Texas STR Certification Exam
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This refers to practices that recognize and incorporate the assets and strengths all
students bring to the classroom and ensure that learning experiences are relevant to all
students. - ✔✔Culturally Responsive Instructional Practices
This refers to viewing diversity of thought, culture, and traits as a positive asset as
students are valued for what they bring to the classroom rather than being
characterized by what they are lacking. - ✔✔Assets-Based Teaching Approach
The specific units of sounds in a language that distinguish one word from another (e.g.,
"b" and "t"
in "bat" and "tab") - ✔✔Phonemes
The smallest unit of meaning in a language (e.g., "ed" changes a word to past tense) -
✔✔Morphemes
The ability to use letter-sound relationships to correctly sound-out and pronounce
written words. - ✔✔Decoding
Written or spoken communication or debate (e.g., talk and conversation) - ✔✔Discourse
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,The tools (vocabulary, syntax, discourse) students use to participate in the content they
are learning - ✔✔Language Demands
This phrase refers to a spelling system that is more difficult to decode because there is
not a direct correlation between the letters and sounds in the language. - ✔✔Deep
Orthography
This phrase refers to a spelling system that is easier to decode because there is a direct
correlation between. the letters and sounds in the language. - ✔✔Shallow Orthography
The term used to explain a child's knowledge of reading and writing skills before they
learn to read and write (e.g., recognizing a stop sign, cereal box). - ✔✔Emergent
Literacy
the ability to hear and manipulate all units of sound including words, syllables, onset,
rimes, and phonemes in spoken language. - ✔✔Phonological Awareness
The practical rules that guide our use of language in social contexts - ✔✔Pragmatics
the study of the structure of words and how meaningful units are combined in text (e.g.,
prefixes, suffixes, root words). - ✔✔Morphology
A program in which two languages are used to provide content instruction. Over time,
use of the native language is decreased and use of English is increased until only
English is used for instruction. - ✔✔Transitional Bilingual Education
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, An approach to teaching English language learners that integrates language and content
instruction. - ✔✔Sheltered Instruction
Development of fluency in conversations - social language - ✔✔BICS (Basic
Interpersonal Communication Skills)
Development of content and subject area language. - ✔✔CALP (Cognitive Academic
Language Proficiency)
The part of a language that is understood by listeners when learning a second language
- ✔✔Comprehensible Input
Acquiring language through subconscious processes vs. learning a language through
direct instruction. - ✔✔Language Acquisition vs. Language Learning
The ability to understand words and language - ✔✔Receptive Language
The study of sounds, their patterns and meanings and the way they combine to form
words and language. - ✔✔Phonology
The study of meaning in words, phrases, sentences, or text - ✔✔Semantics
A teaching strategy that helps bring skill knowledge from conscious to subconscious. -
✔✔Repetition and Practice
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This refers to practices that recognize and incorporate the assets and strengths all
students bring to the classroom and ensure that learning experiences are relevant to all
students. - ✔✔Culturally Responsive Instructional Practices
This refers to viewing diversity of thought, culture, and traits as a positive asset as
students are valued for what they bring to the classroom rather than being
characterized by what they are lacking. - ✔✔Assets-Based Teaching Approach
The specific units of sounds in a language that distinguish one word from another (e.g.,
"b" and "t"
in "bat" and "tab") - ✔✔Phonemes
The smallest unit of meaning in a language (e.g., "ed" changes a word to past tense) -
✔✔Morphemes
The ability to use letter-sound relationships to correctly sound-out and pronounce
written words. - ✔✔Decoding
Written or spoken communication or debate (e.g., talk and conversation) - ✔✔Discourse
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,The tools (vocabulary, syntax, discourse) students use to participate in the content they
are learning - ✔✔Language Demands
This phrase refers to a spelling system that is more difficult to decode because there is
not a direct correlation between the letters and sounds in the language. - ✔✔Deep
Orthography
This phrase refers to a spelling system that is easier to decode because there is a direct
correlation between. the letters and sounds in the language. - ✔✔Shallow Orthography
The term used to explain a child's knowledge of reading and writing skills before they
learn to read and write (e.g., recognizing a stop sign, cereal box). - ✔✔Emergent
Literacy
the ability to hear and manipulate all units of sound including words, syllables, onset,
rimes, and phonemes in spoken language. - ✔✔Phonological Awareness
The practical rules that guide our use of language in social contexts - ✔✔Pragmatics
the study of the structure of words and how meaningful units are combined in text (e.g.,
prefixes, suffixes, root words). - ✔✔Morphology
A program in which two languages are used to provide content instruction. Over time,
use of the native language is decreased and use of English is increased until only
English is used for instruction. - ✔✔Transitional Bilingual Education
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, An approach to teaching English language learners that integrates language and content
instruction. - ✔✔Sheltered Instruction
Development of fluency in conversations - social language - ✔✔BICS (Basic
Interpersonal Communication Skills)
Development of content and subject area language. - ✔✔CALP (Cognitive Academic
Language Proficiency)
The part of a language that is understood by listeners when learning a second language
- ✔✔Comprehensible Input
Acquiring language through subconscious processes vs. learning a language through
direct instruction. - ✔✔Language Acquisition vs. Language Learning
The ability to understand words and language - ✔✔Receptive Language
The study of sounds, their patterns and meanings and the way they combine to form
words and language. - ✔✔Phonology
The study of meaning in words, phrases, sentences, or text - ✔✔Semantics
A teaching strategy that helps bring skill knowledge from conscious to subconscious. -
✔✔Repetition and Practice
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