Phonological Awareness Inventory

Name: _____________________________________ Date: ____________________

Level 1
Whole Word Discrimination
Are these words the same? (Circle errors.)

Fat-bat red-rid slip-slit dip-hip nut-nut

Grip-grip man-man mat-map flit-flip sat-sat

Rhyming Words-Discrimination
Do these words rhyme? (Circle errors.)

Happy-sappy boy-toy sun-fun sad-mad girl-boy play-game

Rhyming Words-Production
What word rhymes with.? (Write response on line. Depending on age, words may be
nonsense words.)

man ___________ old __________ try __________

sun __________ play __________ skip __________

eat __________ book __________ scale __________

Syllable Counting
How many syllables/chunks do you hear in the word.? (Write response.)

ball __________ wagon __________ umbrella __________

elephant __________ hippopotamus __________ orangutan __________

Level 2
Syllable Segmentation
Ill say a word slowly; then tell me what the word is. (Say the words in separate syllables. Circle
errors.)

rain bow pa per dough nut bas ket win dow

but ter fly col or um brel la side walk ta ble

Blending Speech Sounds

Listen and tell me the word I said. (Say each sound slowly. Circle errors.)

n-o r-u-n t-e-n w-a-s c-a-ke s-ay

f-a-t c-u-t h-a-ve w-e-n-t m-e s-i-t

Level 3
Approximation
Do you hear the /b/ sound at the beginning, middle, or end of ______? (Circle errors.)

Big robot banana tab cabbage crib

Phoneme Isolation
What sound do you hear __________? (Circle errors.)

First Middle Last

sun feet water
foot tub buff
yes lake candy
red pan ten

Level 4
Segmentation
Say a word and have child repeat each phoneme. (Example: say cat, child says /c/ /a/ /t/.)

me you book so take

play skip man old scale

Level 5
Phoneme Deletion
Say the word _______, but dont say _____. (Example: cat (c) = at.)

top (t) ________ dip (d) _______ not (n) _______ cub (c) _______

fin (n) _______ can (n) _______ ten (n) _______ tab (t) _______

mop (p) _______ set (s) _______

Phoneme Segmentation
Replace the first sound in _______ with _______. (Example: cat (s) = sat.)

pail (m) __________ log (d) __________ get (w) __________

fat (h) __________ tub (r) __________ pop (t) __________

pig (f) __________ dice (tw) __________ jump (st) __________