FTCE Reading K-12 QUESTIONS AND GRADE A+ ANSWERS

FTCE Reading K-12

Ability Grouping ANS- Grouping of children with similar needs for instructional purposes. They do not remain constant throughout the year but change as the children's needs within them change.

Phoneme ANS- The smallest unit of speech that can be used to make one word different from another word.

Independent Reading Level ANS- The level at which a student can read a text on his/her own as indicated by a 95% accuracy rate.

Grapheme ANS- Unit of writing that represents a single phoneme-can be a letter or group of letters.

Morpheme ANS- Smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of language (e.g., in, come, -ing, forming incoming ).

Instructional Level ANS- The level at which students can read with the assistace of a teacher as indicated by an 85-95% accuracy rate.

Action Research ANS- Teacher research that is carried out by a teacher practitioner in the classroom to help a teacher evaluate his/her performance in the classroom

Frustration Level ANS- The level at which students shouldn't read and indicates an accuracy rate below 85%.

Adams, Marilyn Jager ANS- A theorist in early reading (emergent reading) who has identified five tasks for phonemic awareness: Task 1- Ability to hear rhymes and alliteration. Task 2- Ability to do oddity tasks (recognize the member of a set that is different.) Task 3 -The ability to orally blend words and split syllables. Task 4 -The ability to orally segment word. Task 5- The ability to do phonics manipulation tasks.

Allington, Richard ANS- Matching Text to Readers. Research has included reading and learning disabilities, and effective instruction in classroom settings.

Alliteration ANS- Occurs when words begin with the same consonant sound, as in Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Alphabetic Principle ANS- The idea that written spellings represent spoken words. Also known as graphophenemic awareness.