ILTS EXAM | 2026/2027 NEWEST UPDATE | COMPLETE QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED A+
Tier One (vocabulary) - ANSWER Everyday language/ most commonly usrf
Tier two - ANSWER Academic lanugage (examples: analyze, synthesize, quantitative)
* big emphasis on academic language, especially for ELL students
Tier three - ANSWER content specific language (examples: sonnet, iambic pentameter)
Phoneme - ANSWER sounds (think phonics)
Morpheme - ANSWER words and word parts
Syntax - ANSWER Sentence structure
pragmatics - ANSWER social context
jargon - ANSWER words used by specific careers or disciplines that are difficult for others to
understand
important to consider audience and avoid jargon (this comes up in the speaking/lsitening section)
idiom - ANSWER commonly used phrase that is not literal (example: raining cats and dogs)
Important to teach ELL students in particular to use context clues
inflection - ANSWER word modification to switch tense or case (example: write/ wrote/ written)
, derivation - ANSWER making a nrw word of an old word by adding a prefix or suffix
(example: patient and outpatient)
3 components of fluency - ANSWER accuracy, Automaticity (rate), and prosody
* repeated oral readings are important for assessing fluency
automaticity - ANSWER fast, effortless word recognition
(rate)
Prosody - ANSWER reading with expression (this relates to oral reading)
what is an example of a strategy prosody? - ANSWER echo reading (student repeats teacher)
Shared reading - ANSWER teacher leads and students read some (focused more on word recognition)
guided reading - ANSWER teacher leads and asks promting questions (focused more on
comprehension)
partner reading - ANSWER peers read together, taking turns and helping each other
DR-TA stands for what? What is it? - ANSWER Directed reading- thinking activity
comprehension strategy that focuses on asking questions about a text, making predictions, and using
the text to test predictions
text complexity/ reading level:
quantitive measures: ?
qualitative measures: ? - ANSWER importance of a student's independent reading level for helping
with independent reading selections;
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED A+
Tier One (vocabulary) - ANSWER Everyday language/ most commonly usrf
Tier two - ANSWER Academic lanugage (examples: analyze, synthesize, quantitative)
* big emphasis on academic language, especially for ELL students
Tier three - ANSWER content specific language (examples: sonnet, iambic pentameter)
Phoneme - ANSWER sounds (think phonics)
Morpheme - ANSWER words and word parts
Syntax - ANSWER Sentence structure
pragmatics - ANSWER social context
jargon - ANSWER words used by specific careers or disciplines that are difficult for others to
understand
important to consider audience and avoid jargon (this comes up in the speaking/lsitening section)
idiom - ANSWER commonly used phrase that is not literal (example: raining cats and dogs)
Important to teach ELL students in particular to use context clues
inflection - ANSWER word modification to switch tense or case (example: write/ wrote/ written)
, derivation - ANSWER making a nrw word of an old word by adding a prefix or suffix
(example: patient and outpatient)
3 components of fluency - ANSWER accuracy, Automaticity (rate), and prosody
* repeated oral readings are important for assessing fluency
automaticity - ANSWER fast, effortless word recognition
(rate)
Prosody - ANSWER reading with expression (this relates to oral reading)
what is an example of a strategy prosody? - ANSWER echo reading (student repeats teacher)
Shared reading - ANSWER teacher leads and students read some (focused more on word recognition)
guided reading - ANSWER teacher leads and asks promting questions (focused more on
comprehension)
partner reading - ANSWER peers read together, taking turns and helping each other
DR-TA stands for what? What is it? - ANSWER Directed reading- thinking activity
comprehension strategy that focuses on asking questions about a text, making predictions, and using
the text to test predictions
text complexity/ reading level:
quantitive measures: ?
qualitative measures: ? - ANSWER importance of a student's independent reading level for helping
with independent reading selections;
