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Quiz: Test Your Own Phonics Knowledge
How well do you know your phonics? Do you know what a "schwa" is? Do you know a vowel digraph from a consonant digraph? Print out this Talking & Reading Together quiz and take it to find out. The answers are on the next page.
- How many letters or combinations of letters make the long o sound (as in "toe") in English?
- What is a syllable?
- How many syllables are there in the word pig?
- How many syllables are there in the word justification?
- What is a phoneme?
- How many phonemes are there in the following words: cat, chat, fish, stick, blue?
- What is the difference between a phoneme and a grapheme?
- How many graphemes are in the following words: cat, chat, fish, stick, blue?
- Which two words from the following list have the same vowel sound: kept, bag, weigh, head, be?
- Identify the consonant blends in each of the following words: fist, slip, stride, shred, prod.
Find out the answers to the phonics quiz.