Which term describes breaking a spoken word into its individual sounds?

Which term describes breaking a spoken word into its individual sounds?

• A. Oral Segmenting
• B. Oral Blending
• C. Phoneme Substitution
• D. Rhyming

Answer: (A)

Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken language. When you break a spoken word into its individual sounds, you are performing oral segmenting. For example, the spoken word cat has three sounds: /k/ /æ/ /t/. The term oral segmenting specifically captures the act of separating these sounds while speaking them aloud. In contrast, oral blending is putting those sounds together to form the word, phoneme substitution is changing one of the sounds to another, and rhyming is recognizing words that share the same ending sounds.

Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken language. When you break a spoken word into its individual sounds, you are performing oral segmenting. For example, the spoken word cat has three sounds: /k/ /æ/ /t/. The term oral segmenting specifically captures the act of separating these sounds while speaking them aloud.

In contrast, oral blending is putting those sounds together to form the word, phoneme substitution is changing one of the sounds to another, and rhyming is recognizing words that share the same ending sounds.