Reading & Language Arts Exam
2025 Questions and Answers
Story Map - ANSWER✔✔-A strategy that uses a graphic organizer to help students
learn the elements of a book or story. By identifying story characters, plot, setting,
problem and solution, students read carefully to learn the details.
High - Frequency Words - ANSWER✔✔-Are the words that appear most often in
printed materials.
Phonics - ANSWER✔✔-A method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with
letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system. This is one of the primary
building blocks of reading.
Informational Writing - ANSWER✔✔-This is writing that informs. It is a type of
nonfiction writing, which means it is factual. Many examples of this can be found in
newspapers, almanacs and reference books. The purpose of this is to convey
information about something.
Persuasive Writing - ANSWER✔✔-A form of nonfiction writing that encourages careful
word choice, the development of logical arguments, and a cohesive summary. This is
,writing where you try to convince someone to take a particular issue on a point of voice.
This may be designed to convince the reader to take your position on a particular issue
or may be designed to convince the reader to take a certain action.
Expository Writing - ANSWER✔✔-This is a type of writing that is used to explain,
describe, give information, or inform. The text is organized around one topic and
developed according to a pattern or combination of patterns.
Narrative Writing - ANSWER✔✔-A narrative is the story (fiction or non-fiction) told
and the order in which it is told. Sometimes, there is a narrator, a character or series of
characters, who tell the story. Sometimes, as with most non-fiction, the author
himself/herself in the narrator.
Syntax - ANSWER✔✔-This is basically the structure of sentences. It is the arrangement
of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Verbs - ANSWER✔✔-A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and
forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
Pronouns - ANSWER✔✔-A word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that
refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or
something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this ).
Spelling - ANSWER✔✔-The process or activity of writing or naming the letters of a
word.
, Formal Speaking - ANSWER✔✔-This is used in "serious" texts and situations — for
example, in official documents, books, news reports, articles, business letters or official
speeches. Examples: She has decided to accept the job.
Informal Speaking - ANSWER✔✔-This is used in everyday conversations and in
personal letters. Examples: She's decided to accept the job. (She's - contraction)
Structural Analysis - ANSWER✔✔-This is the way that parts of a word are interpreted
to form the entire word. This can help readers determine the way a word is pronounced
and the way that it is being used in a sentence. When readers use structural analysis
they combine phonics letter-sound patterns into large, multi-letter chunks.
Making Generalizations - ANSWER✔✔-This is a broad statement that applies to many
examples. This is formed from a number of examples or facts and what they have in
common. Example: All animals that have feathers are birds. Readers recognize and
evaluate generalizations made by an author. Key words: sometimes, always, never,
most, many, all, and generally.
Recognizing Sight Vocabulary - ANSWER✔✔-This is a list of words put together by
someone who sees them as relevant at the time. Any word can be a sight word for an
individual student. Those words that she can say instantly, without applying any form
of word analysis, are in her sight vocabulary.
2025 Questions and Answers
Story Map - ANSWER✔✔-A strategy that uses a graphic organizer to help students
learn the elements of a book or story. By identifying story characters, plot, setting,
problem and solution, students read carefully to learn the details.
High - Frequency Words - ANSWER✔✔-Are the words that appear most often in
printed materials.
Phonics - ANSWER✔✔-A method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with
letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system. This is one of the primary
building blocks of reading.
Informational Writing - ANSWER✔✔-This is writing that informs. It is a type of
nonfiction writing, which means it is factual. Many examples of this can be found in
newspapers, almanacs and reference books. The purpose of this is to convey
information about something.
Persuasive Writing - ANSWER✔✔-A form of nonfiction writing that encourages careful
word choice, the development of logical arguments, and a cohesive summary. This is
,writing where you try to convince someone to take a particular issue on a point of voice.
This may be designed to convince the reader to take your position on a particular issue
or may be designed to convince the reader to take a certain action.
Expository Writing - ANSWER✔✔-This is a type of writing that is used to explain,
describe, give information, or inform. The text is organized around one topic and
developed according to a pattern or combination of patterns.
Narrative Writing - ANSWER✔✔-A narrative is the story (fiction or non-fiction) told
and the order in which it is told. Sometimes, there is a narrator, a character or series of
characters, who tell the story. Sometimes, as with most non-fiction, the author
himself/herself in the narrator.
Syntax - ANSWER✔✔-This is basically the structure of sentences. It is the arrangement
of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
Verbs - ANSWER✔✔-A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and
forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
Pronouns - ANSWER✔✔-A word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that
refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you ) or to someone or
something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this ).
Spelling - ANSWER✔✔-The process or activity of writing or naming the letters of a
word.
, Formal Speaking - ANSWER✔✔-This is used in "serious" texts and situations — for
example, in official documents, books, news reports, articles, business letters or official
speeches. Examples: She has decided to accept the job.
Informal Speaking - ANSWER✔✔-This is used in everyday conversations and in
personal letters. Examples: She's decided to accept the job. (She's - contraction)
Structural Analysis - ANSWER✔✔-This is the way that parts of a word are interpreted
to form the entire word. This can help readers determine the way a word is pronounced
and the way that it is being used in a sentence. When readers use structural analysis
they combine phonics letter-sound patterns into large, multi-letter chunks.
Making Generalizations - ANSWER✔✔-This is a broad statement that applies to many
examples. This is formed from a number of examples or facts and what they have in
common. Example: All animals that have feathers are birds. Readers recognize and
evaluate generalizations made by an author. Key words: sometimes, always, never,
most, many, all, and generally.
Recognizing Sight Vocabulary - ANSWER✔✔-This is a list of words put together by
someone who sees them as relevant at the time. Any word can be a sight word for an
individual student. Those words that she can say instantly, without applying any form
of word analysis, are in her sight vocabulary.
