Ch 3: Phonological & Phonemic Awareness (33%)

Question 0

Phonemic awareness

Answer 0

A subcategory of phonological awareness

The ability to distinguish separate sounds (phonemes) in a spoken word

Ex: child can identify Duck rhymes with luck; Duck has three sounds d u k

(Important teaching goal for K and 1)

Question 1

Phonological awareness

Answer 1

Knowledge that oral English is composed of smaller units

Child can identify sounds in different “levels” of language: 1) Individual sounds or phonemes 2) larger units of language like words and syllables

Question 2

Phonics

Answer 2

Knowledge of letter-sound correspondence

Ex: Ph makes the f sound