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NYSTCE Multi-Subject CST ELA Exam
Study Guide
Prereading - answer✔✔All knowledge, skills and experience that come before conventional
literacy. Students gain oral vocabulary, learn sentence structure, develop phonological awareness
Running record - answer✔✔An assessment which measures a child' fluency during oral reading
Balanced Literacy Models - answer✔✔strategies teachers use to allow for different learning
styles
Phonological awareness - answer✔✔an awareness of an the ability to manipulate the sounds of
spoken words; it is a broad term that includes identifying and making rhymes, recognizing
alliteration, identifying and working with syllables in spoken words, identifying and working
with onsets and rhymes in spoken syllables.
Phoneme - answer✔✔in a spoken language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
Phonemic Awareness - answer✔✔The ability to hear, identify,and manipulate the individual
sounds, phonemes, in oral language.
5 Major Types of Tasks to develop Phonemic Awareness - answer✔✔1. Recognize sets of works
have similar sounds (identifying rhyming words in a sentence) 2. Learn to examine a set of
words to determine which is not like the others, oddity task) 3. Learn how to blend sounds to
create words 4. Divide words into their phonemes (segmenting words) and count the number of
sounds in a word 5. Learn how to manipulate the sounds in a word by substituting or deleting
one or many phonemes
Print Concept - answer✔✔Understanding how text works to communicate a message. Includes
handing of books and orientation of text.
Ways to facilitate print concepts - answer✔✔Combining movement activities to convey bottom,
top side. Teach the parts of a book. Experiences with different fonts and text sizes and the
different meanings they have. Spacing. Writing exercises. Use of meta-language to descibe
books.
Track Print - answer✔✔student understands the direction of the text
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Alphabet Recognition - answer✔✔being able to identify the letters of the alphabet both capital
and lowercase when asked to do so
Alphabetic principle - answer✔✔the relationship between letters or combinations of letters
(graphemes) and sounds (phonemes)
Letter-sound correspondence - answer✔✔refers to the identification of sounds associated with
individual letters and letter combination.
Short Vowel sounds - answer✔✔every vowel has two sounds, the vocal cords are more relaxed
when producing the short vowel sound because of this the sounds are often referred to as lax.
They can be heard at the beginning of these words: apple, Ed, igloo, octopus, and umbrella.
Digraph - answer✔✔n. A union of two characters representing a single sound.
Diphthong - answer✔✔n. The sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable
or running together the sounds.
CVC - answer✔✔consonant-vowel-consonant pattern which produces a short vowel sound or a
closed syllable.
Consonant Clusters - answer✔✔- also called blends
- Consonants that occur side by side within the same
syllable.
-No intervening vowel sound
Phonics - answer✔✔teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound
values
Phonograms - answer✔✔Often called word families, these end in high frequency rimes that vary
only in the beginning consonant sound to make a word. For example, back, sack, black and track.
Onset - answer✔✔the part of a syllable (or the one-syllable word) that comes before the vowel
(e.g., str in string)
Rime - answer✔✔The vowel and the ending consonants after the onset
Semantic Cues - answer✔✔Use of knowledge about the subject of the text and words associated
with that subject to identify an unknown word within a text: meaning cues from each sentence
and the evolving whole.
Children use their prior knowledge, sense of the story, and pictures to support their predicting
and confirming the meaning of the text.
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Syntactic Cues - answer✔✔hints that rely on language structure or rules (sometimes called
grammatical cues) Grammatical information in a text that readers process to construct meaning.
Content clues - answer✔✔surrounding words that help you figure out the meaning of unfamiliar
words
Syllabication - answer✔✔the ability to conceptualize and separate words into their basic
pronunciation components.
word structure - answer✔✔The way in which the parts of a word are arranged together-used to
determine a word's meaning
syllabication rules - answer✔✔rules for forming/dividing words into syllables
syllabication rules - answer✔✔. To find the number of syllables:Count the number of vowels (a,
e, i, o, u and sometimes y) Subtract any silent vowels (vowel, consonant, -e) Subtract one vowel
from every diphthong.(when two vowels go walking the first one does the talking)Divide
between two double consonants. Never split between digraphs.Usually divide before a single
middle consonant.Divide before the consonant before -le syllable.Divide off any compound
words, prefixes, suffixes and root which have vowel sounds.
ALL syllables have a vowel
compound words - answer✔✔Two or more words combined to create a new word.
prefix - answer✔✔a syllable or word that comes before a root word to change its meaning
Suffix - answer✔✔a group of letters placed at the end of a word to change its meaning
Inflectional suffixes - answer✔✔Indicate possession, gender, number in nouns, tense, voice,
person & number & mood in verbs, and comparison in adjectives; do not change the part of
speech of the base. (-ed, -ing)
Sight-word recognition - answer✔✔1. a word that is immediately recognized as a whole and
does not require word analysis for identification. 2. a word taught as a whole. Note: Words that
are phonically irregular or are important to learn before students have the skills to decode them
are often taught as sight words.
Dolch List - answer✔✔A list of frequently used words compiled by Edward William Dolch,
PhD, a major proponent of the "whole-word" method of beginning reading instruction. Goes up
to 3rd grade
Reading Fluency - answer✔✔ability to decode words quickly and accurately in order to read text
with appropriate word stress, pitch, and intonation pattern (prosody)..
