Question

Which of the following students is demonstrating the specific type of phonological awareness known as phonemic awareness?

A. a student who, after being shown a letter of the alphabet, can orally identify its corresponding sound(s)

B. a student who listens to the words sing, ring, fling, and hang and can identify that hang is different

C. a student who, after hearing the word hat, can orally identify that it ends with the sound /t/

D. a student who listens to the word magazine and can determine that it contains three syllables

Answer 1

The student which demonstrating the specific type of phonological awareness known as phonemic awareness is `` a student who listens to the words sing, ring, fling, and hang and can identify that hang is different``

The answer is option ⇒B

Step-by-step explanation:

The student in option B is demonstrating the specific type of phonological awareness known as phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to recognize and manipulate individual phonemes, or the smallest units of sound, in spoken language.

In this case, the student is able to identify that the word 'hang' is different from 'sing, ring, and fling' because it ends with a different phoneme, the /ŋ/ sound.

The answer is option ⇒B