1.1 Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Practice Test Flashcards
What is a phoneme?
A. A speech sound
What is the relationship between phonemic awareness and phonological awareness?
D. Phonological awareness describes the ability to understand that words are made of sounds. Phonemic awareness refers specifically to the ability to manipulate individual sounds in words.
Which of the following might be predicted by difficulties with phonological and phonemic awareness?
D. All the above (Difficulty spelling/Poor reading skills later in life/Difficulty reading in kindergarten and first grade)
Which of the following would be a strategy that promotes phonemic awareness skills?
C. Have students say a word and count the number of sounds they hear.
How many phonemes are the word bass?
C. 3 /b/ /a/ /ss/
Which of the following would not be a strategy that primarily promotes phonological awareness skills?
D. Read a word aloud, and ask students to write.
Which of the following skills could a child with phonological awareness do?
D. Hear and repeat rhymes using onset and rime.
Which part of the word sport is the onset, and which part is the rime?
A. “Sp” is the onset and “ort” is the rime.
A student has been assessed as having moderate phonemic awareness skills. Which of the following is most likely the highest skills a student with moderate phonemic awareness could demonstrate?
B. The student can identify that word “bat” starts with /b/ and ends in /t/ but cannot identify all of the individual sounds.
An English Language Learner in a first-grade class has been assessed as having weak phonemic awareness skills. Which activity would be most beneficial for this student?
C. Introduce phonemes that may not be in the student’s first language.
