Phonics Exam

Question 1

Phonics

Answer 1

The relationships between the sounds of a language in the letters or letter combinations used to represent those sounds.

Question 2

Orthography

Answer 2

The spelling system of a language

Question 3

Phoneme

Answer 3

The smallest unit of sound in a word

shown in slashes

Question 4

Graphemes

Answer 4

Letters - written symbols that represent phonemes

Question 5

Phonological awareness

Answer 5

Awareness of units of speech such as words,symbols, and phonemes

Question 6

Phonemic awareness

Answer 6

The awareness of phonemes. It’s the ability to distinguish sounds in words

Question 7

Phoneme segmentation

Answer 7

Splitting a spoken word into each constituent phonemes in the order in which they are heard in the word.

This is a skill required for a child to fully understand phonetic spelling.

Question 8

Phoneme blending

Answer 8

Taking even funny names and combining them to make a word,

this is employed when decoding words

the opposite of segmentation;

Question 9

Decode

Answer 9

To take written words and translate them into phonemes that make up words.

Paper to voice

Question 10

Encode

Answer 10

Translating words from voices to paper.

When children take words from their mind and use phonics to sound out the phonemes in the word in order to write it down

Question 11

Consonants

Answer 11

Phonemes where the flow of air is cut off partially or completely.

They can be voiced or unvoiced

Question 12

Voiced

Answer 12

The vocal cords vibrate in creating the sound

Question 13

Unvoiced

Answer 13

The vocal cords do not vibrate in creating a sound

Question 14

Vowels

Answer 14

Phonemes where air flows through the mouth unobstructed

Question 15

Consonant digraph

Answer 15

Two consonants together that represent one phoneme.

Question 16

Consonant blend

Answer 16

A sequence of two or three concepts, each of which is heard.

Question 17

Consonant cluster

Answer 17

A sequence of consonants without a vowel between them including digraphs and blends

Question 18

Vowel digraph

Answer 18

Two letters together that represent one vowel sound continents may also act as vowels in vowel digraphs

Question 19

Onset

Answer 19

The beginning consonant sound before the vowel sound in a syllable. Not all words or syllables have onsets

Question 20

Rime

Answer 20

The vowel sound and any others that follow it in a syllable

Question 21

Word families

Answer 21

Words that share an ending called a rime. These letter combinations are sometimes called phonograms.

Question 22

Syllable patterns

Answer 22

English syllables can be grouped into basic patterns according to their use of consonant and vowel sounds

Question 23

Morphemes

Answer 23

The smallest unit of meaning within a word, including prefixes, suffixes, and base words.

Greek or Latin roots

Cat s
1 2

Question 24

Ambiguous vowels

Answer 24

This is a concept which describes any vowel letter or digraph that may represent multiple phonemes.

Question 25

Morphemic analysis

Answer 25

The process of analyzing or breaking down a word in terms of its meaning units or morphemes

Question 26

Affix

Answer 26

Any word part that is attached to a root; may be a prefix, suffix, or inflectional ending.

Question 27

Alphabetic principle

Answer 27

The concept that letters and letter combinations are used to represent phonemes in orthography.

Question 28

Braid of literacy

Answer 28

Literacy for children that is braided together.

It is made up of their orthography, writing, reading, vocabulary, and stories that are told orally and written.

Question 29

Word study

Answer 29

The process of studying words. This is an instructional approach to learning phonics; spelling, word recognition, orthography, vocabulary.

Question 30

Emergent stage

Answer 30

The first stage

When a child is not reading or writing yet.

Question 31

Letter name- Alphabetic

Answer 31

This is the second stage

When a reader is beginning to learn the alphabet names and phonemes.

Question 32

With-in word pattern

Answer 32

This is the third stage

When a reader is learning the multiple phonemes for each letter and are learning long and short vowels as well as letter digraphs and blends.

CVC. CV. CVCe

Question 33

Syllables and affixes

Answer 33

This is the fourth stage

Readers are learning syllables, affixes, and inflectional endings as well as beginning to learn morphemic analysis.

Question 34

Derivational relations stage

Answer 34

The last stage

When readers are becoming experts. They are working on morphemic analysis and have a large vocabulary.

Question 35

Schwa

Answer 35

Phoneme is an unstressed syllable; “throw away sound,” can be spelled by any vowel letter.

Question 36

Short vowels

Answer 36

A vowel that does not say it’s name

Question 37

Long vowel

Answer 37

A vowel that says it’s name

Question 38

R controlled vowel

Answer 38

A vowel followed by an r is always distorted making such words harder to spell.

Û her, â dare

Question 39

Diphthongs

Answer 39

Phoneme where the mouth glides from one vowel sound to another.

Question 40

Syllable

Answer 40

Phoneme that constitute a larger sound unit within word, beyond the phoneme level; a syllable must contain a vowel.