NES Elementary Education Subtest 1
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The tools of communication children use to form their understanding of a word. - ANS
Reading, writing, listening and speaking
Demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of language development, oral language
skills, listening comprehension skills, and phonological and phonemic awareness. - ANS
Competency 1
Time to talk about things that interest and excite children - ANS Informal Conversations
Exploring rhythms, sounds and tones that young children delight in as they work and play. -
ANS Language Play
Experiences rich in rhythm and rhyme that encourage children to play with words - ANS
Rhymes and Song
Children discover new words and meaning as they listen to good stories either told or read
aloud. - ANS Stories
Times during the day when conventions of shared conversations are learned and practiced. -
ANS Group Talk
Because this entire period between birth and the early elementary school years helps prepare
children with the skills important for conventional literacy, we refer to this critical stage of
language development as _____ _____. - ANS Emergent Literacy
The key is to make reading and writing _____ to the everyday life of the classroom and to make
literacy activities _____ to each child. - ANS Fundamental, relevant
_____ and _____ to what the children have to say and they will learn to do the same. listen,
respond - ANS Listen, respond
Language Experience Apprach - ANS LEA
Dictated Stories - ANS LEA
, Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse - ANS
Alliteration
Cause by many factors both environmental and physical. Common conditions include
inadequate language stimulation (neither talking to nor playing with the child); delayed general
development; parents/guardians or siblings who often talk for the child; medical and physical
problems; family history; learning disabilities; and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). - ANS
Language Delay
Autism Spectrum Disorders - ANS ASD
Listening can be described as part of an active communication process that involves _____,
_____, and _____ to verbal input. - ANS Receiving, interpreting, responding
The three steps in the listening process are _____, _____, and _____ meaning. - ANS
Receiving, attending, assigning meaning
Students can be given opportunities to develop and practice listening skills during three phases
of the listening process: _____, _____ and _____ . - ANS Pre-listening, during listening, after
listening
Distinguishing consonant sounds - ANS Discriminative listening
For enjoyment - ANS Aesthetic listening
To evaluate a message - ANS Critical listening
To understand a message - ANS Efferent listening
The study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its
phonemes - ANS Phonological
One of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular
language - ANS Phoneme
An understanding that words are composed of sound units and that sound units can be
combined to form words. - ANS Phonological Awareness
A written symbol that is used to represent speech - ANS Graphemes
A method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols - ANS
Orthography
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The tools of communication children use to form their understanding of a word. - ANS
Reading, writing, listening and speaking
Demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of language development, oral language
skills, listening comprehension skills, and phonological and phonemic awareness. - ANS
Competency 1
Time to talk about things that interest and excite children - ANS Informal Conversations
Exploring rhythms, sounds and tones that young children delight in as they work and play. -
ANS Language Play
Experiences rich in rhythm and rhyme that encourage children to play with words - ANS
Rhymes and Song
Children discover new words and meaning as they listen to good stories either told or read
aloud. - ANS Stories
Times during the day when conventions of shared conversations are learned and practiced. -
ANS Group Talk
Because this entire period between birth and the early elementary school years helps prepare
children with the skills important for conventional literacy, we refer to this critical stage of
language development as _____ _____. - ANS Emergent Literacy
The key is to make reading and writing _____ to the everyday life of the classroom and to make
literacy activities _____ to each child. - ANS Fundamental, relevant
_____ and _____ to what the children have to say and they will learn to do the same. listen,
respond - ANS Listen, respond
Language Experience Apprach - ANS LEA
Dictated Stories - ANS LEA
, Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse - ANS
Alliteration
Cause by many factors both environmental and physical. Common conditions include
inadequate language stimulation (neither talking to nor playing with the child); delayed general
development; parents/guardians or siblings who often talk for the child; medical and physical
problems; family history; learning disabilities; and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). - ANS
Language Delay
Autism Spectrum Disorders - ANS ASD
Listening can be described as part of an active communication process that involves _____,
_____, and _____ to verbal input. - ANS Receiving, interpreting, responding
The three steps in the listening process are _____, _____, and _____ meaning. - ANS
Receiving, attending, assigning meaning
Students can be given opportunities to develop and practice listening skills during three phases
of the listening process: _____, _____ and _____ . - ANS Pre-listening, during listening, after
listening
Distinguishing consonant sounds - ANS Discriminative listening
For enjoyment - ANS Aesthetic listening
To evaluate a message - ANS Critical listening
To understand a message - ANS Efferent listening
The study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its
phonemes - ANS Phonological
One of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular
language - ANS Phoneme
An understanding that words are composed of sound units and that sound units can be
combined to form words. - ANS Phonological Awareness
A written symbol that is used to represent speech - ANS Graphemes
A method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols - ANS
Orthography
