Phonemic Awareness Quiz for Grade 1: Test Your Skills!

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 👂🏽 Phoneme: The smallest unit of sound in a word (e.g., /k/ in cat).
• 🗣️ Phonemic Awareness: The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.
• ✂️ Segmentation: Breaking a word into its individual sounds (e.g., cat → /k/ /æ/ /t/).
• 🔤 Blending: Combining individual sounds to form a word (e.g., /k/ /æ/ /t/ → cat).
• ➕ Addition: Adding a phoneme to a word (e.g., at + /s/ → sat).
• ➖ Deletion: Removing a phoneme from a word (e.g., sat - /s/ → at).
• 🔄 Substitution: Replacing one phoneme with another (e.g., cat → hat).

✍️ Practice Quiz

1. What is the first sound in the word "dog"?
   1. /d/
   2. /o/
   3. /g/
2. Which word starts with the same sound as "fish"?
   1. Hat
   2. Fan
   3. Sun
3. What is the last sound in the word "cat"?
   1. /a/
   2. /t/
   3. /c/
4. Which word rhymes with "bee"?
   1. Say
   2. See
   3. Bay
5. What word do you get if you blend the sounds /s/ /u/ /n/?
   1. Sun
   2. Fun
   3. Run
6. If you take away the /k/ sound from "car", what is left?
   1. ar
   2. a
   3. r
7. What is the middle sound in the word "pig"?
   1. /p/
   2. /i/
   3. /g/