NYSTCE CST MULTISUBJECT CHILDHOOD 1ST-6TH GRADE PART 1: LITERACY QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

Orthography CORRECT ANSWER ability to identify specific patterns of letters as words, leading to word recognition. Spelling, pronunciation, and meaning are all stored and can be accessed automatically Semantics CORRECT ANSWER meanings of words Phonology CORRECT ANSWER sounds of language Morphology CORRECT ANSWER word parts syntax CORRECT ANSWER the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences Semantic relationships CORRECT ANSWER how words relate to each other -antonyms -homonyms -homophones -homographs -synonyms -categories Syntactic Processing CORRECT ANSWER The ability to identify clauses, noun phrases, verb phrases, prepositional phrases, adjectives, articles, nouns, and verbs, and assemble them all in a sentence that is syntactically acceptable. metonyms CORRECT ANSWER a word that is used as a substitute for something else that it is closely related Antonyms CORRECT ANSWER words that have opposite meanings homophones CORRECT ANSWER These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings. homonyms CORRECT ANSWER Two words that sound alike and are spelled alike but have different meanings. homographs CORRECT ANSWER words that are spelled the same but have different meanings