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FTCE Reading K-12 Practice Questions
1. A first-grade teacher schedules 10 minutes each day for sight word practice. This daily
practice will most likely improve students' reading proficiency by building which skill?
ANS Automacity
2. What does automaticity mean?
ANS Refers to the ability to recognize printed words quickly and effortlessly. Because sight word
practices help increase the number of words student can recognize quickly and effortlessly, it
builds automaticity. Sight words are often difficult to decode using typical phonics rules.
Phonemic awareness and phonological awareness involve identifying and manipulating sounds
rather than reading printed words.
3. A teacher observes a first grade student as she writes the word stop in her journal .The
student says each sound out loud before writing the correspond- ing letter on her paper.
Which process is the student exhibiting?
ANS Encoding. The student is listening to each sound in the word stop and remembering which
letter makes that sound before writing it on paper.
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4. What is encoding?
ANS the process of translating sounds to print using knowledge of letter/ sound relationships.
5. While reading a book about animals, a student struggles to decode the word giraffe. He
then points to the picture and says, " Those are giraffes. I saw the, at the zoo." Which cueing
system is the student using to figure out the unknown word?
ANS Semantic
6. what is semantic cueing?
ANS Semantic cues refer to the meaning in language that assists in comprehending texts,
including words, speech, signs, symbols, and other meaning-bearing forms. Semantic cues
involve the learners' prior knowledge of language, text, and visual media, and their prior life
experiences Sources of information used by readers to help them construct meaning.
7. Which statement best describes the relationship between phonological awareness
and phonemic awareness?
ANS Phonological awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate sounds in spoken
words. Phonemic awareness is one
component of phonological involving the ability to identify and manipulate sounds in spoken
words at the phonome level.
8. A preschooler teacher has identified a small group of students who are lack- ing any
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FTCE Reading K-12 Practice Questions
1. A first-grade teacher schedules 10 minutes each day for sight word practice. This daily
practice will most likely improve students' reading proficiency by building which skill?
ANS Automacity
2. What does automaticity mean?
ANS Refers to the ability to recognize printed words quickly and effortlessly. Because sight word
practices help increase the number of words student can recognize quickly and effortlessly, it
builds automaticity. Sight words are often difficult to decode using typical phonics rules.
Phonemic awareness and phonological awareness involve identifying and manipulating sounds
rather than reading printed words.
3. A teacher observes a first grade student as she writes the word stop in her journal .The
student says each sound out loud before writing the correspond- ing letter on her paper.
Which process is the student exhibiting?
ANS Encoding. The student is listening to each sound in the word stop and remembering which
letter makes that sound before writing it on paper.
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4. What is encoding?
ANS the process of translating sounds to print using knowledge of letter/ sound relationships.
5. While reading a book about animals, a student struggles to decode the word giraffe. He
then points to the picture and says, " Those are giraffes. I saw the, at the zoo." Which cueing
system is the student using to figure out the unknown word?
ANS Semantic
6. what is semantic cueing?
ANS Semantic cues refer to the meaning in language that assists in comprehending texts,
including words, speech, signs, symbols, and other meaning-bearing forms. Semantic cues
involve the learners' prior knowledge of language, text, and visual media, and their prior life
experiences Sources of information used by readers to help them construct meaning.
7. Which statement best describes the relationship between phonological awareness
and phonemic awareness?
ANS Phonological awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate sounds in spoken
words. Phonemic awareness is one
component of phonological involving the ability to identify and manipulate sounds in spoken
words at the phonome level.
8. A preschooler teacher has identified a small group of students who are lack- ing any
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