FTCE: SUBJECT AREA K-6: LANGUAGE
ART UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Question
and Answer (2026/2027) | A+ Verified
• The 5 Components of Reading . CORRECT ANSWER: phonemic awareness,
phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension
• Phonemic Awareness . CORRECT ANSWER: The ability to hear and manipulate
the sounds of spoken language. Includes noticing rhyme and recognizing the
separate, small sounds in words (phonemes).
• Phonics . CORRECT ANSWER: The understanding of the relationships between
the written letters of the alphabet and the sounds of spoken language. This
knowledge allows a reader to "decode" words by translating the letters into
speech sounds.
• Fluency . CORRECT ANSWER: The ability to read quickly, accurately, and with
proper expression.
• Vocabulary . CORRECT ANSWER: Includes all the words the reader can
understand and use.
• Comprehension . CORRECT ANSWER: Ability to understand what one has read.
Includes recognizing main idea of article or able to compare and contrast different
characters.
• Word Recognition . CORRECT ANSWER: the student has ability to visually
identify words in isolation or context.
,• Phases of word recognition . CORRECT ANSWER: pre-alphabetic, partial-
alphabetic, full-alphabetic, graphophonemic, and morphemic.
• Text to self . CORRECT ANSWER: the reader made a connection from the
reading to own personal life.
• Text to text . CORRECT ANSWER: the reader made a connection from the
reading to another book with similar writing style, theme, or topic.
• Text to world . CORRECT ANSWER: the reader made a connection from the
reading to a topic or an event that has taken place in the world.
• Critical Thinking Strategies . CORRECT ANSWER: making connections, making
predictions, questioning, summarizing
• Making predictions . CORRECT ANSWER: use title and illustration on cover to
predict what a text will be about aids comprehension. Throughout reading,
predictions can be affirmed or revised.
• Questioning . CORRECT ANSWER: helps students make meaning of text being
read. Questions about text, author's intent etc.
• "Right there" questions (text explicit) . CORRECT ANSWER: literal questions.
Answer in the text itself.
, • "Think and search" (text implicit) . CORRECT ANSWER: the answer is implicit in
text. Student must synthesize, infer, or summarize to find answer.
• "Reader and author" (implicit or experienced based) . CORRECT ANSWER:
Reader must combine own experience with what texts states.
• "On my own" (implicit or experienced based) . CORRECT ANSWER: Reader must
generate answer from prior knowledge.
• Summarizing . CORRECT ANSWER: to simply and concisely paraphrase what has
been read.
• Reading Fluency . CORRECT ANSWER: accuracy, automaticity, rate, prosody
• Accuracy . CORRECT ANSWER: ability to correctly read the words in a text
• Automaticity . CORRECT ANSWER: ability to instantly recognize a large bank of
words to quickly decode unfamiliar words.
• Rate . CORRECT ANSWER: speed of reading
• Prosody . CORRECT ANSWER: ability to read with appropriate rhythm,
intonation, and expression.
• Reading Comprehension . CORRECT ANSWER: Main idea, supporting details and
facts, author's purpose, fact and opinion, point of view, inference, visualize,
conclusion
ART UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Question
and Answer (2026/2027) | A+ Verified
• The 5 Components of Reading . CORRECT ANSWER: phonemic awareness,
phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension
• Phonemic Awareness . CORRECT ANSWER: The ability to hear and manipulate
the sounds of spoken language. Includes noticing rhyme and recognizing the
separate, small sounds in words (phonemes).
• Phonics . CORRECT ANSWER: The understanding of the relationships between
the written letters of the alphabet and the sounds of spoken language. This
knowledge allows a reader to "decode" words by translating the letters into
speech sounds.
• Fluency . CORRECT ANSWER: The ability to read quickly, accurately, and with
proper expression.
• Vocabulary . CORRECT ANSWER: Includes all the words the reader can
understand and use.
• Comprehension . CORRECT ANSWER: Ability to understand what one has read.
Includes recognizing main idea of article or able to compare and contrast different
characters.
• Word Recognition . CORRECT ANSWER: the student has ability to visually
identify words in isolation or context.
,• Phases of word recognition . CORRECT ANSWER: pre-alphabetic, partial-
alphabetic, full-alphabetic, graphophonemic, and morphemic.
• Text to self . CORRECT ANSWER: the reader made a connection from the
reading to own personal life.
• Text to text . CORRECT ANSWER: the reader made a connection from the
reading to another book with similar writing style, theme, or topic.
• Text to world . CORRECT ANSWER: the reader made a connection from the
reading to a topic or an event that has taken place in the world.
• Critical Thinking Strategies . CORRECT ANSWER: making connections, making
predictions, questioning, summarizing
• Making predictions . CORRECT ANSWER: use title and illustration on cover to
predict what a text will be about aids comprehension. Throughout reading,
predictions can be affirmed or revised.
• Questioning . CORRECT ANSWER: helps students make meaning of text being
read. Questions about text, author's intent etc.
• "Right there" questions (text explicit) . CORRECT ANSWER: literal questions.
Answer in the text itself.
, • "Think and search" (text implicit) . CORRECT ANSWER: the answer is implicit in
text. Student must synthesize, infer, or summarize to find answer.
• "Reader and author" (implicit or experienced based) . CORRECT ANSWER:
Reader must combine own experience with what texts states.
• "On my own" (implicit or experienced based) . CORRECT ANSWER: Reader must
generate answer from prior knowledge.
• Summarizing . CORRECT ANSWER: to simply and concisely paraphrase what has
been read.
• Reading Fluency . CORRECT ANSWER: accuracy, automaticity, rate, prosody
• Accuracy . CORRECT ANSWER: ability to correctly read the words in a text
• Automaticity . CORRECT ANSWER: ability to instantly recognize a large bank of
words to quickly decode unfamiliar words.
• Rate . CORRECT ANSWER: speed of reading
• Prosody . CORRECT ANSWER: ability to read with appropriate rhythm,
intonation, and expression.
• Reading Comprehension . CORRECT ANSWER: Main idea, supporting details and
facts, author's purpose, fact and opinion, point of view, inference, visualize,
conclusion
