FTCE Reading K-12 Competency 5

___________________ consists of 6 major areas including phonology, vocabulary, morphology, grammar, pragmatics, and discourse.

• Semantics

• Syntax

• Graphemes

• Oral language

_____________________ focuses on the social cues or norms in language.

• Syntax

• Pragmatics

• Discourse

• Morphology

____________________ is the smalles units of meaning in words.

• Morphology

• Phonology

• Pragmatics

• Disocurse

_________________ cues refer to the meaning in language that assists in comprehending text including words, speech, signs, symbols, and other meaning-bearing forms.

• Semantic

• Syntactic

• Vocabulary

• Grammatical

A teacher is helping students use language structure and grammar to figure out difficult words in grade-level text. The students are using what cueing system?

• Semantic

• Syntactic

• Graphophonic

• Phonological

A teacher is using picture cards to help students recognize words. Students see the picture below and say, "Sun!" What phase of word recognition are the students in?

• Pre-alphabetic

• Partial-alphabetic

• Full-alphabetic

• Consolidated-alphabetic

Phonological awareness includes

• phonemic awareness and phonics.

• syntax and semantics.

• morphology and graphemes

• discourse and semantics.

The teacher is working with emergent readers on word recognition. The students cannot decode words yet. Instead, they're relying on recognizing some letters in the word. The students are in what stage?

• Pre-alphabetic

• Partial-alphabetic

• Full-alphabetic

• Consolidated-alphabetic

When a student has awareness of phonemes in words, syllables, onset rime-segments, and spelling, he or she is demonstrating

• Phonological awareness

• Phonics mastery

• Phonemic Awareness

• Structural analysis

Phonemic awareness includes the ability to

• form compound words and combine word parts

• spell accurately and decode unfamiliar words

• Pronounce individual sounds in words

• Differentiate between homonyms and spell accurately