FTCE: Elementary Education (Florida Teacher Certification Examination)

FTCE: Elementary Education (Florida Teacher Certification Examination) The reading process is made up of these five components: Phonemic Awareness, Fluency, Phonics, Comprehension, and Vocabulary. LAR Skill 1.1 Components of Emergent Literacy are: Print Awareness, Print Motivation, Oral Language, Letter Knowledge, Phonological awareness, Narrative skills. LAR Skill 1.1 Emergent Literacy Consists of reading-related knowldge and skills that children develop prior to formal instruction in reading. LAR Skill 1.1 Print Motivation Interest in and enjoyment of printed materials. LAR Skill 1.1 Print Awareness Interest and interaction with print; pretending to read. LAR Skill 1.1 Listening and Oral Vocabularies Words understood when heard; words used in speech. LAR Skill 1.1 Narrative Skills Ability to retell storeis or describe events. LAR Skill 1.1 Letter Knowledge Understand letter names and sahpes. LAR Skill 1.1 Phonological Awareness Ability to understand the sound of language and manipulate or play with speech sounds. LAR Skill 1.1 Up to age 5, children are exposed to reading and learn about it without reading. What are some examples of this? Print differs from other visual patterns. Books contain print. Readers glean infomration from print. Print can be translated into speech. Reading follows certain conventions. LAR Skill 1.1 Emergent literacy forms the foundation of future reading and writing development. True or False? True LAR Skill 1.1 Emergent literacy is understood to develop at individual rates. True or False? True LAR Skill 1.1 Certain criteria that could determine whether or not a child is ready for reading include: Concepts of print, oral language development, and understanding of the alphabetic principle; the relationship between letters (graphemes) and the sounds they represent (phonemes) LAR Skill 1.1 Grapheme The relationship between letters. LAR Skill 1.1 Phoneme The sounds that letters represent. LAR Skill 1.1 Marie M. Clay developed a formal procedure for what? For observing a child's behavior with bookjs to determine the extent of a child's print-related concepts. LAR Skill 1.1 Marie M. Clay's formal procedures include assessment cheks such as? If the child can: Find the title of a book, show where to start reading and locate the last page or end of the book. LAR Skill 1.1 A critical pre-reading skill is being able to indicate the directionality of what? Print LAR Skill 1.1 Readers in the U.S. must start where on the page and read to where? The left side of the page and read to the right. LAR Skill 1.1 How can teachers or parents model directionality in reading? By passing hteir hadns or fingers under the words or sentences as they read aloud. LAR Skill 1.1 What four dimensions does language have? Speaking, listening, reading, and writing LAR Skill 1.1 Oral language is the subset of what? Language LAR Skill 1.1 Oral language has two dimensions, which are: Speaking and listening LAR Skill 1.1 Listening is the precursor to what? Speaking LAR Skill 1.1 Children have to _____________ language before they can speak it. Hear LAR Skill 1.1 Why is oral language important? It provides the mental framework for what words mean and how language works. LAR Skill 1.1 Oral language starts where? At home