NES Elementary Education Subtest 1 Practice Test Questions and Answers

NES Elementary Education Subtest 1 Practice Test Questions and Answers Competency 1 - ANSWER demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of language development, oral language skills, listening comprehension skills, and phonological and phonemic awareness. Critical stage of language development between birth and the early elementary school years where children develop skills important for conventional literacy - ANSWER Emergent Literacy LEA - ANSWER Language Experience Approach discriminative listening - ANSWER Singling out one sound from a noisy environment aesthetic listening - ANSWER Listening that is performed for enjoyment and pleasure critical listening - ANSWER to evaluate a message efferent listening - ANSWER Listening to understand a message phoneme - ANSWER in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit graphemes - ANSWER a written symbol that is used to represent speech orthography - ANSWER a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols A ______ is a basic unit of speech sounds that can be divided into two parts—onsets and rimes. - ANSWER syllable onset - ANSWER the consonant sound that precedes the vowel of the syllable rime - ANSWER the vowel and any consonant sound that follows the onset. Standard American English contains about _____ basic phonemes, although differences in regional pronunciation and dialect can generate more. - ANSWER 42