Elementary Education GACE Questions
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Bloom's Taxonomy - ANSWER✔✔ remembering (knowledge), understanding
(comprehension), application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, creating
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge - ANSWER✔✔ Observation and recall of
information; knowledge of dates, events, places; knowledge of major ideas;
mastery of subject matter. Question Cues: list, define, tell, describe, identify,
show, label, collect, examine, tabulate, quote, name, who, when, where, etc.
Bloom's Taxonomy: Comprehension - ANSWER✔✔ Understanding information;
grasping meaning; translating knowledge into new context; interpreting facts,
comparing, contrasting; ordering, grouping, inferring causes; predicting
consequences. Question Cues: summarize, describe, interpret, contrast, predict,
associate, distinguish, estimate, differentiate, discuss, extend.
Stages of English Literacy Development - ANSWER✔✔ Beginning, early
intermediate, intermediate, early advanced
Stages of English literacy development: beginning - ANSWER✔✔ Receptive
language development.
Stages of English literacy development: early intermediate - ANSWER✔✔ when a
child begins to communicate to express a need or attempt to ask or respond to a
question.
, Stages of English literacy development: intermediate - ANSWER✔✔
Demonstration of more complex vocabulary and abstract ideas. Using newly
acquired literacy skills to read, write, listen and speak.
Stages of English literacy development: early advanced - ANSWER✔✔ Able to
apply literacy skills to learn new information across many subject.
Stages of Orthographic Development - ANSWER✔✔ Emergent Stage, Letter
Name/Alphabetic Stage, Within Word Pattern Stage, Syllables and Affixes Stage,
Derivational Relations Stage
Emergent Stage - ANSWER✔✔ Children in the emergent stage are just entering
the world of reading and writing. Children at this stage are beginning to learn
basic print concepts and simple reading strategies. They often engage in
"pretend" reading. Children at this stage need books with text that possess
repetition and predictability. The illustrations in these books should support the
text, so that the child can follow the storyline.
Letter Name-Alphabetic Stage - ANSWER✔✔ Students' use "names of the letters"
as their dominant approach to spelling and learn to segment sounds. Mostly
consonants.
Within Word Pattern Stage - ANSWER✔✔ Students can read and spell many
words correctly and can think about words in more than one dimension; they
study words by sound and pattern simultaneously. Incorporate vowels, consonant
blends and digraphs.
Syllables and Affixes Stage - ANSWER✔✔ The fourth stage of spelling
development, which coincides with intermediate reading. Syllables and affixes