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WorksheetsPhonological Awareness
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 24mins
Phonological Awareness is
Individual unit of sound
The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in words
An understanding that oral language can be divided into smaller units and manipulated
The study of the pronunciation of sounds
Phonics is
A study of the sound system
An emphasis of sound to symbol relationship
An individual unit of sound
The context processor
Phoneme
Individual sound units in a spoken word
Ability to manipulate sounds segments in words
An instructional approach to teaching reading
A sound system
Which of the following would be considered the first step in building phonological awareness?
Segmenting <boat> into its onset and rime.
Identifying the first sound in <rain>
Clapping the syllables in <table>
Blending the small words sun - shine
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.
Which of the following are examples of phonemic awareness activities?
Blending /s/ /u/ /n/ to make sun
Saying playing without /ing/
Identifying the first sound in chair as /ch/
Blending /fl/ - /ipped/ to make flipped
Changing the /s/ in sat to /k/ to make cat
Which of the following 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?"
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/."
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/."
A kindergarten teacher could best determine if a child has begun to develop phonemic awareness by asking the child to
count the number of words that the child hears in a sentence as the teacher says the sentence.
say the word cat, then say the first sound the child hears in the word.
point to the correct letter on an alphabet chart as the teacher names specific letters.
listen to the teacher say boat and coat, then identify whether the two words rhyme.
Why is phonological awareness so important for readers?
