Deck 5: Phonemic Awareness

Question 1

What is phonemic awareness?

A) A child's ability to associate letter shapes with letter sounds
B) A child's ability to name the letters of the alphabet
C) A child's awareness that pictures and text tell a story
D) A child's understanding and conscious awareness that speech is composed of identifiable units, such as spoken words, syllables, and sounds
E) None of the above

Answer 1

A child's understanding and conscious awareness that speech is composed of identifiable units, such as spoken words, syllables, and sounds

Question 2

All of the following are dimensions of phonemic awareness EXCEPT:

A) The ability to associate letter shapes with letter sounds
B) The ability to hear syllables within a word
C) The ability to hear initial letter sounds or recognize alliteration
D) The ability to distinguish rime and rhyme
E) The ability to distinguish oddity

Answer 2

The ability to associate letter shapes with letter sounds

Question 3

What is the task of either substituting or deleting sound?

A) Oddity
B) Manipulation
C) Segmenting
D) Blending
E) None of the above

Answer 3

Manipulation

Question 4

What is the ability to pull sounds apart after hearing the entire word?

A) Blending
B) Segmenting
C) Manipulating
D) Distinguishing rime
E) None of the above

Question 5

The English language has approximately how many phonemes?

A) 44
B) 20
C) 52
D) 26
E) None of the above

Question 6

All of the following are instruments that assess students' phonemic awareness EXCEPT:

A) Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills
B) Lindamood-Bell Auditory Conceptualization Text
C) Woodcock Johnson
D) Basic Early Assessment of Reading
E) DIBELS

Question 7

Alliteration refers to __________.

A) Words that are nonsense
B) Words that sound like their meanings
C) Sentences or phrases that have repeated vowel sounds
D) Sentences or phrases in which multiple words begin with the same letter sound
E) None of the above

Question 8

Onomatopoeia refers to __________.

A) Sentences or phrases that begin with the same letter sound
B) Sentences or phrases that have repeated vowel sounds
C) Words that are nonsense
D) Words that sound like their meaning
E) None of the above

Question 9

Assonance refers to __________.

A) Sentences or phrases that have repeated vowel sounds
B) Sentences or phrases that begin with the same letter sound
C) Words that sound like their meaning
D) Nonsense words
E) None of the above

Question 10

All of the following are ways to help children develop phonemic awareness EXCEPT:

A) Nursery rhymes and poems
B) Jump rope jingles
C) Tongue twisters
D) Children's literature
E) Spelling words as they sound

Question 11

Phonemic awareness is defined as ________________.

Question 12

The seven dimensions of phonemic awareness are the ability to __________, __________, __________, __________, __________, __________, and __________.

Question 13

Teachers can introduce children to the sounds within our language through __________, __________, __________, __________, __________, __________, and __________.

Question 14

Manipulating sounds means _________________.

Question 15

Substituting sounds means ________________.

Question 16

Deleting sounds means ________________.

Question 17

Define phonemic awareness and explain how it differs from phonics.

Question 18

Name the seven dimensions of phonemic awareness and explain how you will assess a student's ability in each of these dimensions.

Question 19

Explain what you as a teacher can do to help students develop awareness in the seven dimensions. Be sure to address each dimension separately and give specific activities.

Question 20

Imagine that you are at a job interview with a principal and a team of kindergarten teachers. You can tell by their comments that some favor instruction in phonemic awareness and others oppose it. They ask you to give your stance on phonemic awareness instruction. Explain how you will address this request and what arguments you will give to support your stance.

Question 21

Describe the stances of the International Reading Association and the National Association for Education of Young Children on phonemic awareness.