Which skill is included in phonemic awareness?

• A. Reading a passage for main idea.
• B. Blending phonemes to form a word.
• C. Identifying synonyms.
• D. Counting punctuation marks.

Answer: (B)

Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken language. Blending phonemes to form a word demonstrates this because it requires taking separate sounds and joining them to say a whole word, like /k/ + /a/ + /t/ = "cat." This is an oral-sound skill, not about reading the text, knowing word meanings, or counting punctuation marks. The other actions involve comprehension, vocabulary, or print features, not manipulating sounds. So blending phonemes to create a word is the direct example of phonemic awareness.