Ace Your Phonological Awareness Test 2026 – Tune Into Success with Fun and Confidence!

Changing the first sound of a word to form a new word is phoneme substitution. Ball starts with the /b/ sound. If you replace that initial sound with /f/, you get /f/ + all, which forms fall. The rest of the word stays the same, so the final word shares the same ending as ball. The other options would come from keeping the initial sound the same (ball) or substituting a different initial consonant (/t/ for tall, /m/ for mall), which isn’t the substitution specified.