Question

A preschool teacher shows a group of children pictures of everyday objects. Below each picture is printed the letter of the alphabet that corresponds to the word’s initial sound. As the teacher points to each picture, she names the object, then she points to the letter underneath it and says the sound it makes. The teacher invites the children to repeat the sound with her. This activity is likely to contribute to the children’s reading development primarily by:

Answer 1

A. Demonstrating that phonemes are represented by letters.

Step-by-step explanation:

Phonemes are speech sounds made by the mouth. These are the sounds that distinguish the meaning of words from one another which are represented by letters. The activity that the teacher pursues here contributes foremost in demonstrating the children that the individual sounds i.e. phonemes are represented by letters which would assist the children to recognize a sound through its representation in the form of letters. This would further lead to inculcating phonemic and phonological awareness among them.