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NYSTCE MULTI-SUBJECT CST
ELA 2026 LATEST QUESTIONS
WITH 100% VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS.
Prereading - answer -All knowledge, skills and experience that
come before conventional literacy. Students gain oral vocabulary,
learn sentence structure, develop phonological awareness
Running record - answer -An assessment which measures a
child' fluency during oral reading
Balanced Literacy Models - answer -strategies teachers use to
allow for different learning styles
Phonological awareness - answer -an awareness of an the ability
to manipulate the sounds of spoken words; it is a broad term that
includes identifying and making rhymes, recognizing alliteration,
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identifying and working with syllables in spoken words, identifying
and working with onsets and rhymes in spoken syllables.
Phoneme - answer -in a spoken language, the smallest distinctive
sound unit
Phonemic Awareness - answer -The ability to hear, identify,and
manipulate the individual sounds, phonemes, in oral language.
5 Major Types of Tasks to develop Phonemic Awareness -
answer -1. Recognize sets of works have similar sounds
(identifying rhyming words in a sentence) 2. Learn to examine a
set of words to determine which is not like the others, oddity task)
3. Learn how to blend sounds to create words 4. Divide words into
their phonemes (segmenting words) and count the number of
sounds in a word 5. Learn how to manipulate the sounds in a
word by substituting or deleting one or many phonemes
Print Concept - answer -Understanding how text works to
communicate a message. Includes handing of books and
orientation of text.
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Ways to facilitate print concepts - answer -Combining movement
activities to convey bottom, top side. Teach the parts of a book.
Experiences with different fonts and text sizes and the different
meanings they have. Spacing. Writing exercises. Use of meta-
language to descibe books.
Track Print - answer -student understands the direction of the text
Alphabet Recognition - answer -being able to identify the letters of
the alphabet both capital and lowercase when asked to do so
Alphabetic principle - answer -the relationship between letters or
combinations of letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes)
Letter-sound correspondence - answer -refers to the identification
of sounds associated with individual letters and letter
combination.
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Short Vowel sounds - answer -every vowel has two sounds, the
vocal cords are more relaxed when producing the short vowel
sound because of this the sounds are often referred to as lax.
They can be heard at the beginning of these words: apple, Ed,
igloo, octopus, and umbrella.
Digraph - answer -n. A union of two characters representing a
single sound.
Diphthong - answer -n. The sound produced by combining two
vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds.
CVC - answer -consonant-vowel-consonant pattern which
produces a short vowel sound or a closed syllable.
Consonant Clusters - answer -- also called blends
- Consonants that occur side by side within the same
NYSTCE MULTI-SUBJECT CST
ELA 2026 LATEST QUESTIONS
WITH 100% VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS.
Prereading - answer -All knowledge, skills and experience that
come before conventional literacy. Students gain oral vocabulary,
learn sentence structure, develop phonological awareness
Running record - answer -An assessment which measures a
child' fluency during oral reading
Balanced Literacy Models - answer -strategies teachers use to
allow for different learning styles
Phonological awareness - answer -an awareness of an the ability
to manipulate the sounds of spoken words; it is a broad term that
includes identifying and making rhymes, recognizing alliteration,
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identifying and working with syllables in spoken words, identifying
and working with onsets and rhymes in spoken syllables.
Phoneme - answer -in a spoken language, the smallest distinctive
sound unit
Phonemic Awareness - answer -The ability to hear, identify,and
manipulate the individual sounds, phonemes, in oral language.
5 Major Types of Tasks to develop Phonemic Awareness -
answer -1. Recognize sets of works have similar sounds
(identifying rhyming words in a sentence) 2. Learn to examine a
set of words to determine which is not like the others, oddity task)
3. Learn how to blend sounds to create words 4. Divide words into
their phonemes (segmenting words) and count the number of
sounds in a word 5. Learn how to manipulate the sounds in a
word by substituting or deleting one or many phonemes
Print Concept - answer -Understanding how text works to
communicate a message. Includes handing of books and
orientation of text.
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Ways to facilitate print concepts - answer -Combining movement
activities to convey bottom, top side. Teach the parts of a book.
Experiences with different fonts and text sizes and the different
meanings they have. Spacing. Writing exercises. Use of meta-
language to descibe books.
Track Print - answer -student understands the direction of the text
Alphabet Recognition - answer -being able to identify the letters of
the alphabet both capital and lowercase when asked to do so
Alphabetic principle - answer -the relationship between letters or
combinations of letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes)
Letter-sound correspondence - answer -refers to the identification
of sounds associated with individual letters and letter
combination.
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Short Vowel sounds - answer -every vowel has two sounds, the
vocal cords are more relaxed when producing the short vowel
sound because of this the sounds are often referred to as lax.
They can be heard at the beginning of these words: apple, Ed,
igloo, octopus, and umbrella.
Digraph - answer -n. A union of two characters representing a
single sound.
Diphthong - answer -n. The sound produced by combining two
vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds.
CVC - answer -consonant-vowel-consonant pattern which
produces a short vowel sound or a closed syllable.
Consonant Clusters - answer -- also called blends
- Consonants that occur side by side within the same
