NES Elementary Education Subtest 1
UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Competency 1 - CORRECT ANSWER - demonstrate an understanding of the foundations
of language development, oral language skills, listening comprehension skills, and phonological
and phonemic awareness.
Critical stage of language development between birth and the early elementary school years
where children develop skills important for conventional literacy - CORRECT ANSWER -
Emergent Literacy
LEA - CORRECT ANSWER - Language Experience Approach
discriminative listening - CORRECT ANSWER - Singling out one sound from a noisy
environment
aesthetic listening - CORRECT ANSWER - Listening that is performed for enjoyment and
pleasure
critical listening - CORRECT ANSWER - to evaluate a message
efferent listening - CORRECT ANSWER - Listening to understand a message
phoneme - CORRECT ANSWER - in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
graphemes - CORRECT ANSWER - a written symbol that is used to represent speech
,orthography - CORRECT ANSWER - a method of representing the sounds of a language
by written or printed symbols
A ______ is a basic unit of speech sounds that can be divided into two parts—onsets and rimes. -
CORRECT ANSWER - syllable
onset - CORRECT ANSWER - the consonant sound that precedes the vowel of the
syllable
rime - CORRECT ANSWER - the vowel and any consonant sound that follows the onset.
Standard American English contains about _____ basic phonemes, although differences in
regional pronunciation and dialect can generate more. - CORRECT ANSWER - 42
_____ _____ _____ is a term used to characterize the knowledge that emergent readers have
about how printed language works and how print can be used to represent language. -
CORRECT ANSWER - Concepts of print
Concepts of print are fundamental understandings important to becoming literate and include
literacy conventions such as - CORRECT ANSWER - Holding a book the right way
Turning the pages from right to left
Knowing where to begin reading on a page
Moving one's eyes from left to right and then to going back to the beginning of the next line
down
Knowing that pages are read from top to bottom
Understanding that books have a front and back
Teachers can promote emergent literacy skills when they: - CORRECT ANSWER - Model
what readers do when they read a text aloud.
Point to words as they read.
Explain what the punctuation is for.
, Encourage students to take part in the reading activity (pointing to the words, or turning the
pages).
_____ _____ _____, the idea that written letters and letter patterns can be used to represent
speech sounds. - CORRECT ANSWER - the alphabetic principle
automaticity - CORRECT ANSWER - the ability to recognize words quickly, effortlessly,
and accurately
Competency 2 - CORRECT ANSWER - requires an understanding of effective instruction
in phonics and word analysis skills to support the development of reading fluency.
prosody - CORRECT ANSWER - the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
Systematic sight word instruction - CORRECT ANSWER - is focused on promoting
students' automatic recognition of words that occur with the highest frequency in texts, including
words that follow regular phonics patterns as well as those that do not.
morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER - in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning
Basic syllable patterns (7) - CORRECT ANSWER - closed (bad), open (hi), vowel-
consonant-silent e (bike), vowel teams (loan), r-controlled (car), consonant - le (table), others
(sion, tion, ture, etc)
prosodic - CORRECT ANSWER - of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to
the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing
Prosodic Reading - CORRECT ANSWER - Reading with expression
Teachers can use three key indicators of fluency to assess students' fluency development -
CORRECT ANSWER - Accuracy
UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Competency 1 - CORRECT ANSWER - demonstrate an understanding of the foundations
of language development, oral language skills, listening comprehension skills, and phonological
and phonemic awareness.
Critical stage of language development between birth and the early elementary school years
where children develop skills important for conventional literacy - CORRECT ANSWER -
Emergent Literacy
LEA - CORRECT ANSWER - Language Experience Approach
discriminative listening - CORRECT ANSWER - Singling out one sound from a noisy
environment
aesthetic listening - CORRECT ANSWER - Listening that is performed for enjoyment and
pleasure
critical listening - CORRECT ANSWER - to evaluate a message
efferent listening - CORRECT ANSWER - Listening to understand a message
phoneme - CORRECT ANSWER - in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
graphemes - CORRECT ANSWER - a written symbol that is used to represent speech
,orthography - CORRECT ANSWER - a method of representing the sounds of a language
by written or printed symbols
A ______ is a basic unit of speech sounds that can be divided into two parts—onsets and rimes. -
CORRECT ANSWER - syllable
onset - CORRECT ANSWER - the consonant sound that precedes the vowel of the
syllable
rime - CORRECT ANSWER - the vowel and any consonant sound that follows the onset.
Standard American English contains about _____ basic phonemes, although differences in
regional pronunciation and dialect can generate more. - CORRECT ANSWER - 42
_____ _____ _____ is a term used to characterize the knowledge that emergent readers have
about how printed language works and how print can be used to represent language. -
CORRECT ANSWER - Concepts of print
Concepts of print are fundamental understandings important to becoming literate and include
literacy conventions such as - CORRECT ANSWER - Holding a book the right way
Turning the pages from right to left
Knowing where to begin reading on a page
Moving one's eyes from left to right and then to going back to the beginning of the next line
down
Knowing that pages are read from top to bottom
Understanding that books have a front and back
Teachers can promote emergent literacy skills when they: - CORRECT ANSWER - Model
what readers do when they read a text aloud.
Point to words as they read.
Explain what the punctuation is for.
, Encourage students to take part in the reading activity (pointing to the words, or turning the
pages).
_____ _____ _____, the idea that written letters and letter patterns can be used to represent
speech sounds. - CORRECT ANSWER - the alphabetic principle
automaticity - CORRECT ANSWER - the ability to recognize words quickly, effortlessly,
and accurately
Competency 2 - CORRECT ANSWER - requires an understanding of effective instruction
in phonics and word analysis skills to support the development of reading fluency.
prosody - CORRECT ANSWER - the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
Systematic sight word instruction - CORRECT ANSWER - is focused on promoting
students' automatic recognition of words that occur with the highest frequency in texts, including
words that follow regular phonics patterns as well as those that do not.
morpheme - CORRECT ANSWER - in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning
Basic syllable patterns (7) - CORRECT ANSWER - closed (bad), open (hi), vowel-
consonant-silent e (bike), vowel teams (loan), r-controlled (car), consonant - le (table), others
(sion, tion, ture, etc)
prosodic - CORRECT ANSWER - of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to
the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing
Prosodic Reading - CORRECT ANSWER - Reading with expression
Teachers can use three key indicators of fluency to assess students' fluency development -
CORRECT ANSWER - Accuracy
