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[quote=Anonymous]School psychologist here. It depends on if she really understood what you were asking. Can she rhyme? If you say "cat, fat" can she say any word that rhymes (even if it is a made up word like "gat")?  Can she orally blend words? Start with compound words like snow(pause)man and have her say "snowman" with no pause. Then try syllables like ham(pause)mer, she should be able to say hammer without a pause. Then try saying a short word sound by sound and have ger put them together like b-all, or c-a-t. 
These are skills that are practiced in k but if you have been reading to your child and your child has difficulty in k picking these skills up the first months of K I would be concerned. I would also be concerned if there is any history of learning disabilities in your family or a history of ear infections. 
A good play based preschool will have exposed kids to phonemic awareness skills through play, songs, nursery rhymes, etc. You don't have to know any letter names or the sounds the letters make to have good phonemic awareness. 
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