MTTC Elementary Education Exam Questions with Correct Answers

phonological awareness - Answer-knowledge of sounds and syllables and of the sound structure of words (rhyming, segmentation, blending, syllables, alliteration) alliteration, assonance, onomatopea - Answer-alliteration: Repetition of sounds in words (Black Bird, Peter Pipper, "Chirp, CHirp said the Chick") assonance: reputition of similar sounds or vowels in words (the bride cried, hear the wedding bells, the RAIN in SPAIN) onomatopea: mimicking sounds (honk, chrip, click, quack, meow) syntactic - Answer-the study of sentences and phrases, correct grammatical structure of a sentence (student places adjectives after nouns is NOT SYNTACTIC) KWL charts - Answer-what you KNOW, what you WONDER, and what you LEARNED (use to remind students about what you read/discussed, expand on the topic, and show relationships) synonym - Answer-a word that has the same meaning as another word (funny, hilarious) antonym - Answer-a word that means the opposite of another word (good and bad) literal comprehension vs critical comprehension - Answer-literal- skills used to identify the main idea, important facts, and using context clues critical- involves prior knowledge and understanding (inferences, point of view, tone, language, fact and opinion) Metacognition - Answer-"Thinking about thinking" or the ability to evaluate a cognitive task to determine how best to accomplish it, and then to monitor and adjust one's performance on that task metacognitive skills are grouped into 3 categories: awareness, planning, and self monitoring & reflection letter recognition- which letters should be taught first? - Answer-lower case letters that are most commonly used like a, m, t, s, d CVCe words - Answer-a group of words that contain the same vowel(s) for example, rOpE, pOkE, hOlE, jOkE, vOtE define "Echo Reading" and explain when you would use it - Answer-Reading of a text where an adult or experienced reader reads a line of text, and the student repeats