NYSTCE CST Multisubject Part 1 (241)
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Phonics - Correct Answer ✅ A method of teaching students
to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters
in an alphabetic writing system. Children are taught, for
example, that the letter n represents the sound /n/, and that
it is the first letter in words such as nose, nice and new.
Phonological Processing - Correct Answer ✅ The use of
phonemes to process spoken and written language. The
broad category of phonological processing includes
phonological awareness, phonological working memory, and
phonological retrieval.
Phonological Awareness - Correct Answer ✅ Awareness of
the sound structure of a language and the ability to
consciously analyze and manipulate this structure via a range
of tasks, such as speech sound segmentation and blending at
the word, onset-rime, syllable, and phonemic levels.
Development of Phonological Awareness - Correct Answer
✅ 1. Word awareness
2. Responsiveness to rhyme and alliteration during word play
3. Syllable awareness
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4. Onset and rime manipulation
5. Phoneme awareness
1. Word awareness - Correct Answer ✅ Tracking the words
in sentences. Knowledge that words have meaning. (less
important to teach directly)
Strategy: read-aloud, alphabet chants, high-frequency word
books
2. Responsiveness to rhyme and alliteration during word play
- Correct Answer ✅ Enjoying and reciting learned rhyming
words or alliterative phrases in familiar storybooks or nursery
rhymes.
Strategy: poetry books, alphabet chants, picture flashcards w/
objects whose names rhyme.
(Flashcards can be used in sorting and classifying activities.)
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3. Syllable awareness - Correct Answer ✅ Counting,
tapping, blending, or segmenting a word into syllables.
Strategy: Flashcards w/ objects whose names contain
different numbers of syllables.
(Flashcards can be used in sorting activity.)
4. Onset and rime manipulation - Correct Answer ✅ Onset
is the initial consonant in a one-syllable word. Rime includes
the remaining sounds, including the vowel and any sounds
that follow. The ability to produce a rhyming word depends on
understanding that rhyming words have the same rime.
Recognizing a rhyme is much easier than producing a rhyme.
Strategy: Blending and substitution activities.
5. Phonemic awareness - Correct Answer ✅ This is the
student's awareness of the smallest units of sound in a word.
It also refers to a student's ability to segment, blend, and
manipulate these units.
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- Identify and match the initial sounds in words, then the final
and middle sounds (e.g., "Which picture begins with /m/?";
"Find another picture that ends in /r/").
- Segment and produce the initial sound, then the final and
middle sounds (e.g., "What sound does zoo start with?"; "Say
the last sound in milk"; "Say the vowel sound in rope").
- Blend sounds into words (e.g., "Listen: /f/ /ē/ /t/. Say it fast").
- Segment the phonemes in two- or three-sound words,
moving to four- and five- sound words as the student
becomes proficient (e.g., "The word is eyes. Stretch and say
the sounds: /ī/ /z/").
- Manipulate phonemes by removing, adding, or substituting
sounds (e.g., "Say smoke without the /m/").
Strategy: listening to alliterative passages, blending and
segmenting words, and manipulating sounds in words
Exam Q&As (latest Update 2024)
Phonics - Correct Answer ✅ A method of teaching students
to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters
in an alphabetic writing system. Children are taught, for
example, that the letter n represents the sound /n/, and that
it is the first letter in words such as nose, nice and new.
Phonological Processing - Correct Answer ✅ The use of
phonemes to process spoken and written language. The
broad category of phonological processing includes
phonological awareness, phonological working memory, and
phonological retrieval.
Phonological Awareness - Correct Answer ✅ Awareness of
the sound structure of a language and the ability to
consciously analyze and manipulate this structure via a range
of tasks, such as speech sound segmentation and blending at
the word, onset-rime, syllable, and phonemic levels.
Development of Phonological Awareness - Correct Answer
✅ 1. Word awareness
2. Responsiveness to rhyme and alliteration during word play
3. Syllable awareness
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4. Onset and rime manipulation
5. Phoneme awareness
1. Word awareness - Correct Answer ✅ Tracking the words
in sentences. Knowledge that words have meaning. (less
important to teach directly)
Strategy: read-aloud, alphabet chants, high-frequency word
books
2. Responsiveness to rhyme and alliteration during word play
- Correct Answer ✅ Enjoying and reciting learned rhyming
words or alliterative phrases in familiar storybooks or nursery
rhymes.
Strategy: poetry books, alphabet chants, picture flashcards w/
objects whose names rhyme.
(Flashcards can be used in sorting and classifying activities.)
,NYSTCE CST Multisubject Part 1 (241)
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3. Syllable awareness - Correct Answer ✅ Counting,
tapping, blending, or segmenting a word into syllables.
Strategy: Flashcards w/ objects whose names contain
different numbers of syllables.
(Flashcards can be used in sorting activity.)
4. Onset and rime manipulation - Correct Answer ✅ Onset
is the initial consonant in a one-syllable word. Rime includes
the remaining sounds, including the vowel and any sounds
that follow. The ability to produce a rhyming word depends on
understanding that rhyming words have the same rime.
Recognizing a rhyme is much easier than producing a rhyme.
Strategy: Blending and substitution activities.
5. Phonemic awareness - Correct Answer ✅ This is the
student's awareness of the smallest units of sound in a word.
It also refers to a student's ability to segment, blend, and
manipulate these units.
, NYSTCE CST Multisubject Part 1 (241)
Exam Q&As (latest Update 2024)
- Identify and match the initial sounds in words, then the final
and middle sounds (e.g., "Which picture begins with /m/?";
"Find another picture that ends in /r/").
- Segment and produce the initial sound, then the final and
middle sounds (e.g., "What sound does zoo start with?"; "Say
the last sound in milk"; "Say the vowel sound in rope").
- Blend sounds into words (e.g., "Listen: /f/ /ē/ /t/. Say it fast").
- Segment the phonemes in two- or three-sound words,
moving to four- and five- sound words as the student
becomes proficient (e.g., "The word is eyes. Stretch and say
the sounds: /ī/ /z/").
- Manipulate phonemes by removing, adding, or substituting
sounds (e.g., "Say smoke without the /m/").
Strategy: listening to alliterative passages, blending and
segmenting words, and manipulating sounds in words
