NES Elementary Education Subtest 1
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
the tools of communication children use to form their understanding of the word - CORRECT
ANSWER - reading, writing, listening, and speaking
Competency 1 - CORRECT ANSWER - demonstrate an understanding of the foundations
of language development, oral language skills, listening comprehension skills, and phonological
and phonemic awareness.
Informal conversations - CORRECT ANSWER - Time to talk about things that interest
and excite children.
Language play - CORRECT ANSWER - Exploring rhythms, sounds, and tones that young
children delight in as they work and play.
Rhymes and song - CORRECT ANSWER - Experiences rich in rhythm and rhyme
encourage children to play with words.
Stories - CORRECT ANSWER - Children discover new words and meanings as they
listen to good stories — either told or read aloud.
Group talk - CORRECT ANSWER - Times during the day when conventions of shared
conversations are learned and practiced.
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 _____ _____. - CORRECT ANSWER - 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. - CORRECT ANSWER - fundamental, relevant
_____ and _____ to what the children have to say and they will learn to do the same. -
CORRECT ANSWER - listen, respond
LEA - CORRECT ANSWER - Language Experience Approach
Dictated Stories - CORRECT ANSWER - LEA
alliteration - CORRECT ANSWER - use of the same consonant at the beginning of each
stressed syllable in a line of verse
language delay - CORRECT ANSWER - There are many factors that cause language
delay, both environmental and physical. Common conditions 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Autism Spectrum Disorders
Listening can be described as part of an active communication process that involves _____,
_____, and _____ to verbal input. - CORRECT ANSWER - receiving, interpreting,
responding
The three steps in the listening process are _____, _____, and _____ meaning. - CORRECT
ANSWER - receiving, attending, assigning meaning
Students can be given opportunities to develop and practice listening skills during three phases of
the listening process: _____, _____ and _____ . - CORRECT ANSWER - pre-listening,
during listening, after listening
, discriminative listening - CORRECT ANSWER - distinguishing beginning consonant
sounds, for example
aesthetic listening - CORRECT ANSWER - for enjoyment
critical listening - CORRECT ANSWER - to evaluate a message
efferent listening - CORRECT ANSWER - to understand a message
phonological - CORRECT ANSWER - the study of the sound system of a given language
and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
phoneme - CORRECT ANSWER - (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that
are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
Phonological awareness - CORRECT ANSWER - an understanding that words are
composed of sound units and that sound units can be combined to form words.
graphemes - CORRECT ANSWER - a written symbol that is used to represent speech
orthography - CORRECT ANSWER - a method of representing the sounds of a language
by written or printed symbols
Phonological awareness - CORRECT ANSWER - the awareness that language is
composed of sounds and the understanding of the relationship of these sounds, such as rhyming
and identifying sound units such as words in sentences, syllables, onsets, and rimes.
A ______ is a basic unit of speech sounds that can be divided into two parts—onsets and rimes. -
CORRECT ANSWER - syllable
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
the tools of communication children use to form their understanding of the word - CORRECT
ANSWER - reading, writing, listening, and speaking
Competency 1 - CORRECT ANSWER - demonstrate an understanding of the foundations
of language development, oral language skills, listening comprehension skills, and phonological
and phonemic awareness.
Informal conversations - CORRECT ANSWER - Time to talk about things that interest
and excite children.
Language play - CORRECT ANSWER - Exploring rhythms, sounds, and tones that young
children delight in as they work and play.
Rhymes and song - CORRECT ANSWER - Experiences rich in rhythm and rhyme
encourage children to play with words.
Stories - CORRECT ANSWER - Children discover new words and meanings as they
listen to good stories — either told or read aloud.
Group talk - CORRECT ANSWER - Times during the day when conventions of shared
conversations are learned and practiced.
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 _____ _____. - CORRECT ANSWER - 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. - CORRECT ANSWER - fundamental, relevant
_____ and _____ to what the children have to say and they will learn to do the same. -
CORRECT ANSWER - listen, respond
LEA - CORRECT ANSWER - Language Experience Approach
Dictated Stories - CORRECT ANSWER - LEA
alliteration - CORRECT ANSWER - use of the same consonant at the beginning of each
stressed syllable in a line of verse
language delay - CORRECT ANSWER - There are many factors that cause language
delay, both environmental and physical. Common conditions 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 - CORRECT ANSWER - Autism Spectrum Disorders
Listening can be described as part of an active communication process that involves _____,
_____, and _____ to verbal input. - CORRECT ANSWER - receiving, interpreting,
responding
The three steps in the listening process are _____, _____, and _____ meaning. - CORRECT
ANSWER - receiving, attending, assigning meaning
Students can be given opportunities to develop and practice listening skills during three phases of
the listening process: _____, _____ and _____ . - CORRECT ANSWER - pre-listening,
during listening, after listening
, discriminative listening - CORRECT ANSWER - distinguishing beginning consonant
sounds, for example
aesthetic listening - CORRECT ANSWER - for enjoyment
critical listening - CORRECT ANSWER - to evaluate a message
efferent listening - CORRECT ANSWER - to understand a message
phonological - CORRECT ANSWER - the study of the sound system of a given language
and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
phoneme - CORRECT ANSWER - (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that
are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
Phonological awareness - CORRECT ANSWER - an understanding that words are
composed of sound units and that sound units can be combined to form words.
graphemes - CORRECT ANSWER - a written symbol that is used to represent speech
orthography - CORRECT ANSWER - a method of representing the sounds of a language
by written or printed symbols
Phonological awareness - CORRECT ANSWER - the awareness that language is
composed of sounds and the understanding of the relationship of these sounds, such as rhyming
and identifying sound units such as words in sentences, syllables, onsets, and rimes.
A ______ is a basic unit of speech sounds that can be divided into two parts—onsets and rimes. -
CORRECT ANSWER - syllable
