NYSTCE Multi-Subject CST ELA exam questions with answers

NYSTCE Multi-Subject CST ELA exam |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




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Prereading - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔All knowledge, skills
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and experience that come before conventional literacy.
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Students gain oral vocabulary, learn sentence structure,
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develop phonological awareness
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Running record - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔An assessment
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which measures a child' fluency during oral reading
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Balanced Literacy Models - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔strategies teachers use to allow for different learning
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styles


Phonological awareness - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔an |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



awareness of an the ability to manipulate the sounds of
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spoken words; it is a broad term that includes identifying
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and making rhymes, recognizing alliteration, identifying
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and working with syllables in spoken words, identifying
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and working with onsets and rhymes in spoken syllables.
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Phoneme - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔in a spoken language,
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the smallest distinctive sound unit
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,Phonemic Awareness - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The ability |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



to hear, identify,and manipulate the individual sounds,
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phonemes, in oral language. |\ |\ |\




5 Major Types of Tasks to develop Phonemic Awareness -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Recognize sets of works have |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



similar sounds (identifying rhyming words in a sentence)
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2. Learn to examine a set of words to determine which is
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not like the others, oddity task) 3. Learn how to blend
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sounds to create words 4. Divide words into their
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phonemes (segmenting words) and count the number of |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



sounds in a word 5. Learn how to manipulate the sounds
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in a word by substituting or deleting one or many
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phonemes


Print Concept - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Understanding
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how text works to communicate a message. Includes
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handing of books and orientation of text. |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




Ways to facilitate print concepts - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Combining movement activities to convey bottom, top |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



side. Teach the parts of a book. Experiences with different
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fonts and text sizes and the different meanings they
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have. Spacing. Writing exercises. Use of meta-language to
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descibe books.
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,Track Print - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔student understands
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the direction of the text
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Alphabet Recognition - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔being able
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to identify the letters of the alphabet both capital and
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lowercase when asked to do so |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




Alphabetic principle - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



relationship between letters or combinations of letters |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



(graphemes) and sounds (phonemes) |\ |\ |\




Letter-sound correspondence - CORRECT ANSWERS |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



✔✔refers to the identification of sounds associated with
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individual letters and letter combination.|\ |\ |\ |\




Short Vowel sounds - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔every vowel
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has two sounds, the vocal cords are more relaxed when
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producing the short vowel sound because of this the
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sounds are often referred to as lax. They can be heard at
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the beginning of these words: apple, Ed, igloo, octopus,
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and umbrella. |\




Digraph - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔n. A union of two
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characters representing a single sound. |\ |\ |\ |\

, Diphthong - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔n. The sound |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable
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or running together the sounds.
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CVC - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔consonant-vowel-consonant
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pattern which produces a short vowel sound or a closed
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syllable.


Consonant Clusters - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- also called
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blends
- Consonants that occur side by side within the same
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syllable.
-No intervening vowel sound
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Phonics - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔teaching reading by
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training beginners to associate letters with their sound
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values


Phonograms - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Often called word |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\



families, these end in high frequency rimes that vary only
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in the beginning consonant sound to make a word. For
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example, back, sack, black and track. |\ |\ |\ |\ |\