PECT Language Arts and Literacy Instruction

Question 1

Phonological awareness refers to a child's ability to:

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Hear and manipulate sounds in spoken language

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Recognize sight words

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Decode written text using phonics rules

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Understand the meaning of words in context

Question 2

Which of the following is an example of a phonemic awareness task?

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Blending spoken sounds to form a word

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Matching letters to their names

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Reading a sentence aloud fluently

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Identifying the main idea of a story

Question 3

The alphabetic principle is the understanding that:

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Written letters represent spoken sounds in a systematic way

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Letters have names that must be memorized

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Alphabet books help children learn vocabulary

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Uppercase and lowercase letters look different

Question 4

Environmental print includes:

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Labels, signs, and logos children see in everyday life

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Books in the classroom library

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Text in a child's writing journal

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Decodable readers used in small groups

Question 5

Which approach to early reading instruction uses meaningful, whole texts to teach literacy skills?

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Whole language approach

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Phonics-based instruction

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Explicit decoding instruction

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Direct instruction method

Question 6

Concepts of print include understanding that in English, text is read:

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Left to right and top to bottom

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Right to left and bottom to top

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In any direction the reader chooses

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Bottom to top and left to right