Ateacher shows a student pictures of familiar objects. as the teacher points to the first picture, she asks the student to name the object in the picture. next, she asks the student to count on his fingers the number of sounds he makes as he says the word again. this activity is most likely to promote which of the following?
a. phonemic awareness skills
b. word identification skills
c. development of letter-sound correspondence
d. understanding of the alphabetic principle

A. phonemic awareness skills

Explanation:

Phonemic awareness skills -

Phonemic awareness skills are the oral activities which focuses on the simple tasks such as matching words with the beginning sounds, rhyming, or focusing on the blending sounds into the words. It typically spans upto two years, in the kindergarten and in the first grade. It become more advanced in the first grade where there is more focus on segmentation and the manipulation of the phonemes.

In the given example, the teacher is promoting phonemic awareness skills by using pictures and asking to count the number of the sounds and thus saying the word again.