Phonemic Awareness

Question 1

The sound 'ck' as in snack is a

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Digraph

Question 2

Children with good phonemic awareness tend to learn to read more easily

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True

Question 3

The smallest unit of sound in a language is called a

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Phoneme

Question 4

Phonemic awareness is the ability to identify, say and manipulate individual

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Phonemes

Question 5

The ability to hear, recognise and work with sounds of spoken language

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Phonological awareness

Question 6

Modelling the rules of sentence structure (grammar) helps a student to develop strong

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Syntax

Question 7

What is the purpose of the English Scope and Sequence in the Australian Curriculum (more than one answer)

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All of these

Question 8

Phonological awareness includes (there is more than one answer)

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Being aware of the individual sounds in a word, Picking out words that rhyme, Counting the number of syllables in a word

Question 9

By introducing new words and supplying meanings within a context, you can support the development of a child's

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Semantic skills

Question 10

Oral language means

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All of these

Question 11

Two skills required for decoding are

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Phonemic awareness, Letter / sound knowledge

Question 12

The written representation of a sound is called a graphic

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False

Question 13

The sound 'igh' in the word night is a

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Trigraph

Question 14

Oral language is the foundation of reading

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True

Question 15

Which of the following words contains a split digraph

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Flame

Question 16

How many sounds are there in the English language?

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44

Question 17

Being able to identify the sound 'c' in cat is what phonemic skill?

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Isolating

Question 18

Blending and segmenting are skills used to (choose 2)

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Decode when reading, Encode when spelling

Question 19

Which of the following are CVC words?

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boy, map

Question 20

Ways to develop a student's oral language (more than one answer)

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All of these

Questions 20