ILTS Reading Specialist Exam
1. Emergent Literacy consists of: Print awareness and print
knowledge
2. Assessing emergent literacy by using...: concepts of print and
Illinois Snapshot of Early Literacy
3. The researchers associated with emergent literacy are..:
Clay and Sulzby
4. Assessing word awareness and letter/sound relationships
by using...: con- cepts of print and Illinois Snapshot of Early
Literacy
5. The researchers associated with word awareness and
letter/sound relation- ships are..: Hiebert
6. Assessing phoneme awareness by using...: phoneme
isolation, phoneme seg- mentation, rhyming and non-rhyming
words, and invented spelling
7. The researchers associated with phoneme awareness are..:
Ehri- according to Ehri there are 4 phases of word reading
8. Who identified three stages of fluent reading?: Biemiller
9. Who focused on the "whole word" method?: Goodman and
Smith
, 10. What is the "whole word" method?: Focuses on sight words,
not sounding out words, but the whole word, uses across the
curriculum, phonics instruction is explicit and not tied to text
11. Who were the researchers that said there are
developmental stages to get to fluency and comprehension?:
Ferrriero and Piaget
12. Who was the researcher who believed in everything
should be phonics based?: Laberge and Samuels
13. What did Stanovich believe in?: The focus on word
identification distracts from comprehension
14. What researchers found that vocabulary leads to higher
comprehension?-
: Davis and Thorndike
15. What researchers said that students not only need a large
vocabulary, but to know what the words mean?: Graves, Juel,
and Graves
16. What researcher is associated with the IRI?: Emmett Betts
17. What does the research from Moffet include?: A linguistic
view of reading where there is no separate thing as
comprehension, but a process
18. What did Jane Catterson state?: Comprehension depends
on word recogni- tion factors and something that goes beyond
word recognition
1. Emergent Literacy consists of: Print awareness and print
knowledge
2. Assessing emergent literacy by using...: concepts of print and
Illinois Snapshot of Early Literacy
3. The researchers associated with emergent literacy are..:
Clay and Sulzby
4. Assessing word awareness and letter/sound relationships
by using...: con- cepts of print and Illinois Snapshot of Early
Literacy
5. The researchers associated with word awareness and
letter/sound relation- ships are..: Hiebert
6. Assessing phoneme awareness by using...: phoneme
isolation, phoneme seg- mentation, rhyming and non-rhyming
words, and invented spelling
7. The researchers associated with phoneme awareness are..:
Ehri- according to Ehri there are 4 phases of word reading
8. Who identified three stages of fluent reading?: Biemiller
9. Who focused on the "whole word" method?: Goodman and
Smith
, 10. What is the "whole word" method?: Focuses on sight words,
not sounding out words, but the whole word, uses across the
curriculum, phonics instruction is explicit and not tied to text
11. Who were the researchers that said there are
developmental stages to get to fluency and comprehension?:
Ferrriero and Piaget
12. Who was the researcher who believed in everything
should be phonics based?: Laberge and Samuels
13. What did Stanovich believe in?: The focus on word
identification distracts from comprehension
14. What researchers found that vocabulary leads to higher
comprehension?-
: Davis and Thorndike
15. What researchers said that students not only need a large
vocabulary, but to know what the words mean?: Graves, Juel,
and Graves
16. What researcher is associated with the IRI?: Emmett Betts
17. What does the research from Moffet include?: A linguistic
view of reading where there is no separate thing as
comprehension, but a process
18. What did Jane Catterson state?: Comprehension depends
on word recogni- tion factors and something that goes beyond
word recognition
