Phonological Awareness/PA Grade 2 ACAP Practice

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What is phonological awareness?

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Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize and work with sounds in spoken language. It includes skills like identifying rhymes, syllables, and sounds in words.

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What is a spelling error?

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A spelling error is when a word is written incorrectly according to standard spelling rules.

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Identify the word with a spelling error: cat, dog, cayke, fish.

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cayke

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What is a rhyme?

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A rhyme is when two or more words have the same ending sound, like 'cat' and 'hat'.

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Give an example of a word that rhymes with 'tree'.

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Free, bee, see.

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What is a syllable?

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A syllable is a single, unbroken sound of a spoken (or written) word. For example, 'cat' has one syllable, while 'banana' has three.

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How many syllables are in the word 'elephant'?

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Three syllables: el-e-phant.

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What does it mean to blend sounds?

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Blending sounds means to combine individual sounds together to form a word, like blending /c/, /a/, and /t/ to make 'cat'.

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What is segmenting in phonological awareness?

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Segmenting is breaking a word down into its individual sounds or syllables.

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Identify the sounds in the word 'dog'.

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/d/, /o/, /g/.