COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◉ How many spoken syllables are there in frightening? Answer:
Three
◉ How many spoken syllables are there in cleaned? Answer: Two
◉ What is the main reason that the ability to identify, segment,
blend, and manipulate individual phonemes in spoken words is
important for reading an alphabetic writing system? Answer: Each
letter in a word represents an individual phoneme
◉ Students with relative weaknesses in basic phonemic awareness
are most likely to make progress if the teacher provides which
practice? Answer: asks students to look into a mirror while they
describe the way that target phonemes are formed in the mouth
◉ Which student is demonstrating the most advanced level of
phonemic awareness? Answer: the student substituting a sound in a
given word and saying the new word