Question

In phoneme-grapheme mapping, if students were mapping the graphemes in the word badge, how many boxes (phonemes) would they need?

a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5

Answer 1

The correct answer is 4.

Step-by-step explanation:

In phoneme-grapheme mapping, students need to identify the individual phonemes (speech sounds) in a word and match them to the corresponding graphemes (letters or letter combinations) that represent those sounds. In the word 'badge,' they would need four boxes (phonemes) to map the graphemes:

b /b/ - a /æ/ - d /d/ - ge /ʤ/

So, the correct answer is c. 4. In phoneme-grapheme mapping, students analyze words by breaking them down into their respective sounds (phonemes) and the letters or combinations of letters that represent those sounds (graphemes). When mapping the graphemes in the word 'badge', students would need four boxes to represent the four phonemes in the word. These phonemes are /b/, /ae/, /dʒ/ (represented by the combination 'dg'), and /ʒ/ (silent 'e' indicating the soft 'g' sound). Therefore, the correct answer is c. 4.