Chapter 2 Phonics Review

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The conscious awareness of language as an object at the individual sound, or phonemic, level is important to later reading success. We refer to this as ______ awareness.

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phonemic

Front

Being able to identify individual words and syllables in spoken language is referred to as ______ awareness.

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phonological

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______ awareness usually develops before ______ awareness.

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Phonological
phonemic

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A close relationship between the letters and sounds in a language is referred to as the ______ principle.

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alphabetic

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In kindergarten, an excellent predictor of later reading success is a child’s level of ______ awareness.

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phonemic

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Young children who have a hard time developing phonemic awareness sometimes become ______ readers.

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struggling

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Phonemic awareness will likely assist in the development of ______, but the development of reading is also likely to extend a child’s ______ awareness.

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reading
phonemic

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About ______ percent of children develop phonemic awareness by the middle of the first grade.

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80

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Being able to tap the syllables in a word is an example of ______ awareness.

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phonological

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Achieving phonemic awareness is likely to make it ______ for children to learn phonics.

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easier