Language and Literacy Exam UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Decoding - CORRECT ANSWER - Ability to take symbols and turn into sound
(translating printed words into speech)
Goals of Reading Instruction - CORRECT ANSWER - 1) Comprehension: understand,
reflect + learn
2) Fluency: identify words accurately + read with ease
3) Motivation: actively engage students in reading process
Cueing Systems - CORRECT ANSWER - 1) Semantic: meaning - make sense (prior
knowledge, vocab used, meaning of images)
2) Syntactic: structure - sounds right (knowledge of language, syntax + grammar, type of
sentence)
3) Graphophonic: visual - look right (relationship b/w sound and print, phonics: relationship b/w
letters and sounds, phonological awareness: can identify + manipulate sounds w/o print,
phonemic awareness: identify + manipulate sounds at the smallest unit of sound w/o print)
Phonics - CORRECT ANSWER - Relationship between letters and sounds
Phonological awareness - CORRECT ANSWER - Can identify + manipulate sounds
without print
Phonemic awareness - CORRECT ANSWER - Identify + manipulate sounds at the
smallest unit of sound without print
Phases of Readers - CORRECT ANSWER - 1) Emergent: retelling a story they've heard
(3-7)
, 2) Early: sounding out words (6-9)
3) Transitional: get meaning, infers, self-corrects (9-12)
4) Self-Extending/Fluent: reading to learn (9-14)
Six Langauge Arts - CORRECT ANSWER - - Reading ( meaning of print)
- Writing (Creating print)
- Listening (meaning of oral)
- Speaking (creating oral)
- Viewing (meaning of visual)
- Visually representing (creating visual)
Whole Language - CORRECT ANSWER - - emphasizes motivation and interest: reading
is focused on meanings from texts
- aka: Top-Down
- against phonics
- lack of attention for alphabetic system, word recognition
Balanced Literacy - CORRECT ANSWER - - Combines both strengths of whole language
+ skills instruction
- Key concepts: gradual release of responsibility and zone of proximal development
Zone of Proximal Development - CORRECT ANSWER - Distance between actual
development level by independent + level of development with peer/adult collaboration
Gradual release of responsibility - CORRECT ANSWER - - Modelled Instruction
- Guided Instruction
- Guided practice
- Independent practice
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Decoding - CORRECT ANSWER - Ability to take symbols and turn into sound
(translating printed words into speech)
Goals of Reading Instruction - CORRECT ANSWER - 1) Comprehension: understand,
reflect + learn
2) Fluency: identify words accurately + read with ease
3) Motivation: actively engage students in reading process
Cueing Systems - CORRECT ANSWER - 1) Semantic: meaning - make sense (prior
knowledge, vocab used, meaning of images)
2) Syntactic: structure - sounds right (knowledge of language, syntax + grammar, type of
sentence)
3) Graphophonic: visual - look right (relationship b/w sound and print, phonics: relationship b/w
letters and sounds, phonological awareness: can identify + manipulate sounds w/o print,
phonemic awareness: identify + manipulate sounds at the smallest unit of sound w/o print)
Phonics - CORRECT ANSWER - Relationship between letters and sounds
Phonological awareness - CORRECT ANSWER - Can identify + manipulate sounds
without print
Phonemic awareness - CORRECT ANSWER - Identify + manipulate sounds at the
smallest unit of sound without print
Phases of Readers - CORRECT ANSWER - 1) Emergent: retelling a story they've heard
(3-7)
, 2) Early: sounding out words (6-9)
3) Transitional: get meaning, infers, self-corrects (9-12)
4) Self-Extending/Fluent: reading to learn (9-14)
Six Langauge Arts - CORRECT ANSWER - - Reading ( meaning of print)
- Writing (Creating print)
- Listening (meaning of oral)
- Speaking (creating oral)
- Viewing (meaning of visual)
- Visually representing (creating visual)
Whole Language - CORRECT ANSWER - - emphasizes motivation and interest: reading
is focused on meanings from texts
- aka: Top-Down
- against phonics
- lack of attention for alphabetic system, word recognition
Balanced Literacy - CORRECT ANSWER - - Combines both strengths of whole language
+ skills instruction
- Key concepts: gradual release of responsibility and zone of proximal development
Zone of Proximal Development - CORRECT ANSWER - Distance between actual
development level by independent + level of development with peer/adult collaboration
Gradual release of responsibility - CORRECT ANSWER - - Modelled Instruction
- Guided Instruction
- Guided practice
- Independent practice
