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ACTUAL (UPDATED 2026) QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS||BRAND
NEW!!!
Phonics -CORRECTANSWER A method of teaching students to read by correlating
sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system. Children are
taught, for example, that the letter n represents the sound /n/, and that it is the first letter
in words such as nose, nice and new.
Phonological Processing -CORRECTANSWER The use of phonemes to process
spoken and written language. The broad category of phonological processing includes
phonological awareness, phonological working memory, and phonological retrieval.
Phonological Awareness -CORRECTANSWER Awareness of the sound structure of a
language and the ability to consciously analyze and manipulate this structure via a
range of tasks, such as speech sound segmentation and blending at the word, onset-
rime, syllable, and phonemic levels.
Development of Phonological Awareness -CORRECTANSWER 1. Word awareness
2. Responsiveness to rhyme and alliteration during word play
3. Syllable awareness
4. Onset and rime manipulation
,5. Phoneme awareness
1. Word awareness -CORRECTANSWER Tracking the words in sentences. Knowledge
that words have meaning. (less important to teach directly)
Strategy: read-aloud, alphabet chants, high-frequency word books
2. Responsiveness to rhyme and alliteration during word play -CORRECTANSWER
Enjoying and reciting learned rhyming words or alliterative phrases in familiar
storybooks or nursery rhymes.
Strategy: poetry books, alphabet chants, picture flashcards w/ objects whose names
rhyme.
(Flashcards can be used in sorting and classifying activities.)
3. Syllable awareness -CORRECTANSWER Counting, tapping, blending, or
segmenting a word into syllables.
Strategy: Flashcards w/ objects whose names contain different numbers of syllables.
(Flashcards can be used in sorting activity.)
,4. Onset and rime manipulation -CORRECTANSWER Onset is the initial consonant in a
one-syllable word. Rime includes the remaining sounds, including the vowel and any
sounds that follow. The ability to produce a rhyming word depends on understanding
that rhyming words have the same rime. Recognizing a rhyme is much easier than
producing a rhyme.
Strategy: Blending and substitution activities.
5. Phonemic awareness -CORRECTANSWER This is the student's awareness of the
smallest units of sound in a word. It also refers to a student's ability to segment, blend,
and manipulate these units.
- Identify and match the initial sounds in words, then the final and middle sounds (e.g.,
"Which picture begins with /m/?"; "Find another picture that ends in /r/").
- Segment and produce the initial sound, then the final and middle sounds (e.g., "What
sound does zoo start with?"; "Say the last sound in milk"; "Say the vowel sound in
rope").
- Blend sounds into words (e.g., "Listen: /f/ /ē/ /t/. Say it fast").
, - Segment the phonemes in two- or three-sound words, moving to four- and five- sound
words as the student becomes proficient (e.g., "The word is eyes. Stretch and say the
sounds: /ī/ /z/").
- Manipulate phonemes by removing, adding, or substituting sounds (e.g., "Say smoke
without the /m/").
Strategy: listening to alliterative passages, blending and segmenting words, and
manipulating sounds in words through substitution, deletion, and addition of phonemics.
Elkonin boxes are provided for tactile blending and segmenting activities.
Phonological Working Memory -CORRECTANSWER Involves storing phoneme
information in a temporary, short-term memory store. This phonemic information is then
readily available for manipulation during phonological awareness tasks.
Phonological Retrieval -CORRECTANSWER Phonological retrieval is the ability to
recall the phonemes associated with specific graphemes, which can be assessed by
rapid naming tasks.
Phoneme Manipulation Task (Strategy) -CORRECTANSWER Tasks that tap into
phonological processing, such as phoneme manipulation tasks (say "cat" without the
kuh), have proven to be some of the strongest correlates and predictors of learning to
read.
ACTUAL (UPDATED 2026) QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS||BRAND
NEW!!!
Phonics -CORRECTANSWER A method of teaching students to read by correlating
sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system. Children are
taught, for example, that the letter n represents the sound /n/, and that it is the first letter
in words such as nose, nice and new.
Phonological Processing -CORRECTANSWER The use of phonemes to process
spoken and written language. The broad category of phonological processing includes
phonological awareness, phonological working memory, and phonological retrieval.
Phonological Awareness -CORRECTANSWER Awareness of the sound structure of a
language and the ability to consciously analyze and manipulate this structure via a
range of tasks, such as speech sound segmentation and blending at the word, onset-
rime, syllable, and phonemic levels.
Development of Phonological Awareness -CORRECTANSWER 1. Word awareness
2. Responsiveness to rhyme and alliteration during word play
3. Syllable awareness
4. Onset and rime manipulation
,5. Phoneme awareness
1. Word awareness -CORRECTANSWER Tracking the words in sentences. Knowledge
that words have meaning. (less important to teach directly)
Strategy: read-aloud, alphabet chants, high-frequency word books
2. Responsiveness to rhyme and alliteration during word play -CORRECTANSWER
Enjoying and reciting learned rhyming words or alliterative phrases in familiar
storybooks or nursery rhymes.
Strategy: poetry books, alphabet chants, picture flashcards w/ objects whose names
rhyme.
(Flashcards can be used in sorting and classifying activities.)
3. Syllable awareness -CORRECTANSWER Counting, tapping, blending, or
segmenting a word into syllables.
Strategy: Flashcards w/ objects whose names contain different numbers of syllables.
(Flashcards can be used in sorting activity.)
,4. Onset and rime manipulation -CORRECTANSWER Onset is the initial consonant in a
one-syllable word. Rime includes the remaining sounds, including the vowel and any
sounds that follow. The ability to produce a rhyming word depends on understanding
that rhyming words have the same rime. Recognizing a rhyme is much easier than
producing a rhyme.
Strategy: Blending and substitution activities.
5. Phonemic awareness -CORRECTANSWER This is the student's awareness of the
smallest units of sound in a word. It also refers to a student's ability to segment, blend,
and manipulate these units.
- Identify and match the initial sounds in words, then the final and middle sounds (e.g.,
"Which picture begins with /m/?"; "Find another picture that ends in /r/").
- Segment and produce the initial sound, then the final and middle sounds (e.g., "What
sound does zoo start with?"; "Say the last sound in milk"; "Say the vowel sound in
rope").
- Blend sounds into words (e.g., "Listen: /f/ /ē/ /t/. Say it fast").
, - Segment the phonemes in two- or three-sound words, moving to four- and five- sound
words as the student becomes proficient (e.g., "The word is eyes. Stretch and say the
sounds: /ī/ /z/").
- Manipulate phonemes by removing, adding, or substituting sounds (e.g., "Say smoke
without the /m/").
Strategy: listening to alliterative passages, blending and segmenting words, and
manipulating sounds in words through substitution, deletion, and addition of phonemics.
Elkonin boxes are provided for tactile blending and segmenting activities.
Phonological Working Memory -CORRECTANSWER Involves storing phoneme
information in a temporary, short-term memory store. This phonemic information is then
readily available for manipulation during phonological awareness tasks.
Phonological Retrieval -CORRECTANSWER Phonological retrieval is the ability to
recall the phonemes associated with specific graphemes, which can be assessed by
rapid naming tasks.
Phoneme Manipulation Task (Strategy) -CORRECTANSWER Tasks that tap into
phonological processing, such as phoneme manipulation tasks (say "cat" without the
kuh), have proven to be some of the strongest correlates and predictors of learning to
read.
