Reading Comprehension - ✔✔ correct answer the ability to read text, process it, and understand its
meaning
Literacy - ✔✔ correct answer the ability to read and write
Skills needed for Literacy - ✔✔ correct answer Phonemic Awareness
Phonics
Vocab
Comprehension
Fluency
Phonemic Awareness - ✔✔ correct answer The ability to hear, identify,and manipulate the individual
sounds, phonemes, in oral language.
phoneme - ✔✔ correct answer in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
Grapheme - ✔✔ correct answer A written representation of a sound using one or more letters.
Phonics - ✔✔ correct answer the sounds that letters make and the letters that are used to represent
sounds
, NYSTCE Multi Subject 7-12 Part 1
vocabulary - ✔✔ correct answer the body of words used in a particular language.
Fluency - ✔✔ correct answer smoothness of speech
Semantic - ✔✔ correct answer emphasizes the meaning of words
Syntactic - ✔✔ correct answer Emphasizes the order of the words.
Literal Comprehension - ✔✔ correct answer Refers to the skills a reader uses to deal with the actual
words in a text. Involves skills such as:
ID the Topic Sentence
Main idea
important facts
supporting details
context clues to determine meaning
sequencing events
Critical Comprehension - ✔✔ correct answer Prior knowledge and an understanding that written
material especially nonfiction is written from the authors view point
Analysis of meaning
Evaluation
Validation
Questioning
Reasoning Skills