What Are the Developmental Sequences of Phonological Awareness?
1. Which of the following sentences describe a child functioning at the metalinguistic level? Select all that apply.
a. When asked whether “cat” and “cow” start with the same sound, the child says, “meow” and “moo.”
b. When asked to supply two words that rhyme with “sheep,” the child says, “keep” and “leap.”
c. A child says, “Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep.”
d. When asked to identify the first sound in “cow,” the child says, “/k/”.
2. A child is asked what words rhyme with “moose” and says, “goose, loose, juice”; the child also supplies rhyming nonsense words like “woose, toose, foose.” About how old is this child, most likely?
a. 2–3 years old
b. 3–4 years old
c. 4–5 years old
d. 5–6 years old
3. Of the following tasks, which two are the most challenging?
a. Select the picture that does not belong from a set showing a cat, a bat, and a bird.
b. Select the two pictures that go together from a set showing a mouse, a house, and a blanket.
c. Name words that rhyme with “book” and tell whether each is a real or a nonsense word.
d. Tell whether the word “brush” rhymes with “drink” and whether “gold” rhymes with “hat.”
4. Of the following tasks, which is the most challenging?
a. Correctly answering the question, “Do ‘monkey’ and ‘mouse’ start with the same sound?”
b. Segmenting the phonemes in the words “d – o – t,” “d – r – i – p,” and “f – l – a – p.”
c. Segmenting and clapping the syllables in “moun – tain” and “dra – gon – fly.”
d. Blending the initial sound and rest of the word in “j – uice” and “c – ookie.”
5. Which of the following activities introduced in this session can be adapted to any linguistic level? Select all that apply.
a. “Which word weighs more?”
b. “Robot Reporting”
c. picture puzzles
d. “I Spy”
e. “bouncing” sounds
