Which activity best demonstrates phonemic substitution?

Which activity best demonstrates phonemic substitution?

• A. Replacing the initial sound to form a new word
• B. Identifying the last sound in a word
• C. Blending sounds into a word
• D. Deleting a sound from a word

Answer: (A)

Substitution is about changing one sound while keeping the rest of the word the same. The best demonstration here is replacing the initial sound to form a new word—for example, changing the /b/ in bat to /h/ gives hat. This shows you can swap a phoneme to create a different word, which is exactly what phonemic substitution involves. The other tasks are different skills: identifying the last sound in a word is phoneme isolation, blending sounds into a word is blending, and deleting a sound from a word is phoneme deletion.

Substitution is about changing one sound while keeping the rest of the word the same. The best demonstration here is replacing the initial sound to form a new word—for example, changing the /b/ in bat to /h/ gives hat. This shows you can swap a phoneme to create a different word, which is exactly what phonemic substitution involves.

The other tasks are different skills: identifying the last sound in a word is phoneme isolation, blending sounds into a word is blending, and deleting a sound from a word is phoneme deletion.