Which phoneme awareness skill involves segmenting a spoken word into its individual sounds?

Which phoneme awareness skill involves segmenting a spoken word into its individual sounds?

• A. Phoneme Isolation
• B. Oral Segmenting
• C. Oral Blending
• D. Sound Deletion

Answer: (B)

Segmenting spoken words into their individual sounds is the act of breaking a word apart into its phonemes. This is called Oral Segmenting. For example, when you hear the word “cat” you would segment it into /k/ /æ/ /t/. This skill helps students map sounds to letters and supports decoding and spelling. The other listed actions are different: isolating a single sound in a word, blending separate sounds to form a word, or removing a sound from a word.

Segmenting spoken words into their individual sounds is the act of breaking a word apart into its phonemes. This is called Oral Segmenting. For example, when you hear the word “cat” you would segment it into /k/ /æ/ /t/. This skill helps students map sounds to letters and supports decoding and spelling. The other listed actions are different: isolating a single sound in a word, blending separate sounds to form a word, or removing a sound from a word.