NES ELEMENTARY EDUCATION SUBTEST 1 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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.
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 - 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 - 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 _____ meaning. - 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
, discriminative listening - distinguishing beginning consonant sounds, for example
aesthetic listening - for enjoyment
critical listening - to evaluate a message
efferent listening - to understand a message
phonological - the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and
classification of its phonemes
phoneme - (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the
speakers of a particular language
Phonological awareness - an understanding that words are composed of sound units and that
sound units can be combined to form words.
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
Phonological awareness - 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.
- syllable
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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.
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 - 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 - 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 _____ meaning. - 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
, discriminative listening - distinguishing beginning consonant sounds, for example
aesthetic listening - for enjoyment
critical listening - to evaluate a message
efferent listening - to understand a message
phonological - the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and
classification of its phonemes
phoneme - (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the
speakers of a particular language
Phonological awareness - an understanding that words are composed of sound units and that
sound units can be combined to form words.
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
Phonological awareness - 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.
- syllable
