1-6 ELA CST EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

1-6 ELA CST EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. 1. In which type of language processing do students recall words based on visual qualities: Orthographic- Allows students to use visual cues to store, form and recall words. Fluency is when symbols and sounds become memories students can recall. 2. A student is in the intermediate stage of literacy development. Which ability is most characteristic of this stage?: Reading rate with accuracy and expression 3. During the advanced stage of literacy development, students acquire new vocabulary primarily though:: Independent reading 4. Given the typical continuum of instruction on semantic relationships, what types of words would be most appropriate to teach first?: Antonyms- Semantic relations are associations between words. In order to analyze words with different 1-6 ELA CST EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2 / 15 meanings, words with similar spelling, or categories of words, students should understand these. Antonyms help students focus on words with opposite meanings. 5. A sixth grade student as classified a list of words by syntactic category as shown in the table below:: Deliver- An Adverb is a word or phrase that modifies a verb to convey time place or manner (-er, -est) endings are used as suffixes. 6. What is an open vs closed syllable?: A closed syllable word is divided into syllables by a consonant that "closes" the vowel and causes it to be pronounced with its short sound. An open syllable word is divided into syllables by a vowel that has a long sound (si, cra, tu) Of the four words on the list, planet is the only one with two closed syllables; plan/et/ 7. The teacher asks the students to analyze the list by using word-structure knowledge and determine which word does not belong. Which word should the students choose?: A teacher wants to determine an ELL readiness to analyze 3 / 15 written language structures in English. The information that would best support the teachers conclusion is the students level of: Syntactic knowledge- Syntax is the arrangement of words and phrases to create well formed sentences in a given language. To be able to analyze sentence structures, students need to have knowledge of applicable syntactic rules. In this case, the ELL would need to know the syntactic rules of English to analyze written structure.