TExES Core Subjects EC-6 (291)Exam Questions&Answers

phonemic awareness development - ans-Awareness of sounds in a language Awareness of rhymes Awareness that sentences can be broken down into words, syllables, and sounds Ability to talk about, reflect upon, and manipulate sounds Understanding the relationship between written and spoken language Rhyming, segmenting sentences into words, blending syllables into words, delete/substitute syllables/sounds from words phonemes - ans-the smallest unit of speech that can be used to make one word different from another word. single unit of sound Vowel-consonant patterns - ans-In a cvc pattern, the vowel is often a short vowel sound. In a CVCe word, the vowel is followed by a consonant and then the letter e. The e is usually silent and the vowel before the e is usually long. In a CVVC word, two vowels appear between two consonants.