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3.1.1 Practice and Learn

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Course 1: Phoneme Awareness for Paraprofessionals

Your turn to learn icon reading universe Practice Choosing Words for Phoneme Instruction

Read and answer the following five questions using the words from the word bank. Write your answers down on a piece of paper. Then click the green bars to check your answers. (NOTE: Be careful. Some one of the words will fit in more than one category.)

  • 1. Which of the words in the word bank have only two or three phonemes?

    • at
    • pup
    • night
    • chief

    2. Which of the words in the word bank have beginning blends?

    • flap
    • froze
    • broil
    • swift
    • graft

    3. Which of the words in the word bank have ending blends?

    • fact
    • waist
    • shift
    • moist
    • swift
    • graft

    4. Which of the words in the word bank have both beginning and ending blends?

    • graft
    • swift

    5. Which of the words in the word bank have vowel diphthongs?

    • broil
    • moist

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