Sample Multiple-Choice Questions Flashcards
Which of the following statements best explains the difference between phonemic awareness and phonics skills?
A)Phonemic awareness is the general understanding that spoken language can be represented by print, while phonics requires knowledge of particular letter-sound associations.
B)Phonemic awareness is the ability to associate sounds with letters, while phonics refers to knowledge of common spelling patterns.
C)Phonemic awareness involves a general understanding of the alphabetic principle, while phonics includes letter-blending skills.
D)Phonemic awareness is the ability to distinguish individual speech sounds, while phonics requires knowledge of letter-sound correspondence.
D
Which of the following describes the most likely source of phonics difficulties for English Language Learners whose primary language is alphabetic?
A)Other languages tend to use letter combinations to represent individual phonemes.
B)The letters of the English alphabet may represent different phonemes in other languages’ writing systems.
C)Other languages rely more heavily on the use of context cues in decoding than English does.
D)English contains words that have been adopted from many other languages.
B
In which of the following nonsense words is the vowel sound likely to be the same as the vowel sound in the word on?
A)goan
B)goble
C)gobb
D)gowl
C
Students in an upper-elementary class examine and discuss paired words such as compete and competition, inflame and inflammation, and magic and magician. Word pairings such as these are most likely to promote students’ reading development by increasing their awareness that:
A)most phonic generalizations have at least a few exceptions.
B)syllabication can help a reader identify the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
C)the spelling of a word may give clues to its meaning as well as to its sound.
D)some phonemes are represented by more than one letter combination.
C
