Phonological Awareness Skills Flashcards
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Onset-rime awareness involves the ability to:
Answer: Separate a syllable into its initial consonant sounds called the onset and the vowel plus remaining consonants called the rime
Onset-rime segmentation divides a one-syllable word into the onset, which is the initial consonant or cluster, and the rime, which is the vowel and everything that follows.
Phonemic awareness is best described as:
Answer: The specific ability to identify and manipulate individual phonemes in spoken words
Phonemic awareness is a specific subskill of phonological awareness focused exclusively on the phoneme in spoken language and does not involve print.
Research consistently identifies phonological awareness as:
Answer: One of the strongest predictors of early reading success and risk for dyslexia
Decades of research confirm that phonological awareness, particularly phoneme awareness, is one of the strongest predictors of reading achievement and a key indicator of dyslexia risk.
Which of the following is a phoneme deletion task?
Answer: Say black without the l sound: what word do you get?
Phoneme deletion requires the student to remove a specific phoneme from a word and produce the resulting new word, as in black becoming back by removing the l sound.
A kindergarten student can segment the syllables in birthday by clapping but cannot segment the individual phonemes in cat. This indicates the student is:
Answer: Developing typically at the syllable level but not yet at the phoneme level
Successfully clapping syllables shows syllable-level phonological awareness, but inability to segment phonemes shows that phoneme-level awareness has not yet developed.
For students with dyslexia, phonological awareness instruction is most beneficial when it is:
Answer: Paired with explicit phonics instruction connecting phonemes to graphemes
Pairing phonological awareness training with explicit grapheme-phoneme instruction produces stronger and more durable gains than oral-only phonological training for students with dyslexia.