Which phoneme awareness skill involves blending individual sounds to form a word?

Which phoneme awareness skill involves blending individual sounds to form a word?

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

Answer: (B)

Phoneme blending—the ability to merge separate sounds into a single spoken word. This skill involves taking the individual phonemes in order and saying the whole word aloud, without needing to see letters. For example, the sounds /k/ /æ/ /t/ blend to form the spoken word "cat." This is why the correct option is blending, since it specifically describes combining sounds to create a word. The other skills involve manipulating sounds in different ways: deletion means removing a sound to see what remains, isolation means picking out a single sound from a word, and substitution means replacing one sound with another to make a new word.

Phoneme blending—the ability to merge separate sounds into a single spoken word. This skill involves taking the individual phonemes in order and saying the whole word aloud, without needing to see letters. For example, the sounds /k/ /æ/ /t/ blend to form the spoken word "cat." This is why the correct option is blending, since it specifically describes combining sounds to create a word. The other skills involve manipulating sounds in different ways: deletion means removing a sound to see what remains, isolation means picking out a single sound from a word, and substitution means replacing one sound with another to make a new word.