- Which of the following sentences describe a child functioning at the metalinguistic level? Select all that apply.
- When asked whether “cat” and “cow” start with the same sound, the child says, “meow” and “moo.”
- When asked to supply two words that rhyme with “sheep,” the child says, “keep” and “leap.”
- A child says, “Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep.”
- When asked to identify the first sound in “cow,” the child says, “/k/”.
- A child is asked what words rhyme with “moose” and says, “goose, loose, juice”; the child also supplies rhyming nonsense words like “woose, toose, foose.” About how old is this child, most likely?
- 2–3 years old
- 3–4 years old
- 4–5 years old
- 5–6 years old
- Of the following tasks, which two are the most challenging?
- Select the picture that does not belong from a set showing a cat, a bat, and a bird.
- Select the two pictures that go together from a set showing a mouse, a house, and a blanket.
- Name words that rhyme with “book” and tell whether each is a real or a nonsense word.
- Tell whether the word “brush” rhymes with “drink” and whether “gold” rhymes with “hat.”
- Of the following tasks, which is the most challenging?
- Correctly answering the question, “Do ‘monkey’ and ‘mouse’ start with the same sound?”
- Segmenting the phonemes in the words “d – o – t,” “d – r – i – p,” and “f – l – a – p.”
- Segmenting and clapping the syllables in “moun – tain” and “dra – gon – fly.”
- Blending the initial sound and rest of the word in “j – uice” and “c – ookie.”
- Which of the following activities introduced in this session can be adapted to any linguistic level? Select all that apply.
- “Which word weighs more?”
- “Robot Reporting”
- picture puzzles
- “I Spy”
- “bouncing” sounds