TEXES 181 CORE EXAM MANUAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Early detection of hearing loss and early language - ✔✔promote DHH students'
achievement in ELA and reading
✔✔mediated instruction with technology is usually print - ✔✔DHH is usally low reading
level. Need an interpreter
✔✔chaining - ✔✔technique whereby an English word is finger spelled, pointed to in
print (or signed) and finger spelled again.
alt: sign for word, finger spelling, sign for word
✔✔Lexicalization - ✔✔process wherein a finger-spelled word becomes a sign
✔✔initialization - ✔✔adding an initial to the base sign
✔✔guided reading approach - ✔✔first the teacher signs the whole story
second, teacher takes one page of text and provides a translation of the meaning of the
page of story. Not word for word but signs the meaning of phrases and sentences. Then
teaches a particular reading skill such as main idea or multiple-meaning words.
Last the teacher discusses how students can use this skill to understand the words and
the whole story
✔✔Think-Pair-Share - ✔✔the teacher poses a question about the lesson. students pair
up and discuss their ideas. Then the pairs share their thinking with the class.
✔✔Bilingual-bicultural approach - ✔✔only option that uses ASL as a bridge to teach
English
✔✔Total communication - ✔✔uses both signs and speech and is often referred to as
simultaneous communication.
✔✔Auditory-verbal approach - ✔✔does not use ASL. it focuses on listening skill and
verbal communication
✔✔Cued Speech - ✔✔uses a system of hand cues to make English sounds visible
✔✔Most effective process to support expansion of vocab knowledge - ✔✔teaching root
or base words, prefixes and suffixes
✔✔best way to teach phonics to DHH - ✔✔visual hand cues or visualized phonics
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Early detection of hearing loss and early language - ✔✔promote DHH students'
achievement in ELA and reading
✔✔mediated instruction with technology is usually print - ✔✔DHH is usally low reading
level. Need an interpreter
✔✔chaining - ✔✔technique whereby an English word is finger spelled, pointed to in
print (or signed) and finger spelled again.
alt: sign for word, finger spelling, sign for word
✔✔Lexicalization - ✔✔process wherein a finger-spelled word becomes a sign
✔✔initialization - ✔✔adding an initial to the base sign
✔✔guided reading approach - ✔✔first the teacher signs the whole story
second, teacher takes one page of text and provides a translation of the meaning of the
page of story. Not word for word but signs the meaning of phrases and sentences. Then
teaches a particular reading skill such as main idea or multiple-meaning words.
Last the teacher discusses how students can use this skill to understand the words and
the whole story
✔✔Think-Pair-Share - ✔✔the teacher poses a question about the lesson. students pair
up and discuss their ideas. Then the pairs share their thinking with the class.
✔✔Bilingual-bicultural approach - ✔✔only option that uses ASL as a bridge to teach
English
✔✔Total communication - ✔✔uses both signs and speech and is often referred to as
simultaneous communication.
✔✔Auditory-verbal approach - ✔✔does not use ASL. it focuses on listening skill and
verbal communication
✔✔Cued Speech - ✔✔uses a system of hand cues to make English sounds visible
✔✔Most effective process to support expansion of vocab knowledge - ✔✔teaching root
or base words, prefixes and suffixes
✔✔best way to teach phonics to DHH - ✔✔visual hand cues or visualized phonics
