MTTC 103 Elementary Practice

The strategy being used by the teacher is phoneme deletion. In this scenario, the teacher asks the students to think about the word "seat" and remove the initial sound '/s/.' This requires the students to recognize that by removing a specific phoneme, they can identify the remaining sounds that make up the word. The word that remains after deleting the '/s/' sound is "eat." This task helps students understand the individual sounds that make up words, enhancing their phonemic awareness, which is crucial for reading and spelling development.

On the other hand, phoneme blending would involve combining separate sounds to form a word, phoneme segmentation focuses on breaking words down into their individual sounds, and phoneme substitution entails replacing one sound with another within a word. The teacher's focus on removing a sound distinctly aligns with the concept of phoneme deletion.