FTCE Reading K-12 2026 Exam
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Ability Grouping - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Grouping of children with similar needs
for instructional purposes. They do not remain constant throughout the year
but change as the children's needs within them change.
Phoneme - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The smallest unit of speech that can be used to
make one word different from another word.
Independent Reading Level - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The level at which a student
can read a text on his/her own as indicated by a 95% accuracy rate.
,Grapheme - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Unit of writing that represents a single
phoneme-can be a letter or group of letters.
Morpheme - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of
language (e.g., in, come, -ing, forming incoming ).
Instructional Level - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The level at which students can read
with the assistace of a teacher as indicated by an 85-95% accuracy rate.
Action Research - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Teacher research that is carried out by
a teacher practitioner in the classroom to help a teacher evaluate his/her
performance in the classroom
Frustration Level - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The level at which students shouldn't
read and indicates an accuracy rate below 85%.
Adams, Marilyn Jager - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A theorist in early reading
(emergent reading) who has identified five tasks for phonemic awareness:
Task 1- Ability to hear rhymes and alliteration. Task 2- Ability to do oddity
tasks (recognize the member of a set that is different.) Task 3 -The ability
to orally blend words and split syllables. Task 4 -The ability to orally
segment word. Task 5- The ability to do phonics manipulation tasks.
,Allington, Richard - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Matching Text to Readers. Research
has included reading and learning disabilities, and effective instruction in
classroom settings.
Alliteration - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Occurs when words begin with the same
consonant sound, as in Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alphabetic Principle - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The idea that written spellings
represent spoken words. Also known as graphophenemic awareness.
Anchor Book - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A balanced literacy term for a book that is
purposely read repeatedly and used as part of both the reading and writing
workshop. It is a good idea to use certain books that become the children's
familiar and cherished favorites for both reading and inspiring children's
writing.
Assonance - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Repetition of stressed vowel sounds within
words with different end consonants. "Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese".
Atwell, Nancy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Author of "In The Middle: Writing, Reading
and Learning With Adolescents". She believes that students become better
writers if they are given ownership of what they are writing and long
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, uninterrupted blocks of time to write. Rejects lectures, assignments, tests
and worksheets. Mini-lessons are good to address topics as needed.
Authentic Assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Assessment activities that reflect
the actual workplace, family, community, and school curriculum.
Balanced Literacy Lesson Format - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A format for the
delivery of a literacy lesson, whether it is a reading or writing-workshop
lesson. The format begins with a 10-15 minute mini-lesson delivered by the
teacher to the whole class. This mini-lesson is then followed by a thirty-
minute small-group lesson (the children break into small groups to work). It
concludes with a 10-minute share session during which the whole class
reconvenes to share what they have done in the small groups. This format
is often referred to as the whole-small-whole group approach.
Behaviorism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Learning is the acquisition of new behavior
through conditioning. Three basic assumptions are held to be true. First,
learning is manifested by a change in behavior. Second, the environment
shapes behavior. And third, the principles of contiguity (how close in time
two events must be for a bond to be formed) and reinforcement (any
means of increasing the likelihood that an event will be repeated) are
central to explaining the learning process.
Questions and Verified Answers |
Already Graded A+
Ability Grouping - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Grouping of children with similar needs
for instructional purposes. They do not remain constant throughout the year
but change as the children's needs within them change.
Phoneme - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The smallest unit of speech that can be used to
make one word different from another word.
Independent Reading Level - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The level at which a student
can read a text on his/her own as indicated by a 95% accuracy rate.
,Grapheme - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Unit of writing that represents a single
phoneme-can be a letter or group of letters.
Morpheme - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of
language (e.g., in, come, -ing, forming incoming ).
Instructional Level - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The level at which students can read
with the assistace of a teacher as indicated by an 85-95% accuracy rate.
Action Research - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Teacher research that is carried out by
a teacher practitioner in the classroom to help a teacher evaluate his/her
performance in the classroom
Frustration Level - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The level at which students shouldn't
read and indicates an accuracy rate below 85%.
Adams, Marilyn Jager - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A theorist in early reading
(emergent reading) who has identified five tasks for phonemic awareness:
Task 1- Ability to hear rhymes and alliteration. Task 2- Ability to do oddity
tasks (recognize the member of a set that is different.) Task 3 -The ability
to orally blend words and split syllables. Task 4 -The ability to orally
segment word. Task 5- The ability to do phonics manipulation tasks.
,Allington, Richard - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Matching Text to Readers. Research
has included reading and learning disabilities, and effective instruction in
classroom settings.
Alliteration - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Occurs when words begin with the same
consonant sound, as in Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alphabetic Principle - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The idea that written spellings
represent spoken words. Also known as graphophenemic awareness.
Anchor Book - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A balanced literacy term for a book that is
purposely read repeatedly and used as part of both the reading and writing
workshop. It is a good idea to use certain books that become the children's
familiar and cherished favorites for both reading and inspiring children's
writing.
Assonance - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Repetition of stressed vowel sounds within
words with different end consonants. "Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese".
Atwell, Nancy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Author of "In The Middle: Writing, Reading
and Learning With Adolescents". She believes that students become better
writers if they are given ownership of what they are writing and long
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, uninterrupted blocks of time to write. Rejects lectures, assignments, tests
and worksheets. Mini-lessons are good to address topics as needed.
Authentic Assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Assessment activities that reflect
the actual workplace, family, community, and school curriculum.
Balanced Literacy Lesson Format - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A format for the
delivery of a literacy lesson, whether it is a reading or writing-workshop
lesson. The format begins with a 10-15 minute mini-lesson delivered by the
teacher to the whole class. This mini-lesson is then followed by a thirty-
minute small-group lesson (the children break into small groups to work). It
concludes with a 10-minute share session during which the whole class
reconvenes to share what they have done in the small groups. This format
is often referred to as the whole-small-whole group approach.
Behaviorism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Learning is the acquisition of new behavior
through conditioning. Three basic assumptions are held to be true. First,
learning is manifested by a change in behavior. Second, the environment
shapes behavior. And third, the principles of contiguity (how close in time
two events must be for a bond to be formed) and reinforcement (any
means of increasing the likelihood that an event will be repeated) are
central to explaining the learning process.
