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

True or False


1	It is important to encourage students to decode high-frequency words.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


2	When Mr. Joseph involves his kindergartners in chants of short, fun poems, he is helping them to develop phonological awareness.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


3	Word-sorting activities help students to develop the alphabetic principle.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


4	Word walls are most meaningful to students when the teachers avoid direct instruction of how to use them and instead encourage students to develop their own strategies.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


5	When Mr. Bradley instructs his students on a short e sound, then has them blend b-e-d together to form "bed," he is giving a lesson in analytic phonics.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


6	It is appropriate for children to explore phonological awareness by creating nonsense words and rhymes.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


7	One component of phonics instruction is to teach children to listen carefully.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


8	Hallie and Yopp encourage teachers to begin phonemic awareness instruction with phonemes, then move onto onsets and rimes, and finally on to syllables.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


9	Direct teacher instruction of phonics is more effective than practice on worksheets.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.


10	It is important that teachers teach their students to memorize rules, or generalizations, of phonics.
		A)	True.
		B)	False.

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