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Phonological Awareness

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Phonological Awareness is

a)

Individual unit of sound

b)

The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in words

c)

An understanding that oral language can be divided into smaller units and manipulated

d)

The study of the pronunciation of sounds

2.

Phoneme

a)

Individual sound units in a spoken word

b)

Ability to manipulate sounds segments in words

c)

An instructional approach to teaching reading

d)

A sound system

3.
There is not a difference between Phonological Awareness and Phonemic Awareness
a)
False
b)
True
4.

Which of the following would be considered the first step in building phonological awareness?

a)

Segmenting <boat> into its onset and rime.

b)

Identifying the first sound in <rain>

c)

Clapping the syllables in <table>

d)

Blending the small words sun - shine

5.

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

a)

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

b)

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

c)

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

d)

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

6.

Which of the following are examples of phonemic awareness activities?

a)

Blending /s/ /u/ /n/ to make sun

b)

Saying playing without /ing/

c)

Identifying the first sound in chair as /ch/

d)

Blending /fl/ - /ipped/ to make flipped

e)

Changing the /s/ in sat to /k/ to make cat

7.

Which of the following is phoneme segmentation?

a)

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

b)

"/b/ /a/ /th/. What's the word?"

c)

"Which word rhymes with 'ball?"

d)

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

8.

Which of the following is phoneme isolation?

a)

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

b)

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

c)

"/m/ /ee/ /t/. What is the word?'

d)

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

9.

Which of the following is phoneme blending?

a)

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

b)

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

c)

"/m/ /ee/ /t/. What is the word?'

d)

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

10.

A kindergarten teacher could best determine if a child has begun to develop phonemic awareness by asking the child to

a)

count the number of words that the child hears in a sentence as the teacher says the sentence.

b)

say the word cat, then say the first sound the child hears in the word.

c)

point to the correct letter on an alphabet chart as the teacher names specific letters.

d)

listen to the teacher say boat and coat, then identify whether the two words rhyme.

11.

Which of the following ways is the best way for a teacher to assess students' phonological awareness?

a)

Saying the word "lamp" and asking students to come up with rhyming words.

b)

Asking students to identify the letter at the beginning of the word desk.

c)

Distributing letter cards "b," "a," and "t" and asking students to order the letters to create a word.

d)

Displaying the written word "cat" and asking students to sound it out as they tap each letter.

12.

A first grade teacher engages students in phonemic awareness activities. Students have worked on segmenting and blending words and are now ready to work on phoneme deletion. Which of the following activities best incorporates the target concept.

a)

Asking students to guess which classmate's name will be said by enunciating the first phoneme only and repeating several times.

b)

Directing students to look at picture cards and telling them to identify one word in a series of four containing a different vowel sound.

c)

Presenting students with a colored tile that represents one phoneme and adding a different colored tile representing a new sound.

d)

Showing students a word made of three different colored tiles containing three phonemes and removing one colored tile to create a new word.

13.

A student who is beginning to recognize rhyming words is at which level of phonological/phonemic awareness?

a)

Early Phonological Awareness

b)

Basic Phonemic Awareness

c)

Advanced Phonemic Awareness

14.

A student who is able to delete the initial phoneme of a word to create a new word is at which stage of phonological/phonemic awareness?

a)

Early Phonological Awareness

b)

Basic Phonemic Awareness

c)

Advanced Phonemic Awareness

15.

A grapheme is

a)

a word part that contains a vowel.

b)

the smallest part of written language that represents a phoneme in the spelling of a word.

c)

a broad term that includes phonemic awareness.

16.

A teacher asks a student if the words cat and fat rhyme. The student says yes. This student is demonstrating

a)

phonemic awareness

b)

phonological awaeness

17.

What is the initial sound in this word?

a)

/ŭ/

b)

s

c)

/n/

d)

/s/

18.

When students segment a word, they _______.

a)

blend its sounds together

b)

give a rhyming word

c)

separate a word into its graphemes

d)

separate a word into all of its sounds

19.

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

a)

letters

b)

numbers

c)

pictures

d)

sentences

20.

Word awareness, syllable awareness, onset-rime awareness, and phoneme awareness are all part of

(a)  

21.

The vowel and everything that comes after the beginning consonant(s) of a one-syllable word is called

(a)  

22.

The beginning consonant(s) of a one-syllable word is called

(a)  

23.

Change the medial sound /a/ to /i/. What is the new word.

a)

tick

b)

teck

c)

tuck

d)

tock

24.

Change the medial /i/ to /e/. What is the new word?

a)

wull

b)

wall

c)

well

d)

woll