GACE Middle Grades Language Arts Study Guide questions with correct answers

Reading Fluency Answer refers to the speed, inflection and accuracy with which students read, either orally or silently. In order to have this skill, students must be able to decode, or break down into segments, words that adhere to the common rules of the English alphabet. For those words that are not easily decoded, students must build their vocabulary of "sight words," which are recognized without the need to decode Shakespearean sonnet Answer lyric poem of fourteen lines with the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG lyric poem Answer a short poem that expresses personal feelings lyric poetry example Answer A Shakespearean sonnet is an example of Anna Karenina was written by Answer Leo Tolstoy Thoreau's "Walden" is representative of which of the following periods of American literature Answer The American Renaissance period of American literature which took place between 1830