Which option illustrates substitution in phonemic awareness?

Which option illustrates substitution in phonemic awareness?

• A. Replacing the /m/ in 'mice' with /n/ to form 'nices'.
• B. Omitting the /m/ sound in 'mice'.
• C. Replacing the /c/ in 'cat' with /s/ to make 'sat'.
• D. Blending the sounds /m/ /i/ /ce/ to say 'mice'.

Answer: (C)

Substitution in phonemic awareness means changing one sound in a word to another sound to form a new word. In the cat example, you swap the initial sound /k/ with /s/ to make sat. The new word is real, and only one phoneme changed, which clearly demonstrates substitution in action. The other scenarios show different skills: removing a sound is deletion, blending is putting sounds together to say the whole word, and turning cat into nices would be substitution but yields a nonword, which makes the skill harder to see.

Substitution in phonemic awareness means changing one sound in a word to another sound to form a new word. In the cat example, you swap the initial sound /k/ with /s/ to make sat. The new word is real, and only one phoneme changed, which clearly demonstrates substitution in action. The other scenarios show different skills: removing a sound is deletion, blending is putting sounds together to say the whole word, and turning cat into nices would be substitution but yields a nonword, which makes the skill harder to see.