NES subtest 1 Latest Version.

NES subtest 1 Latest Version.Informal conversations - answertime to talk about things that interest and excite children Language play - answerexploring rhythms, sounds and tones that young children delight in as they work and play. Rhymes and song - answerExperiences rich in rhythm and rhyme. Encourages children to play with words. Stories - answerChildren discover new words and meanings as they listen to good stories-either told or read aloud. Group talk - answerTimes during the day when conventions or shared conversations are learned and practiced. Phonological awareness - answerAn understanding that words are composed of sound units and that sound units can be combined to form words. Phonemic Awareness - answerRefers to the ability to focus on, hear, identify, and manipulate phonemes, or the individual sounds that make up a spoken word. Phoneme isolation - answerrecognizing the individual sounds in words. For example "tell me the first sound you hear in the word top (/t/)." Phoneme identify - answerrecognizing the common sound in different words. For example "tell me the sound that is the same in pig, pot, pie (/p/)." Oral segmenting - answeridentifying the individual sounds of a word. For example, knowing that the word top is composed of the phonemes /t/, /o/, and /p/. Oral blending - answerbeing able to blend phonemes into words. For example, if the teacher says the phonemes /t/. /o/, /p/, the children respond with the word top. Phoneme deletion - answerbeing able to identify a sound that has been deleted from a word. For example, the teacher says the word "top" and asks the children to repeat it. Then he or she instructs the children to repeat the word leaving out one of its sounds. Learn letter names - answerlearning by singing songs and by reciting rhymes. They also learn by seeing them in their own names, in the names of family members, and in familiar contexts such as signs, t-shirts, cereal boxes, television commercials, and other environmental print. Learn letter shapes - answerlearning as they play with blocks, plastic letters, alphabet books, and computer games. Learn letter sounds - answerActivities that ask children to segment beginning sounds can be played using puppets or I Spy riddles, or by identifying objects that have certain beginning sounds. Tea