COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION TEST 2026
FULL SOLUTIONS
◉ How many spoken syllables are there in buttered? Answer: 1
2
3
4
2
◉ How many spoken syllables are there in possible? Answer: 1
2
3
4
3
◉ The use of nonsense words for phonemic awareness activities is:
Answer: useful only occasionally within sound chains.
beneficial for English Learners.
, helpful for those children with weak vocabularies.
never suggested.
useful only occasionally within sound chains.
◉ Which teaching strategy would be most helpful for students who
confuse the sounds /f/ and /th/ in their own speech? Answer: While
showing each letter, ask the students to say a corresponding
phoneme.
Ask the students to read a list of words with digraphs th, sh, and ch.
Practice segmenting simple words with /f/, /th/, and other
fricatives.
Have students look in a mirror while describing and producing each
sound.
Have students look in a mirror while describing and producing each
sound.
◉ Which student is demonstrating the most advanced level of
phonemic awareness? Answer: a student who can use colored blocks
to change the sounds in slip to make it slick
a student who claps three times for each syllable in the word
triangle