Connecticut Foundations of Reading Test Phonological & Phonemic Awareness Flashcards

Which skill demonstrates phonemic awareness in early readers?

Answer: Identifying the beginning sound in 'cat'

Phonemic awareness involves the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words, such as identifying /k/ in 'cat'.

A student can blend the sounds /s/ /u/ /n/ into 'sun.' This is an example of which phonemic awareness skill?

Answer: Phoneme blending

Phoneme blending is the ability to combine individual phonemes to form a recognizable word.

Which task best assesses phoneme segmentation?

Answer: Asking a student to say each sound in 'ship' separately

Phoneme segmentation requires a student to break a word into its individual phonemes, such as /ʃ/ /ɪ/ /p/ for 'ship'.

A teacher claps once for each syllable in 'elephant.' What phonological skill is being practiced?

Answer: Syllable segmentation

Syllable segmentation is a phonological awareness skill that involves dividing spoken words into syllable units.

Which of the following is a phoneme deletion task?

Answer: Say 'smile' without the /s/

Phoneme deletion tasks require students to say a word after removing a specified phoneme, demonstrating advanced phonemic manipulation.

According to the Connecticut Foundations of Reading framework, at what level should phonemic awareness instruction primarily occur?

Answer: Oral and auditory, without print

Phonemic awareness is a spoken-language skill and should be taught orally before connecting sounds to letters (phonics).