Early Literacy Development & Phonological Awareness Flashcards

A teacher asks students to clap for each syllable in 'butterfly.' How many claps should students produce?

Answer: Three

'Butterfly' has three syllables: but-ter-fly.

Which activity best develops a child's ability to recognize onset-rime patterns?

Answer: Sorting words that share the same ending chunk like '-at' in 'cat' and 'bat'

Sorting words by shared rime units directly builds onset-rime awareness.

A child says 'nana' instead of 'banana.' This most likely reflects which phonological process?

Answer: Syllable reduction

Dropping an unstressed syllable from 'banana' to produce 'nana' is syllable reduction.

Which skill represents the most advanced level of phonological awareness?

Answer: Segmenting a word into individual phonemes

Full phoneme segmentation is the most complex phonological awareness skill because it requires manipulating every individual sound.

A kindergartner can blend the sounds /d/ /o/ /g/ to say 'dog.' This skill is called:

Answer: Phoneme blending

Combining separate phonemes to form a spoken word is phoneme blending.

When a teacher reads aloud and pauses to let students predict the next rhyming word in a pattern book, she is building:

Answer: Rhyme awareness

Predicting rhyming words through shared reading directly develops rhyme awareness.

Which statement best describes the relationship between phonological awareness and phonics?

Answer: Phonological awareness is auditory and supports learning phonics, which connects sounds to print

Phonological awareness is an oral/auditory skill that underpins phonics, which links sounds to written letters.