FTCE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION K-6
LANGUAGE ARTS AND READING EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
The 5 Components of Reading - ANS phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary,
comprehension
Phonemic Awareness - ANS The ability to hear and manipulate the sounds of spoken
language. Includes noticing rhyme and recognizing the separate, small sounds in words
(phonemes).
Phonics - ANS 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 - ANS The ability to read quickly, accurately, and with proper expression.
Vocabulary - ANS Includes all the words the reader can understand and use.
Comprehension - ANS Ability to understand what one has read. Includes recognizing main
idea of article or able to compare and contrast different characters.
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,Word Recognition - ANS the student has ability to visually identify words in isolation or
context.
Phases of word recognition - ANS pre-alphabetic, partial-alphabetic, full-alphabetic,
graphophonemic, and morphemic.
Text to self - ANS the reader made a connection from the reading to own personal life.
Text to text - ANS the reader made a connection from the reading to another book with
similar writing style, theme, or topic.
Text to world - ANS the reader made a connection from the reading to a topic or an event
that has taken place in the world.
Critical Thinking Strategies - ANS making connections, making predictions, questioning,
summarizing
Making predictions - ANS 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 - ANS helps students make meaning of text being read. Questions about text,
author's intent etc.
"Right there" questions (text explicit) - ANS literal questions. Answer in the text itself.
"Think and search" (text implicit) - ANS the answer is implicit in text. Student must
synthesize, infer, or summarize to find answer.
"Reader and author" (implicit or experienced based) - ANS Reader must combine own
experience with what texts states.
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, "On my own" (implicit or experienced based) - ANS Reader must generate answer from prior
knowledge.
Summarizing - ANS to simply and concisely paraphrase what has been read.
Reading Fluency - ANS accuracy, automaticity, rate, prosody
Accuracy - ANS ability to correctly read the words in a text
Automaticity - ANS ability to instantly recognize a large bank of words to quickly decode
unfamiliar words.
Rate - ANS speed of reading
Prosody - ANS ability to read with appropriate rhythm, intonation, and expression.
Reading Comprehension - ANS Main idea, supporting details and facts, author's purpose, fact
and opinion, point of view, inference, visualize, conclusion
Main idea - ANS Determining the essential message of a reading selection.
Supporting details and facts - ANS provides the reader with the vital info needed to
synthesize and summarize.
Author's purpose - ANS Could be to explain, inform, persuade, or entertain.
Fact and opinion - ANS Students should know difference when reading.
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LANGUAGE ARTS AND READING EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
2025/2026
The 5 Components of Reading - ANS phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary,
comprehension
Phonemic Awareness - ANS The ability to hear and manipulate the sounds of spoken
language. Includes noticing rhyme and recognizing the separate, small sounds in words
(phonemes).
Phonics - ANS 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 - ANS The ability to read quickly, accurately, and with proper expression.
Vocabulary - ANS Includes all the words the reader can understand and use.
Comprehension - ANS Ability to understand what one has read. Includes recognizing main
idea of article or able to compare and contrast different characters.
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
,Word Recognition - ANS the student has ability to visually identify words in isolation or
context.
Phases of word recognition - ANS pre-alphabetic, partial-alphabetic, full-alphabetic,
graphophonemic, and morphemic.
Text to self - ANS the reader made a connection from the reading to own personal life.
Text to text - ANS the reader made a connection from the reading to another book with
similar writing style, theme, or topic.
Text to world - ANS the reader made a connection from the reading to a topic or an event
that has taken place in the world.
Critical Thinking Strategies - ANS making connections, making predictions, questioning,
summarizing
Making predictions - ANS 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 - ANS helps students make meaning of text being read. Questions about text,
author's intent etc.
"Right there" questions (text explicit) - ANS literal questions. Answer in the text itself.
"Think and search" (text implicit) - ANS the answer is implicit in text. Student must
synthesize, infer, or summarize to find answer.
"Reader and author" (implicit or experienced based) - ANS Reader must combine own
experience with what texts states.
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, "On my own" (implicit or experienced based) - ANS Reader must generate answer from prior
knowledge.
Summarizing - ANS to simply and concisely paraphrase what has been read.
Reading Fluency - ANS accuracy, automaticity, rate, prosody
Accuracy - ANS ability to correctly read the words in a text
Automaticity - ANS ability to instantly recognize a large bank of words to quickly decode
unfamiliar words.
Rate - ANS speed of reading
Prosody - ANS ability to read with appropriate rhythm, intonation, and expression.
Reading Comprehension - ANS Main idea, supporting details and facts, author's purpose, fact
and opinion, point of view, inference, visualize, conclusion
Main idea - ANS Determining the essential message of a reading selection.
Supporting details and facts - ANS provides the reader with the vital info needed to
synthesize and summarize.
Author's purpose - ANS Could be to explain, inform, persuade, or entertain.
Fact and opinion - ANS Students should know difference when reading.
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