TOMPKINS CHAPTER 5--CI 475 FINAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
PASS
Phonemic Awareness - ANS Children's basic understanding that speech is composed of a
series of individual sounds, and it provides the foundation for phonics and spelling...Children's
ability to take words apart and put them back together again
Phonics instruction - ANS Children learn to convert letters into sounds and bend them to
recognize words. Students who can apply phonics concepts understand that there are
predictable phoneme-grapheme correspondences in English
Spelling - ANS Children learn to segment spoken words into sounds and convert the sounds
into letters to spell words
Phonemes - ANS the smallest units of speech. classified as a consonant or vowel
Graphemes - ANS letters of the alphabet
5 Phonemic Awareness Strategies - ANS -Identifying Sounds in Words
-Categorizing Sounds in Words
-Substituting Sounds to Make New Words
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, -Blending Sounds to Form Words
-Segmenting a Word into Sounds
Identifying Sounds in Words - ANS Children identify a word that begins or ends with a
particular sound
Categorizing Sounds in Words - ANS Children recognize the 'odd' word in a set of three words
Substituting Sounds to Make New Words - ANS Children remove a sound from a word and
substitute a different sound
Blending Sounds to Form Words - ANS Children blend two, three, or four individual sounds to
form a word
Segmenting a Word into Sounds - ANS Children break a word into its beginning, middle and
ending sounds
3 Criteria of Phonemic Awareness Instruction - ANS 1: activities should be appropriate for 5-6
year olds
2: the instruction should be planned and purposeful, not just incidental
3: activities should be integrated with other components of a balanced literacy program
Sound-Matching Activities - ANS Children choose one of several words beginning with a
particular phoneme or say a word that begins with a particular sound
Sound-Isolation Activities - ANS Teacher says a word and then children identify the sounds at
the beginning, middle or end of the word, or teacher and children isolate sounds as they sing
familiar songs
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EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
PASS
Phonemic Awareness - ANS Children's basic understanding that speech is composed of a
series of individual sounds, and it provides the foundation for phonics and spelling...Children's
ability to take words apart and put them back together again
Phonics instruction - ANS Children learn to convert letters into sounds and bend them to
recognize words. Students who can apply phonics concepts understand that there are
predictable phoneme-grapheme correspondences in English
Spelling - ANS Children learn to segment spoken words into sounds and convert the sounds
into letters to spell words
Phonemes - ANS the smallest units of speech. classified as a consonant or vowel
Graphemes - ANS letters of the alphabet
5 Phonemic Awareness Strategies - ANS -Identifying Sounds in Words
-Categorizing Sounds in Words
-Substituting Sounds to Make New Words
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, -Blending Sounds to Form Words
-Segmenting a Word into Sounds
Identifying Sounds in Words - ANS Children identify a word that begins or ends with a
particular sound
Categorizing Sounds in Words - ANS Children recognize the 'odd' word in a set of three words
Substituting Sounds to Make New Words - ANS Children remove a sound from a word and
substitute a different sound
Blending Sounds to Form Words - ANS Children blend two, three, or four individual sounds to
form a word
Segmenting a Word into Sounds - ANS Children break a word into its beginning, middle and
ending sounds
3 Criteria of Phonemic Awareness Instruction - ANS 1: activities should be appropriate for 5-6
year olds
2: the instruction should be planned and purposeful, not just incidental
3: activities should be integrated with other components of a balanced literacy program
Sound-Matching Activities - ANS Children choose one of several words beginning with a
particular phoneme or say a word that begins with a particular sound
Sound-Isolation Activities - ANS Teacher says a word and then children identify the sounds at
the beginning, middle or end of the word, or teacher and children isolate sounds as they sing
familiar songs
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