FTCE Reading K-12
1. fluency
ANS smoothness of speech
2. The New England Primer
ANS most widely used textbook in colonial America
3. McGuffey Readers
ANS William Holmes McGuffey, a PA teacher, created a seriesof elementary textbooks that
became widely accepted as the basis of reading andmoral instruction in hundreds of schools;
extolled virtues of hard work, punctualityand sobriety
4. synthetic phonics instruction
ANS teachers model word recognition with separatesounds that are then blended together
5. analytical phonics instruction
ANS students learn whole words and then look at thephonics
6. Leveled Readers
ANS books that increase in complexity and vocabulary
-created in the 1930s
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7. Dick and Jane readers
ANS Books that taught basic reading skills with simple storiesabout a family.
8. Initial Teaching Alphabet
ANS one symbol for each sound, teach with this alphabetfirst
9. Basal Reading Approach
ANS skills are taught in a sequential order based onmaterial contained in basal reader
10. whole language approach
ANS An approach to reading instruction based on theidea that instruction should parallel
children's natural language learning. Readingmaterials should be whole and meaningful.
11. Balanced Literacy
ANS An approach to reading instruction that strikes a compro- mise between Phonics
approaches and Whole Language approaches—ideally, themost effective strategies are drawn
from the two approaches and synthesized together.
12. Behaviorism
ANS the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only
13. JohnWatson
ANS behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and theirreactions on a given
situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taughtto fear a white rat
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14. Ivan Pavlov
ANS discovered classical conditioning; trained dogs to salivate at theringing of a bell
15. B.F. Skinner
ANS Behaviorist that developed the theory of operant conditioning bytraining pigeons and rats
16. Edward Thorndike
ANS behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behaviorand consequence
17. cognitive perspective
ANS how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information
18. Jean Piaget
ANS Four stage theory of cognitive development
1. sensorimotor, 2. preoperational, 3. concrete operational, and 4. formal operational. He said
that the
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