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

Answer

Phoneme manipulation is the most sophisticated phonological awareness skill and develops last on the continuum.

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Syllable deletion

Answer

Removing a whole syllable from a compound word is a syllable deletion task, a mid-level phonological awareness skill.

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

Answer

Research shows phoneme awareness instruction is most effective when phonemes are explicitly connected to the letters that represent them, not taught as purely oral tasks.

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

Answer

Rhyme awareness develops earlier on the phonological continuum than phoneme segmentation, so this pattern shows the student has foundational but not advanced phonological awareness.

Question 5

The phonological awareness skill of blending requires a student to:

Accepted Answer

Combine separately presented phoneme units into a recognizable word

Answer

Blending involves combining individually presented phonemes in sequence to form a complete word.

CALT - Certified Academic Language Therapist Practice Test

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CALT Phonological Awareness Skills 2