teach beginning reading

diphthong

a single vowel sound made up of a blend of two vowel sounds in immediate sequence and pronounced in one syllable (oi, oy, ou, ow)

syllable

a unit of pronunciation that consists of a vowel alone or a vowel with one or more consonants. can contain only one vowel

bound morpheme

affixes must be attached to word, can't stand alone (pre- dis- -able -ly)

schwa

an unstressed sound commonly occurring in unstressed syllables. (upside-down e) Makes the "uh" sound

Closed syllable

any syllable that ends with a consonant phoneme (hat, got, hop, mend)

closed syllable

any syllable that ends with a consonant phoneme sound

open syllable

any syllable that ends with a vowel sound (he, go, hi, me)

which of the following words contains letters that represent a diphthong?

boy

Which letter pair represents a consonant blend?

br

which of the following words contains a digraph?

bring (ng)

which letters do not represent phonemes that are identified by their own name?

c and q

which consonant letters are most phonemically inconsistent in representing more than one sound?

c and s

free morpheme

can stand alone (the, run, on ,well)

which of the following nonsense words would most likely represent the "soft c" sound?

cint

which of the words contains a closed syllable

doubt

the e in clem has the same sound as that found in: be err end

end

vowel consonant e

ends in "e", first vowel mades the name (cake, theme, five, rope, cube)

bilingual children in English-speaking classrooms typically progress at the same level as their peers

false

by the time the average child enters school, his or her auditory discrimination skills are fully developed

false

each syllable must contain only one vowel letter

false

phonics is the most important skill required for effective reading

false

the history of phonics shows that a phonics approach to teaching reading has been looked on favorably by most reading authorities over the past 50 years

false

the schwa sound is generally spelled in a consistent manner

false

there are about 100 ways to spell 44 phonemes

false

the i in sirp has the same sound as that found in: in girl high

girl

the o in kote has the same sound as that found in: not or go boy

go

which does not belong? gym gum game goat

gym is the only one containing a short "g" sound - j sound

which does not belong? owl out low pound

low is the only one not representing a diphthong sound

The a in laic has the same sound as the that found in: art may map

may

the a in spa has the same sound as that found in: art may map

may

the a in woah has the same sound as that found in: art may map

none of these

which of the following consonant letters affects the vowel theta precedes it?

r

r controlled syllable

r makes the vowel a strange sound (met, red, her)

which does not belong? a y i s w

s

which nonsense words would most likely represent the "hard g" sound?

seg

morpheme

smallest meaningful linguistic unit; whole word ( child)

consonant

sound repeated by any letter of the English alphabet except a, e, i, o, u, w, y

consonant blend

sounds in a syllable represented by two or more letters that are blended together without losing their own identities

the E at the end of words words with another letter to make a sound. (hope- e helps make the long o sound)

split digraph

which one does not belong? sh wh st ng ch

st is a consonant blend

umlaut

symbol placed over a vowel grapheme to indicate pronunciation

circumflex

symbol placed over a vowel graphemes to show it is LONG (^)

breve

symbol placed over a vowel letter to show it is SHORT

which one does not belong? sl tr bl th cl

th is a consonant digraph, the others represent consonant blends

phonemic awareness

the ability to recognize spoken words as a sequence of individual sounds.

onset

the consonant sounds of a syllable that comes before the vowel sound

rime

the part of a syllable that includes the vowel sound and any consonant sounds that comes after it

phoneme

the smallest sound unit of a language that distinguishes one word from another

phonetics

the study of human speech sounds (teachers do not use this)

macron

the symbol placed over a vowel letter to show it is pronounced as a LONG sound

which of the following words contains an open syllable

through (gh)

which pairs contains the same vowel phonemes? (same vowel sound)

too-shoe

a grapheme may be composed of one or more letters

true

bilingual children learning English benefit from highly explicit phonics instruction

true

changes in technology are significantly changing instruction in phonics

true

changing demographics in the US makes it highly likely that more than one language will be spoken in your classrooms

true

dialogue versus monologue is an effective teaching strategy when working with children learning phonics

true

in decoding multisyllabic words, syllabication should precede the application of vowel generalizations

true

synthetic phonics teaches student explicitly to convert letters into sounds and then blend the sounds to form recognizable words

true

the irregularity of vowel sounds is a basic problem of phonics

true

Digraph

two letters that stand for a single phoneme; (ch, th, ph, sh, wh, kn, gn, wr)

the u in kupp has the same sound as that found in: hurt up rude

up

the u in hue has the same sound as that in: hurt up use

use

Which of the following is a sound?

vowel

r controlled vowel

when a vowel letter if followed by the letter r, it affects the vowel sound so that it is neither short or long

which words do not contain a consonant blend?

why