NES SUBTEST 1 - Practice Test| 59 questions| with complete solutions

A parent is reading a familiar book one on one with a child. the parent asks the child to point to each of the words of the story as the parent reads them aloud. This activity would be most effective for enhancing the child's awareness of: correct answer: A. the alphabetic principle B. Sight words C. the tracking of print D. structural analysis one principle of both first- and second- language acquisition is that learning a first or second language occurs: correct answer: A. through explicit instruction in the grammatical rules of the language B. in predictable stages and patterns of development C. at a superficial level until formal language instruction is provided D. through the limitation of the speech For a beginning reader to succeed in recognizing the meaning of a word the reader has just decoded, which of the following must be true? correct answer: A. the word rhymes with one or more high-frequency words B. the word appears in a text that is of interest to the reader C. the word is one that the reader can spell D. the word is already part of the reader's oral vocabulary Which of the following early literacy skills is most likely to transfer from a first language when a child is learning a second language? correct answer: A. a knowledge of the sounds corresponding to letters of the alphabet B. a familiarity with common themes and genres of children's literature C. the ability to decode special letter combinations such as digraphs and blends D. an understanding of the functions and uses of print and writing. which of the following emergent readers shows clear evidence of having begun to develop phonemic awareness? correct answer: A. a ch