Phonological Awareness Can Best Be Described As

Phonological awareness can best be described as:

A) A child's ability to hear the individual sounds within a spoken word
B) A child's ability to distinguish between words that sound similar but have different meanings
C) A child's knowledge that people who speak different dialects may pronounce the same word differently
D) A child's ability to describe what letters typically represent different sounds in words and to apply them in sounding out written words