LETRS Unit 3 QUESTIONS AND WELL
ELABORATED ANSWERS
1. Teachers who take a code-emphasis approach to instruction generally
do not discuss the meanings of words being taught.: False
2. The ability to decode a new, previously unknown printed word, in or out
of context, depends on: knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences
and the ability to blend phonemes and graphemes quickly.
3. The term phonics may be used to refer to: the system of phoneme-
grapheme correspondences that are the basis for an alphabetic orthography,
an essential component of effective reading instruction and a strategy for
decoding new words and storing them in orthographic memory.
4. Which of the following are typical of meaning-emphasis approaches to
instruction?: emphasis on reading leveled texts individually and use of
context
(such as illustrations) to read words in texts
, .
.
5. Which of the following is typically done as an extended practice activity
in phonics lessons?: timed reading of learned words
6. Regularly spelled words: three, day, bird, goose, mouse, maybe, go, have
7. Irregularly spelled words: yacht, love, father, you
8. Why is the letter "x" referred to as an odd letter?: Letter "x" can represent
two phonemes.
9. Which word contains a consonant trigraph?: ditch (-tch)
10. Which is an example of a consonant blend?: shr
11. What is the difference between a digraph and a blend?: Blends represent
more than one sound; digraphs represent one sound.
12. Which of the following sets includes ONLY consonant blends?: fl, br, nd
13. How many phonemes are in the word "flax"?: 5
14. How many phonemes are in the word "quick"?: 4
15. Which pair of words has the same number of phonemes?: tax and flash
16. Which of the following sets includes only words with vowel teams?:
slight, drain, snow
17. Which is the most consistent pattern in the way English uses vowel
graphemes?: Single letters are used to spell short vowel phonemes.
ELABORATED ANSWERS
1. Teachers who take a code-emphasis approach to instruction generally
do not discuss the meanings of words being taught.: False
2. The ability to decode a new, previously unknown printed word, in or out
of context, depends on: knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences
and the ability to blend phonemes and graphemes quickly.
3. The term phonics may be used to refer to: the system of phoneme-
grapheme correspondences that are the basis for an alphabetic orthography,
an essential component of effective reading instruction and a strategy for
decoding new words and storing them in orthographic memory.
4. Which of the following are typical of meaning-emphasis approaches to
instruction?: emphasis on reading leveled texts individually and use of
context
(such as illustrations) to read words in texts
, .
.
5. Which of the following is typically done as an extended practice activity
in phonics lessons?: timed reading of learned words
6. Regularly spelled words: three, day, bird, goose, mouse, maybe, go, have
7. Irregularly spelled words: yacht, love, father, you
8. Why is the letter "x" referred to as an odd letter?: Letter "x" can represent
two phonemes.
9. Which word contains a consonant trigraph?: ditch (-tch)
10. Which is an example of a consonant blend?: shr
11. What is the difference between a digraph and a blend?: Blends represent
more than one sound; digraphs represent one sound.
12. Which of the following sets includes ONLY consonant blends?: fl, br, nd
13. How many phonemes are in the word "flax"?: 5
14. How many phonemes are in the word "quick"?: 4
15. Which pair of words has the same number of phonemes?: tax and flash
16. Which of the following sets includes only words with vowel teams?:
slight, drain, snow
17. Which is the most consistent pattern in the way English uses vowel
graphemes?: Single letters are used to spell short vowel phonemes.
