WIAT Phonological Processing Skills 2

Question 1

A student is asked to say the word 'black' without the /l/ sound. What is the correct response?

Accepted Answer

back

Answer

lack

Answer

blak

Question 2

Which task is the BEST example of phoneme segmentation?

Accepted Answer

Saying each sound in 'ship' separately: /ʃ/ /ɪ/ /p/

Answer

Blending /s/ /t/ /o/ /p/ to say 'stop'

Answer

Replacing the first sound in 'cat' with /b/

Answer

Counting the syllables in 'butterfly'

Question 3

On the WIAT, the Pseudoword Decoding subtest measures a student's ability to:

Accepted Answer

Read nonsense words aloud using phonics rules

Answer

Spell real words from dictation

Answer

Identify rhyming word pairs

Answer

Count phonemes in familiar words

Question 4

A child says 'tup' for 'cup'. This error pattern is best described as:

Accepted Answer

Initial consonant substitution

Answer

Vowel substitution

Answer

Final consonant deletion

Answer

Consonant cluster reduction

Question 5

Which pair of words demonstrates a minimal pair differing only in vowel phonemes?

Accepted Answer

hit / hot

Answer

bat / bad

Answer

ship / chip

Answer

ran / run

Question 6

How many phonemes are in the word 'through'?

Accepted Answer

3

Answer

4

Answer

5

Answer

6

Question 7

Phonological awareness is best described as the ability to:

Accepted Answer

Recognize and manipulate the sound structure of spoken language

Answer

Associate printed letters with their sounds

Answer

Decode multisyllabic words in isolation

Answer

Understand the meaning of words in context