GACE Elementary Education: Practice Test 1 with Complete Solutions

GACE Elementary Education: Practice Test 1 with Complete Solutions phonemic awareness The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words phonemes smallest unit of sound diagraph combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (graph= ph/ swing=ng/chance=ch/head=ea; ch=cheese) active listening Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies oral reading fluency measure how many words a student can accurately read in a minute. structural analysis the process of using familiar word parts (base words, prefixes, and suffixes) to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. What are the six categories of Bloom's taxonomy? 1. Knowledge: The ability to recall facts 2. Comprehension: student fully understands material 3. Application: Student can use information in an abstract way 4. Analysis: Hierarchy of ideas can be organized by student; concept can be broken down into parts 5. Synthesis: putting together parts of a concept 6. Evaluation: Students form their own judgement about what has been learned What are Bloom's "action words"? Draw the diagram Decoding ability to apply your knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including knowledge of letter patterns, to correctly pronounce written words abstract nouns names ideas, qualities, and feelings that can't be seen or touched example: love concrete nouns These refer to people or things that exist physically and that at least one of the senses can detect. You can touch, smell, see, or hear them. Examples: cat, desk, baby, bike holistic rubric A grading instrument that uses one scale for an entire project. irregular word words that do not adhere to the common rules of phonics example: fight morpheme in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix) Consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) word a: bad, cat u: bud, cut media literacy the learned ability to access, interpret, and evaluate media products KWL chart Stands for "What I KNOW, what I WANT to know, and what I LEARNED. It is is a type of graphic organizer to