Phonemic Awareness: Part 1: Pre-Test

Directions: Please take the pre-test. The answers can be found in the answer key.

Multiple Choice
1. What is phonemic awareness?
a. The ability to hear individual sounds in words.
b. The connection between letter symbols and sounds.
c. The ability to write rhyming words.
d. An umbrella term for phonetics.

2. What is a grapheme?
a. The sound a phoneme makes.
b. The written representation of a sound.
c. The alphabetic principle.
d. A branch of linguistics.

3. What is the alphabetic principle?
a. The letter-sound relationship.
b. The grapho-phonic relationship.
c. The relationship between graphemes and phonemes.
d. All of the above.

4. The National Reading Panel Report suggests that phonics instruction be:
a. Systematic
b. Explicit
c. Contextual
d. Both a and b

5. A good test of phonemic awareness is
a. DIBELS
b. Yopp-Singer
c. The QRI-II
d. Both a and b

6. Listening for rhyme in poetry can
a. Develop phonemic awareness
b. Assist children with comprehension
c. Help children develop sight vocabulary
d. Both a and c

7. Schwa is
a. A consonant
b. A vowel
c. A soft or diminished vowel sound (as the e in the)
d. A special kind of diagraph

8. In phonemic awareness activities, teachers encourage children to
a. Sound out written words
b. Break words into their constituent sounds
c. Make rhyming words
d. All of the above
e. Both b and c

9. In phonics activities, teachers encourage children to
a. Clap out the syllables they hear in a word
b. Write the initial consonant of a word
c. Break words into their constituent sounds
d. Discriminate words that sound alike or different

10. It is best to teach phonemic awareness
a. In small groups
b. To the entire class
c. Individually
d. Both a and c

11. Free morphemes are
a. The smallest meaningful units of language
b. Morphemes with suffixes or prefixes
c. Sounds that stand alone
d. The smallest meaningful units of language that stand alone

12. In which of the Four Blocks would phonemic awareness best be taught?
a. Guided Reading
b. Writing Workshop
c. Self-Selected Reading
d. Working with Words

True or False
1. Scientifically-based reading research supports the teaching of phonemic awareness. T F
2. It is best to teach phonemic awareness in the order in which children express an interest in it. T F
3. Children’s spelling can show us how they are doing with phonemic awareness. T F
4. Phonemic awareness should be randomly acquired. T F
5. Rhyme is the same thing as rime. T F
6. Manipulatives work better for phonemic awareness than for vocabulary development. T F
7. A dipthong is a vowel blend. T F
8. A diagraph is a consonant blend. T F
9. There are 37 rimes that can be used to make up 500 primary words. T F
10. Str is a blend. T F

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