NYSTCE CST Multisubject Childhood
1st-6th Grade Part 1: Literacy Exam
Questions With Passed Answers
Orthography - ANSWER-ability to identify specific patterns of letters as words, leading
to word recognition. Spelling, pronunciation, and meaning are all stored and can be
accessed automatically
Semantics - ANSWER-meanings of words
Phonology - ANSWER-sounds of language
Morphology - ANSWER-word parts
syntax - ANSWER-the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and
sentences
Semantic relationships - ANSWER-how words relate to each other
-antonyms
-homonyms
-homophones
-homographs
-synonyms
-categories
Syntactic Processing - ANSWER-The ability to identify clauses, noun phrases, verb
phrases, prepositional phrases, adjectives, articles, nouns, and verbs, and assemble
them all in a sentence that is syntactically acceptable.
metonyms - ANSWER-a word that is used as a substitute for something else that it is
closely related
, Antonyms - ANSWER-words that have opposite meanings
homophones - ANSWER-These are words that are pronounced the same, but have
different meanings.
homonyms - ANSWER-Two words that sound alike and are spelled alike but have
different meanings.
homographs - ANSWER-words that are spelled the same but have different meanings
Hyponyms - ANSWER-words that can be included in a larger, more general category
syntax rules - ANSWER-1. A complete sentence requires a subject and a verb and
expresses a complete thought.
2. Separate ideas generally require separate sentences.
3. English word order follows the subject-verb-object sequence.
4. A dependent clause contains a subject and a verb—but it doesn't express a complete
thought.
Morphemes - ANSWER-smallest unit of language that have semantic meaning
word structure knowledge - ANSWER-knowledge of different word stuctures
affix
prefix
root words
compound words
language structure knowledge - ANSWER-knowledge of different language structures
- recognizes fragments, comma splices, syntax errors, run-on sentences
- knowledge of parallelism
1st-6th Grade Part 1: Literacy Exam
Questions With Passed Answers
Orthography - ANSWER-ability to identify specific patterns of letters as words, leading
to word recognition. Spelling, pronunciation, and meaning are all stored and can be
accessed automatically
Semantics - ANSWER-meanings of words
Phonology - ANSWER-sounds of language
Morphology - ANSWER-word parts
syntax - ANSWER-the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and
sentences
Semantic relationships - ANSWER-how words relate to each other
-antonyms
-homonyms
-homophones
-homographs
-synonyms
-categories
Syntactic Processing - ANSWER-The ability to identify clauses, noun phrases, verb
phrases, prepositional phrases, adjectives, articles, nouns, and verbs, and assemble
them all in a sentence that is syntactically acceptable.
metonyms - ANSWER-a word that is used as a substitute for something else that it is
closely related
, Antonyms - ANSWER-words that have opposite meanings
homophones - ANSWER-These are words that are pronounced the same, but have
different meanings.
homonyms - ANSWER-Two words that sound alike and are spelled alike but have
different meanings.
homographs - ANSWER-words that are spelled the same but have different meanings
Hyponyms - ANSWER-words that can be included in a larger, more general category
syntax rules - ANSWER-1. A complete sentence requires a subject and a verb and
expresses a complete thought.
2. Separate ideas generally require separate sentences.
3. English word order follows the subject-verb-object sequence.
4. A dependent clause contains a subject and a verb—but it doesn't express a complete
thought.
Morphemes - ANSWER-smallest unit of language that have semantic meaning
word structure knowledge - ANSWER-knowledge of different word stuctures
affix
prefix
root words
compound words
language structure knowledge - ANSWER-knowledge of different language structures
- recognizes fragments, comma splices, syntax errors, run-on sentences
- knowledge of parallelism
