OAE Phonological and Phonemic Awareness 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which activity best develops phoneme blending skills?
- Asking students to clap for each syllable in a word
- Saying isolated sounds and having students combine them into a word (Correct answer)
- Having students identify the first sound in a spoken word
- Asking students to think of words that rhyme with 'cat'
Correct answer: Saying isolated sounds and having students combine them into a word
Phoneme blending is practiced by presenting individual sounds and having students synthesize them into a complete word.
Question 2: Onset-rime manipulation involves working with which parts of a syllable?
- The beginning consonant(s) and the vowel-plus-ending (Correct answer)
- The prefix and the root word
- The first vowel and the final consonant
- The syllable stress and the vowel quality
Correct answer: The beginning consonant(s) and the vowel-plus-ending
The onset is the initial consonant or consonant cluster of a syllable, and the rime is the vowel and any following consonants.
Question 3: A teacher counts three taps when a student says the word 'splash.' What error did the student make?
- The student segmented by syllables instead of phonemes
- The student confused 'splash' with a different word
- The student failed to count the /s/ and /pl/ as separate phonemes
- The student did not count all five phonemes in 'splash' (Correct answer)
Correct answer: The student did not count all five phonemes in 'splash'
The word 'splash' has five phonemes: /s/ /p/ /l/ /ae/ /sh/, so three taps indicates the student undercounted.
Question 4: Research suggests that phonemic awareness instruction is most effective when:
- It focuses on a large variety of phoneme manipulation tasks simultaneously
- It is taught in isolation without any connection to letters
- It focuses on one or two phoneme manipulation types at a time (Correct answer)
- It is reserved for students who have already mastered phonics
Correct answer: It focuses on one or two phoneme manipulation types at a time
Research indicates that phonemic awareness instruction is more effective when it focuses on one or two types of phoneme manipulation rather than many at once.
Question 5: A student says /f/ /ae/ /n/ and identifies the word 'fan.' This demonstrates:
- Phoneme deletion
- Phoneme segmentation
- Phoneme blending (Correct answer)
- Phoneme substitution
Correct answer: Phoneme blending
Phoneme blending requires the student to combine separate phonemes into a recognizable spoken word.
Question 6: Which statement about phonological awareness is accurate?
- It is identical to phonics because both involve sounds
- It develops after children learn to read
- It is a predictor of future reading success (Correct answer)
- It only applies to students learning English as a second language
Correct answer: It is a predictor of future reading success
Phonological awareness is one of the strongest predictors of later reading achievement and should be developed before and alongside formal reading instruction.
OAE Phonological and Phonemic Awareness 2
Which activity best develops phoneme blending skills?