NYSTCE MULTI-SUBJECT: TEACHERS OF CHILDHOOD (GRADE 1- GRADE 6) LITERACY AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

Phonemic Awareness CORRECT ANSWER The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds, phonemes, in oral language. Phonemes CORRECT ANSWER A phoneme is the smallest part of spoken language that makes a difference in the meaning of words. Phonemes are represented by letters between slash marks. English has 41 phonemes. Grapheme CORRECT ANSWER A grapheme is the smallest part of written language that represents a phoneme in the spelling of a word. A grapheme may be just one letter, such as b, d, f, p, s; or several letters, such as ch, sh, th, -ck, ea, -igh. Phonics CORRECT ANSWER Phonics is the fairly predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes. phonological awareness CORRECT ANSWER knowledge of sounds and syllables and of the sound structure of words Onset CORRECT ANSWER The initial consonant(s) sound of a syllable Ex: bag is b- and swim is sw- Rime CORRECT ANSWER The part of a syllable that contains the vowel and all that follows it Ex) bag is -ag and swim is -im Phoneme Isolation CORRECT ANSWER recognize individual sounds in a word Phoneme Identity CORRECT ANSWER recognize the same sounds in different words phoneme categorization CORRECT ANSWER recognize a word with a sound that does not match the sounds in other words phoneme blending CORRECT ANSWER combining phonemes to make a word. Then they write and read the word