ORELA Elementary Education Subtest
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the tools of communication children use to form their understanding of the word -
✔✔reading, writing, listening, and speaking
Competency 1 - ✔✔demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of language
development, oral language skills, listening comprehension skills, and phonological
and phonemic awareness.
Informal conversations - ✔✔Time to talk about things that interest and excite children.
Language play - ✔✔Exploring rhythms, sounds, and tones that young children delight
in as they work and play.
Rhymes and song - ✔✔Experiences rich in rhythm and rhyme encourage children to
play with words.
Stories - ✔✔Children discover new words and meanings as they listen to good stories
— either told or read aloud.
Group talk - ✔✔Times during the day when conventions of shared conversations are
learned and practiced.
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, Because this entire period between birth and the early elementary school years helps
prepare children with the skills important for conventional literacy, we refer to this
critical stage of language development as _____ _____. - ✔✔Emergent Literacy
The key is to make reading and writing _____ to the everyday life of the classroom and
to make literacy activities _____ to each child. - ✔✔fundamental, relevant
_____ and _____ to what the children have to say and they will learn to do the same. -
✔✔listen, respond
LEA - ✔✔Language Experience Approach
Dictated Stories - ✔✔LEA
alliteration - ✔✔use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a
line of verse
language delay - ✔✔Common conditions causing this include inadequate language
stimulation (neither talking to nor playing with the child); delayed general
development; parents/guardians or siblings who often talk for the child; medical and
physical problems; family history of language delay; learning disabilities; and autism
spectrum disorders (ASD).
ASD - ✔✔Autism Spectrum Disorders
Listening can be described as part of an active communication process that involves
_____, _____, and _____ to verbal input. - ✔✔receiving, interpreting, responding
The three steps in the listening process are _____, _____, and _____ . - ✔✔receiving,
attending, assigning meaning
Students can be given opportunities to develop and practice listening skills during three
phases of the listening process: _____, _____ and _____ . - ✔✔pre-listening, during
listening, after listening
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the tools of communication children use to form their understanding of the word -
✔✔reading, writing, listening, and speaking
Competency 1 - ✔✔demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of language
development, oral language skills, listening comprehension skills, and phonological
and phonemic awareness.
Informal conversations - ✔✔Time to talk about things that interest and excite children.
Language play - ✔✔Exploring rhythms, sounds, and tones that young children delight
in as they work and play.
Rhymes and song - ✔✔Experiences rich in rhythm and rhyme encourage children to
play with words.
Stories - ✔✔Children discover new words and meanings as they listen to good stories
— either told or read aloud.
Group talk - ✔✔Times during the day when conventions of shared conversations are
learned and practiced.
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, Because this entire period between birth and the early elementary school years helps
prepare children with the skills important for conventional literacy, we refer to this
critical stage of language development as _____ _____. - ✔✔Emergent Literacy
The key is to make reading and writing _____ to the everyday life of the classroom and
to make literacy activities _____ to each child. - ✔✔fundamental, relevant
_____ and _____ to what the children have to say and they will learn to do the same. -
✔✔listen, respond
LEA - ✔✔Language Experience Approach
Dictated Stories - ✔✔LEA
alliteration - ✔✔use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a
line of verse
language delay - ✔✔Common conditions causing this include inadequate language
stimulation (neither talking to nor playing with the child); delayed general
development; parents/guardians or siblings who often talk for the child; medical and
physical problems; family history of language delay; learning disabilities; and autism
spectrum disorders (ASD).
ASD - ✔✔Autism Spectrum Disorders
Listening can be described as part of an active communication process that involves
_____, _____, and _____ to verbal input. - ✔✔receiving, interpreting, responding
The three steps in the listening process are _____, _____, and _____ . - ✔✔receiving,
attending, assigning meaning
Students can be given opportunities to develop and practice listening skills during three
phases of the listening process: _____, _____ and _____ . - ✔✔pre-listening, during
listening, after listening
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