Final answer:
Advanced Phonemic Awareness skills for an 8-year-old involve deleting specific phonemes from words, such as removing the /p/ sound from 'prank', which requires understanding the concept of consonant blends.
Step-by-step explanation:
At age 8, Advanced Phonemic Awareness skills include sound deletion in the initial position, which involves tasks such as deleting specific phonemes (sounds) from a word to form a new word. An example given in the question is to say the word 'prank' and then say it again without the /p/ sound. The correct term for the combination of sounds from which the /p/ sound is to be deleted is consonant blends. Consonant blends (also called consonant clusters) consist of two or more consonants sounded together in such a way that each is heard, like the /pr/ in the word 'prank'. Other terms like vowel sounds, consonant sounds, and silent letters do not fit in this context because they do not represent a group of consonants that are blended together but are still distinguishable