Texas STR Certification Exam – Modern
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1. Culturally Responsive Instructional Practices - Correct Answers: ✔✔This refers to practices that
recognize and incorporate the assets and strengths all students bring to the classroom and ensure
that learning experiences are relevant to all students.
2. Assets-Based Teaching Approach - Correct Answers: ✔✔This refers to viewing diversity of
thought, culture, and traits as a positive asset as students are valued for what they bring to the
classroom rather than being characterized by what they are lacking.
3. Phonemes - Correct Answers: ✔✔The specific units of sounds in a language that distinguish one
word from another (e.g., "b" and "t"
in "bat" and "tab")
4. Morphemes - Correct Answers: ✔✔The smallest unit of meaning in a language (e.g., "ed" changes
a word to past tense)
5. Decoding - Correct Answers: ✔✔The ability to use letter-sound relationships to correctly sound-
out and pronounce written words.
6. Discourse - Correct Answers: ✔✔Written or spoken communication or debate (e.g., talk and
conversation)
7. Language Demands - Correct Answers: ✔✔The tools (vocabulary, syntax, discourse) students use
to participate in the content they are learning
8. Deep Orthography - Correct Answers: ✔✔This phrase refers to a spelling system that is more
difficult to decode because there is not a direct correlation between the letters and sounds in the
language.
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,9. Shallow Orthography - Correct Answers: ✔✔This phrase refers to a spelling system that is easier
to decode because there is a direct correlation between. the letters and sounds in the language.
10. Emergent Literacy - Correct Answers: ✔✔The term used to explain a child's knowledge of reading
and writing skills before they learn to read and write (e.g., recognizing a stop sign, cereal box).
11. Phonological Awareness - Correct Answers: ✔✔the ability to hear and manipulate all units of
sound including words, syllables, onset, rimes, and phonemes in spoken language.
12. Pragmatics - Correct Answers: ✔✔The practical rules that guide our use of language in social
contexts
13. Morphology - Correct Answers: ✔✔the study of the structure of words and how meaningful units
are combined in text (e.g., prefixes, suffixes, root words).
14. Transitional Bilingual Education - Correct Answers: ✔✔A program in which two languages are
used to provide content instruction. Over time, use of the native language is decreased and use of
English is increased until only English is used for instruction.
15. Sheltered Instruction - Correct Answers: ✔✔An approach to teaching English language learners
that integrates language and content instruction.
16. BICS (Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills) - Correct Answers: ✔✔Development of fluency in
conversations - social language
17. CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency) - Correct Answers: ✔✔Development of content
and subject area language.
18. Comprehensible Input - Correct Answers: ✔✔The part of a language that is understood by
listeners when learning a second language
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, 19. Language Acquisition vs. Language Learning - Correct Answers: ✔✔Acquiring language through
subconscious processes vs. learning a language through direct instruction.
20. Receptive Language - Correct Answers: ✔✔The ability to understand words and language
21. Phonology - Correct Answers: ✔✔The study of sounds, their patterns and meanings and the way
they combine to form words and language.
22. Semantics - Correct Answers: ✔✔The study of meaning in words, phrases, sentences, or text
23. Repetition and Practice - Correct Answers: ✔✔A teaching strategy that helps bring skill
knowledge from conscious to subconscious.
24. Oral Language Rehearsal - Correct Answers: ✔✔A strategy that gives students the opportunity to
'write aloud' before they begin a written language assignment; provides time for them to rehearse
how written forms differ from spoken forms
25. Language Systems - Correct Answers: ✔✔Interdependent structures or systems that support the
language foundation necessary for reading
26. Orthographic Mapping - Correct Answers: ✔✔The process of matching letters and letter
sequences with sounds in a word, and storing those words for future use; necessary for spelling,
pronouncing words correctly, and developing sight words and vocabulary.
27. Frontal Lobe - Correct Answers: ✔✔Area of the brain that 1) supports phonological processing
system (enables us to pronounce and
28. articulate words); 2) controls planning and decision making
29. Temporal Lobe - Correct Answers: ✔✔Area of the brain that 1) supports phonological processing
(processes sound and connects
30. printed letters to sounds); 2) connects spoken words with meaning
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Questions with Answers.
1. Culturally Responsive Instructional Practices - Correct Answers: ✔✔This refers to practices that
recognize and incorporate the assets and strengths all students bring to the classroom and ensure
that learning experiences are relevant to all students.
2. Assets-Based Teaching Approach - Correct Answers: ✔✔This refers to viewing diversity of
thought, culture, and traits as a positive asset as students are valued for what they bring to the
classroom rather than being characterized by what they are lacking.
3. Phonemes - Correct Answers: ✔✔The specific units of sounds in a language that distinguish one
word from another (e.g., "b" and "t"
in "bat" and "tab")
4. Morphemes - Correct Answers: ✔✔The smallest unit of meaning in a language (e.g., "ed" changes
a word to past tense)
5. Decoding - Correct Answers: ✔✔The ability to use letter-sound relationships to correctly sound-
out and pronounce written words.
6. Discourse - Correct Answers: ✔✔Written or spoken communication or debate (e.g., talk and
conversation)
7. Language Demands - Correct Answers: ✔✔The tools (vocabulary, syntax, discourse) students use
to participate in the content they are learning
8. Deep Orthography - Correct Answers: ✔✔This phrase refers to a spelling system that is more
difficult to decode because there is not a direct correlation between the letters and sounds in the
language.
Exam with Answers.
,9. Shallow Orthography - Correct Answers: ✔✔This phrase refers to a spelling system that is easier
to decode because there is a direct correlation between. the letters and sounds in the language.
10. Emergent Literacy - Correct Answers: ✔✔The term used to explain a child's knowledge of reading
and writing skills before they learn to read and write (e.g., recognizing a stop sign, cereal box).
11. Phonological Awareness - Correct Answers: ✔✔the ability to hear and manipulate all units of
sound including words, syllables, onset, rimes, and phonemes in spoken language.
12. Pragmatics - Correct Answers: ✔✔The practical rules that guide our use of language in social
contexts
13. Morphology - Correct Answers: ✔✔the study of the structure of words and how meaningful units
are combined in text (e.g., prefixes, suffixes, root words).
14. Transitional Bilingual Education - Correct Answers: ✔✔A program in which two languages are
used to provide content instruction. Over time, use of the native language is decreased and use of
English is increased until only English is used for instruction.
15. Sheltered Instruction - Correct Answers: ✔✔An approach to teaching English language learners
that integrates language and content instruction.
16. BICS (Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills) - Correct Answers: ✔✔Development of fluency in
conversations - social language
17. CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency) - Correct Answers: ✔✔Development of content
and subject area language.
18. Comprehensible Input - Correct Answers: ✔✔The part of a language that is understood by
listeners when learning a second language
Exam with Answers.
, 19. Language Acquisition vs. Language Learning - Correct Answers: ✔✔Acquiring language through
subconscious processes vs. learning a language through direct instruction.
20. Receptive Language - Correct Answers: ✔✔The ability to understand words and language
21. Phonology - Correct Answers: ✔✔The study of sounds, their patterns and meanings and the way
they combine to form words and language.
22. Semantics - Correct Answers: ✔✔The study of meaning in words, phrases, sentences, or text
23. Repetition and Practice - Correct Answers: ✔✔A teaching strategy that helps bring skill
knowledge from conscious to subconscious.
24. Oral Language Rehearsal - Correct Answers: ✔✔A strategy that gives students the opportunity to
'write aloud' before they begin a written language assignment; provides time for them to rehearse
how written forms differ from spoken forms
25. Language Systems - Correct Answers: ✔✔Interdependent structures or systems that support the
language foundation necessary for reading
26. Orthographic Mapping - Correct Answers: ✔✔The process of matching letters and letter
sequences with sounds in a word, and storing those words for future use; necessary for spelling,
pronouncing words correctly, and developing sight words and vocabulary.
27. Frontal Lobe - Correct Answers: ✔✔Area of the brain that 1) supports phonological processing
system (enables us to pronounce and
28. articulate words); 2) controls planning and decision making
29. Temporal Lobe - Correct Answers: ✔✔Area of the brain that 1) supports phonological processing
(processes sound and connects
30. printed letters to sounds); 2) connects spoken words with meaning
Exam with Answers.
