NES Elementary Education Exam Revision
Questions Answered Correctly
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 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
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
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.
Questions Answered Correctly
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 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
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
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.
