FTCE Elementary Education k-6 Language Arts
and Reading questions and answers 2025\2026
A+ Grade
The 5 Components of Reading
- correct answer phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension
Phonemic Awareness
- correct answer The ability to hear and manipulate the sounds of spoken language. Includes noticing
rhyme and recognizing the separate, small sounds in words (phonemes).
Phonics
- correct answer The understanding of the relationships between the written letters of the alphabet and
the sounds of spoken language. This knowledge allows a reader to "decode" words by translating the
letters into speech sounds.
Fluency
- correct answer The ability to read quickly, accurately, and with proper expression.
Vocabulary
- correct answer Includes all the words the reader can understand and use.
Comprehension
- correct answer Ability to understand what one has read. Includes recognizing main idea of article or
able to compare and contrast different characters.
Word Recognition
- correct answer the student has ability to visually identify words in isolation or context.
,Phases of word recognition
- correct answer pre-alphabetic, partial-alphabetic, full-alphabetic, graphophonemic, and morphemic.
Text to self
- correct answer the reader made a connection from the reading to own personal life.
Text to text
- correct answer the reader made a connection from the reading to another book with similar writing
style, theme, or topic.
Text to world
- correct answer the reader made a connection from the reading to a topic or an event that has taken
place in the world.
Critical Thinking Strategies
- correct answer making connections, making predictions, questioning, summarizing
Making predictions
- correct answer use title and illustration on cover to predict what a text will be about aids
comprehension. Throughout reading, predictions can be affirmed or revised.
Questioning
- correct answer helps students make meaning of text being read. Questions about text, author's intent
etc.
"Right there" questions (text explicit)
- correct answer literal questions. Answer in the text itself.
"Think and search" (text implicit)
- correct answer the answer is implicit in text. Student must synthesize, infer, or summarize to find
answer.
"Reader and author" (implicit or experienced based)
- correct answer Reader must combine own experience with what texts states.
, "On my own" (implicit or experienced based)
- correct answer Reader must generate answer from prior knowledge.
Summarizing
- correct answer to simply and concisely paraphrase what has been read.
Reading Fluency
- correct answer accuracy, automaticity, rate, prosody
Accuracy
- correct answer ability to correctly read the words in a text
Automaticity
- correct answer ability to instantly recognize a large bank of words to quickly decode unfamiliar words.
Rate
- correct answer speed of reading
Prosody
- correct answer ability to read with appropriate rhythm, intonation, and expression.
Reading Comprehension
- correct answer Main idea, supporting details and facts, author's purpose, fact and opinion, point of
view, inference, visualize, conclusion
Main idea
- correct answer Determining the essential message of a reading selection.
Supporting details and facts
- correct answer provides the reader with the vital info needed to synthesize and summarize.
and Reading questions and answers 2025\2026
A+ Grade
The 5 Components of Reading
- correct answer phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension
Phonemic Awareness
- correct answer The ability to hear and manipulate the sounds of spoken language. Includes noticing
rhyme and recognizing the separate, small sounds in words (phonemes).
Phonics
- correct answer The understanding of the relationships between the written letters of the alphabet and
the sounds of spoken language. This knowledge allows a reader to "decode" words by translating the
letters into speech sounds.
Fluency
- correct answer The ability to read quickly, accurately, and with proper expression.
Vocabulary
- correct answer Includes all the words the reader can understand and use.
Comprehension
- correct answer Ability to understand what one has read. Includes recognizing main idea of article or
able to compare and contrast different characters.
Word Recognition
- correct answer the student has ability to visually identify words in isolation or context.
,Phases of word recognition
- correct answer pre-alphabetic, partial-alphabetic, full-alphabetic, graphophonemic, and morphemic.
Text to self
- correct answer the reader made a connection from the reading to own personal life.
Text to text
- correct answer the reader made a connection from the reading to another book with similar writing
style, theme, or topic.
Text to world
- correct answer the reader made a connection from the reading to a topic or an event that has taken
place in the world.
Critical Thinking Strategies
- correct answer making connections, making predictions, questioning, summarizing
Making predictions
- correct answer use title and illustration on cover to predict what a text will be about aids
comprehension. Throughout reading, predictions can be affirmed or revised.
Questioning
- correct answer helps students make meaning of text being read. Questions about text, author's intent
etc.
"Right there" questions (text explicit)
- correct answer literal questions. Answer in the text itself.
"Think and search" (text implicit)
- correct answer the answer is implicit in text. Student must synthesize, infer, or summarize to find
answer.
"Reader and author" (implicit or experienced based)
- correct answer Reader must combine own experience with what texts states.
, "On my own" (implicit or experienced based)
- correct answer Reader must generate answer from prior knowledge.
Summarizing
- correct answer to simply and concisely paraphrase what has been read.
Reading Fluency
- correct answer accuracy, automaticity, rate, prosody
Accuracy
- correct answer ability to correctly read the words in a text
Automaticity
- correct answer ability to instantly recognize a large bank of words to quickly decode unfamiliar words.
Rate
- correct answer speed of reading
Prosody
- correct answer ability to read with appropriate rhythm, intonation, and expression.
Reading Comprehension
- correct answer Main idea, supporting details and facts, author's purpose, fact and opinion, point of
view, inference, visualize, conclusion
Main idea
- correct answer Determining the essential message of a reading selection.
Supporting details and facts
- correct answer provides the reader with the vital info needed to synthesize and summarize.
