Unit 4 - Phonological Awareness

Question 1

Phonological Awareness

Answer 1

An umbrella term to describe the ability to hear chunks of spoken language, divided into four levels:
Word Level, Syllable Level, Onset-Rime Level and Phoneme Level.

Question 2

Phonemic Awareness

Answer 2

Ability to hear spoken phonemes AND manipulate them within a word.

Question 3

Phonics

Answer 3

when you pair spoken language to written expression. (reading and writing)

Question 4

Rhyming

Answer 4

The repetition of similar sounds in the final stressed syllable two or more words.

Question 5

Phonogram

Answer 5

a grapheme which represents a phoneme or combination of phonemes, such as the letters of the Latin alphabet or the Japanese kana. For example, “igh” is an English-language phonogram that represents the hard “I” sound in “high”.

Question 6

Onset-Rime

Answer 6

The initial unit of sound in a syllable followed by the chunk of sounds after it that usually begins with a vowel.
(b ear, tr ain, sh ade)

Question 7

Word Family

Answer 7

groups of words that have a common pattern or groups of letters with the same sound. For example, the “ain” word family includes brain, chain, gain, pain, rain, and so on.

Question 8

Phoneme

Answer 8

The smallest unit of sound within a spoken language.

Question 9

Blending

Answer 9

combining sounds to create a spoken word.

Question 10

Segmenting

Answer 10

ability to break words into individual sounds.

Question 11

Deletion

Answer 11

ability to identify how a word would be spoken if the a phoneme were deleted. (spear - p = sear)

Question 12

Manipulation and Substitution

Answer 12

ability to modify, change or move individual sounds within a word. (cat, car, cab, cob, rob, knob)

Question 13

Isolation

Answer 13

ability to identify where a sound is located within a word.

Knob /n/ initial sound, /o/ medial sound, /b/ final sound.

Question 14

Blendable sounds

Answer 14

phonemes that can be put together to make a spoken chunk of sound. (gr, sa, ly, etc.) phonemes that do not fit together are gt, qg, pt, etc.

Question 15

Syllable

Answer 15

a unit of sound having one vowel sound with or without surrounding consonants.

Question 16

Simple Words

Answer 16

words with one free morpheme. ( A free morpheme is a word that can stand alone. cat, tree, monster, lake)

Question 17

Compound Words

Answer 17

words that have two free morphemes ( cup+cake, base+ball, birth+day)

Question 18

Complex Words

Answer 18

at least one free morpheme or root word paired with at least one bound morpheme or affix ( re+read = reread, happy+ness = hapiness, non+violent = nonviolent)

Question 19

Morpheme

Answer 19

the smallest meaningful unit in a language. It is not necessarily the same as a word. The main difference between it and a word is that sometimes it does not stand alone, but a word, by definition, always stands alone.