Decoding Skills Quiz

What decoding strategy involves breaking a word into its individual sounds and then blending them together to read the word?

• Phonics

• Geometry

• Algebra

• Calculus

When using the 'chunking' decoding strategy, how are words broken down for easier reading?

• By rearranging the letters randomly

• By adding more letters to each word

• By reading the words backwards

• By breaking them into smaller parts or 'chunks'

What decoding strategy involves looking at the pictures and using the initial letter sound to help read a word?

• Using initial letter sound

• Using middle letter sound

• Using final letter sound

• Using whole word recognition

What decoding strategy involves using known words to help figure out unfamiliar words?

• Context clues

• Guessing randomly

• Ignoring the unfamiliar words

• Using a dictionary

When using the 'sounding out' decoding strategy, what should you do if you're having trouble with a word?

• Ask someone else to read the word for you

• Skip the word and move on to the next one

• Break the word into smaller parts and sound out each part separately.

• Look up the word in the dictionary

What decoding strategy involves looking for parts of the word that you know, such as prefixes, suffixes, and root words?

• Syntactic decoding strategy

• Semantic decoding strategy

• Phonological decoding strategy

• Morphological decoding strategy

What decoding strategy involves reading the whole sentence to get clues about the meaning of an unfamiliar word?

• Context clues

• Alphabetical order

• Sight words

• Phonics

When using the 'skipping' decoding strategy, what should you do if you encounter a difficult word?

• Skip the entire paragraph

• Sound out the word

• Skip the word and continue reading

• Stop and ask for help

What decoding strategy involves using context clues to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word?

• Alphabetical order

• Contextual analysis

• Dictionary lookup

• Random guessing

When using the 'rereading' decoding strategy, what should you do if you still don't understand a word after reading it again?

• Use word parts or syllables to help understand the meaning

• Ask someone else to read the word for you

• Look up the word in the dictionary

• Skip the word and continue reading