WPM WPM Phonics & Decoding Skills

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Synthetic phonics

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Analytic phonics

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Embedded phonics

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Onset-rime phonics

Question 2

What is a grapheme in the context of phonics instruction?

Accepted Answer

A written letter or letter combination representing a single sound

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A spoken sound unit

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A syllable boundary marker

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A punctuation symbol

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Phonemic awareness

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Phonics

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Phonological awareness

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Fluency

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Chunk or pattern recognition

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Blending

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Segmenting

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Phoneme isolation

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Language comprehension

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Fluency

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Vocabulary

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Working memory

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

ch

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bl

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str

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nd