FTCE: Elementary Education (Florida Teacher Certification Examination) Graded A+

The reading process is made up of these five components: - ANSWER Phonemic Awareness, Fluency, Phonics, Comprehension, and Vocabulary. LAR Skill 1.1 Components of Emergent Literacy are: - ANSWER Print Awareness, Print Motivation, Oral Language, Letter Knowledge, Phonological awareness, Narrative skills. LAR Skill 1.1 Emergent Literacy - ANSWER Consists of reading-related knowldge and skills that children develop prior to formal instruction in reading. LAR Skill 1.1 Print Motivation - ANSWER Interest in and enjoyment of printed materials. LAR Skill 1.1 Print Awareness - ANSWER Interest and interaction with print; pretending to read. LAR Skill 1.1 Listening and Oral Vocabularies - ANSWER Words understood when heard; words used in speech. LAR Skill 1.1 Narrative Skills - ANSWER Ability to retell storeis or describe events. LAR Skill 1.1 Letter Knowledge - ANSWER Understand letter names and sahpes. LAR Skill 1.1 Phonological Awareness - ANSWER Ability to understand the sound of language and manipulate or play with speech sounds. LAR Skill 1.1 Up to age 5, children are exposed to reading and learn about it without reading. What are some examples of this? - ANSWER Print differs from other visual patterns. Books contain print. Readers glean infomration from print. Print can be translated into speech. Reading follows certain conventions. LAR Skill 1.1 Emergent literacy forms the foundation of future reading and writing development. True or False? - ANSWER True LAR Skill 1.1 Emergent literacy is understood to develop at individual rates. True or False? - ANSWER True LAR Skill 1.1 Certain criteria that could determine whether or not a child is ready for reading include: - ANSWER Concepts of print, oral language development, and understanding of the alphabetic principle; the relationship between letters (graphemes) and the sounds they represent (phonemes) LAR Skill 1.1 Grapheme - ANSWER The relationship between letters. LAR Skill 1.1 Phoneme - ANSWER The sounds that letters represent. LAR Skill 1.1 Marie M. Clay developed a formal procedure for what? - ANSWER For observing a child's behavior with bookjs to determine the extent of a child's print-related concepts. LAR Skill 1.1 Marie M. Clay's formal procedures include assessment cheks such as? - ANSWER If the child can: Find the title of a book, show where to start reading and locate the last page or end of the book. LAR Skill 1.1 A critical pre-reading skill is being able to indicate the directionality of what? - ANSWER Print LAR Skill 1.1 Readers in the U.S. must start where on the page and read to where? - ANSWER The left side of the page and read to the right. LAR Skill 1.1 How can teachers or parents model directionality in reading? - ANSWER By passing hteir hadns or fingers under the words or sentences as they read aloud. LAR Skill 1.1 What four dimensions does language have? - ANSWER Speaking, listening, reading, and writing LAR Skill 1.1 Oral language is the subset of what? - ANSWER Language LAR Skill 1.1 Oral language has two dimensions, which are: - ANSWER Speaking and listening LAR Skill 1.1 Listening is the precursor to what? - ANSWER Speaking LAR Skill 1.1 Children have to _____________ language before they can speak it. - ANSWER Hear LAR Skill 1.1 Why is oral language important? - ANSWER It provides the mental framework for what words mean and how language works. LAR Skill 1.1 Oral language starts where? - ANSWER At home LAR Skill 1.1