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3.1.1 Practice Choosing Words for Phoneme Instruction

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Course 1: Phoneme Awareness for Paraprofessionals

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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