ELA quick review

Emergent Literacy Skills

Phonological Awareness vs. Phonemic Awareness vs. Phonics

Multiple Choice

Phonological Awareness and Phonemic Awareness are the same thing.

• True
• False

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The smallest unit of sound.

• graphemes

• morphemes

• phonemes

• phonics

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The ability to hear, identify,and manipulate the individual sounds, phonemes, in oral language.

• Phonics

• Phonology

• Phonemic Awareness

• prealphabetic phase

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The ability to identify and manipulate phonemes, onsets, rimes, and syllables

• Phonemic Awarness

• Phonological Awareness

• Phonics

• Phonology

Multiple Choice

What is 'phonemic awareness'?

• Phonemic awareness is the ability to decode longer words, including nonsense words.

• Phonemic awareness is the ability to determine how many syllables are in a word.

• Phonemic awareness is the understanding that all speech is made up of individual sounds.

• Phonemic awareness is the ability to determine a word's meaning using context clues.

Multiple Choice

Phonics is different from phonemic awareness in that phonics includes awareness of sounds and ______.

• letters

• numbers

• pictures

• sentences

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about phonemic awareness is most accurate?

• Students always develop phonemic awareness in a standard order, applicable to all children.

• 
  Phonemic awareness is an early indicator of students becoming strong readers.

• Children cannot properly develop oral language skills without developing phonemic awareness.

• Students do not fully master phonemic awareness until middle school.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following students has attained the highest level of phonological awareness?

• A student who can change the /sl/ in slip to /fl/

• A student who can orally segment the word wonderful into won-der-ful.

• A student who can identify the number of words in the sentence, "I like to eat pizza."

• A student who can orally segment the word train into its onset and rime.

Developmental
Sequence of
Phonological Skills by
Grade Level

Multiple Choice

Which of the following teacher prompts will best assess a first grade student's phonemic awareness?

• Say to the student, "Sound out the separate sounds in the word bat."

• Ask the student, "Which letter begins the word bat?"

• Point to the word "bat" in a book. Ask the student, "Can you sound out this word?"

• Give the student "b," "a," and "t" letter cards. Say "Make a word with these cards."

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is phoneme isolation?

• "Say meat. What is the first sound you hear in meat?"

• "Say meat. What are the sounds in meat?"

• "/m/ /ee/ /t/. What is the word?'

• "Say meat. Now say the word again, but don't say /t/."

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Which of the following tasks is phoneme segmentation?

• "Say meat. Say it again without the /m/."

• "/b/ /a/ /th/. What's the word?"

• "Which word rhymes with 'ball?"

• "Say meat. What are the sounds in meat?"

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is phoneme blending?

• "Say meat. What is the first sound you hear in meat?"

• "Say meat. What are the sounds in meat?"

• "/m/ /ee/ /t/. What is the word?'

• "Say meat. Now say the word again, but don't say /t/."

Homonyms

Words which have the same spelling and same pronunciation but different meanings.

Ex. I hope you're not lying to me.

My books are lying on the table.

Multiple Choice

I asked him which page the homework was on.

What is the definition of page in this context?

• to summon by calling or sending a message

• one sheet of paper

Homophones

Words which have the same pronunciation but different spelling and different meanings.

Ex. Please try not to (waste / waist)

paper.

Multiple Choice

Can I go to the party, (to / too / two)?

• to

• too

• two

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This is my favorite (pare / pair / pear) of jeans.

• pare

• pair

• pear

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I (sent / scent / cent) a letter to my aunt in Vietnam.

• sent

• scent

• cent

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The children got (board / bored) during the lecture.

• board

• bored

Homographs

Words which have the same spelling but different pronunciation and meanings.

Ex. The wind is blowing hard.

I have to wind my clock.

Multiple Choice

The singer made a low bow to the audience.

What is the definition of bow in this context?

• decorative ribbon (rhymes with so)

• bend at the waist (rhymes with how)

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Maria placed a red bow on the birthday gift.

What is the definition of bow in this context?

• decorative ribbon (rhymes with so)

• bend at the waist (rhymes with how)

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All the students are present today.

What is the definition of present in this context?

• physically there (rhymes with pleasant)

• to give something to someone (rhymes with resent)

Multiple Choice

The boss will present the award at 10 a.m.

What is the definition of present in this context?

• physically there (rhymes with pleasant)

• to give something to someone (rhymes with resent)

Multiple Choice

What is a homophone? 

• Words that are spelled the exact same 
• Words that sound alike, but are spelled differently and have different meanings
• Words that sound different and are spelled differently 
• No idea

Multiple Choice

Select the correct homophone.
I have very little (patience/patients) when students do not follow directions. 

• patience
• patients

Multiple Choice

What is a homograph?

• are words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings and sometimes different pronunciations.

• are words that are spelled the same, have the same pronunciations, and mean the same thing

• are words that sound the same

Multiple Choice

What is NOT an example of a homograph?

• does, does

• wind, wind

• live, live

• or, oar

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What is an example of a homonym?

• bear (animal), bare (not covered)

• bark (tree), bark (dog sound)

• our (pronoun), hour (time)

• tear (pull apart), tear (cry)