NES ELEMENTARY EDUCATION SUBTEST
ACTUAL TEST PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ Competency 1. Answer: demonstrate an understanding of the
foundations of language development, oral language skills, listening
comprehension skills, and phonological and phonemic awareness.
⩥ Informal conversations. Answer: Time to talk about things that
interest and excite children.
⩥ Language play. Answer: Exploring rhythms, sounds, and tones that
young children delight in as they work and play.
⩥ Rhymes and song. Answer: Experiences rich in rhythm and rhyme
encourage children to play with words.
⩥ Stories. Answer: Children discover new words and meanings as they
listen to good stories — either told or read aloud.
⩥ Group talk. 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 _____ _____.. 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..
Answer: fundamental, relevant
⩥ _____ and _____ to what the children have to say and they will learn
to do the same.. Answer: listen, respond
⩥ LEA. Answer: Language Experience Approach
⩥ Dictated Stories. Answer: LEA
⩥ alliteration. Answer: use of the same consonant at the beginning of
each stressed syllable in a line of verse
⩥ language delay. 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. Answer: Autism Spectrum Disorders
⩥ Listening can be described as part of an active communication process
that involves _____, _____, and _____ to verbal input.. Answer:
receiving, interpreting, responding
⩥ The three steps in the listening process are _____, _____, and _____
meaning.. Answer: receiving, attending, assigning meaning
⩥ Students can be given opportunities to develop and practice listening
skills during three phases of the listening process: _____, _____ and
_____ .. Answer: pre-listening, during listening, after listening
⩥ discriminative listening. Answer: distinguishing beginning consonant
sounds, for example
⩥ aesthetic listening. Answer: for enjoyment
⩥ critical listening. Answer: to evaluate a message
⩥ efferent listening. Answer: to understand a message
, ⩥ phonological. Answer: the study of the sound system of a given
language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
⩥ phoneme. Answer: (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds
that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
⩥ Phonological awareness. Answer: an understanding that words are
composed of sound units and that sound units can be combined to form
words.
⩥ graphemes. Answer: a written symbol that is used to represent speech
⩥ orthography. Answer: a method of representing the sounds of a
language by written or printed symbols
⩥ Phonological awareness. 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.. Answer: syllable
ACTUAL TEST PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ Competency 1. Answer: demonstrate an understanding of the
foundations of language development, oral language skills, listening
comprehension skills, and phonological and phonemic awareness.
⩥ Informal conversations. Answer: Time to talk about things that
interest and excite children.
⩥ Language play. Answer: Exploring rhythms, sounds, and tones that
young children delight in as they work and play.
⩥ Rhymes and song. Answer: Experiences rich in rhythm and rhyme
encourage children to play with words.
⩥ Stories. Answer: Children discover new words and meanings as they
listen to good stories — either told or read aloud.
⩥ Group talk. 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 _____ _____.. 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..
Answer: fundamental, relevant
⩥ _____ and _____ to what the children have to say and they will learn
to do the same.. Answer: listen, respond
⩥ LEA. Answer: Language Experience Approach
⩥ Dictated Stories. Answer: LEA
⩥ alliteration. Answer: use of the same consonant at the beginning of
each stressed syllable in a line of verse
⩥ language delay. 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. Answer: Autism Spectrum Disorders
⩥ Listening can be described as part of an active communication process
that involves _____, _____, and _____ to verbal input.. Answer:
receiving, interpreting, responding
⩥ The three steps in the listening process are _____, _____, and _____
meaning.. Answer: receiving, attending, assigning meaning
⩥ Students can be given opportunities to develop and practice listening
skills during three phases of the listening process: _____, _____ and
_____ .. Answer: pre-listening, during listening, after listening
⩥ discriminative listening. Answer: distinguishing beginning consonant
sounds, for example
⩥ aesthetic listening. Answer: for enjoyment
⩥ critical listening. Answer: to evaluate a message
⩥ efferent listening. Answer: to understand a message
, ⩥ phonological. Answer: the study of the sound system of a given
language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
⩥ phoneme. Answer: (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds
that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
⩥ Phonological awareness. Answer: an understanding that words are
composed of sound units and that sound units can be combined to form
words.
⩥ graphemes. Answer: a written symbol that is used to represent speech
⩥ orthography. Answer: a method of representing the sounds of a
language by written or printed symbols
⩥ Phonological awareness. 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.. Answer: syllable
