Foundations of Reading 190 Exam with Questions and Answers

Foundations of Reading 190 Exam with Questions and Answers As students begin to read, the ability to blend phonemes orally contributes to their reading development primarily because it prepares students to: ANSWER combine letter-sounds to decode words A teacher is selecting words to use to assess students' ability to segment the individual phonemes in spoken words. Which of the following words would require the highest level of skill with regard to orally segmenting phonemes? ANSWER Stamp Separating the individual phonemes, or sounds, of a word into discrete units. ANSWER Segmenting Which of the following tasks requires the most advanced level of skill along the phonological awareness continuum? ANSWER orally segmenting the phonemes in the word chimp and then substituting /ŏ/ for /ĭ/ to make a new word, chomp What is the highest skill level in phonological awareness? ANSWER Substitution A kindergarten teacher engages a small group of children in the following Say It and Move It activity. • The teacher says a two-phoneme word slowly (e.g., ape, bee, day, eat, go, she, toe). • The children slowly repeat the word. • The children move a plain wooden block as they say each phoneme, lining up the two blocks from left to right.