Phonics Practice Quiz

A second-grade teacher regularly reviews spelling patterns previously taught. The teacher also provides students with multiple opportunities to read and write connected text (decodable text) that features words containing the target spelling patterns and to engage in word sorts focused on previously taught spelling patterns. These types of activities are likely to promote students' reading proficiency primarily by developing their:

 

word reading accuracy

Which of the following best describes the relationship between word decoding and reading comprehension in a beginning reader's development?

 

Rapid automatic decoding skills help facilitate development of reading fluency and comprehension.

A teacher can most effectively support first graders' development of rapid automatic word recognition by first teaching students how to

 

apply consistent phonics generalizations in common words.

According to basic principles of research-based, systematic phonics instruction, which of the following common English letter combinations would be most appropriate for a first-grade teacher to introduce first?

th

Which of the following provides the best rationale for incorporating spelling instruction into a first-grade reading program?

 

Spelling supports word recognition by helping students learn and retain common phonics patterns.

Which of the following statements best describes how oral vocabulary knowledge is related to the process of decoding written words? 

 

A reader's oral vocabulary knowledge allows the reader to derive meaning as he or she decodes written words.

Read the sentence below; then answer the question that follows.

My family went to the circus last weekend. I liked the clowns the best. They were very funny.

A student makes several miscues when reading these sentences aloud. Which of the following miscues represents an error in decoding consonant blends?

 

saying bet for best

Which of the following sentences contains a pair of underlined words that differ from one another by one phoneme?

 

He took off his cap so that he could take a nap.

Which of the following students demonstrates variation in reading development that would require intervention focused on explicit phonics instruction?

 

a second-grade student who is adept at using context clues to identify words but has difficulty sounding out the letters in unfamiliar words

A student who has mastered which of the following skills along the phonological awareness continuum is best prepared to begin explicit phonics instruction?

 

being able to segment and blend a word's phonemes

There are ___ consonants in the English alphabet. 

21

What two sounds do the five vowels (a, e, i, o, u) make?

 

short and long

When two or more consonants work together and each consonant is heard, we call this a ...

blend

When two or more consonants work together to make a new sound, we call this a ...

diagraph

When two or more vowels work together and make the sound of only one of the vowels, we call this a ...

 

vowel digraph/vowel team

In the word blend, "bl" is a ...

 

blend

In the word stop, "st" is a ...

blend

In the word dishes, "sh" is a ...

digraph

In the word meet, "ee" is a ...

vowel team

vowel digraph

In the word boil, "oi" is a ...

diphthong

vowel diphthong

Which word is not an example of a CVC word? 

see

Which of the following spelling patterns all have long vowels? 

 

CV, VCe, CVVC

Which word does not have a long vowel sound? 

brown

Which group of spelling patterns are all ways to spell the long a sound? 

 

ai, ay, eigh

The "oo" in book is an example of a ...

 

variant vowel digraph

First, bird, and star all contain examples of ...

 

r controlled vowels

Which word does not follow the FLOSS rule? 

 

carry

Why is the /k/ sound at the end of pick spelled with "ck"? 

 

The /k/ sound is at the end of a one syllable word following a short vowel.

The "g" in gold is pronounced as a ...

 

hard /g/ sound