Question

In phoneme-grapheme mapping, students first segment and mark boxes for the phonemes. If students were mapping the graphemes in the word flight, how many boxes (phonemes) would they need?

a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4

Answer 1

To map the word 'flight,' one would segment it into four phonemes, which are mapped as 'f', 'l', 'igh', and 't', resulting in four boxes needed for phoneme-grapheme mapping.

Step-by-step explanation:

Phoneme-grapheme mapping involves segmenting a word into its individual sounds and matching those sounds to their corresponding letters or groups of letters. For the word flight, the mapping process requires us to identify each unique sound (phoneme). Let's break it down:

• The 'f' sound is represented by the grapheme 'f',
• The 'l' sound by 'l',
• The 'igh' sound by the grapheme 'igh', and
• The 't' sound by 't'.

This leads to a total of four phonemes. Therefore, students would need four boxes to map the graphemes in the word flight.