Assessment: Phonological Awareness

Phonological awareness is

• the awareness that each word needs to contain a vowel sound
• the awareness of sounds within words and sentences
• the awareness that each sound is represented by a letter

Which of these examples illustrates the rhyming component of phonological awareness?

• rat, room, race
• rat, hat, cat
• snow-ball, lunch-box, school-bus

Which of these examples illustrates the ability to segment words into syllables?

• mail-boxes, sun-glasses, basket-ball
• com-pu-ter, cof-fee, plas-tic
• sl-am, l-ack, ch-ip

The example that illustrates the alliteration component of phonological awareness is (a)   .

• sun, sand, sing
• sugar, soar, shrug
• kite, might, bite

Which of these examples illustrates the ability to segment words into onset-rime?

• eye-lash, cat-nap, name-tag
• cat-er-pil-lar, pa-per, tel-e-phone
• p-ull, d-oor, sh-oe

What skill is a teacher assessing with this prompt: "Which of these words does not sound the same at the end: run, mud, fun?"

• word awareness
• rhyming
• alliteration
• syllables
• onset-rime

A teacher is assessing the skill of (a)   by saying: "I'm going to read a sentence, please jump each time you hear a word."

• word awareness
• rhyming
• alliteration
• syllables
• onset-rime

What skill is a teacher assessing with this prompt: "Clap your hands to the beats you hear in the word 'laptop'."

• word awareness
• rhyming
• alliteration
• syllables
• onset-rime

What skill is a teacher assessing with this prompt: "Which of these words start the same way: phone, fort, tree?"

• word awareness
• rhyming
• alliteration
• syllables
• onset-rime