MTEL Communication and Literacy
Exam 2025 Questions and Answers
Schema - ANSWER✔✔-Background knowledge
Skimming - ANSWER✔✔-Looking quickly at the text for a general idea of what it is
about.
Scanning - ANSWER✔✔-Looking quickly at a text to find a particular part.
Concept Map - ANSWER✔✔-A graphic organizer that categorizes and connects
concepts.
Text Features - ANSWER✔✔-i.e. Bold, italics, table of contents, index, glossary, page
number, ect.
Visualization - ANSWER✔✔-Seeing a picture in your head while you read a text.
Questioning - ANSWER✔✔-Asking yourself questions while you read a text.
Connecting - ANSWER✔✔-When you read and connect the text to your life, the world
around you, or a previously read text.
,Predicting - ANSWER✔✔-Using the text information to make an educated guess on
what will happen next.
Synthesizing - ANSWER✔✔-Adding new knowledge learned from text to previous
knowledge in order to better understand what you read.
Author's Purpose (PIES) - ANSWER✔✔-To persuade, inform, explain, or share in a text.
Semantic Map - ANSWER✔✔-A graphic organizer that breaks one topic into related
sub-topics and describing the sub-topics.
Metacognitive Reading Strategies - ANSWER✔✔-Thinking strategies before, during,
and after reading to help a reader understand the text.
Self-Monitoring Reading Strategies - ANSWER✔✔-Asking yourself while reading,
"Does it look right?" "Does it sound right?" "Does it make sense?"
Inferring - ANSWER✔✔-Using the text information to figure out what the author is
trying to say even when it is not explicitly stated.
Narrative Text - ANSWER✔✔-Type of text that includes setting, problem, solution, re-
telling, and evaluation.
Expository Writing - ANSWER✔✔-Type of text that is informational. Includes:
descriptions, problem and solution, cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence,
description.
, Structural Analysis - ANSWER✔✔-The structure of a sentence that includes a prefix,
base/root word, and a suffix.
Semantic Clue - ANSWER✔✔-A clue in text that includes finding the meaning of an
unknown words through the overall message of the sentence. For instance, "We ate
_______ that had peanut butter and jelly in them."
Syntactic Clue - ANSWER✔✔-A clue in text that includes using the grammatical
structure of the sentence to figure out if it is right.
Graphic Clue - ANSWER✔✔-Using the rest of the sentence to figure out an unknown
word. For instance, "We w_____ our car today."
Homophone - ANSWER✔✔-Each of two or more words having the same pronunciation
but different meanings, origins, or spelling. For instance, new and knew.
Homonym - ANSWER✔✔-Each of two or more words having the same spelling but
different meanings and origins. For instance, pole and pole.
Homograph - ANSWER✔✔-Each of two or more words having the same spelling but
different meanings and sometimes different pronunciation. For instance, record and
record.
Cliche - ANSWER✔✔-Phrases that have been used so long and so often that they are
dull and unimaginative for the reader or listener.
Exam 2025 Questions and Answers
Schema - ANSWER✔✔-Background knowledge
Skimming - ANSWER✔✔-Looking quickly at the text for a general idea of what it is
about.
Scanning - ANSWER✔✔-Looking quickly at a text to find a particular part.
Concept Map - ANSWER✔✔-A graphic organizer that categorizes and connects
concepts.
Text Features - ANSWER✔✔-i.e. Bold, italics, table of contents, index, glossary, page
number, ect.
Visualization - ANSWER✔✔-Seeing a picture in your head while you read a text.
Questioning - ANSWER✔✔-Asking yourself questions while you read a text.
Connecting - ANSWER✔✔-When you read and connect the text to your life, the world
around you, or a previously read text.
,Predicting - ANSWER✔✔-Using the text information to make an educated guess on
what will happen next.
Synthesizing - ANSWER✔✔-Adding new knowledge learned from text to previous
knowledge in order to better understand what you read.
Author's Purpose (PIES) - ANSWER✔✔-To persuade, inform, explain, or share in a text.
Semantic Map - ANSWER✔✔-A graphic organizer that breaks one topic into related
sub-topics and describing the sub-topics.
Metacognitive Reading Strategies - ANSWER✔✔-Thinking strategies before, during,
and after reading to help a reader understand the text.
Self-Monitoring Reading Strategies - ANSWER✔✔-Asking yourself while reading,
"Does it look right?" "Does it sound right?" "Does it make sense?"
Inferring - ANSWER✔✔-Using the text information to figure out what the author is
trying to say even when it is not explicitly stated.
Narrative Text - ANSWER✔✔-Type of text that includes setting, problem, solution, re-
telling, and evaluation.
Expository Writing - ANSWER✔✔-Type of text that is informational. Includes:
descriptions, problem and solution, cause and effect, compare and contrast, sequence,
description.
, Structural Analysis - ANSWER✔✔-The structure of a sentence that includes a prefix,
base/root word, and a suffix.
Semantic Clue - ANSWER✔✔-A clue in text that includes finding the meaning of an
unknown words through the overall message of the sentence. For instance, "We ate
_______ that had peanut butter and jelly in them."
Syntactic Clue - ANSWER✔✔-A clue in text that includes using the grammatical
structure of the sentence to figure out if it is right.
Graphic Clue - ANSWER✔✔-Using the rest of the sentence to figure out an unknown
word. For instance, "We w_____ our car today."
Homophone - ANSWER✔✔-Each of two or more words having the same pronunciation
but different meanings, origins, or spelling. For instance, new and knew.
Homonym - ANSWER✔✔-Each of two or more words having the same spelling but
different meanings and origins. For instance, pole and pole.
Homograph - ANSWER✔✔-Each of two or more words having the same spelling but
different meanings and sometimes different pronunciation. For instance, record and
record.
Cliche - ANSWER✔✔-Phrases that have been used so long and so often that they are
dull and unimaginative for the reader or listener.
