A first grade teacher engages students in phonemic awareness activities. Students have worked on segmenting and blending words and are now working on phoneme deletion. Which of the following activities best incorporates the target concept? Group of answer choices

d. Showing students a word made of three different colored tiles containing three phonemes and removing one colored tile to create a new word

b. Directing students to look at picture cards and telling them to identify one word in a series of four containing a different vowel sound

a. Asking students to guess which classmate’s name will be said by enunciating the first phoneme only and repeated several times

c. Presenting students with a colored tile that represents one phoneme and adding a different colored tile representing a new sound