Correct Response: B. In the activity described, the teacher provides direct instruction in segmenting single-syllable words into onset and rime—that is, into the initial consonant sounds of the word (the onset) and the rest of the word (the rime). Promoting student mastery of onset-rime segmentation prepares students for learning phonemic awareness skills. Option A is incorrect because the segmenting activity described in the scenario focuses on single-syllable words, so it would not help students segment the syllables in multisyllable spoken words. Options C and D are incorrect because the segmenting activity described in the scenario does not focus on recognizing individual phonemes, so it would not promote the children's awareness of each distinct phoneme in a word (C) or their ability to distinguish between consonant and vowel phonemes (D).
