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title: Sounds and letters: how phonics starts — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · English
description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 1 «Sounds and letters: how phonics starts» of the English course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Sounds and letters: how phonics starts

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The 16 questions of lesson 1 «Sounds and letters: how phonics starts» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 93 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/t1/) — «my nan says u gotta learn the whole alphabet song before u can read, that's the rule innit». Is she right? — wrong ✗
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/t2/) — Big sis: «phonics is so mid, real readers don't use it, they just know the words». Put her right. — right ✓
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/t3/) — Ollie said «Ollie!» for /m/ and the whole class laughed. What is the wise move for the teacher? — wrong ✗
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/t4/) — What would happen if every English sound had to be written with one letter only? — wrong ✗
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/t5/) — Dad in the car: «zib? that's not a word, try again». Mia read it perfectly. What could he say instead? — right ✓
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/t6/) — Kai in Auckland: «Mum says the th in thin is buzzy, sweet as». Spot the slip. — wrong ✗
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/t7/) — Auntie: «if Amira keeps chattin' Arabic at home she'll never read English proper». What is true? — right ✓
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/t8/) — Grandad: «nae fancy phonics in ma day, we just read». What is fair to say? — right ✓
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/t9/) — In a cartoon, a talking letter S says its name, «ESS!», and the word «sat» appears. What is wrong? — wrong ✗
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/t10/) — ★★★ Ruby counts letters and sounds in «sheep». How many letters, and how many sounds? — wrong ✗
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/t11/) — ★★★ Which made-up word could a child read with ONLY the first six sounds, s, a, t, p, i, n? — wrong ✗
- [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/t12/) — ★★★ Tom says: «light has five letters, so it has five sounds». How many sounds does «light» really have? — wrong ✗
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/e1/) — Identify the principal reason for which the sounds of letters, rather than their names, are employed when a child first learns to read. — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a digraph? — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the reading of pseudo-words by young pupils. — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/e4/) — It is given that a child speaks Arabic in the home and English at school. Ascertain the effect of the home language upon her acquisition of English phonics. — right ✓ · exam

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