NYSTCE Multi-Subject CST ELA Exam Questions & Answers 100% Correct

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 words into their phonemes (segmenting words) and count the number of sounds in a word 5. Learn how to manipulate the sounds in a word by substituting or deleting one or many phonemes Print Concept - ANSWER-Understanding how text works to communicate a message. Includes handing of books and orientation of text. Ways to facilitate print concepts - ANSWER-Combining movement activities to convey bottom, top side. Teach the parts of a book. Experiences with different fonts and text sizes and the different meanings they have. Spacing. Writing exercises. Use of meta-language to descibe books. Track Print - ANSWER-student understands the direction of the text Alphabet Recognition - ANSWER-being able to identify the letters of the alphabet both capital and lowercase when asked to do so Alphabetic principle - ANSWER-the relationship between letters or combinations of letters (graphemes) and sounds (phonemes) Letter-sound correspondence - ANSWER-refers to the identification of sounds associated with individual letters and letter combination. Short Vowel sounds - ANSWER-every vowel has two sounds, the vocal cords are more relaxed when producing the short vowel sound because of this the sounds are often referred to as lax. They can be heard at the beginning of these words: apple, Ed, igloo, octopus, and umbrella. Digraph - ANSWER-n. A union of two characters representing a single sound. Diphthong - ANSWER-n. The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds. CVC - ANSWER-consonant-vowel-consonant pattern which produces a short vowel sound or a closed syllable. Consonant Clusters - ANSWER-- also called blends - Consonants that occur side by side within the same syllable.