ELAR/Social Studies 4-8 113 TEXES
Questions and Answers
What is the role of phonic awareness in leaning to reading? - Answer -Learning to
distinguish the separate sounds in spoken words prepares students to match their
listening comprehension
what are some examples of explicit systematic activity for building fluency? - Answer --
Repeated oral reading
- Peer-assisted or partner reading
- Teacher-modeled reading
what activity is best to teach when wanting to improve 4th grade students ability to
decode longer multisyllabic and complex words? - Answer -have students break words
into prefix root and suffix to analyze the structure of unfamiliar words
why is it beneficial for 4th grade students to reread stories they already know rather
than read new material? - Answer -oral rereading of high interest materials will help
promote students reading fluency. fluency develops as a result of may opportunities to
practice reading with a high degree of success. Students should practive rereading
aloud texts that are reasonably easy for them- texts that contain mostly words they
know or can be decoded easily.Texts should be at the students independent reading
level
what is a closed syllable? - Answer -Most common spelling unit in English ex com-mon
but-ter A closed syllable ends in a consonant. The vowel has a short vowel sound, as in
the word bat.
Open Syllable - Answer -An open syllable ends in a vowel. The vowel has a long vowel
sound, as in the first syllable of apron.
Vowel-Consonant e syllable - Answer -is typically found at the end of a word. The final e
is silent and makes the next vowel before it long as in the word name. when a word
ends in e but has a constant in front of it ex ape
A vowel team syllable - Answer -has two vowels next to each other that together say a
new sound ex south
consonant + l-e - Answer -syllable found in words like handle, puzzle, and middle
, R-controlled syllable - Answer -contains a vowel followed by the letter r. the r controls
the vowel and changes the way it is pronounced as in the word car, turn
irregular words - Answer -words with letters that do not follow the common expected
letter sound correspondences ex of
What is an effective way to help a fourth graders reading fluency? - Answer -read
familiar books that the student has already read
when a teacher replaces blank spaces fro nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in a
news paper article, next students work in pairs to come up with reasonable words that
could go in the blank how is this activity enhances students reading development? -
Answer -promotes students ability to use syntactic and semantic cues to aid reading
comprehension
homophones - Answer -site and sight
What is the first step to develop students word attack skills by teaching them structural
morphemic analysis - Answer -develop students ability to recognize prefixes and
suffixes
British Mercantilism - Answer -Economic policy used by the British in which the
American Colonies served as a source of raw materials and a market to sell goods.
British buy raw materials from the colonies and sell them finished products. Limited
manufacturing in America. Limited colonies' trade with other nations. This policy would
eventually become one of the reasons for the American Revolution.
Development of the free enterprise in America - Answer -- created legal protection of
private property
- abundant natural resources
- limited government regulation
-colonists were looking for economic opportunity
During the middle ages which civilization invented algebra, calculated the circumference
of the earth, development treatments for cataracts and required doctors to pass exams
before practicing? - Answer -Muslims
what is the best way to help a recession in the united states? - Answer -the federal
reserve decreases the interest rates and buys governmental securities
What is fiscal policy that the government can use during times of recession? - Answer -
that is the power of congress to raise and lower taxes and control spending
19th amendment - Answer -Women's right to vote
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