ELA CST UPDATED EXAM ACTUAL TEST PAPER
2026 QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ 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
,◉ 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)
2026 QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ 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
,◉ 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)
