ELEMENTARY EDUCATION CONTENT TEST
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPLETE REVIEW MATERIAL
●● Phonemic Awareness
Answer: The ability to hear and manipulate the sounds of spoken
language. Includes noticing rhyme and recognizing the separate, small
sounds in words (phonemes).
●● Phonics
Answer: The understanding of the relationships between the written
letters of the alphabet and the sounds of spoken language. This
knowledge allows a reader to "decode" words by translating the letters
into speech sounds.
●● Fluency
Answer: The ability to read quickly, accurately, and with proper
expression.
●● Vocabulary
Answer: Includes all the words the reader can understand and use.
●● Comprehension
,Answer: Ability to understand what one has read. Includes recognizing
main idea of article or able to compare and contrast different characters.
●● Word Recognition
Answer: the student has ability to visually identify words in isolation or
context.
●● Phases of word recognition
Answer: pre-alphabetic, partial-alphabetic, full-alphabetic,
graphophonemic, and morphemic.
●● Text to self
Answer: the reader made a connection from the reading to own personal
life.
●● Text to text
Answer: the reader made a connection from the reading to another book
with similar writing style, theme, or topic.
●● Text to world
Answer: the reader made a connection from the reading to a topic or an
event that has taken place in the world.
●● Critical Thinking Strategies
, Answer: making connections, making predictions, questioning,
summarizing
●● Making predictions
Answer: use title and illustration on cover to predict what a text will be
about aids comprehension. Throughout reading, predictions can be
affirmed or revised.
●● Questioning
Answer: helps students make meaning of text being read. Questions
about text, author's intent etc.
●● "Right there" questions (text explicit)
Answer: literal questions. Answer in the text itself.
●● "Think and search" (text implicit)
Answer: the answer is implicit in text. Student must synthesize, infer, or
summarize to find answer.
●● "Reader and author" (implicit or experienced based)
Answer: Reader must combine own experience with what texts states.
●● "On my own" (implicit or experienced based)
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPLETE REVIEW MATERIAL
●● Phonemic Awareness
Answer: The ability to hear and manipulate the sounds of spoken
language. Includes noticing rhyme and recognizing the separate, small
sounds in words (phonemes).
●● Phonics
Answer: The understanding of the relationships between the written
letters of the alphabet and the sounds of spoken language. This
knowledge allows a reader to "decode" words by translating the letters
into speech sounds.
●● Fluency
Answer: The ability to read quickly, accurately, and with proper
expression.
●● Vocabulary
Answer: Includes all the words the reader can understand and use.
●● Comprehension
,Answer: Ability to understand what one has read. Includes recognizing
main idea of article or able to compare and contrast different characters.
●● Word Recognition
Answer: the student has ability to visually identify words in isolation or
context.
●● Phases of word recognition
Answer: pre-alphabetic, partial-alphabetic, full-alphabetic,
graphophonemic, and morphemic.
●● Text to self
Answer: the reader made a connection from the reading to own personal
life.
●● Text to text
Answer: the reader made a connection from the reading to another book
with similar writing style, theme, or topic.
●● Text to world
Answer: the reader made a connection from the reading to a topic or an
event that has taken place in the world.
●● Critical Thinking Strategies
, Answer: making connections, making predictions, questioning,
summarizing
●● Making predictions
Answer: use title and illustration on cover to predict what a text will be
about aids comprehension. Throughout reading, predictions can be
affirmed or revised.
●● Questioning
Answer: helps students make meaning of text being read. Questions
about text, author's intent etc.
●● "Right there" questions (text explicit)
Answer: literal questions. Answer in the text itself.
●● "Think and search" (text implicit)
Answer: the answer is implicit in text. Student must synthesize, infer, or
summarize to find answer.
●● "Reader and author" (implicit or experienced based)
Answer: Reader must combine own experience with what texts states.
●● "On my own" (implicit or experienced based)
