Elementary Education GACE Exam
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Bloom's Taxonomy - ✔✔remembering (knowledge), understanding (comprehension),
application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, creating
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge - ✔✔Observation and recall of information; knowledge
of dates, events, places; knowledge of major ideas; mastery of subject matter. Question
Cues: list, define, tell, describe, identify, show, label, collect, examine, tabulate, quote,
name, who, when, where, etc.
Bloom's Taxonomy: Comprehension - ✔✔Understanding information; grasping
meaning; translating knowledge into new context; interpreting facts, comparing,
contrasting; ordering, grouping, inferring causes; predicting consequences. Question
Cues: summarize, describe, interpret, contrast, predict, associate, distinguish, estimate,
differentiate, discuss, extend.
Stages of English Literacy Development - ✔✔Beginning, early intermediate,
intermediate, early advanced
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, Stages of English literacy development: beginning - ✔✔Receptive language
development.
Stages of English literacy development: early intermediate - ✔✔when a child begins to
communicate to express a need or attempt to ask or respond to a question.
Stages of English literacy development: intermediate - ✔✔Demonstration of more
complex vocabulary and abstract ideas. Using newly acquired literacy skills to read,
write, listen and speak.
Stages of English literacy development: early advanced - ✔✔Able to apply literacy skills
to learn new information across many subject.
Stages of Orthographic Development - ✔✔Emergent Stage, Letter Name/Alphabetic
Stage, Within Word Pattern Stage, Syllables and Affixes Stage, Derivational Relations
Stage
Emergent Stage - ✔✔Children in the emergent stage are just entering the world of
reading and writing. Children at this stage are beginning to learn basic print concepts
and simple reading strategies. They often engage in "pretend" reading. Children at this
stage need books with text that possess repetition and predictability. The illustrations in
these books should support the text, so that the child can follow the storyline.
Letter Name-Alphabetic Stage - ✔✔Students' use "names of the letters" as their
dominant approach to spelling and learn to segment sounds. Mostly consonants.
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Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Bloom's Taxonomy - ✔✔remembering (knowledge), understanding (comprehension),
application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, creating
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge - ✔✔Observation and recall of information; knowledge
of dates, events, places; knowledge of major ideas; mastery of subject matter. Question
Cues: list, define, tell, describe, identify, show, label, collect, examine, tabulate, quote,
name, who, when, where, etc.
Bloom's Taxonomy: Comprehension - ✔✔Understanding information; grasping
meaning; translating knowledge into new context; interpreting facts, comparing,
contrasting; ordering, grouping, inferring causes; predicting consequences. Question
Cues: summarize, describe, interpret, contrast, predict, associate, distinguish, estimate,
differentiate, discuss, extend.
Stages of English Literacy Development - ✔✔Beginning, early intermediate,
intermediate, early advanced
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, Stages of English literacy development: beginning - ✔✔Receptive language
development.
Stages of English literacy development: early intermediate - ✔✔when a child begins to
communicate to express a need or attempt to ask or respond to a question.
Stages of English literacy development: intermediate - ✔✔Demonstration of more
complex vocabulary and abstract ideas. Using newly acquired literacy skills to read,
write, listen and speak.
Stages of English literacy development: early advanced - ✔✔Able to apply literacy skills
to learn new information across many subject.
Stages of Orthographic Development - ✔✔Emergent Stage, Letter Name/Alphabetic
Stage, Within Word Pattern Stage, Syllables and Affixes Stage, Derivational Relations
Stage
Emergent Stage - ✔✔Children in the emergent stage are just entering the world of
reading and writing. Children at this stage are beginning to learn basic print concepts
and simple reading strategies. They often engage in "pretend" reading. Children at this
stage need books with text that possess repetition and predictability. The illustrations in
these books should support the text, so that the child can follow the storyline.
Letter Name-Alphabetic Stage - ✔✔Students' use "names of the letters" as their
dominant approach to spelling and learn to segment sounds. Mostly consonants.
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