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Teaching Reading: A Balanced Approach for Today's Classrooms

Pamela Farris, Northern Illinois University
Carol Fuhler, Iowa State University
Maria Walther

A Balanced Approach to Phonics and Word Study

Multiple Choice


1	Which of the following does NOT describe a principle of phonics instruction?
		A)	systematic
		B)	intensive
		C)	sequential
		D)	balanced


2	When Mr. Thammavonga has his students use what they know about the "ow" sound in snow to decode throw and know, he is teaching them
		A)	analogy-based phonics.
		B)	synthetic phonics.
		C)	embedded phonics.
		D)	semantic phonics.


3	In the word "ball," the "b" sound is the
		A)	onset.
		B)	rime.
		C)	morpheme.
		D)	grapheme.


4	Which of the following activities best establishes or reinforces for students the concept of alphabetic principle?
		A)	listening to sequences of sounds
		B)	jump rope rhymes
		C)	word study center
		D)	rhyme toss


5	When two consonants together create one sound that is different from either's individual sound, this is known as a
		A)	blend.
		B)	digraph.
		C)	controlled blend.
		D)	schwa.


6	Which of the following best represents Strickland's (1998) guidelines to teaching phonics?
		A)	Teaching phonics is synonymous with teaching reading.
		B)	Students should memorize phonics rules to ensure that they will apply them.
		C)	Phonics are best taught in the context of actual reading and writing.
		D)	None of the above.


7	In which phonics approach might the teacher introduce the short o sound to her students and then ask them to blend together letters of three-letter words containing that sound?
		A)	analytic phonics
		B)	linguistic phonics
		C)	synthetic phonics
		D)	analogy-based phonics


8	Which of the following methods requires students to manipulate letters to make many different words and to discover the mystery word?
		A)	Word sorts
		B)	Guess the covered word
		C)	Making words
		D)	Word walls


9	Word families are also called
		A)	phonograms.
		B)	phonemes.
		C)	onsets.
		D)	digraphs.


10	Which of the following terms may be defined as "a general appreciation of the sounds of speech as distinct from their meaning"?
		A)	phonemic awareness
		B)	alphabetic principle
		C)	phonics knowledge
		D)	phonological awareness


11	Which of the following terms may be defined as the understanding that words are made of individual sounds?
		A)	phonemic awareness
		B)	alphabetic principle
		C)	phonics knowledge
		D)	phonological awareness


12	According to Adams (1990), what percent of middle-class first-graders lack phonemic awareness?
		A)	10%
		B)	15%
		C)	20%
		D)	25%


13	When new lyrics are written to the tune of familiar children's songs, these are known as
		A)	nursery songs
		B)	piggyback songs
		C)	finger-play songs
		D)	pattern songs


14	Which of the following is NOT one of Hallie and Yopp's recommendations for phonemic awareness instruction?
		A)	precedes introduction of authentic literature
		B)	child appropriate
		C)	deliberate and purposeful
		D)	part of a much broader literacy program


15	The understanding that there is a systematic relationship between letters and sounds is known as
		A)	phonemic awareness
		B)	alphabetic principle
		C)	phonics knowledge
		D)	phonological awareness

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