FTCE Elementary Education k-6 Language Arts and Reading Questions and Answers 100% Pass

The 5 Components of Reading phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension Phonemic Awareness The ability to hear and manipulate the sounds of spoken language. Includes noticing rhyme and recognizing the separate, small sounds in words (phonemes). Phonics The understanding of the relationships between the written letters of the alphabet and the sounds of spoken language. This knowledge allows a reader to "decode" words by translating the letters into speech sounds. Fluency The ability to read quickly, accurately, and with proper expression. Vocabulary Includes all the words the reader can understand and use. Comprehension Ability to understand what one has read. Includes recognizing main idea of article or able to compare and contrast different characters. Word Recognition the student has ability to visually identify words in isolation or context. Phases of word recognition pre-alphabetic, partial-alphabetic, full-alphabetic, graphophonemic, and morphemic. Text to self the reader made a connection from the reading to own personal life.Text to text the reader made a connection from the reading to another book with similar writing style, theme, or topic. Text to world the reader made a connection from the reading to a topic or an event that has taken place in the world. Critical Thinking Strategies making connections, making predictions, questioning, summarizing Making predictions use title and illustration on cover to predict what a text will be about aids comprehension. Throughout reading, predictions can be affirmed or revised. Questioning helps students make meaning of text being read. Questions about text, author's intent etc. "Right there" questions (text explicit) literal questions. Answer in the text itself. "Think and search" (text implicit) the answer is implicit in text. Student must synthesize, infer, or summarize to find answer. "Reader and author" (implicit or experienced based) Reader must combine own experience with what texts states. "On my own" (implicit or experienced based) Reader must generate answer from prior knowledge. Summarizing to simply and concisely paraphrase what has been read. Reading Fluency accuracy, automaticity, rate, prosod