BSED 3 - Phonemic Awareness

What is the first sound in ship?

• /s/

• /sh/

• /h/

What is the last sound in jumped?

• /p/

• /t/

• /d/

• /m/

How many sounds are in munch?

• 5

• 4

• 3

• 6

6. Phonemic awareness is:

• a strong predictor of future reading success

• a sub skill of phonological awareness

• a foundational reading skill

• all answers are correct.

7. The definition of phoneme is, "The smallest part of _________ language."

• spoken

• informal

• written

• formal

How are phonemes represented in writing to differentiate them from actual words?

• by placing the letters between slashes /b/

• by placing the letters between asterisks *b*

• by placing the letters in parentheses (b)

• by placing the letters between percent signs %b%

Which of the following is an example of phoneme segmentation?

• a child telling his teacher that the first sound in run is /r/

• a child telling his teacher there are four sounds in truck, /t/ /r/ /u/ /ck/

• a child sounding out an unknown word ("/b/ /e/ /s/ /t/ ... best")

• a child telling his teacher that the last sound in cup is /p/

This is the smallest unit of sound.

• root

• grapheme

• phonogram

• phoneme

A segment of a word that contains one vowel sound.

• suffix

• morpheme

• phoneme

• syllable

Blending involves breaking words down into individual sounds or syllables while segmenting involves pulling together individual sounds or syllables within words.

• true

• false