NES Elementary Education Subtest 1 Practice Test Questions and Answers

NES Elementary Education Subtest 1 Practice Test Questions and Answers 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 is a term used to characterize the knowledge that emergent readers have about how printed language works and how print can be used to represent language. - ANSWER Concepts of print Concepts of print are fundamental understandings important to becoming literate and include literacy conventions such as - ANSWER Holding a book the right way Turning the pages from right to left Knowing where to begin reading on a page Moving one's eyes from left to right and then to going back to the beginning of the next line down Knowing that pages are read from top to bottom Understanding that books have a front and back ANSWER Model what readers do when they read a text aloud. Point to words as they read. Explain what the punctuation is for. Encourage students to take part in the reading activity (pointing to the words, or turning the pages). , the idea that written letters and letter patterns can be used to represent speech sounds. - ANSWER the alphabetic principle automaticity - ANSWER the ability to recognize words quickly, effortlessly, and accurately