Which activity involves removing a phoneme from a word?

• A. Phoneme deletion
• B. Phoneme isolation
• C. Phoneme substitution
• D. Blending

Answer: (A)

Removing a sound from a word is phoneme deletion, a phonemic awareness skill. It means you hear the word, delete one sound, and say what word remains. For example, removing the initial /s/ from "stop" leaves "top." This shows you can manipulate sounds in a word and still form a real word. The other terms refer to different sound-manipulation tasks: isolating means naming a specific sound in a word, substitution means replacing one sound with another, and blending means putting sounds together to make a word. So the action described is precisely removing a phoneme.