NES ELEMENTARY EDUCATION EXAM SUBTEST 1
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Competency 1 - demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of language development,
oral language skills, listening comprehension skills, and phonological and phonemic awareness.
Critical stage of language development between birth and the early elementary school years
where children develop skills important for conventional literacy - Emergent Literacy
LEA - Language Experience Approach
discriminative listening - Singling out one sound from a noisy environment
aesthetic listening - Listening that is performed for enjoyment and pleasure
critical listening - to evaluate a message
efferent listening - Listening to understand a message
phoneme - in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
graphemes - a written symbol that is used to represent speech
orthography - a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
,A ______ is a basic unit of speech sounds that can be divided into two parts—onsets and rimes.
- syllable
onset - the consonant sound that precedes the vowel of the syllable
rime - the vowel and any consonant sound that follows the onset.
Standard American English contains about _____ basic phonemes, although differences in
regional pronunciation and dialect can generate more. - 42
_____ _____ _____ is a term used to characterize the knowledge that emergent readers have
about how printed language works and how print can be used to represent language. - Concepts
of print
Concepts of print are fundamental understandings important to becoming literate and include
literacy conventions such as - Holding a book the right way
Turning the pages from right to left
Knowing where to begin reading on a page
Moving one's eyes from left to right and then to going back to the beginning of the next line
down
Knowing that pages are read from top to bottom
Understanding that books have a front and back
Teachers can promote emergent literacy skills when they: - Model what readers do when they
read a text aloud.
Point to words as they read.
Explain what the punctuation is for.
, Encourage students to take part in the reading activity (pointing to the words, or turning the
pages).
_____ _____ _____, the idea that written letters and letter patterns can be used to represent
speech sounds. - the alphabetic principle
automaticity - the ability to recognize words quickly, effortlessly, and accurately
Competency 2 - requires an understanding of effective instruction in phonics and word analysis
skills to support the development of reading fluency.
prosody - the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
Systematic sight word instruction - is focused on promoting students' automatic recognition of
words that occur with the highest frequency in texts, including words that follow regular
phonics patterns as well as those that do not.
morpheme - in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning
Basic syllable patterns (7) - closed (bad), open (hi), vowel-consonant-silent e (bike), vowel teams
(loan), r-controlled (car), consonant - le (table), others (sion, tion, ture, etc)
prosodic - of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes
of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing
Prosodic Reading - Reading with expression
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Competency 1 - demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of language development,
oral language skills, listening comprehension skills, and phonological and phonemic awareness.
Critical stage of language development between birth and the early elementary school years
where children develop skills important for conventional literacy - Emergent Literacy
LEA - Language Experience Approach
discriminative listening - Singling out one sound from a noisy environment
aesthetic listening - Listening that is performed for enjoyment and pleasure
critical listening - to evaluate a message
efferent listening - Listening to understand a message
phoneme - in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
graphemes - a written symbol that is used to represent speech
orthography - a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
,A ______ is a basic unit of speech sounds that can be divided into two parts—onsets and rimes.
- syllable
onset - the consonant sound that precedes the vowel of the syllable
rime - the vowel and any consonant sound that follows the onset.
Standard American English contains about _____ basic phonemes, although differences in
regional pronunciation and dialect can generate more. - 42
_____ _____ _____ is a term used to characterize the knowledge that emergent readers have
about how printed language works and how print can be used to represent language. - Concepts
of print
Concepts of print are fundamental understandings important to becoming literate and include
literacy conventions such as - Holding a book the right way
Turning the pages from right to left
Knowing where to begin reading on a page
Moving one's eyes from left to right and then to going back to the beginning of the next line
down
Knowing that pages are read from top to bottom
Understanding that books have a front and back
Teachers can promote emergent literacy skills when they: - Model what readers do when they
read a text aloud.
Point to words as they read.
Explain what the punctuation is for.
, Encourage students to take part in the reading activity (pointing to the words, or turning the
pages).
_____ _____ _____, the idea that written letters and letter patterns can be used to represent
speech sounds. - the alphabetic principle
automaticity - the ability to recognize words quickly, effortlessly, and accurately
Competency 2 - requires an understanding of effective instruction in phonics and word analysis
skills to support the development of reading fluency.
prosody - the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
Systematic sight word instruction - is focused on promoting students' automatic recognition of
words that occur with the highest frequency in texts, including words that follow regular
phonics patterns as well as those that do not.
morpheme - in language, the smallest unit that carries meaning
Basic syllable patterns (7) - closed (bad), open (hi), vowel-consonant-silent e (bike), vowel teams
(loan), r-controlled (car), consonant - le (table), others (sion, tion, ture, etc)
prosodic - of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes
of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing
Prosodic Reading - Reading with expression
