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BSED 3 - Phonemic Awareness

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the first sound in ship?

a)

/s/

b)

/sh/

c)

/h/

2.

What is the last sound in jumped?

a)

/p/

b)

/t/

c)

/d/

d)

/m/

3.

How many sounds are in munch?

a)

5

b)

4

c)

3

d)

6

4.

6. Phonemic awareness is:

a)

a strong predictor of future reading success

b)

a sub skill of phonological awareness

c)

a foundational reading skill

d)

all answers are correct.

5.

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

a)

spoken

b)

informal

c)

written

d)

formal

6.

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

a)

by placing the letters between slashes /b/

b)

by placing the letters between asterisks *b*

c)

by placing the letters in parentheses (b)

d)

by placing the letters between percent signs %b%

7.

Which of the following is an example of phoneme segmentation?

a)

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

b)

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

c)

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

d)

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

8.

This is the smallest unit of sound.

a)

root

b)

grapheme

c)

phonogram

d)

phoneme

9.

A segment of a word that contains one vowel sound.

a)

suffix

b)

morpheme

c)

phoneme

d)

syllable

10.

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

a)

true

b)

false

11.

23. The words bud, bun, and bus are the same /b/ sound. This is called phoneme _______.

a)

Subtraction

b)

Addition

c)

Substitution

d)

Identity

12.

Children substitute one phoneme for another to make a new word. This is called phoneme __________.

a)

categorization

b)

deletion

c)

substitution

d)

isolation

13.

‘fa – mi – ly = family’

Putting syllables together to make a word is called.

a)

syllable segmenting

b)

syllable blending

c)

phoneme segmenting

d)

phoneme blending

14.

‘She is here, there, and everywhere. ’

How many words in this sentence?

a)

4

b)

5

c)

6

d)

7

15.

Choose the sentence using alliteration.

a)

Come and clean the chaos in your closet.

b)

My sister is in the kitchen all the time.

c)

A man knocked on the door twice.

d)

The cat lay on the round table.