CALT Phonological Awareness Skills 2

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Phoneme manipulation including adding, deleting, or substituting individual phonemes

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Word awareness identifying words in sentences

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Syllable segmentation

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Rhyme recognition

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Syllable deletion

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Phoneme deletion

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Onset-rime awareness

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Rhyme production

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Explicit instruction connecting phonemes to their written letters

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Implicit, discovery-based phonics programs

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Listening to audiobooks

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Whole-language reading programs

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

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

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Has mastered all phonological awareness skills

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Has no phonological awareness

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Has a hearing impairment

Question 5

The phonological awareness skill of blending requires a student to:

Accepted Answer

Combine separately presented phoneme units into a recognizable word

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Separate a word into its individual phonemes

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Identify the first sound in a word

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Change one phoneme in a word to make a new word

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

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

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Clapping the syllables in elephant

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Does top rhyme with mop?

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How many sounds do you hear in fish?