TExES CORE Subjects EC-6 (391):
English Language Arts and Reading
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Prefix - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A letter or letters at the beginning of a root word
that changes its meaning
re, de, un
Semantics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The study of word or symbol meaning
"love" which has many different meanings in English
Literal vs figurative meaning of "Raining cats and dogs"
Free Morpheme / Unbound Morpheme - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔type of morpheme
that can stand alone or can appear with other morphemes in a lexeme
Simple words (i.e. words made up of one free morpheme, such as the, run,
on, etc.) and compound words (i.e. words made up of two free morphemes,
such as keyboard, greenhouse, etc.) are free morphemes.
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,Punctuation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔marks, such as period, comma, and
parentheses, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and
to clarify meaning.
period
Phonics / Graphophonemic Principle - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Using the
relationship between symbols (letters and words) and sounds of a
language to read and write
Countable Nouns - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nouns that have a quantity that can be
determined using numbers
potatoes, clients, buildings
Determiner - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔words that provide information about nouns;
vital for forming meaningful statements or questions
a, an, the, this, that, my, your, some, many
Decoding - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔In reading out loud, being able to sound out
words by breaking them into simple forms. In reading for comprehension,
the understanding of how to read each letter or letter pattern in a word to
determine the word's meaning
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,Thesaurus (Digital) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an online thesaurus
thesarus.com
Dictionary (Print) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔use when you need to define a word
Oxford English Dictionary
Antonyms - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔words with the opposite meanings
hot/cold; and big/little
Open Syllable - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Syllable that ends in a vowel; the vowel
has its long sound
vacant, brutal, agent
R-Controlled Syllable - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Syllable that contains a vowel
followed by the letter r; the r controls the vowel and changes the way the
vowel is pronounced
car, guitar, mother, and manor
Sight Word - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔word that cannot be decoded because it
doesn't follow standard phonics rules and must be recognized by sight
of, was, the, would
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, Letter-Sound Correspondence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔knowing what sound(s)
each letter makes
the letter "f" makes the first sound in the word "foot"
Suffix - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A letter or letters at the end of a root word that
changes its meaning
s, es, ed, ing, ly, er, or, ion, tion, able, and ible
Phoneme Blending - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the ability to blend two sounds to
make a word
Blend together these sounds to make a word: /b/ /a/ /t/ to form bat.
Uncountable Noun - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nouns that do not have a quantity that
can be determined using numbers
water, love, safety
Glossary - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a list of important words to know along with their
meanings
Hyponyms - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔words that fall under a more general term
Hyponyms for clothes are sweater, pants, shirt, etc.
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English Language Arts and Reading
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Answers
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Prefix - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A letter or letters at the beginning of a root word
that changes its meaning
re, de, un
Semantics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The study of word or symbol meaning
"love" which has many different meanings in English
Literal vs figurative meaning of "Raining cats and dogs"
Free Morpheme / Unbound Morpheme - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔type of morpheme
that can stand alone or can appear with other morphemes in a lexeme
Simple words (i.e. words made up of one free morpheme, such as the, run,
on, etc.) and compound words (i.e. words made up of two free morphemes,
such as keyboard, greenhouse, etc.) are free morphemes.
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,Punctuation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔marks, such as period, comma, and
parentheses, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and
to clarify meaning.
period
Phonics / Graphophonemic Principle - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Using the
relationship between symbols (letters and words) and sounds of a
language to read and write
Countable Nouns - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nouns that have a quantity that can be
determined using numbers
potatoes, clients, buildings
Determiner - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔words that provide information about nouns;
vital for forming meaningful statements or questions
a, an, the, this, that, my, your, some, many
Decoding - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔In reading out loud, being able to sound out
words by breaking them into simple forms. In reading for comprehension,
the understanding of how to read each letter or letter pattern in a word to
determine the word's meaning
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,Thesaurus (Digital) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an online thesaurus
thesarus.com
Dictionary (Print) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔use when you need to define a word
Oxford English Dictionary
Antonyms - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔words with the opposite meanings
hot/cold; and big/little
Open Syllable - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Syllable that ends in a vowel; the vowel
has its long sound
vacant, brutal, agent
R-Controlled Syllable - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Syllable that contains a vowel
followed by the letter r; the r controls the vowel and changes the way the
vowel is pronounced
car, guitar, mother, and manor
Sight Word - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔word that cannot be decoded because it
doesn't follow standard phonics rules and must be recognized by sight
of, was, the, would
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, Letter-Sound Correspondence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔knowing what sound(s)
each letter makes
the letter "f" makes the first sound in the word "foot"
Suffix - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A letter or letters at the end of a root word that
changes its meaning
s, es, ed, ing, ly, er, or, ion, tion, able, and ible
Phoneme Blending - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the ability to blend two sounds to
make a word
Blend together these sounds to make a word: /b/ /a/ /t/ to form bat.
Uncountable Noun - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔nouns that do not have a quantity that
can be determined using numbers
water, love, safety
Glossary - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a list of important words to know along with their
meanings
Hyponyms - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔words that fall under a more general term
Hyponyms for clothes are sweater, pants, shirt, etc.
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