Question: Based on the grapheme representing /sh/, which word is probably from French?
machine
sugar
wash
mission
Answer: machine
Question: Which of the following words is most probably from the Anglo-Saxon layer of English?
chorus
playground
section
unique
Answer: playground
Question: Because of arbitrary and historical conventions governing English orthography, some letters can never be used to end a word. Which word can be explained by that principle?
long
sill
have
yuck
Answer: have
Question: In phoneme-grapheme mapping, students first segment and mark boxes for the phonemes. Then, they map the graphemes. If students were mapping the graphemes in the word flight, how many boxes (phonemes) would they need?
1
2
3
4
Answer: 4
Question: In phoneme-grapheme mapping, students first segment and mark boxes for the phonemes. Then, they map the graphemes. If students were mapping the graphemes in the word badge, how many boxes (phonemes) would they need?
2
3
4
5
Answer: 3
Question: In phoneme-grapheme mapping, students first segment and mark boxes for the phonemes. Then, they map the graphemes. If students were mapping the graphemes in the word timing, how many boxes (phonemes) would they need?
2
3
4
5
Answer: 5
Question: If you were teaching the soft c for reading and spelling, which words could be used as examples?
circus, cycle, center
clock, coat, camp
cheek, cherry, chicken
picnic, panic, backpack
Answer: circus, cycle, center
Question: Which of the following two-syllable words contains an open syllable followed by a closed syllable?
comet
secret
happy
cowboy
Answer: secret
Question: Which of the following two-syllable words contains a vowel team syllable followed by a syllable with a vowel-r pattern?
cheery
girlfriend
power
condor
Answer: ….
(not cheery or condor)
Question:
Answer: He needs to learn to think about the morphemes, or meaningful parts, in longer words.