FTCE Elementary Education K-6 Questions and Answers Rated A

main idea Can be stated or implied. Code Emphasis approach Bottom-up. Letter-sounds are stressed. Reading instruction begins with words that consists of letter or letter combinations that have the same sound in different words. Meaning Emphasis approach emphasizes comprehension from the start Basal Reading A collection of students textbooks, workbooks, teachers manuals, and other materials and resources for reading instriction used in kindergarten through 6th grade, not individualized. Phonics Approach teaching reading by first teaching the sounds of each letter and of various letter combinations Whole word approach An approach to reading sating that people can directly connect the written word with the word's meaning. The whole-word approach argues against "sounding out" an unfamiliar word. Instead, readers should identify the word in terms of its context within a sentence