NYSTCE 211 questions with correct answers

Emergent literacy - Answer what children do to learn how to read and write, what a child knows about reading and writing before learning, continues early and keeps going. Authentic experiences exposes children to language and it is critical in his stage Cues - Answer readers use these to construct meaning Semantic cues - Answer "meaning cues". Help readers understand what language means (symbols, sounds, pictures, word phrases, etc) Syntactic cues - Answer This helps readers understand structure. Structure cues that help readers understand how words are organized into patterns. Graphophonic Cues - Answer Letter and sound cues that help readers identify individual letters or patterns or clusters of letters such as root and whole words. Conventions of print - Answer print cues that enable readers to follow print Pragmatic cues - Answer Social and cultural functions of language for different purposes. Different language based on who we are speaking to. Strategies for applying cues - Answer Sampling; reading or listening Predicting; making an educated guess