Which of the following strategies would be most effective in promoting second graders decoding of multisyllabic words?

A second-grade teacher administers spelling inventories periodically to help assess students' phonics knowledge. The following shows one student's performance on a spelling inventory at the beginning of the school year and again several months later.

DICTATED WORDS STUDENT SPELLING
set set set set
star ster star star
drive driv drive drive
peach pech peach peche
turn tarn turn turn
Join joyn join joyn

The student's performance on the second administration of the spelling inventory indicates that the student made the most improvement in which of the following areas?

A. initial and final consonants
B. short vowels and diphthongs
C. digraphs and blends
D. long and r-controlled vowels

Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in promoting reluctant readers interest in independent reading outside of school?

Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in promoting reluctant readers' interest in independent reading outside of school? Encourage students and parents to read books together on a regular basis, either silently or aloud, and discuss their personal responses to each chapter or key event.

Which of the following would be most appropriate to strengthen automatic word recognition skills?

look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary. A is the best answer since automatic word recognition (automaticity) is the quick recognition of a word without consciously applying the decoding process. Applying consistent phonics generalizations to develop this skill is appropriate for first grade.

What skills are essential for decoding?

Decoding relies on an early language skill called phonemic awareness. (This skill is part of an even broader skill called phonological awareness.) Phonemic awareness lets kids hear individual sounds in words (known as phonemes). It also allows them to “play” with sounds at the word and syllable level.

Does phonemic awareness help with decoding?

Phonemic awareness is a foundational ability, required for developing decoding skills (Chard & Dickson, 1999). English is an alphabetic language, which means that written English uses symbols (letters) that represent the sounds in spoken words.