FTCE Elementary K-6 Study Guide.

FTCE Elementary K-6 Study Guide. Note: This study guide is meant to assist your study process. Please use it as one of a few resources, and not the only resource you study with! FTCE Elementary K-6 Study Guide Language Arts & Reading Developmental Stages of Reading • Stage 0: Prereading, birth to age 6 • Stage 1: Initial reading, grades 1-2.5 • Stage 2: Confirmation, Fluency, Ungluing from Print, grades 2-3 • Stage 3: Reading for Learning the New, grades 4-8 • Stage 4: Multiple Viewpoints, high school, ages 14-18 • Stage 5: Construction and Reconstruction, college and above, ages 18+ Guided reading An instructional strategy in which the teacher and a group of children, or sometimes an individual child, talk and think and question their way through a book of which they each have a copy. The teacher shows the children what questions to ask of themselves as readers, and the author through the text, so that each child can discover the author's meaning on the first reading. Sight words These are high frequency words which readers need to know automatically when they see them. Many of these words are not decodable. • In kindergarten, instruction begins with an emphasis on oral language and awareness of sounds. Activities include many listening for rhymes, identifying the initial sounds of pictures or spoken words, listening for how many words are in a spoken sentence, and listening for the number of syllables in a word. • Then children learn that letters correspond to speech sounds and that speech can be put into print. Children begin by learning initial sounds. They often represent whole words with just the beginning consonant sound when writing. Final consonant sounds are represented next. Vowel sounds are included last as children begin learning to match speech to print for the purpose of writing and reading. • After students understand simple consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) patterns, then consonant blends and consonant digraphs can be introduced, so that words like plan and stop or that and she can be added to the words that students can spell and read. • As they become familiar with words in print, readers build a storehouse of common words that they recognize automatically by sight. These words are also called high-frequency words because they appear in text more often than most other words. Words like the, to, a, and, you, am, I and of occur very frequently in text.