FTCE Reading K-12 Study guide Exam
Questions with Key Marking Scheme Updated
2023/2024
Bound Morpheme - correct answer An inflectional ending that
can be added to a base word to change its case, gender, number,
tense or form. It cannot stand alone.
Brown & Palinscar - correct answer Reciprocal Teaching
researchers
Bruner, Jerome - correct answer Scaffolding. Constructivism.
Calkins, Lucy - correct answer Writing and Reading
Workshops. A "constructivist" who believes that children develop
a passion for reading when they are given freedom to choose
books that are meaningful to them. Her approach to literacy is
that children work in small groups and consult each other as
much as possible. She advocates that teachers routinely engage
in conferences with each individual child about his writing and
reading. Took Graves' ideas on writing and translated them to
include reading.
Chall, Jeanne - correct answer The earliest reading researcher
to come to the conclusion that phonics and decoding should be
emphasized from the very beginning of reading instruction.
Chard and Osborn - correct answer Theorists who established
guidelines for children with reading disabilities showing that it is
essential for them to work intensely on the alphabetic
principle/graphophenemic awareness.
,Checklist - correct answer An assessment form that lists
targeted learning and social behaviors as indicators of
achievement, knowledge, or skill. They can be professionally- or
teacher-prepared.
Cinquain - correct answer A five-line poem that can be read
and then used as a model for writing. Generally, line 1 of this
format is a single word; line 2 has 2 words that describe the title
of line 1; line 3 is comprised of 3 words that are movement
words; line 4 has 4 words that express feeling; and line 5 has a
single word that is a synonym for line 1's single word.
Clay, Marie - correct answer A key theorist whose work has
helped teacher's document children's oral reading progress
throughout the school year. New Zealand born researcher in the
field of special needs emergent literacy. Known for Running
Records.
Cognitivism - correct answer The theory that humans generate
knowledge and meaning through sequential development of an
individual's cognitive abilities, such as the mental processes of
recognition, recollection, analysis, reflection, application,
creation, understanding, and evaluation. The learner requires
assistance to develop prior knowledge and integrate new
knowledge. The learner requires scaffolding to develop schema
and adopt knowledge from both people and the environment. The
educators' role is pedagogical in that the instructor must develop
conceptual knowledge by managing the content of learning
activities. Grew out of Gestalt psychology.
, Comprehension - correct answer This occurs when the reader
correctly interprets the print on the page and constructs
meaning from it. It depends on activating prior knowledge,
cultural and social background of the reader, and the reader's
ability to use ____________-monitoring strategies.
Concepts About Print - correct answer Include such things as
the following: book handling, looking at print, directionality,
sequencing, locating skills, punctuation, and concepts of letters
and words.
Consolidated-Alphabetic Stage - correct answer Students
consolidate their knowledge of grapheme-phoneme blends into
larger units that recur in different words.
Consonant Digraphs - correct answer Two consecutive
consonants that represent one new speech sound. In the word
"graph" the ph, which sounds like /f/ is a _________.
Constructivism - correct answer Seeks to explain how
knowledge is constructed in the human being when information
comes into contact with existing knowledge that had been
developed by experiences. Discovery, hands-on, experiential,
collaborative, project-based, and task-based learning are a
number of applications that base teaching and learning on this
theory. Draws heavily on psychological studies by Piaget and
Bruner.
Contexts - correct answer Sentences deliberately prepared by
the teacher that include sufficient contextual clues for the
children to decipher meaning.
Questions with Key Marking Scheme Updated
2023/2024
Bound Morpheme - correct answer An inflectional ending that
can be added to a base word to change its case, gender, number,
tense or form. It cannot stand alone.
Brown & Palinscar - correct answer Reciprocal Teaching
researchers
Bruner, Jerome - correct answer Scaffolding. Constructivism.
Calkins, Lucy - correct answer Writing and Reading
Workshops. A "constructivist" who believes that children develop
a passion for reading when they are given freedom to choose
books that are meaningful to them. Her approach to literacy is
that children work in small groups and consult each other as
much as possible. She advocates that teachers routinely engage
in conferences with each individual child about his writing and
reading. Took Graves' ideas on writing and translated them to
include reading.
Chall, Jeanne - correct answer The earliest reading researcher
to come to the conclusion that phonics and decoding should be
emphasized from the very beginning of reading instruction.
Chard and Osborn - correct answer Theorists who established
guidelines for children with reading disabilities showing that it is
essential for them to work intensely on the alphabetic
principle/graphophenemic awareness.
,Checklist - correct answer An assessment form that lists
targeted learning and social behaviors as indicators of
achievement, knowledge, or skill. They can be professionally- or
teacher-prepared.
Cinquain - correct answer A five-line poem that can be read
and then used as a model for writing. Generally, line 1 of this
format is a single word; line 2 has 2 words that describe the title
of line 1; line 3 is comprised of 3 words that are movement
words; line 4 has 4 words that express feeling; and line 5 has a
single word that is a synonym for line 1's single word.
Clay, Marie - correct answer A key theorist whose work has
helped teacher's document children's oral reading progress
throughout the school year. New Zealand born researcher in the
field of special needs emergent literacy. Known for Running
Records.
Cognitivism - correct answer The theory that humans generate
knowledge and meaning through sequential development of an
individual's cognitive abilities, such as the mental processes of
recognition, recollection, analysis, reflection, application,
creation, understanding, and evaluation. The learner requires
assistance to develop prior knowledge and integrate new
knowledge. The learner requires scaffolding to develop schema
and adopt knowledge from both people and the environment. The
educators' role is pedagogical in that the instructor must develop
conceptual knowledge by managing the content of learning
activities. Grew out of Gestalt psychology.
, Comprehension - correct answer This occurs when the reader
correctly interprets the print on the page and constructs
meaning from it. It depends on activating prior knowledge,
cultural and social background of the reader, and the reader's
ability to use ____________-monitoring strategies.
Concepts About Print - correct answer Include such things as
the following: book handling, looking at print, directionality,
sequencing, locating skills, punctuation, and concepts of letters
and words.
Consolidated-Alphabetic Stage - correct answer Students
consolidate their knowledge of grapheme-phoneme blends into
larger units that recur in different words.
Consonant Digraphs - correct answer Two consecutive
consonants that represent one new speech sound. In the word
"graph" the ph, which sounds like /f/ is a _________.
Constructivism - correct answer Seeks to explain how
knowledge is constructed in the human being when information
comes into contact with existing knowledge that had been
developed by experiences. Discovery, hands-on, experiential,
collaborative, project-based, and task-based learning are a
number of applications that base teaching and learning on this
theory. Draws heavily on psychological studies by Piaget and
Bruner.
Contexts - correct answer Sentences deliberately prepared by
the teacher that include sufficient contextual clues for the
children to decipher meaning.
