NES Elementary Education Subtest 2
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the tools of communication children use to form their
understanding of the word [ Ans: ] reading, writing,
listening, and speaking
Competency 1 [ Ans: ] demonstrate an understanding of
the foundations of language development, oral language
skills, listening comprehension skills, and phonological
and phonemic awareness.
Informal conversations [ Ans: ] Time to talk about things
that interest and excite children.
Language play [ Ans: ] Exploring rhythms, sounds, and
tones that young children delight in as they work and
play.
Rhymes and song [ Ans: ] Experiences rich in rhythm and
rhyme encourage children to play with words.
Stories [ Ans: ] Children discover new words and meanings
as they listen to good stories — either told or read aloud.
Group talk [ Ans: ] Times during the day when
conventions of shared conversations are learned and
practiced.
,Because this entire period between birth and the early
elementary school years helps prepare children with the
skills important for conventional literacy, we refer to this
critical stage of language development as _____ _____. [
Ans: ] Emergent Literacy
The key is to make reading and writing _____ to the
everyday life of the classroom and to make literacy
activities _____ to each child. [ Ans: ] fundamental,
relevant
_____ and _____ to what the children have to say and they
will learn to do the same. [ Ans: ] listen, respond
LEA [ Ans: ] Language Experience Approach
Dictated Stories [ Ans: ] LEA
alliteration [ Ans: ] use of the same consonant at the
beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
language delay [ Ans: ] There are many factors that cause
language delay, both environmental and physical.
Common conditions include inadequate language
stimulation (neither talking to nor playing with the child);
delayed general development; parents/guardians or
siblings who often talk for the child; medical and physical
problems; family history of language delay; learning
disabilities; and autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
ASD [ Ans: ] Autism Spectrum Disorders
,Listening can be described as part of an active
communication process that involves _____, _____, and
_____ to verbal input. [ Ans: ] receiving, interpreting,
responding
The three steps in the listening process are _____, _____,
and _____ meaning. [ Ans: ] receiving, attending, assigning
meaning
Students can be given opportunities to develop and
practice listening skills during three phases of the
listening process: _____, _____ and _____ . [ Ans: ] pre-
listening, during listening, after listening
discriminative listening [ Ans: ] distinguishing beginning
consonant sounds, for example
aesthetic listening [ Ans: ] for enjoyment
critical listening [ Ans: ] to evaluate a message
efferent listening [ Ans: ] to understand a message
phonological [ Ans: ] the study of the sound system of a
given language and the analysis and classification of its
phonemes
phoneme [ Ans: ] (linguistics) one of a small set of speech
sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a
particular language
, Phonological awareness [ Ans: ] an understanding that
words are composed of sound units and that sound units
can be combined to form words.
graphemes [ Ans: ] a written symbol that is used to
represent speech
orthography [ Ans: ] a method of representing the sounds
of a language by written or printed symbols
Phonological awareness [ Ans: ] the awareness that
language is composed of sounds and the understanding of
the relationship of these sounds, such as rhyming and
identifying sound units such as words in sentences,
syllables, onsets, and rimes.
A ______ is a basic unit of speech sounds that can be
divided into two parts—onsets and rimes. [ Ans: ] syllable
onset [ Ans: ] the consonant sound that precedes the
vowel of the syllable
rime [ Ans: ] the vowel and any consonant sound that
follows the onset.
Phonemic Awareness [ Ans: ] refers to the ability to focus
on, hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes, or the
individual sounds that make up spoken words.
Phoneme segmentation [ Ans: ] is a child's ability to
recognize the separate sound units of words
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the tools of communication children use to form their
understanding of the word [ Ans: ] reading, writing,
listening, and speaking
Competency 1 [ Ans: ] demonstrate an understanding of
the foundations of language development, oral language
skills, listening comprehension skills, and phonological
and phonemic awareness.
Informal conversations [ Ans: ] Time to talk about things
that interest and excite children.
Language play [ Ans: ] Exploring rhythms, sounds, and
tones that young children delight in as they work and
play.
Rhymes and song [ Ans: ] Experiences rich in rhythm and
rhyme encourage children to play with words.
Stories [ Ans: ] Children discover new words and meanings
as they listen to good stories — either told or read aloud.
Group talk [ Ans: ] Times during the day when
conventions of shared conversations are learned and
practiced.
,Because this entire period between birth and the early
elementary school years helps prepare children with the
skills important for conventional literacy, we refer to this
critical stage of language development as _____ _____. [
Ans: ] Emergent Literacy
The key is to make reading and writing _____ to the
everyday life of the classroom and to make literacy
activities _____ to each child. [ Ans: ] fundamental,
relevant
_____ and _____ to what the children have to say and they
will learn to do the same. [ Ans: ] listen, respond
LEA [ Ans: ] Language Experience Approach
Dictated Stories [ Ans: ] LEA
alliteration [ Ans: ] use of the same consonant at the
beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
language delay [ Ans: ] There are many factors that cause
language delay, both environmental and physical.
Common conditions include inadequate language
stimulation (neither talking to nor playing with the child);
delayed general development; parents/guardians or
siblings who often talk for the child; medical and physical
problems; family history of language delay; learning
disabilities; and autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
ASD [ Ans: ] Autism Spectrum Disorders
,Listening can be described as part of an active
communication process that involves _____, _____, and
_____ to verbal input. [ Ans: ] receiving, interpreting,
responding
The three steps in the listening process are _____, _____,
and _____ meaning. [ Ans: ] receiving, attending, assigning
meaning
Students can be given opportunities to develop and
practice listening skills during three phases of the
listening process: _____, _____ and _____ . [ Ans: ] pre-
listening, during listening, after listening
discriminative listening [ Ans: ] distinguishing beginning
consonant sounds, for example
aesthetic listening [ Ans: ] for enjoyment
critical listening [ Ans: ] to evaluate a message
efferent listening [ Ans: ] to understand a message
phonological [ Ans: ] the study of the sound system of a
given language and the analysis and classification of its
phonemes
phoneme [ Ans: ] (linguistics) one of a small set of speech
sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a
particular language
, Phonological awareness [ Ans: ] an understanding that
words are composed of sound units and that sound units
can be combined to form words.
graphemes [ Ans: ] a written symbol that is used to
represent speech
orthography [ Ans: ] a method of representing the sounds
of a language by written or printed symbols
Phonological awareness [ Ans: ] the awareness that
language is composed of sounds and the understanding of
the relationship of these sounds, such as rhyming and
identifying sound units such as words in sentences,
syllables, onsets, and rimes.
A ______ is a basic unit of speech sounds that can be
divided into two parts—onsets and rimes. [ Ans: ] syllable
onset [ Ans: ] the consonant sound that precedes the
vowel of the syllable
rime [ Ans: ] the vowel and any consonant sound that
follows the onset.
Phonemic Awareness [ Ans: ] refers to the ability to focus
on, hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes, or the
individual sounds that make up spoken words.
Phoneme segmentation [ Ans: ] is a child's ability to
recognize the separate sound units of words
