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Phonics -
correct answer ✅A method of teaching students to read by
correlating sounds with letters/groups of letters
Phonological Processing -
correct answer ✅The use of phonemes to process spoken and
written language
Phonological Awareness -
correct answer ✅Awareness of the sound structure of a language
and the ability to analyze and manipulate the structure.
Phonological Working Memory -
correct answer ✅storing phoneme information in a temporary
short-term memory store
Phonological Retrieval -
correct answer ✅ability to retrieve phonological information
about words
,NYSTCE Multi Subject 1-6 Part 1 Exam
Actual Questions and Answers 2026
Word Awareness -
correct answer ✅Tracking the words in sentences knowledge that
words have meaning.
Strategy: Read Aloud, Alphabet Books, high frequency word books
Responsiveness to Rhyme and alliteration during word play -
correct answer ✅Enjoying and reciting learned Rhyming words or
alliterative phrases in familiar storybooks/nursery rhymes.
Syllable Awareness -
correct answer ✅Counting, tapping, blending, or segmenting a
word into syllables.
Onset and Rime Manipulation -
correct answer ✅Onset is the initial consonant in a one-syllable
word. Rime includes the remaining sounds including the vowel and
any sounds that follow.
Phonemic Awareness -
correct answer ✅Students awareness of the smallest unit of
sounds in a word.
, NYSTCE Multi Subject 1-6 Part 1 Exam
Actual Questions and Answers 2026
Also refers to the ability to segment, blend, and manipulate these
units.
Phoneme Manipulation -
correct answer ✅Tasks that tap into phonological processing, such
as phoneme manipulation tasks (say "cat" without the Kuh)
Orthographic Processing -
correct answer ✅Defined as "the ability to form, store, and access
orthographic representations." Orthography is the methodology of
writing a language, which primarily consists of
spelling, but includes, contractions, punctuation and capitalization.
Semantic Processing -
correct answer ✅Encode the meaning of a word and relate it to
similar words with similar meaning.
Syntactic Processing -
correct answer ✅The order and arrangement of words in phrases
and sentences; you might depend in part on syntactic processing to