NYSTCE Multi Subject 1-6 Part 1 Exam
Questions and Answers
1) Closed- Syllable - ANSWER-(most common) have one vowel, followed by 1 or more
consonants. Vowel has short sound, closed in on the right side by one or more
consonants
1) Cooing - ANSWER-As early as six weeks, infants begin to make cooing sounds,
resemble vowel sounds. Children are learning to make sounds by manipulating their
tongues, mouths, and breathing.
1) Emerging Pre-Reader - ANSWER-The emergent pre-reader sits on 'beloved laps,'
samples and learns from a full range of multiple sounds, words, concepts, images,
stories, exposure to print, literacy materials, and just plain talk during the first five years
of life. The major insight in this period is that reading never just happens to anyone.
Emerging reading arises out of years of perceptions, increasing conceptual and social
development, and cumulative exposures to oral and written language.
Development of Oral Language - ANSWER-1. Cooing
2. Babbling
3. One-Word Stage
4. Telegraphic Stage
5. Beginning Oral Fluency
Development of Reading - ANSWER-1. Emerging pre-reader (6 mo to 6 yrs)
2. Novice reader (6-7 yrs)
3. Decoding reader (7-9 yrs)
4. Fluent, comprehending reader (9-15 yrs)
5. Expert reader (16 yrs +)
Development of Spelling - ANSWER-1. Preliterate
2. Phonetic
3. Skill Development
4. Word Extension
5. Derivational Constancy
Development of Written Expression - ANSWER-1. Scribbling
2. Letter-like Symbols
3. Strings of Letters
4. Beginning Sounds Emerge
, 5. Consonants Represent Words
6. Initial, Middle, and Final Sounds
7. Transitional Phases
8. Standard Spelling
Discourse Processing - ANSWER-Focus on the ways in which readers and listeners
comprehend language.
Drama - ANSWER-is intended to replicate human behavior and action in the midst of
tragedy and everyday life. A number of genres exist within drama, each with their own
storytelling methods, character types and dramatic approach. There are four main
genres of drama: tragedy, comedy, melodrama and tragicomedy.
Characteristics:
1) Idea/Plit
2) Characters
3) Language
4) Music
5) Performance
i.e. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Les Mis
Fluency - ANSWER-Ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression.
Reading sounds like talking
Free Verse Poems - ANSWER-i.e. sonnets, odes, ballads, and epics
1) No set line length
2) No set rhythm
3) No rhyming pattern
4) Way of conveying ideas and feelings
5) Carefully crafted word picture
Sonnets - all sonnets have the following three features in common: They are 14 lines
long, have a regular rhyme scheme and a strict metrical construction, usually iambic
pentameter. Iambic pentameter means that each line has 10 syllables in five pairs, and
that each pair has stress on the second syllable.
Odes - Pindaric, Horatian, and English. Traditional odes often have a predetermined
rhyme scheme and a fixed number of sections. Pindaric odes from ancient Greece have
three sections: the strophe, the antistrophe and the epode. These sections are made up
of stanzas, or groups of lines with the same rhythm (or meter) and rhyme pattern. The
English ode is often called an irregular ode because its form abandoned the three
Questions and Answers
1) Closed- Syllable - ANSWER-(most common) have one vowel, followed by 1 or more
consonants. Vowel has short sound, closed in on the right side by one or more
consonants
1) Cooing - ANSWER-As early as six weeks, infants begin to make cooing sounds,
resemble vowel sounds. Children are learning to make sounds by manipulating their
tongues, mouths, and breathing.
1) Emerging Pre-Reader - ANSWER-The emergent pre-reader sits on 'beloved laps,'
samples and learns from a full range of multiple sounds, words, concepts, images,
stories, exposure to print, literacy materials, and just plain talk during the first five years
of life. The major insight in this period is that reading never just happens to anyone.
Emerging reading arises out of years of perceptions, increasing conceptual and social
development, and cumulative exposures to oral and written language.
Development of Oral Language - ANSWER-1. Cooing
2. Babbling
3. One-Word Stage
4. Telegraphic Stage
5. Beginning Oral Fluency
Development of Reading - ANSWER-1. Emerging pre-reader (6 mo to 6 yrs)
2. Novice reader (6-7 yrs)
3. Decoding reader (7-9 yrs)
4. Fluent, comprehending reader (9-15 yrs)
5. Expert reader (16 yrs +)
Development of Spelling - ANSWER-1. Preliterate
2. Phonetic
3. Skill Development
4. Word Extension
5. Derivational Constancy
Development of Written Expression - ANSWER-1. Scribbling
2. Letter-like Symbols
3. Strings of Letters
4. Beginning Sounds Emerge
, 5. Consonants Represent Words
6. Initial, Middle, and Final Sounds
7. Transitional Phases
8. Standard Spelling
Discourse Processing - ANSWER-Focus on the ways in which readers and listeners
comprehend language.
Drama - ANSWER-is intended to replicate human behavior and action in the midst of
tragedy and everyday life. A number of genres exist within drama, each with their own
storytelling methods, character types and dramatic approach. There are four main
genres of drama: tragedy, comedy, melodrama and tragicomedy.
Characteristics:
1) Idea/Plit
2) Characters
3) Language
4) Music
5) Performance
i.e. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Les Mis
Fluency - ANSWER-Ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression.
Reading sounds like talking
Free Verse Poems - ANSWER-i.e. sonnets, odes, ballads, and epics
1) No set line length
2) No set rhythm
3) No rhyming pattern
4) Way of conveying ideas and feelings
5) Carefully crafted word picture
Sonnets - all sonnets have the following three features in common: They are 14 lines
long, have a regular rhyme scheme and a strict metrical construction, usually iambic
pentameter. Iambic pentameter means that each line has 10 syllables in five pairs, and
that each pair has stress on the second syllable.
Odes - Pindaric, Horatian, and English. Traditional odes often have a predetermined
rhyme scheme and a fixed number of sections. Pindaric odes from ancient Greece have
three sections: the strophe, the antistrophe and the epode. These sections are made up
of stanzas, or groups of lines with the same rhythm (or meter) and rhyme pattern. The
English ode is often called an irregular ode because its form abandoned the three
