WGU D469 COMPREHENSIVE TEST BANK
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
PRACTICE SOLUTION VERIFIED
◉ Letter Awareness. Answer: The understanding that letters are
representations of sounds.
◉ Book Awareness. Answer: The understanding of how books work,
including concepts such as reading from left to right, turning pages,
and recognizing the front and back covers.
◉ Word Awareness. Answer: The recognition and understanding of
individual words as distinct units of language, including their sounds,
meanings, and spellings.
◉ Concepts About Print. Answer: The understanding of how printed
materials, such as books and other written texts, function and are
structured.
◉ Phonological Awareness. Answer: The ability to recognize and
manipulate the sounds of spoken language, including words, syllables,
and phonemes (individual speech sounds), without necessarily
understanding the meaning of the words.
, ◉ Phonemic Awareness. Answer: A subset of phonological awareness
and specifically refers to the ability to recognize and manipulate
individual phonemes (speech sounds) in spoken words.
◉ Syllables. Answer: Units of sound within words that contain a
single vowel sound and may or may not be preceded or followed by
consonant sounds.
◉ Onset. Answer: The initial consonant or consonant cluster of a
syllable that comes before the vowel sound.
◉ Rime. Answer: The part of a syllable that consists of the vowel
sound and any consonant sounds that follow it.
◉ Consonant. Answer: A speech sound produced by obstructing the
flow of air through the vocal tract.
◉ Vowel. Answer: A speech sound produced without significant
constriction or closure of the vocal tract.
◉ Stops. Answer: Consonant sounds produced by one push of breath
and then stopping the air, including /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, /k/, and /g/.
◉ Nasals. Answer: Consonant sounds produced with the nasal
passage open, allowing air to escape through the nose, including /n/,
/m/, and /ng/.
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
PRACTICE SOLUTION VERIFIED
◉ Letter Awareness. Answer: The understanding that letters are
representations of sounds.
◉ Book Awareness. Answer: The understanding of how books work,
including concepts such as reading from left to right, turning pages,
and recognizing the front and back covers.
◉ Word Awareness. Answer: The recognition and understanding of
individual words as distinct units of language, including their sounds,
meanings, and spellings.
◉ Concepts About Print. Answer: The understanding of how printed
materials, such as books and other written texts, function and are
structured.
◉ Phonological Awareness. Answer: The ability to recognize and
manipulate the sounds of spoken language, including words, syllables,
and phonemes (individual speech sounds), without necessarily
understanding the meaning of the words.
, ◉ Phonemic Awareness. Answer: A subset of phonological awareness
and specifically refers to the ability to recognize and manipulate
individual phonemes (speech sounds) in spoken words.
◉ Syllables. Answer: Units of sound within words that contain a
single vowel sound and may or may not be preceded or followed by
consonant sounds.
◉ Onset. Answer: The initial consonant or consonant cluster of a
syllable that comes before the vowel sound.
◉ Rime. Answer: The part of a syllable that consists of the vowel
sound and any consonant sounds that follow it.
◉ Consonant. Answer: A speech sound produced by obstructing the
flow of air through the vocal tract.
◉ Vowel. Answer: A speech sound produced without significant
constriction or closure of the vocal tract.
◉ Stops. Answer: Consonant sounds produced by one push of breath
and then stopping the air, including /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, /k/, and /g/.
◉ Nasals. Answer: Consonant sounds produced with the nasal
passage open, allowing air to escape through the nose, including /n/,
/m/, and /ng/.
