NES Elementary Education Subtest 1 – Questions & Answers
the tools of communication children use to form their understanding of the word Correct Answer - reading, writing, listening, and speaking
Competency 1 Correct Answer - demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of language development, oral language skills, listening comprehension skills, and phonological and phonemic awareness.
Informal conversations Correct Answer - Time to talk about things that interest and excite children.
Language play Correct Answer - Exploring rhythms, sounds, and tones that young children delight in as they work and play.
Rhymes and song Correct Answer - Experiences rich in rhythm and rhyme encourage children to play with words.
Stories Correct Answer - Children discover new words and meanings as they listen to good stories — either told or read aloud.
Group talk Correct Answer - 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 _____ _____. Correct Answer - 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. Correct Answer - fundamental, relevant
_____ and _____ to what the children have to say and they will learn to do the same. Correct Answer - listen, respond
LEA Correct Answer - Language Experience Approach
Dictated Stories Correct Answer - LEA
alliteration Correct Answer - use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
language delay Correct Answer - 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 Correct Answer - Autism Spectrum Disorders
Listening can be described as part of an active communication process that involves _____, _____, and _____ to verbal input. Correct Answer - receiving, interpreting, responding
The three steps in the listening process are _____, _____, and _____ meaning. Correct Answer - receiving, attending, assigning meaning
Students can be given opportunities to develop and practice listening skills during three phases of the listening process: _____, _____ and _____ . Correct Answer - pre-listening,
during listening, after listening
discriminative listening Correct Answer - distinguishing beginning consonant sounds, for example
aesthetic listening Correct Answer - for enjoyment
critical listening Correct Answer - to evaluate a message
efferent listening Correct Answer - to understand a message
phonological Correct Answer - the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
phoneme Correct Answer - (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are
distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
Phonological awareness Correct Answer - an understanding that words are composed of sound units and that sound units can be combined to form words.
graphemes Correct Answer - a written symbol that is used to represent speech
orthography Correct Answer - a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
Phonological awareness Correct Answer - 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. Correct Answer - syllable onset Correct Answer - the consonant sound that precedes the vowel of the syllable
rime Correct Answer - the vowel and any consonant sound that follows the onset.
Phonemic Awareness Correct Answer - refers to the ability to focus on, hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes, or the individual sounds that make up spoken words.
Phoneme segmentation Correct Answer - is a child's ability to recognize the separate sound units of words
phoneme blending Correct Answer - is a child's ability to string together phonemes
in a meaningful way to create words.
Standard American English contains about _____ basic phonemes, although differences in regional pronunciation and dialect can generate more. Correct Answer - 42
One would expect that since there are 26 letters in the alphabet that there would be only _____ phonemes. Correct Answer - 26
Phoneme isolation Correct Answer - —recognizing the individual sounds in words. For example, "Tell me the first sound you hear in the word top (/t/)."
Phoneme identity— Correct Answer - recognizing the common sound in different words. For example, "Tell me the sound that is the same in pig, pot, and pie (/p/)."
Phoneme substitution— Correct Answer - turning one word into another by substituting one phoneme for another. Phoneme substitution can take place for initial sounds (top-mop), middle sounds (top-tap) or ending sounds (top-tot).
Oral segmenting— Correct Answer - identifying the individual sounds of a word. For example, knowing that the word top is composed of the phonemes /t/, /o/, and /p/.
Oral blending— Correct Answer - being able to blend phonemes into words. For example, if the teacher says the phonemes /t/, /o/, /p/, the children respond with the word
top.
Phoneme deletion— Correct Answer - being able to identify a sound that has been deleted from a word. For example, the teacher says the word top and asks the children to repeat it. Then he or she instructs the children to repeat the word without a sound.
_____ _____ _____ is a term used to characterize the knowledge that emergent readers have about how printed language works and how print can be used to represent language. Correct Answer - Concepts of print
Concepts of print are fundamental understandings important to becoming literate and include literacy conventions such as Correct Answer - Holding a book the right way
the tools of communication children use to form their understanding of the word Correct Answer - reading, writing, listening, and speaking
Competency 1 Correct Answer - demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of language development, oral language skills, listening comprehension skills, and phonological and phonemic awareness.
Informal conversations Correct Answer - Time to talk about things that interest and excite children.
Language play Correct Answer - Exploring rhythms, sounds, and tones that young children delight in as they work and play.
Rhymes and song Correct Answer - Experiences rich in rhythm and rhyme encourage children to play with words.
Stories Correct Answer - Children discover new words and meanings as they listen to good stories — either told or read aloud.
Group talk Correct Answer - 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 _____ _____. Correct Answer - 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. Correct Answer - fundamental, relevant
_____ and _____ to what the children have to say and they will learn to do the same. Correct Answer - listen, respond
LEA Correct Answer - Language Experience Approach
Dictated Stories Correct Answer - LEA
alliteration Correct Answer - use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
language delay Correct Answer - 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 Correct Answer - Autism Spectrum Disorders
Listening can be described as part of an active communication process that involves _____, _____, and _____ to verbal input. Correct Answer - receiving, interpreting, responding
The three steps in the listening process are _____, _____, and _____ meaning. Correct Answer - receiving, attending, assigning meaning
Students can be given opportunities to develop and practice listening skills during three phases of the listening process: _____, _____ and _____ . Correct Answer - pre-listening,
during listening, after listening
discriminative listening Correct Answer - distinguishing beginning consonant sounds, for example
aesthetic listening Correct Answer - for enjoyment
critical listening Correct Answer - to evaluate a message
efferent listening Correct Answer - to understand a message
phonological Correct Answer - the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
phoneme Correct Answer - (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are
distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
Phonological awareness Correct Answer - an understanding that words are composed of sound units and that sound units can be combined to form words.
graphemes Correct Answer - a written symbol that is used to represent speech
orthography Correct Answer - a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols
Phonological awareness Correct Answer - 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. Correct Answer - syllable onset Correct Answer - the consonant sound that precedes the vowel of the syllable
rime Correct Answer - the vowel and any consonant sound that follows the onset.
Phonemic Awareness Correct Answer - refers to the ability to focus on, hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes, or the individual sounds that make up spoken words.
Phoneme segmentation Correct Answer - is a child's ability to recognize the separate sound units of words
phoneme blending Correct Answer - is a child's ability to string together phonemes
in a meaningful way to create words.
Standard American English contains about _____ basic phonemes, although differences in regional pronunciation and dialect can generate more. Correct Answer - 42
One would expect that since there are 26 letters in the alphabet that there would be only _____ phonemes. Correct Answer - 26
Phoneme isolation Correct Answer - —recognizing the individual sounds in words. For example, "Tell me the first sound you hear in the word top (/t/)."
Phoneme identity— Correct Answer - recognizing the common sound in different words. For example, "Tell me the sound that is the same in pig, pot, and pie (/p/)."
Phoneme substitution— Correct Answer - turning one word into another by substituting one phoneme for another. Phoneme substitution can take place for initial sounds (top-mop), middle sounds (top-tap) or ending sounds (top-tot).
Oral segmenting— Correct Answer - identifying the individual sounds of a word. For example, knowing that the word top is composed of the phonemes /t/, /o/, and /p/.
Oral blending— Correct Answer - being able to blend phonemes into words. For example, if the teacher says the phonemes /t/, /o/, /p/, the children respond with the word
top.
Phoneme deletion— Correct Answer - being able to identify a sound that has been deleted from a word. For example, the teacher says the word top and asks the children to repeat it. Then he or she instructs the children to repeat the word without a sound.
_____ _____ _____ is a term used to characterize the knowledge that emergent readers have about how printed language works and how print can be used to represent language. Correct Answer - Concepts of print
Concepts of print are fundamental understandings important to becoming literate and include literacy conventions such as Correct Answer - Holding a book the right way
