5713 Reading Praxis 1 Practice Questions and Answers

Which of the following students is demonstrating the specific type of phonological awareness known as phonemic awareness? A. a student who, after being shown a letter of the alphabet, can orally identify its corresponding sound(s) B. a student who listens to the words sing, ring, fling, and hang and can identify that hang is different C. a student who, after hearing the word hat, can orally identify that it ends with the sound /t/ D. a student who listens to the word Massachusetts and can determine that it contains four syllables C. a student who, after hearing the word hat, can orally identify that it ends with the sound /t/ A kindergarten teacher could best determine if a child has begun to develop phonemic awareness by asking the child to: A. count the number of words the child hears in a sentence as the teacher says the sentence. B. say the word cat, then say the first sound the child hears in the word. C. point to the correct letter on an alphabet chart as the teacher names