ORELA Elementary Education Subtest
1 ELA Exam 2025 Questions and
Answers
Tools of communication children use to form their understanding of the word -
✔✔reading, writing, listening, speaking
Informal conversations - ✔✔time to talk about things that interest and excite children
Language Play - ✔✔exploring rhythms, sounds and tones
Rhymes an song - ✔✔experiences rich in rhythm and ryhme
Stories - ✔✔Discover new words and meanings (told or read aloud)
emergent literacy - ✔✔the critical stage of language development between birth and the
early elementary school years helps prepare children with the skills important for
conventional literacy
fundamental, relevant - ✔✔The key is to make reading and writing ___ to the everyday
life of the classroom and to make literacy activities ___ to each child.
listen, respond - ✔✔___ and ___ to what the children have to say and they will learn to
do the same.
Language delay is caused by... - ✔✔1. inadequate language stimulation
2. delayed general development
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, 3. family who often talks for the child
4. medical/physical problems
5. family history of language delay
6. learning disabilities
7. autism spectrum disorder
receiving, interpreting, responding - ✔✔Listening is an active communication process
that involves ___, ___, and to verbal input.
Three steps in the Listening Process - ✔✔receiving, attending, assigning meaning
discriminative listening - ✔✔distinguishing beginning consonant sounds
aesthetic listening - ✔✔for enjoyment
critical listening - ✔✔to evaluate a message
efferent listening - ✔✔to understand a message
phoneme - ✔✔small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a
particular language
phonological awareness - ✔✔understanding that words are composed of phonemes
graphemes - ✔✔written symbols used to represent phonemes
orthography - ✔✔method of writing a language
syllable - ✔✔a basic unit of speech sounds that can be divided into parts
onset - ✔✔the consonant sound that precedes the vowel of the syllable
rime - ✔✔the vowel and any consonant sound that follows the onset
phonemic awareness - ✔✔the ability to identify and manipulate phonemes
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1 ELA Exam 2025 Questions and
Answers
Tools of communication children use to form their understanding of the word -
✔✔reading, writing, listening, speaking
Informal conversations - ✔✔time to talk about things that interest and excite children
Language Play - ✔✔exploring rhythms, sounds and tones
Rhymes an song - ✔✔experiences rich in rhythm and ryhme
Stories - ✔✔Discover new words and meanings (told or read aloud)
emergent literacy - ✔✔the critical stage of language development between birth and the
early elementary school years helps prepare children with the skills important for
conventional literacy
fundamental, relevant - ✔✔The key is to make reading and writing ___ to the everyday
life of the classroom and to make literacy activities ___ to each child.
listen, respond - ✔✔___ and ___ to what the children have to say and they will learn to
do the same.
Language delay is caused by... - ✔✔1. inadequate language stimulation
2. delayed general development
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, 3. family who often talks for the child
4. medical/physical problems
5. family history of language delay
6. learning disabilities
7. autism spectrum disorder
receiving, interpreting, responding - ✔✔Listening is an active communication process
that involves ___, ___, and to verbal input.
Three steps in the Listening Process - ✔✔receiving, attending, assigning meaning
discriminative listening - ✔✔distinguishing beginning consonant sounds
aesthetic listening - ✔✔for enjoyment
critical listening - ✔✔to evaluate a message
efferent listening - ✔✔to understand a message
phoneme - ✔✔small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a
particular language
phonological awareness - ✔✔understanding that words are composed of phonemes
graphemes - ✔✔written symbols used to represent phonemes
orthography - ✔✔method of writing a language
syllable - ✔✔a basic unit of speech sounds that can be divided into parts
onset - ✔✔the consonant sound that precedes the vowel of the syllable
rime - ✔✔the vowel and any consonant sound that follows the onset
phonemic awareness - ✔✔the ability to identify and manipulate phonemes
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