ILTS 201: MIDDLE GRADES LANGUAGE
ARTS EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2026 VERIFIED.
Automaticity - ANS The fast, effortless word recognition that comes with a great deal of
reading practice
fluency - ANS The ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. In order to
understand what they read, children must be able to read with _____
Repeated Reading - ANS This is one of the best ways to improve students' reading speed. The
students practice rereading a book or an excerpt from a book three to five times, striving to
improve their reading rate and decrease the number of errors they make (Literacy for the 21st
Century by Gail E. Tompkins, Merrill Prentice Hall). This helps improve student automaticity and
fluency
past perfect tense verbs - ANS used to describe an action that began in the past and
happened prior to another past action.
Example: Mayor Cole displayed the awards that the children "had earned" last year.
past participle - ANS a participle that expresses completed action
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,participle - ANS A verb form that can be used as an adjective
future perfect tense - ANS Expresses action which will begin in the future and be completed
by a specific time in the future.
i.e. You will have studied the English tenses.
Prior Knowledge - ANS knowledge you have before you read a text, which is used to make
inferences about the text. This information can be helpful by providing a foundation to build
new knowledge upon
Scanning - ANS reading material in an investigative way to search for specific information
Skimming - ANS rapid, superficial reading of material to determine central ideas and main
elements
Tier One Vocabulary - ANS Basic words that commonly appear in spoken language. Because
they are heard frequently in numerous contexts and with nonverbal communication, these
words rarely require explicit instruction.Examples: clock, baby, happy and walk.
Tier Two Vocabulary - ANS High frequency words used by mature language users across
several content areas. Because of their lack of redundancy in oral language, these words
present challenges to students who primarily meet them in print. Examples: obvious, complex,
establish and verify.
Tier Three Vocabulary - ANS Words that are not frequently used except in specific content
areas or domains. These words are central to building knowledge and conceptual understanding
within the various academic domains and should be integral to instruction of content. Medical,
legal, biology and mathematics terms are all examples of these words. (i.e. Posterity)
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, Allusion - ANS A reference to another work of literature, person, or event
Allegory - ANS a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning,
typically a moral or political one.
Metaphor - ANS A comparison without using like or as
Simile - ANS A comparison using "like" or "as"
Symbol - ANS A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material
object representing something abstract.
Folk Literature - ANS the body of stories, legends, myths, ballads, songs, riddles, sayings, and
other works arising out of the oral traditions of peoples around the globe
Stages of the writing process - ANS prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing
Syntax - ANS The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a
language.
Semantics - ANS The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical
and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another.
Phonology - ANS the study of speech sounds in language
Morphology - ANS study of form of words
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ARTS EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2026 VERIFIED.
Automaticity - ANS The fast, effortless word recognition that comes with a great deal of
reading practice
fluency - ANS The ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. In order to
understand what they read, children must be able to read with _____
Repeated Reading - ANS This is one of the best ways to improve students' reading speed. The
students practice rereading a book or an excerpt from a book three to five times, striving to
improve their reading rate and decrease the number of errors they make (Literacy for the 21st
Century by Gail E. Tompkins, Merrill Prentice Hall). This helps improve student automaticity and
fluency
past perfect tense verbs - ANS used to describe an action that began in the past and
happened prior to another past action.
Example: Mayor Cole displayed the awards that the children "had earned" last year.
past participle - ANS a participle that expresses completed action
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,participle - ANS A verb form that can be used as an adjective
future perfect tense - ANS Expresses action which will begin in the future and be completed
by a specific time in the future.
i.e. You will have studied the English tenses.
Prior Knowledge - ANS knowledge you have before you read a text, which is used to make
inferences about the text. This information can be helpful by providing a foundation to build
new knowledge upon
Scanning - ANS reading material in an investigative way to search for specific information
Skimming - ANS rapid, superficial reading of material to determine central ideas and main
elements
Tier One Vocabulary - ANS Basic words that commonly appear in spoken language. Because
they are heard frequently in numerous contexts and with nonverbal communication, these
words rarely require explicit instruction.Examples: clock, baby, happy and walk.
Tier Two Vocabulary - ANS High frequency words used by mature language users across
several content areas. Because of their lack of redundancy in oral language, these words
present challenges to students who primarily meet them in print. Examples: obvious, complex,
establish and verify.
Tier Three Vocabulary - ANS Words that are not frequently used except in specific content
areas or domains. These words are central to building knowledge and conceptual understanding
within the various academic domains and should be integral to instruction of content. Medical,
legal, biology and mathematics terms are all examples of these words. (i.e. Posterity)
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, Allusion - ANS A reference to another work of literature, person, or event
Allegory - ANS a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning,
typically a moral or political one.
Metaphor - ANS A comparison without using like or as
Simile - ANS A comparison using "like" or "as"
Symbol - ANS A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material
object representing something abstract.
Folk Literature - ANS the body of stories, legends, myths, ballads, songs, riddles, sayings, and
other works arising out of the oral traditions of peoples around the globe
Stages of the writing process - ANS prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing
Syntax - ANS The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a
language.
Semantics - ANS The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical
and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another.
Phonology - ANS the study of speech sounds in language
Morphology - ANS study of form of words
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