FTCE Elementary Education (Florida Teacher
Certification Examination), Exam Bank
The reading process is made up of these five components:
Phonemic Awareness, Fluency, Phonics, Comprehension, and Vocabulary.
Components of Emergent Literacy are:
Print Awareness, Print Motivation, Oral Language, Letter Knowledge, Phonological
awareness, Narrative skills.
Emergent Literacy
Consists of reading-related knowldge and skills that children develop prior to formal
instruction in reading.
Print Motivation
Interest in and enjoyment of printed materials.
Print Awareness
Interest and interaction with print; pretending to read.
Listening and Oral Vocabularies
Words understood when heard; words used in speech.
Narrative Skills
Ability to retell stories or describe events.
Letter Knowledge
Understand letter names and shapes.
Phonological Awareness
Ability to understand the sound of language and manipulate or play with speech sounds.
Up to age 5, children are exposed to reading and learn about it without reading.
What are some examples of this?
Print differs from other visual patterns.
Books contain print.
Readers glean information from print.
Print can be translated into speech.
Reading follows certain conventions.
Emergent literacy forms the foundation of future reading and writing
development. True or False?
True
Emergent literacy is understood to develop at individual rates. True or False?
True
Certain criteria that could determine whether or not a child is ready for reading
include:
Concepts of print, oral language development, and understanding of the alphabetic
principle; the relationship between letters (graphemes) and the sounds they represent
(phonemes)
Grapheme
The relationship between letters.
Phoneme
The sounds that letters represent.
Marie M. Clay developed a formal procedure for what?
,For observing a child's behavior with bookjs to determine the extent of a child's print-
related concepts.
Marie M. Clay's formal procedures include assessment checks such as?
If the child can: Find the title of a book, show where to start reading and locate the last
page or end of the book.
A critical pre-reading skill is being able to indicate the directionality of what?
Print
Readers in the U.S. must start where on the page and read to where?
The left side of the page and read to the right.
How can teachers or parents model directionality in reading?
By passing their hands or fingers under the words or sentences as they read aloud.
What four dimensions does language have?
Speaking, listening, reading, and writing
Oral language is the subset of what?
Language
Oral language has two dimensions, which are:
Speaking and listening
Listening is the precursor to what?
Speaking
Children have to _____________ language before they can speak it.
Hear
Why is oral language important?
It provides the mental framework for what words mean and how language works.
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Oral language starts where?
At home
What did Hart and Risley investigate in the way of socio/econmic status level?
The number and kind of words children heard in terms of their SES.
What are the components of oral language?
Phonological awareness, semantic understanding, syntactic understanding, and
pragmatics.
Phonological Awareness
A broad understanding of the sound of language and occurs as children begin to hear
speech sounds and play with them.
Semantic Understanding
Understanding the morphology or meanings of words: vocabulary.
Syntactic Understanding
Understanding the rules for using words in sentences: grammar.
Pragmatics
Understanding the social and cultural use of langauge.
Phonological awareness sub-skills include:
Children should be able to distinguish between spoken language from other
environmental sounds and focusing on the structure of syllables in words and
onset/rime tasks.
What happens next when children increase their phonological awareness?
They begin to develop their phonemic awareness.
,How is a phoneme represented?
As a letter within slashes (i.e. /b/)
Phonemic Isolation
Recognition of individual sounds.
(What is the first sound in top?)
Phonemic Identification
Recognition of the same sounds.
(What sound is the same in these words? top, ten, tall)
Phonemic Categorization
Recognition of similar sounds and choosing the different sound.
(Which word doesn't beleong? dip, dime, sun)
Phonemic Addition / Subtraction
Making a new word by adding or subtracting a phoneme.
(What word is "stop" without /s/? What word do you get if you add /s/ to the beginning of
"top"?)
Phonemic Blending
Combining phonemes into a word.
(What word is /c/ /a/ /t/? )
Phonemic Segmentation
Breaking words into separte phonems.
(how many sounds are in stop?)
Phonemic Substitution
Replacing one phoneme with another to make a new word.
(What word is formed if the /t/ in tap is replaced with /m/?)
When children understand how oral language works, what do they begin to
connect?
They begin to connect that knowledge to print.
Shared reading can help children gain what?
It can help children gain an understanding that printed words represent speech.
Alphabet knowledge involves understanding what?
The relationship between letters and sounds.
Alphabetic Principle
The understanding that written words are composed of letters and that groups of letters
represenet the sounds of spoken words.
How many phonemes are in the English Language?
44
The English alphabet has how many letters?
26
There is an exact one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds. True
or False?
False.
Alphabet knowledge is a precursor to what?
Decoding.
Decoding is the application of the alphabetic principle to correctly say or read
written words with understanding. True or False?
True
, Phonics
Application of the alphabetical principle; using letter/sounds relationships.
Analogical Word Reasoning
Use of words with the same onset of rime as examples.
Syllabication
Breaking words into syllables.
Morphemic Awareness
Dividing words into units of meaning.
Ease of decoding contripbutes to comprehension. True or False?
True.
Motivation is defined as?
Enthusiasm or the reason for behavior.
Motivation in emergent literacy is demonstrated when?
Children show interest in print materials and enjoy them.
Motivators for emergent literacy include:
Family or other adults, a sense of community and rewards.
Books read aloud to young children are more likely to be what?
Fictional narrrative stories rather than nonfiction informational text.
Knowledge of narrative story structure includes what?
Understanding that a story has a beginning and an end, setting, plot, chartactetrs,
theme, and style.
Understanding text structures provide a framework for what?
Comprehension.
Children begin to see that they can express their own ideas by writing letters
once they make a connection between what?
Letters and reading.
Children need to gain hand-eye coordination to begin to what?
Write, usually in crude letter formaitons.
Children learn to copy words to prepare for what?
For copying patterned sentences.
What are the correct components of emerging literacy?
Print motivation, print awareness, listening and oral vocabularies, narrative skills, letter
knowledge, phonological awareness.
Mrs. Jackson's second grade class is working on the following skills: accuracy,
automaticcity, rate, and procsody. What aspect of language arts are they
learning?
Fluency
Which type and example of figurative langauge are correctly matched?
(A)Alliteration: BRRRR! It's cold.
(B)Onomatopoeia: The sun smiled on the sleepy village.
(C)Similie: She was like a bull in a china shop.
(D)Personification: He was the pciture of health.
(C) Simile: She was like a bull in a china shop.
Lucy selected a book to read. The book uses animals as characters and ends with
a moral. What type of book did Lucy read?
Certification Examination), Exam Bank
The reading process is made up of these five components:
Phonemic Awareness, Fluency, Phonics, Comprehension, and Vocabulary.
Components of Emergent Literacy are:
Print Awareness, Print Motivation, Oral Language, Letter Knowledge, Phonological
awareness, Narrative skills.
Emergent Literacy
Consists of reading-related knowldge and skills that children develop prior to formal
instruction in reading.
Print Motivation
Interest in and enjoyment of printed materials.
Print Awareness
Interest and interaction with print; pretending to read.
Listening and Oral Vocabularies
Words understood when heard; words used in speech.
Narrative Skills
Ability to retell stories or describe events.
Letter Knowledge
Understand letter names and shapes.
Phonological Awareness
Ability to understand the sound of language and manipulate or play with speech sounds.
Up to age 5, children are exposed to reading and learn about it without reading.
What are some examples of this?
Print differs from other visual patterns.
Books contain print.
Readers glean information from print.
Print can be translated into speech.
Reading follows certain conventions.
Emergent literacy forms the foundation of future reading and writing
development. True or False?
True
Emergent literacy is understood to develop at individual rates. True or False?
True
Certain criteria that could determine whether or not a child is ready for reading
include:
Concepts of print, oral language development, and understanding of the alphabetic
principle; the relationship between letters (graphemes) and the sounds they represent
(phonemes)
Grapheme
The relationship between letters.
Phoneme
The sounds that letters represent.
Marie M. Clay developed a formal procedure for what?
,For observing a child's behavior with bookjs to determine the extent of a child's print-
related concepts.
Marie M. Clay's formal procedures include assessment checks such as?
If the child can: Find the title of a book, show where to start reading and locate the last
page or end of the book.
A critical pre-reading skill is being able to indicate the directionality of what?
Readers in the U.S. must start where on the page and read to where?
The left side of the page and read to the right.
How can teachers or parents model directionality in reading?
By passing their hands or fingers under the words or sentences as they read aloud.
What four dimensions does language have?
Speaking, listening, reading, and writing
Oral language is the subset of what?
Language
Oral language has two dimensions, which are:
Speaking and listening
Listening is the precursor to what?
Speaking
Children have to _____________ language before they can speak it.
Hear
Why is oral language important?
It provides the mental framework for what words mean and how language works.
1
Oral language starts where?
At home
What did Hart and Risley investigate in the way of socio/econmic status level?
The number and kind of words children heard in terms of their SES.
What are the components of oral language?
Phonological awareness, semantic understanding, syntactic understanding, and
pragmatics.
Phonological Awareness
A broad understanding of the sound of language and occurs as children begin to hear
speech sounds and play with them.
Semantic Understanding
Understanding the morphology or meanings of words: vocabulary.
Syntactic Understanding
Understanding the rules for using words in sentences: grammar.
Pragmatics
Understanding the social and cultural use of langauge.
Phonological awareness sub-skills include:
Children should be able to distinguish between spoken language from other
environmental sounds and focusing on the structure of syllables in words and
onset/rime tasks.
What happens next when children increase their phonological awareness?
They begin to develop their phonemic awareness.
,How is a phoneme represented?
As a letter within slashes (i.e. /b/)
Phonemic Isolation
Recognition of individual sounds.
(What is the first sound in top?)
Phonemic Identification
Recognition of the same sounds.
(What sound is the same in these words? top, ten, tall)
Phonemic Categorization
Recognition of similar sounds and choosing the different sound.
(Which word doesn't beleong? dip, dime, sun)
Phonemic Addition / Subtraction
Making a new word by adding or subtracting a phoneme.
(What word is "stop" without /s/? What word do you get if you add /s/ to the beginning of
"top"?)
Phonemic Blending
Combining phonemes into a word.
(What word is /c/ /a/ /t/? )
Phonemic Segmentation
Breaking words into separte phonems.
(how many sounds are in stop?)
Phonemic Substitution
Replacing one phoneme with another to make a new word.
(What word is formed if the /t/ in tap is replaced with /m/?)
When children understand how oral language works, what do they begin to
connect?
They begin to connect that knowledge to print.
Shared reading can help children gain what?
It can help children gain an understanding that printed words represent speech.
Alphabet knowledge involves understanding what?
The relationship between letters and sounds.
Alphabetic Principle
The understanding that written words are composed of letters and that groups of letters
represenet the sounds of spoken words.
How many phonemes are in the English Language?
44
The English alphabet has how many letters?
26
There is an exact one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds. True
or False?
False.
Alphabet knowledge is a precursor to what?
Decoding.
Decoding is the application of the alphabetic principle to correctly say or read
written words with understanding. True or False?
True
, Phonics
Application of the alphabetical principle; using letter/sounds relationships.
Analogical Word Reasoning
Use of words with the same onset of rime as examples.
Syllabication
Breaking words into syllables.
Morphemic Awareness
Dividing words into units of meaning.
Ease of decoding contripbutes to comprehension. True or False?
True.
Motivation is defined as?
Enthusiasm or the reason for behavior.
Motivation in emergent literacy is demonstrated when?
Children show interest in print materials and enjoy them.
Motivators for emergent literacy include:
Family or other adults, a sense of community and rewards.
Books read aloud to young children are more likely to be what?
Fictional narrrative stories rather than nonfiction informational text.
Knowledge of narrative story structure includes what?
Understanding that a story has a beginning and an end, setting, plot, chartactetrs,
theme, and style.
Understanding text structures provide a framework for what?
Comprehension.
Children begin to see that they can express their own ideas by writing letters
once they make a connection between what?
Letters and reading.
Children need to gain hand-eye coordination to begin to what?
Write, usually in crude letter formaitons.
Children learn to copy words to prepare for what?
For copying patterned sentences.
What are the correct components of emerging literacy?
Print motivation, print awareness, listening and oral vocabularies, narrative skills, letter
knowledge, phonological awareness.
Mrs. Jackson's second grade class is working on the following skills: accuracy,
automaticcity, rate, and procsody. What aspect of language arts are they
learning?
Fluency
Which type and example of figurative langauge are correctly matched?
(A)Alliteration: BRRRR! It's cold.
(B)Onomatopoeia: The sun smiled on the sleepy village.
(C)Similie: She was like a bull in a china shop.
(D)Personification: He was the pciture of health.
(C) Simile: She was like a bull in a china shop.
Lucy selected a book to read. The book uses animals as characters and ends with
a moral. What type of book did Lucy read?
