alleryPhonemic awareness is the ability to hear and handle:
AWritten letter shapes
BWhole-word meanings
CSentence patterns
DIndividual spoken sounds
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Individual spoken sounds
1. Phonemic awareness is part of oral language ability.
2. It is the ability to hear, identify and manipulate the individual spoken sounds of language.
3. It is independent of writing.
4. Letter shapes, meanings and sentence patterns are not individual sounds.
**Why not the others:** Letter shapes belong to print, and whole-word meanings and sentence patterns are larger units than single sounds.
_Source: Wikipedia, "Phonics", section "Phonemic awareness" (revision 1379668191)_
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