Phonemic Awareness

Question 1

Children recognize individual sounds in words.

Answer 1

Phoneme Isolation

Question 2

Teacher: What is the first sound in van?
Student: The first sound in van is v.
What is this an example of?

Answer 2

Phoneme Isolation

Question 3

Children recognize the same sounds in different words.

Answer 3

Phoneme Identity

Question 4

Teacher: What sound is the same in fix, fall, and fun?
Student: The first sound, f is the same.
What is this an example of?

Answer 4

Phoneme Identity

Question 5

Children recognize the word in a set of three or four words that has the odd sound.

Answer 5

Phoneme Categorization

Question 6

Teacher: What word doesn’t belong? Bus, Bun, Rug
Student: Rug does not belong
What is this an example of?

Answer 6

Phoneme Categorization

Question 7

Children listen to a sequence of separately spoken phonemes and then combine the phones to form a word. Then they write and read the word.

Answer 7

Phoneme Blending

Question 8

Teacher: What word is b/ i/ g?
Student: B/ i/ g is big.
What is this an example of?

Answer 8

Phoneme Blending

Question 9

Children break a word into its separate sounds, saying each sound as they tap out or count it. Then they are able to write and read the word.

Answer 9

Phoneme Segmentation

Question 10

Now it is lights on. What is the skill?

Answer 10

Phonics

Question 11

Children make a new word that remains when a phoneme is removed from another word?

Answer 11

Phoneme Deletion

Question 12

Teacher: what is a smile without the s?
Student: Smile without the s is mile.
What is this an example of?

Answer 12

Phoneme Deletion

Question 13

Children make a new word by adding a phoneme to an existing word.

Answer 13

Phoneme Addition

Question 14

Teacher: What word do you have if you add s to the beginning of park?
Student: Spark
What is this an example of?

Answer 14

Phoneme Addition

Question 15

Children substitute one phoneme for another to make a new word.

Answer 15

Phoneme Substitution

Question 16

Teacher: The word is bug. Change g to n. What is the new word?
Student: Bun
What is this an example of?

Answer 16

Phoneme Substitution

Question 17

When children work with phonemes in words, they are manipulating the phonemes. These include blending phonemes to make words, segmenting words into phonemes, deleting phonemes from words, adding phonemes to words, or substituting one phone for another to make a new word.

Answer 17

Phoneme Manipulation

Question 18

when children combine individual phonemes to form words, they are blending the phonemes. They also are blending when they combine onsets and times to make syllables and combine syllables to make words.

Answer 18

Blending

Question 19

When children break words into their individual phonemes, they are segmenting the words. They are also segmenting when they break words into syllables and syllables into onsets and rimes.

Answer 19

Segmenting (Segmentation)