NYSTCE Multi-Subject (Birth-2): English
Language Arts Exam Questions and
Answers(RATED A+)
Semantics - ANSWER--The meaning and interpretation of words, signs, and sentence
structure
-Study within linguistics dealing with language and how we understand meaning
Nuance - ANSWER-Subtle differences in meaning or shades of meaning we associate
with words
Consonant blend - ANSWER-Two consonants, such as the letters 'b' and 'l' put together
to create one sound, or phoneme
Phonics - ANSWER-Teaching method used to help people learn to read and pronounce
words by recognizing the sounds that letters and letter groups make
Morpheme - ANSWER-Smallest unit of grammar
Syntax - ANSWER--Arrangement of words and sentences to create meaning
Prefix - ANSWER-A morpheme that precedes a base morpheme
Base Morpheme - ANSWER-Morpheme that gives a word its essential meaning
Free Morpeheme - ANSWER-Morpheme that can functional as a stand-alone word.
Bound Morpheme - ANSWER-Exclusively attached to a free morpheme for meaning.
Prefixes and suffixes are the most common examples
, Derivational Morphemes - ANSWER--Can be either a suffix or a prefix, and they have
the ability to transform either the function or the meaning of a word
-Example: adding the suffix -less to the noun meaning
Decoding (Phonics) - ANSWER--Process of reading words in text
-Understand what the letters are, the sounds made by each letter and how they blend
together to create words
Encoding (Phonics) - ANSWER--Process of using letter/sound knowledge to write
-Necessary to recall sounds and the symbols assigned to letters to write them together
to form words.
Sound-Spelling - ANSWER-Transcribing speech sounds into written language, whether
or not the sounds are in context
Phonological Awareness - ANSWER--Sense of the way letters and sounds connect to
each other and operate at the word and even syllable level
-Ability to hear, recognize, and manipulate sounds in speech
Blending - ANSWER--Putting sounds together in order to make a word
-Read the separate sounds of a word as one cohesive unit
Dictation - ANSWER--Students listen to the teacher saying words or sentences, and
they then transcribe what they hear into writing
Alphabetic Principle - ANSWER--Knowledge of letter/sound relationships
Teaching the Alphabetic Principle (General Approach) - ANSWER--Students first need
to recognize speech at its most basic level: the individual sounds or phonemes
-After determining students are phonemically aware, including the ability to manipulate
sound into segments and syllables, teach symbols for sounds (also known as letters).
-Practice new letter/sound relationships in reading, writing, manipulatives, etc.
Language Arts Exam Questions and
Answers(RATED A+)
Semantics - ANSWER--The meaning and interpretation of words, signs, and sentence
structure
-Study within linguistics dealing with language and how we understand meaning
Nuance - ANSWER-Subtle differences in meaning or shades of meaning we associate
with words
Consonant blend - ANSWER-Two consonants, such as the letters 'b' and 'l' put together
to create one sound, or phoneme
Phonics - ANSWER-Teaching method used to help people learn to read and pronounce
words by recognizing the sounds that letters and letter groups make
Morpheme - ANSWER-Smallest unit of grammar
Syntax - ANSWER--Arrangement of words and sentences to create meaning
Prefix - ANSWER-A morpheme that precedes a base morpheme
Base Morpheme - ANSWER-Morpheme that gives a word its essential meaning
Free Morpeheme - ANSWER-Morpheme that can functional as a stand-alone word.
Bound Morpheme - ANSWER-Exclusively attached to a free morpheme for meaning.
Prefixes and suffixes are the most common examples
, Derivational Morphemes - ANSWER--Can be either a suffix or a prefix, and they have
the ability to transform either the function or the meaning of a word
-Example: adding the suffix -less to the noun meaning
Decoding (Phonics) - ANSWER--Process of reading words in text
-Understand what the letters are, the sounds made by each letter and how they blend
together to create words
Encoding (Phonics) - ANSWER--Process of using letter/sound knowledge to write
-Necessary to recall sounds and the symbols assigned to letters to write them together
to form words.
Sound-Spelling - ANSWER-Transcribing speech sounds into written language, whether
or not the sounds are in context
Phonological Awareness - ANSWER--Sense of the way letters and sounds connect to
each other and operate at the word and even syllable level
-Ability to hear, recognize, and manipulate sounds in speech
Blending - ANSWER--Putting sounds together in order to make a word
-Read the separate sounds of a word as one cohesive unit
Dictation - ANSWER--Students listen to the teacher saying words or sentences, and
they then transcribe what they hear into writing
Alphabetic Principle - ANSWER--Knowledge of letter/sound relationships
Teaching the Alphabetic Principle (General Approach) - ANSWER--Students first need
to recognize speech at its most basic level: the individual sounds or phonemes
-After determining students are phonemically aware, including the ability to manipulate
sound into segments and syllables, teach symbols for sounds (also known as letters).
-Practice new letter/sound relationships in reading, writing, manipulatives, etc.
