Chapter 5: Cracking the Alphabetic Code

The smallest units of speech are known as:

Research suggests that of the following, the most powerful predictor of later reading achievement appears to be a child's:

In the English language, there are:

Of the following, the best way to help children become better spellers is to:

A group of second grade students need help spelling high frequency words. The best way for their teacher to help them gain independence in their spelling and writing would be to:

As students become older, they realize that words with similar meanings often are spelled in similar ways. When they focus upon the meaning of words, they attend to:

Five-year-old Adam wrote the sentence, "My mom sed no." When Adam wrote sed for said, he showed that he was using:

Of the following, the best way to help children learn to segment words would be to use:

The term used to describe language origin is:

Seven year old Anna was born in Mexico and learned to read before transferring to a second grade classroom in the United States. Research suggests that if children read in their native language, they most likely: