RICA Subtest 1 Exam Questions with 100% Correct Answers

What is phonemic awareness? Correct Answer The ability to identify, hear, and work with the smallest units of sound known as phonemes. NOT the same as phonological awareness, but a sub-category of phonological awareness. Ex: phonemic awareness is narrow, and deals only with phonemes and manipulating the individual sounds of words - blending /c/, /a/, and /t/ are the individual sounds that make up to form the word "cat". - segmenting individual phonemes What is phonological awareness? Correct Answer Includes the phonemic awareness ability, and it also includes the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate larger units of sound such as rimes and onsets. Ex: segmenting compound words How do students demonstrate that they have phonemic awareness? Correct Answer - Oral blending and segmentation - Counting phonemes - Comparing word lengths - Sound manipulation: adding and deleting - Rhyming and songs - Onset-rime Relationship between - Phonemic Awareness + Phonics? Correct Answer The ability to identify the sounds in words leads the ability to identify written words. identify words orally ---> identify written words Relationship between - Phonemic Awareness + Sounds? Correct Answer Identifying individual sounds leads to blending these sounds in a word.