Test Questions: Assessing Decoding Skills in First Grade ELA

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🍎 Phonics: Understanding the relationship between letters and sounds.
• 🗣️ Decoding: Using phonics to sound out words.
• ✍️ Blending: Combining individual sounds to read a word (e.g., c-a-t = cat).
• 👁️ Sight Words: Recognizing common words instantly (e.g., the, and, a).
• 📖 Context Clues: Using surrounding words to figure out unknown words.

📝 Practice Quiz

1. Which of these words starts with the sound /b/?
   1. apple
   2. ball
   3. cat
   4. dog
2. What is the sound of the letter 'a' in the word 'cat'?
   1. /ā/ (long a)
   2. /ă/ (short a)
   3. /ē/ (long e)
   4. /ī/ (long i)
3. Choose the word that rhymes with 'hat'.
   1. hen
   2. sun
   3. bat
   4. dog
4. Which word is a sight word that you should know quickly?
   1. beautiful
   2. the
   3. crocodile
   4. bicycle
5. What word do you get when you blend these sounds: /d/-/o/-/g/?
   1. cat
   2. pig
   3. dog
   4. sun
6. Which of these words has the same vowel sound as 'pig'?
   1. kite
   2. cake
   3. fish
   4. goat
7. Read the sentence: "The little brown fox jumped." Which word tells you the color of the fox?
   1. the
   2. little
   3. brown
   4. jumped