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This test portion assesses a candidate’s knowledge of literacy and English language arts for teaching grades 1 through 6

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NYSTCE 221 0001 KNOWLEDGE OF LITERACY & LANGUAGE
ARTS Exam NEWEST 2025 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
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Phonics - CORRECT ANSWER- the sounds that letters make and the letters that are used to represent
sounds



Components of reading development - CORRECT ANSWER- Phonemic awareness, phonics,
vocabulary, fluency, comprehension



Oral Language Development - CORRECT ANSWER- enhance skills: be involved in open-ended (whole
group, small group, and one-on-one) discussions, read alouds, echo reading, songs, nursery
rhymes, storytelling, readers theater, cloze activities, poetry, role play and drama, fingerplays...



phonological awareness - CORRECT ANSWER- -Broad term-Phonological awareness is a broad term
that refers to the ability to focus on sounds of speech as distinct from its meaning-awareness
oral language is composed of smaller subgroups

Language Development - CORRECT ANSWER- Language development starts with sounds and
gestures, then words and sentences. You can support language development by talking a lot
with your child, and responding when your child communicates.



Literacy Development - CORRECT ANSWER-

, Phonemic Awareness - CORRECT ANSWER- The ability to hear, identify,and manipulate the individual
sounds, phonemes, in oral language.

phonological awareness continuum - CORRECT ANSWER- Rhythm-(tempo)

Rhyme

Alliteration-(same intial sound)

Sentence Segmentation (Seperating words)

Syllables

Onsets and rimes

Phonemes (starts phonemic awareness continuum)



Word Reading stages - CORRECT ANSWER- comprised initially of reading simple CVC words and
progresses to compound words, multisyllabic words, and sight words



Spelling Stages - CORRECT ANSWER- 1. Scribbling- children pretend they are writing

2. Pseudo Letters- "invented spelling"

3. Phonetic- spell based on pronunciation

4. Transitional Spelling- children discontinue over-resiliance on phonetic spelling, notice visual
clues, and develop a knowledge of using morphological information, or word structure.

5. Conventional Spelling- may still have problems in spelling some less typical words and fail to
see these when proofreading their text.



fluency - CORRECT ANSWER- -Automaticity-ability to read text accurately quickly and with
expression-involves grouping words within a sentence into phrases that make what is read
easier to comprehend.

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