WIAT Phonological Processing Skills 3

Question 1

A student is asked to say 'smile' and then say it again without the /m/ sound. The correct response is:

Accepted Answer

sile

Answer

Removing /m/ from 'smile' (/smaɪl/) yields /saɪl/, pronounced 'sile'.

Question 2

Which phonological awareness skill typically develops LAST in young children?

Accepted Answer

Phoneme manipulation

Answer

Phoneme-level manipulation (deletion, substitution, reversal) is the most advanced phonological awareness skill and emerges latest.

Question 3

On the WIAT Phonological Processing subtest, 'phoneme reversal' tasks ask students to:

Accepted Answer

Say a word or pseudoword's phonemes in backward order

Answer

Phoneme reversal requires the student to mentally reorder all phonemes of a spoken word or pseudoword and produce them in reverse sequence.

Question 4

Which word contains a consonant digraph?

Accepted Answer

phone

Answer

'Phone' contains the digraph 'ph', two letters that together represent the single phoneme /f/.

Question 5

A teacher says: 'What word do you get if you change the /æ/ in 'pan' to /ɪ/?'  The student should answer:

Accepted Answer

Answer

Substituting the vowel /æ/ in 'pan' with /ɪ/ produces 'pin' (/pɪn/).

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