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NES ELEMENTARY EDUCATION SUBTEST 2 TEST
EXAM ACCURATE AND FREQUENTLY TESTED
QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS||
LATEST AND COMPLETE UPDATE WITH EXPERT
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS|| SURE PASS
the tools of communication children use to form their understanding of the word -
ANSWER: reading, writing, listening, and speaking
Competency 1 - ANSWER: demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of
language development, oral language skills, listening comprehension skills, and
phonological and phonemic awareness.
Informal conversations - ANSWER: Time to talk about things that interest and
excite children.
Language play - ANSWER: Exploring rhythms, sounds, and tones that young
children delight in as they work and play.
Rhymes and song - ANSWER: Experiences rich in rhythm and rhyme encourage
children to play with words.
Stories - ANSWER: Children discover new words and meanings as they listen to
good stories — either told or read aloud.
Group talk - ANSWER: Times during the day when conventions of shared
conversations are learned and practiced.
Because this entire period between birth and the early elementary school years
helps prepare children with the skills important for conventional literacy, we refer
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to this critical stage of language development as _____ _____. - ANSWER:
Emergent Literacy
The key is to make reading and writing _____ to the everyday life of the classroom
and to make literacy activities _____ to each child. - ANSWER: fundamental,
relevant
_____ and _____ to what the children have to say and they will learn to do the
same. - ANSWER: listen, respond
LEA - ANSWER: Language Experience Approach
Dictated Stories - ANSWER: LEA
alliteration - ANSWER: use of the same consonant at the beginning of each
stressed syllable in a line of verse
language delay - ANSWER: There are many factors that cause language delay,
both environmental and physical. Common conditions include inadequate language
stimulation (neither talking to nor playing with the child); delayed general
development; parents/guardians or siblings who often talk for the child; medical
and physical problems; family history of language delay; learning disabilities; and
autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
ASD - ANSWER: Autism Spectrum Disorders
Listening can be described as part of an active communication process that
involves _____, _____, and _____ to verbal input. - ANSWER: receiving,
interpreting, responding
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The three steps in the listening process are _____, _____, and _____ meaning. -
ANSWER: receiving, attending, assigning meaning
Students can be given opportunities to develop and practice listening skills during
three phases of the listening process: _____, _____ and _____ . - ANSWER: pre-
listening, during listening, after listening
discriminative listening - ANSWER: distinguishing beginning consonant sounds,
for example
aesthetic listening - ANSWER: for enjoyment
critical listening - ANSWER: to evaluate a message
efferent listening - ANSWER: to understand a message
phonological - ANSWER: the study of the sound system of a given language and
the analysis and classification of its phonemes
phoneme - ANSWER: (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are
distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
Phonological awareness - ANSWER: an understanding that words are composed
of sound units and that sound units can be combined to form words.
graphemes - ANSWER: a written symbol that is used to represent speech
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orthography - ANSWER: a method of representing the sounds of a language by
written or printed symbols
Phonological awareness - ANSWER: the awareness that language is composed of
sounds and the understanding of the relationship of these sounds, such as rhyming
and identifying sound units such as words in sentences, syllables, onsets, and
rimes.
A ______ is a basic unit of speech sounds that can be divided into two parts—
onsets and rimes. - ANSWER: syllable
onset - ANSWER: the consonant sound that precedes the vowel of the syllable
rime - ANSWER: the vowel and any consonant sound that follows the onset.
Phonemic Awareness - ANSWER: refers to the ability to focus on, hear, identify,
and manipulate phonemes, or the individual sounds that make up spoken words.
Phoneme segmentation - ANSWER: is a child's ability to recognize the separate
sound units of words
phoneme blending - ANSWER: is a child's ability to string together phonemes in a
meaningful way to create words.
Standard American English contains about _____ basic phonemes, although
differences in regional pronunciation and dialect can generate more. - ANSWER:
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NES ELEMENTARY EDUCATION SUBTEST 2 TEST
EXAM ACCURATE AND FREQUENTLY TESTED
QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS||
LATEST AND COMPLETE UPDATE WITH EXPERT
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS|| SURE PASS
the tools of communication children use to form their understanding of the word -
ANSWER: reading, writing, listening, and speaking
Competency 1 - ANSWER: demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of
language development, oral language skills, listening comprehension skills, and
phonological and phonemic awareness.
Informal conversations - ANSWER: Time to talk about things that interest and
excite children.
Language play - ANSWER: Exploring rhythms, sounds, and tones that young
children delight in as they work and play.
Rhymes and song - ANSWER: Experiences rich in rhythm and rhyme encourage
children to play with words.
Stories - ANSWER: Children discover new words and meanings as they listen to
good stories — either told or read aloud.
Group talk - ANSWER: Times during the day when conventions of shared
conversations are learned and practiced.
Because this entire period between birth and the early elementary school years
helps prepare children with the skills important for conventional literacy, we refer
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to this critical stage of language development as _____ _____. - ANSWER:
Emergent Literacy
The key is to make reading and writing _____ to the everyday life of the classroom
and to make literacy activities _____ to each child. - ANSWER: fundamental,
relevant
_____ and _____ to what the children have to say and they will learn to do the
same. - ANSWER: listen, respond
LEA - ANSWER: Language Experience Approach
Dictated Stories - ANSWER: LEA
alliteration - ANSWER: use of the same consonant at the beginning of each
stressed syllable in a line of verse
language delay - ANSWER: There are many factors that cause language delay,
both environmental and physical. Common conditions include inadequate language
stimulation (neither talking to nor playing with the child); delayed general
development; parents/guardians or siblings who often talk for the child; medical
and physical problems; family history of language delay; learning disabilities; and
autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
ASD - ANSWER: Autism Spectrum Disorders
Listening can be described as part of an active communication process that
involves _____, _____, and _____ to verbal input. - ANSWER: receiving,
interpreting, responding
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The three steps in the listening process are _____, _____, and _____ meaning. -
ANSWER: receiving, attending, assigning meaning
Students can be given opportunities to develop and practice listening skills during
three phases of the listening process: _____, _____ and _____ . - ANSWER: pre-
listening, during listening, after listening
discriminative listening - ANSWER: distinguishing beginning consonant sounds,
for example
aesthetic listening - ANSWER: for enjoyment
critical listening - ANSWER: to evaluate a message
efferent listening - ANSWER: to understand a message
phonological - ANSWER: the study of the sound system of a given language and
the analysis and classification of its phonemes
phoneme - ANSWER: (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are
distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
Phonological awareness - ANSWER: an understanding that words are composed
of sound units and that sound units can be combined to form words.
graphemes - ANSWER: a written symbol that is used to represent speech
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orthography - ANSWER: a method of representing the sounds of a language by
written or printed symbols
Phonological awareness - ANSWER: the awareness that language is composed of
sounds and the understanding of the relationship of these sounds, such as rhyming
and identifying sound units such as words in sentences, syllables, onsets, and
rimes.
A ______ is a basic unit of speech sounds that can be divided into two parts—
onsets and rimes. - ANSWER: syllable
onset - ANSWER: the consonant sound that precedes the vowel of the syllable
rime - ANSWER: the vowel and any consonant sound that follows the onset.
Phonemic Awareness - ANSWER: refers to the ability to focus on, hear, identify,
and manipulate phonemes, or the individual sounds that make up spoken words.
Phoneme segmentation - ANSWER: is a child's ability to recognize the separate
sound units of words
phoneme blending - ANSWER: is a child's ability to string together phonemes in a
meaningful way to create words.
Standard American English contains about _____ basic phonemes, although
differences in regional pronunciation and dialect can generate more. - ANSWER:
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