Which skill is described when students hear separate sounds and blend them to form a word?

Which skill is described when students hear separate sounds and blend them to form a word?

• A. Oral Blending
• B. Phoneme Substitution
• C. Onset-rime manipulation
• D. Sound Deletion

Answer: (A)

Blending sounds heard in sequence to articulate a whole word is oral blending. When you hear the individual phonemes /c/ /a/ /t/ and smoothly combine them, you say “cat.” This skill helps students decode unfamiliar words as they read. Phoneme substitution, by contrast, is about changing one sound in a word to make a new word, not forming the original word from sounds. Onset-rime manipulation involves altering parts of a syllable to make new words, not simply blending to form one. Sound deletion is removing a sound from a word, which again is about changing the word rather than blending to create it. So the described skill is oral blending.

Blending sounds heard in sequence to articulate a whole word is oral blending. When you hear the individual phonemes /c/ /a/ /t/ and smoothly combine them, you say “cat.” This skill helps students decode unfamiliar words as they read. Phoneme substitution, by contrast, is about changing one sound in a word to make a new word, not forming the original word from sounds. Onset-rime manipulation involves altering parts of a syllable to make new words, not simply blending to form one. Sound deletion is removing a sound from a word, which again is about changing the word rather than blending to create it. So the described skill is oral blending.