NYSTCE Multi-Subject CST ELA questions with correct answers

Prereading - Answer All knowledge, skills and experience that come before conventional literacy. Students gain oral vocabulary, learn sentence structure, develop phonological awareness Running record - Answer An assessment which measures a child' fluency during oral reading Balanced Literacy Models - Answer strategies teachers use to allow for different learning styles Phonological awareness - Answer an awareness of an the ability to manipulate the sounds of spoken words; it is a broad term that includes identifying and making rhymes, recognizing alliteration, identifying and working with syllables in spoken words, identifying and working with onsets and rhymes in spoken syllables. Phoneme - Answer in a spoken language, the smallest distinctive sound unit Phonemic Awareness - Answer The ability to hear, identify,and manipulate the individual sounds, phonemes, in oral language. 5 Major Types of Tasks to develop Phonemic Awareness - Answer 1. Recognize sets of works have similar sounds (identifying rhyming words in a sentence) 2. Learn to examine a set of words to determine which is not like the others, oddity task) 3. Learn how to blend sounds to create words 4. Divide