CTEL: Test 2 - Domain 011

Question 1

Relationship between ELA and ELD standards

Answer 1

same categories -

1. reading word analysis
2. reading fluency and systematic vocabulary development
3. reading literary response and analysis

Question 2

Literacy instruction for EL’s is characterized by…

Answer 2

1. sound symbol relationships
2. word order and grammar
3. word meaning
4. using background knowledge
   5.

Question 3

Important concepts about print

Answer 3

reading left to right, where to go after the end of the line, print carries message not picture, concept of letter-word-sentence, concept of first and last part, letter order in words, upper case and lower case, punctuation

Question 4

Phonemic awareness exercises:

Answer 4

• blending: what word am i trying to say?

- segmentation (first sound, last sound, complete word)

Question 5

How phonemic and morphemic awareness should be taught in approaching reading

Answer 5

explicitly

Question 6

The prior knowledge most useful for reading is

Answer 6

word knowledge (vocabulary)

Question 7

Why vocabulary acquisition accelerates after students start to read

Answer 7

general comprehension of a text allows readers to predict and infer meanings of unknown words

Question 8

To assist vocabulary acquisition, teachers should

Answer 8

use books, oral discussion, exposure to mediate to build schema

Question 9

To promote decoding knowledge

Answer 9

• use sight words with non predictable spelling

Question 10

Phonics can be taught using the _______ model which involves…

Answer 10

synthetic, students learn phonemes in isolation, then blend, and then see them in the context of words

Question 11

Analytic approach to teaching phonics

Answer 11

begin with contrasting words that contain target phonemes and have students generate similar words

Question 12

Example of analytic approach to teaching phonics

Answer 12

make a list of words with target phonic element, read sentences aloud to students in a smooth way, students echo read the sentences to see what words are in common. then the student comes up with other words with the same pattern.

Question 13

The International Reading Association find that panics is an important part of a beginning reading program but states taht

Answer 13

phonics instruction needs to be embedded in a total reading/language arts program

Question 14

Phonics should be introduce through what?

Answer 14

Games and mini lessons, not worksheets

Question 15

How to develop visual discrimination strategies

Answer 15

prereading, such as matching pictures and patterns, sequencing story cards, matching uppercase to lowercase letters

Question 16

Teaching letters phonetically sequnce

Answer 16

alphabet cards, matching objects and pictures to letters to develop initial sounds, then introduce short vowels blended with consonants (using simple stories), long vowels, vowel blends, then diapgraphs

Question 17

4 reasons why structural approaches to phonics instruction is not sufficient to meet the needs of preliterate learners

Answer 17

1. does not support the need to acquire functional aspects of literacy
2. literacy is forced to emerge in an unnatural way
3. a focus on form without a functional context makes learning abstract
4. literacy becomes boring