Question: How is the word pl ay divided in this example?

Answer: onset-rime

Question: How many spoken syllables are there in buttered?

Answer: 2

Question: How many spoken syllables are there in possible?

Answer: 3

Question: What ability would students have who had attained advanced levels of phonemic awareness?

Answer: They can read most grade-level words by sight.

Question: Which teaching strategy would be most helpful for students who confuse the sounds /f/ and /th/ in their own speech?

Answer: Have the student look in a mirror while describing and producing each sound.

Question: Which student is demonstrating the most advanced level of phonemic awareness?

Answer: a student who reverses the order of sounds in perch to make chirp

Question: A student writes the word went as ‘wet.’ What aspect of phonology is associated with this common spelling error?

Answer: nasalization of a vowel before a nasal consonant

Question: Phonological awareness tasks that emphasize segmentation and blending of two- or three-phoneme words align with which level of phonological awareness according to Kilpatrick?

Answer: basic phonemic awareness

Question: Which set of words would be appropriate for practicing four-phoneme blending?

Answer: quit, sling, roast

Question: If a student obtains a low score on a test of rapid automatic naming (RAN), what is the teachers best course of action?

Answer: Continue to develop phonological awareness at the appropriate levels.