Oregon Educator Licensure Assessments (ORELA) Practice Exam

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Which process involves combining phonemes to create words?

Phoneme deletion
Phoneme blending
Phoneme segmentation
Phoneme substitution

The correct answer is: Phoneme blending

Phoneme blending is the process of combining individual phonemes, which are the smallest units of sound in a language, to form words. For instance, if you blend the phonemes /b/, /a/, and /t/, you create the word "bat." This skill is essential in early reading development as it helps learners understand how sounds work together to form words, thereby improving their decoding skills. Phoneme deletion refers to the ability to recognize and remove a phoneme from a word to form a new word, which is not the same as creating a word. Phoneme segmentation involves breaking a word down into its individual phonemes, whereas phoneme substitution requires changing one phoneme in a word to create a different word. Therefore, these processes do not involve the direct combination of phonemes to form new words, making blending the correct choice for this question.