NYSTCE Multi-Subject CST | 381 Questions and Answers(A+ Solution guide)

Prereading - All knowledge, skills and experience that come before conventional literacy. Students gain oral vocabulary, learn sentence structure, develop phonological awareness Running record - An assessment which measures a child' fluency during oral reading Phonological awareness - an awareness of the ability to manipulate the sounds of spoken words; it is a broad term that includes identifying and making rhymes, recognizing alliteration, identifying and working with syllables in spoken words, identifying and working with onsets and rhymes in spoken syllables. Phonemic Awareness - The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds, in oral language. 5 Major Types of Tasks to develop Phonemic Awareness - 1. Recognize sets of works have similar sounds (identifying rhyming words in a sentence) 2. Learn to examine a set of words to determine which is not like the others, oddity task) 3. Learn how to blend sounds to create words 4. Divide words into their phonemes (segmenting words) and count the number of sounds in a word 5. Learn how to manipulate the sounds in a word by substituting or deleting one or many phonemes Print Concept - Understanding how text works to communicate a message. Includes handing of books and orientation of text. Ways to facilitate print concepts - Combining movement activities to convey bottom, top side. Teach the parts of a book. Experiences with different fonts and text sizes and the different meanings they have. Spacing. Writing exercises. Use of meta-language to descibe books. Alphabet Recognition - being able to identify the letters of the alphabet both capital and lowercase when asked to do soAlphabetic principle - the relationship between letters or combinations of letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes)