OAE Phonological and Phonemic Awareness 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which of the following best describes phonemic awareness?
- The ability to recognize and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words (Correct answer)
- The ability to match letters to their corresponding sounds
- The ability to read words fluently in connected text
- The ability to understand the meaning of written words
Correct answer: The ability to recognize and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words
Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual phonemes (the smallest units of sound) in spoken language.
Question 2: A teacher asks students to say 'cat' without the /k/ sound. This activity targets which phonological skill?
- Phoneme blending
- Phoneme segmentation
- Phoneme deletion (Correct answer)
- Phoneme substitution
Correct answer: Phoneme deletion
Phoneme deletion requires students to remove a specific sound from a word and say what remains.
Question 3: Which task represents phoneme segmentation?
- Saying /d/ /o/ /g/ for the word 'dog' (Correct answer)
- Blending /s/ /u/ /n/ to say 'sun'
- Replacing /b/ in 'bat' with /h/ to make 'hat'
- Identifying that 'cat' and 'can' start with the same sound
Correct answer: Saying /d/ /o/ /g/ for the word 'dog'
Phoneme segmentation involves breaking a spoken word into its individual phonemes.
Question 4: Rhyming awareness, syllable blending, and onset-rime manipulation are all components of:
- Phonics instruction
- Phonological awareness (Correct answer)
- Orthographic knowledge
- Morphological awareness
Correct answer: Phonological awareness
Phonological awareness is a broad umbrella skill that includes awareness of rhymes, syllables, onset-rime, and individual phonemes.
Question 5: Which of the following is the most advanced phonological awareness skill?
- Identifying rhyming words
- Counting syllables in a word
- Blending onset and rime
- Manipulating individual phonemes (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Manipulating individual phonemes
Phoneme manipulation, such as substitution and deletion, is the most advanced level of phonological awareness because it requires working with the smallest units of sound.
Question 6: A student who can identify that 'ship,' 'chip,' and 'tip' all end with the same sound is demonstrating:
- Phoneme blending
- Rhyme recognition (Correct answer)
- Phoneme substitution
- Syllable segmentation
Correct answer: Rhyme recognition
Recognizing that words share the same ending sound is rhyme recognition, an early phonological awareness skill.
OAE Phonological and Phonemic Awareness 1
Which of the following best describes phonemic awareness?