Phonological Awareness Skills Flashcards

Phonological awareness exists on a developmental continuum. Which skill is typically the last to develop?

Answer: Phoneme manipulation including adding, deleting, or substituting individual phonemes

Phoneme manipulation is the most sophisticated phonological awareness skill and develops last on the continuum.

The task asking a student to say sunlight and then say it without sun assesses:

Answer: Syllable deletion

Removing a whole syllable from a compound word is a syllable deletion task, a mid-level phonological awareness skill.

Which instructional approach is most effective for developing phoneme awareness in students with dyslexia?

Answer: Explicit instruction connecting phonemes to their written letters

Research shows phoneme awareness instruction is most effective when phonemes are explicitly connected to the letters that represent them, not taught as purely oral tasks.

A student can identify and produce rhymes but struggles with phoneme segmentation. This suggests the student:

Answer: Has developed earlier-emerging phonological awareness skills but not the more advanced phoneme-level skills

Rhyme awareness develops earlier on the phonological continuum than phoneme segmentation, so this pattern shows the student has foundational but not advanced phonological awareness.

The phonological awareness skill of blending requires a student to:

Answer: Combine separately presented phoneme units into a recognizable word

Blending involves combining individually presented phonemes in sequence to form a complete word.

Which activity is the best example of a phoneme substitution task?

Answer: Say cat and then say it again but change the k sound to b: what word do you get?

Phoneme substitution asks the student to replace one phoneme in a word with a different phoneme, producing a new word.