ILTS 206 Sub-Area 2 Practice Question #08

Phonological Awareness refers to the progressive range of skills that allow us to recognize and manipulate the sounds in spoken language. Which of the following skills represents the most complex level of phonological awareness?

The ability to recognize rhyming words The ability to clap out the syllables in the word "elephant"The ability to segment the individual sounds in a wordThe ability to blend and segment onsets and rimes

Correct Response: C

Segmenting individual sounds in words

Children’s phonological awareness skills follow a continuum of complexity. The most advanced level of phonological awareness is phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the understanding that words are made up of individual sounds, or phonemes, and the ability to manipulate those phonemes either by segmenting, blending, or changing individual phonemes within words to create new words.