Praxis Practice Test Study Guide

in to separate sounds, saying each sound as it is counted automacity CORRECT ANSWER refers to a student's ability to process, de-code, and understand written words w/o effort phonological awareness CORRECT ANSWER the decoding of unfamiliar words depends on the ability to associate sounds w/ written letters coat - coet bought - baught this student's spelling demonstrates which type of spelling development characteristic? CORRECT ANSWER the ability to recognize words are made up of letter patterns representing sounds emergent literacy CORRECT ANSWER the idea that children grow in to reading and writing w/ no real beginning or endpoint, develop concurrently and in interrelated ways. The learning process starts long before children enter school and does not depend on the mastery of letter-sound skills orthographic CORRECT ANSWER the reader uses a visual process to see the letter pattern in words open syllable CORRECT ANSWER ends in a vowel and the sound is long. ex. apron, remembering, vehicle, able rate CORRECT ANSWER ref