NYSTCE Early Childhood CST Part 1 Actual Exam Test
Questions and Answers A+ Graded Verified
1. Phoneme: the smallest part of spoken language that makes a difference in the meaning
of words, represented by letters between slash marks
2. Grapheme: the smallest part of written language that represents a phoneme in the
spelling of a word, may be one letter (ex: "b") or several letters (ex: "sh")
3. Phonics: the fairly predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes.
4. Phonemic Awareness: ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds--
phonemes--in spoken words.
5. Phonological Awareness: a broad term that includes phonemic awareness and involves
work with rhymes, words, syllables, and onset and rimes.
6. Onset: initial consonant(s) sound of a syllable (ex: "b" in bag)
7. Rime: the part of the syllable that contains the vowel and all that follows it (ex: "im" in swim).
8. Phoneme Isolation: recognize individual sounds in a word
9. Phoneme Identity: recognize the same sounds in different words
10. Phoneme Categorization: recognize a word with a sound that does not match the sound
in the other words
11. Phoneme Blending: combine the phonemes to form a word
12. Phoneme Segmentation: break a word into its separate sounds, saying each sound
13. Phoneme Deletion: recognizing the word that remains when a phoneme is removed
from another word
14. Phoneme Addition: make a new word by adding a phoneme to an existing word
15. Phoneme substitution: substitute one phoneme from another to make a new word
16. Fluency: means to read a text accurately and quickly
17. Vocabulary: refers to the word people must know to communicate effectively
18. Affixes: word parts that are "fixed to" either the beginning of words (prefixes) or the end of
words (suffixes)
19. Base Words: words from which many other words are formed
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, 20. Word Roots: words from other languages that are the origin of many English words
21. Metacognition: "thinking about thinking", strategies to think about and have control
over their reading
22. Poetry: communicates through linguistic imagery, sounds of words, and a rhyth- mic
quality
23. Epic: a very long narrative poem, usually about a single heroic person. Includes
monumental sweep, embrace the essence of an entire nation, and frequently include mythical
forces that influence the inevitable battles and conflicts.
24. Lyric: related to an epic, but it is shorter and presents profound feelings or ideas.
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Questions and Answers A+ Graded Verified
1. Phoneme: the smallest part of spoken language that makes a difference in the meaning
of words, represented by letters between slash marks
2. Grapheme: the smallest part of written language that represents a phoneme in the
spelling of a word, may be one letter (ex: "b") or several letters (ex: "sh")
3. Phonics: the fairly predictable relationship between phonemes and graphemes.
4. Phonemic Awareness: ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds--
phonemes--in spoken words.
5. Phonological Awareness: a broad term that includes phonemic awareness and involves
work with rhymes, words, syllables, and onset and rimes.
6. Onset: initial consonant(s) sound of a syllable (ex: "b" in bag)
7. Rime: the part of the syllable that contains the vowel and all that follows it (ex: "im" in swim).
8. Phoneme Isolation: recognize individual sounds in a word
9. Phoneme Identity: recognize the same sounds in different words
10. Phoneme Categorization: recognize a word with a sound that does not match the sound
in the other words
11. Phoneme Blending: combine the phonemes to form a word
12. Phoneme Segmentation: break a word into its separate sounds, saying each sound
13. Phoneme Deletion: recognizing the word that remains when a phoneme is removed
from another word
14. Phoneme Addition: make a new word by adding a phoneme to an existing word
15. Phoneme substitution: substitute one phoneme from another to make a new word
16. Fluency: means to read a text accurately and quickly
17. Vocabulary: refers to the word people must know to communicate effectively
18. Affixes: word parts that are "fixed to" either the beginning of words (prefixes) or the end of
words (suffixes)
19. Base Words: words from which many other words are formed
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, 20. Word Roots: words from other languages that are the origin of many English words
21. Metacognition: "thinking about thinking", strategies to think about and have control
over their reading
22. Poetry: communicates through linguistic imagery, sounds of words, and a rhyth- mic
quality
23. Epic: a very long narrative poem, usually about a single heroic person. Includes
monumental sweep, embrace the essence of an entire nation, and frequently include mythical
forces that influence the inevitable battles and conflicts.
24. Lyric: related to an epic, but it is shorter and presents profound feelings or ideas.
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