1. How is the word pl ay divided in this example? Answer: onset-rime 2. How many spoken syllables are there in buttered? Answer: 2 3. How many spoken syllables are there in possible? Answer: 3 4. What ability would students have who had attained advanced levels ofphonemic awareness? Answer: They can read most grade-level words by sight. 5. Which teaching strategy would be most helpful for students who confusethe sounds /f/ and /the/ in their own speech? Answer: Have the student look in a mirrorwhile describing and producing each sound. 6. Which student is demonstrating the most advanced level of phonemic awareness? Answer: a student who reverses the order of sounds in perch to make chirp 7. A student writes the word went as 'wet.' What aspect of phonology is associated with this common spelling error? Answer: nasalization of a vowel before anasal consonant 8. Phonological awareness tasks that emphasize segmentation and blending of two- or threephoneme words align with which level of phonological aware-ness according to Kilpatrick? Answer: basic phonemic awareness 9. Which set of words would be appropriate for practicing four-phonemeblending?