Question

A kindergarten teacher asks a small group of students to repeat after her. First, she says the word grape and then pronounces it as gr and ape. Next, she says the word take and then pronounces it as t and ake. This activity is likely to promote the students' phonemic awareness primarily by:

Answer 1

encouraging them to divide words into onset and rimes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

encouraging them to divide words into onset and rimes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Phonemic awareness is the ability to divide and rearrange individual sounds within words. Phonemic awareness consists of learning these individual sounds and how to manipulate them within a word, as the teacher shown in the question is doing with her students. The teacher can help stabilize the phonetic awareness by showing students and having them split the words into onset (which is the part of the word before the first vowel) and rimes (which is the part of the word from the first vowel).