WIAT Phonological Processing Skills 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A student is asked to say the word 'black' without the /l/ sound. What is the correct response?
- back
- lack
- blak
- back (Correct answer)
Correct answer: back
Removing /l/ from 'black' (/blæk/) leaves /bæk/, spelled 'back'.
Question 2: Which task is the BEST example of phoneme segmentation?
- Blending /s/ /t/ /o/ /p/ to say 'stop'
- Saying each sound in 'ship' separately: /ʃ/ /ɪ/ /p/ (Correct answer)
- Replacing the first sound in 'cat' with /b/
- Counting the syllables in 'butterfly'
Correct answer: Saying each sound in 'ship' separately: /ʃ/ /ɪ/ /p/
Phoneme segmentation requires breaking a spoken word into its individual phonemes, as in separating 'ship' into /ʃ/ /ɪ/ /p/.
Question 3: On the WIAT, the Pseudoword Decoding subtest measures a student's ability to:
- Spell real words from dictation
- Read nonsense words aloud using phonics rules (Correct answer)
- Identify rhyming word pairs
- Count phonemes in familiar words
Correct answer: Read nonsense words aloud using phonics rules
Pseudoword Decoding assesses phonological decoding by having students read pronounceable nonwords that have no meaning.
Question 4: A child says 'tup' for 'cup'. This error pattern is best described as:
- Vowel substitution
- Final consonant deletion
- Initial consonant substitution (Correct answer)
- Consonant cluster reduction
Correct answer: Initial consonant substitution
The child replaced the initial phoneme /k/ with /t/, which is an initial consonant substitution.
Question 5: Which pair of words demonstrates a minimal pair differing only in vowel phonemes?
- bat / bad
- hit / hot (Correct answer)
- ship / chip
- ran / run
Correct answer: hit / hot
'Hit' /hɪt/ and 'hot' /hɑt/ differ only in the medial vowel phoneme, making them a vowel minimal pair.
Question 6: How many phonemes are in the word 'through'?
- 3 (Correct answer)
- 4
- 5
- 6
Correct answer: 3
'Through' is pronounced /θruː/, which contains exactly three phonemes: /θ/, /r/, and /uː/.
Question 7: Phonological awareness is best described as the ability to:
- Associate printed letters with their sounds
- Recognize and manipulate the sound structure of spoken language (Correct answer)
- Decode multisyllabic words in isolation
- Understand the meaning of words in context
Correct answer: Recognize and manipulate the sound structure of spoken language
Phonological awareness is a metalinguistic skill involving conscious attention to and manipulation of the sound structure of spoken language.
WIAT Phonological Processing Skills 2
A student is asked to say the word 'black' without the /l/ sound.
What is the correct response?