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MTEL Foundations of Reading

Category - Foundations of Reading

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As students begin to read, the ability to blend phonemes orally contributes to their reading development primarily because it prepares students to:
  1. Recognize high-frequency words in a text automatically.
  2. Combine letter-sounds to decode words.
  3. Guess the meaning of unfamiliar words from their context.
  4. Divide written words into onsets and rimes.
Explanation
Correct Response: B. Phonemic blending is the ability to combine a sequence of speech sounds (phonemes) together to form a word. Beginning readers use their skill in phonemic blending and their knowledge of letter-sound correspondences to sound out and blend the sounds of simple printed words. A, C, and D are incorrect because they describe literacy skills that are unrelated to phonemic blending.
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