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Phonological Awareness & Phonics Instruction Flashcards

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  1. Phonological awareness is best defined as:

    Answer: The conscious awareness of and ability to manipulate the sound structure of spoken language

    Phonological awareness refers to the conscious awareness of and ability to manipulate the sound structure of spoken language, encompassing syllables, rhymes, and phonemes — not printed text.

  2. Which skill represents the most advanced level of phonological awareness?

    Answer: Phoneme manipulation

    Phoneme manipulation — adding, deleting, or substituting individual phonemes — is the most advanced phonological awareness skill because it requires precise attention to the smallest sound units.

  3. Phonemic awareness specifically focuses on:

    Answer: The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual phonemes in spoken words

    Phonemic awareness is a subset of phonological awareness that specifically involves working with phonemes — the smallest individual units of sound in spoken words.

  4. Systematic phonics instruction is characterized by:

    Answer: Teaching letter-sound correspondences in a predetermined, logical sequence

    Systematic phonics instruction presents letter-sound correspondences in a planned, sequential order progressing from simple to more complex patterns, leaving nothing to chance.

  5. Blending, as a phonological skill, is the process of:

    Answer: Combining individual phonemes together to pronounce a recognizable word

    Blending involves combining individual phonemes or word parts together in sequence to produce a recognizable spoken word.

  6. Onset-rime awareness involves:

    Answer: Recognizing that a syllable can be divided into its initial consonant(s) and the vowel-consonant unit that follows

    Onset-rime awareness involves recognizing that syllables can be split into the onset (initial consonant or cluster) and the rime (the vowel and everything after it, e.g., 'c' + 'at' in 'cat').

  7. In literacy instruction, encoding refers to:

    Answer: Translating spoken sounds into written letters, i.e., spelling

    Encoding is the process of converting spoken language into written form (spelling), which is the reverse of decoding (reading printed words aloud).