Phonological awareness

How many sounds are there in the English language?

• 26

• 34

• 42

• 44

The smallest unit of sound is called

• a phoneme

• a grapheme

• a unit

• an allophone

The awareness of and ability to manipulate sound segments in words is called

• phonemic awareness

• phonological awareness

• phonics

• syllabic awareness

Choose the diagraph

• ch

• tch

• c

• h

A trigraph is

• A grapheme containing three letters that makes three sounds

• A grapheme containing three syllables

• A grapheme containing three sounds

• A grapheme containing three letters that makes just one sound

A morpheme can be

• a prefix

• the smallest meaningful unit of language

• a suffix

• all of the above

Which of these words contains a dipthong?

• bark

• toy

• pint

• none of the above

A split diagraph is

• when a diagraph is split by a vowel

• when a diagraph appears in two words

• when a diagraph is split by a consonant

• none of the above

Blending is

• being able to recognise the individual sounds and put them together to make a word

• reading two or more words together

• both

• none

Segmenting involves

• hearing a word and splitting it up into letters

• hearing a word and splitting up into syllables

• hearing a word and working out the prefix or suffix

• hearing a word and splitting it up into phonemes