Chapter 1.1 Phonological & Phonemic Awareness

Question 1

Phonological Awareness (pg 6)

Answer 1

• The awareness that oral language is composed of smaller units.
• Such as words and syllables.
• The key to the reading and writing process.
• The umbrella term denoting one’s ability to hear and manipulate spoken sounds.

Question 2

An example of phonological awareness. (pg 6)

Answer 2

Recognizing that spoken words can be divided into syllables.
OR
Who can clap or count the number of syllables in a word
OR
Has developed (or begun to develop) phonological awareness.

Question 3

Phonological awareness involves being able to (pg 6)

Answer 3

identify and manipulate sounds in

• Words
• Syllables
• Phonemes

Question 4

Rime

Answer 4

The last part of the word.
Example
chop (ch - onset) (op - rime)
run (r - onset) (un - rime)

Question 5

What is one of the first ways that students demonstrate phonological awareness?

Answer 5

Rhyming

Question 6

Phonemic awareness

Answer 6

A division of phonological awareness that denotes one’s ability to hear and manipulate phonemes, or smaller sound units.

Question 7

Phonemes

Answer 7

• Most basic units of language.
• Alone have no meaning, but when combined they create syllables and words.
  Example: cat can be broken into 3 phonemes: /k/ /a/ /t/.

Question 8

Building blocks that are combined to create meaning.

Answer 8

Phonemes

Question 9

Phonemic awareness involves

Answer 9

understanding that changing one of these blocks also changes a word’s entire meaning.
Example:
If you replace /k/ with /f/, the word cat becomes fat.

Question 10

How many phonemes in English represent letter sounds and letter combinations?

Answer 10

44 phonemes

Question 11

What encompasses the ability to hear and identify phonemes in a word as well as the ability to manipulate them to change the meaning?

Answer 11

Phonemic awareness

Question 12

____ ____ is critical to developing reading comprehension skills.

Answer 12

Phonological awareness

Question 13

Recognizing and pronouncing written words require basic understanding of _______ and the corresponding of sounds with letters.

Answer 13

Phonemes

Question 14

What can an auditory processing disorder mean?

Answer 14

Something is interfering with the information the child hears.

Question 15

What does phonological processing refer to?

Answer 15

To the detection and discrimination of differences in phonemes and speech sounds.