What is 'Phonemic Awareness', a specific sub-skill of phonological awareness?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. The ability to identify, isolate, and manipulate individual speech sounds (phonemes) in spoken words
- Step 1: Phonemic awareness is the narrowest, most sophisticated sub-skill of phonological awareness. Step 2. It involves segmenting, blending, and substituting the individual smallest sound units (e.g. /c/-/a/-/t/ in 'cat'). Answer: The ability to identify, isolate, and manipulate individual speech sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. Why not the others: Fluency is oral reading speed; defining words is vocabulary; drawing shapes is handwriting/geometry.
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