Question 1
The understanding that spoken words can be broken down into smaller sound-parts is called __________.
◦ letter knowledge
◦ fast mapping
◦ phonological awareness
◦ emergent literacy
Question 2
The wug test, which uses nonsense words, is an excellent way to test whether a child has acquired a particular inflectional rule (such as the past tense or plural rule) because __________.
◦ the accurate use of a word such as "horses" or "walked" in the child's speech does not necessarily mean the child knows the rule for plural or past tense
◦ children must apply their knowledge of a rule to a nonsense word (such as turning wug into wugs to indicate use of the plural rule)
◦ working with nonsense words is more motivating to children than working with real words
◦ children are generally better at applying rules to nonsense words than to real words
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