PACT EXAM QUESTIONS AND

PACT EXAM QUESTIONS AND

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phonemes ✔✔smallest unit of sound

onsets ✔✔all the beginning letters up to the vowel

rimes ✔✔Vowels and consonants at the end of a syllable (end in the word blend, ap in the word tap)

short vowels ✔✔-the vowel sounds in cat, bed, big, hop and cut.-don't say their name, but make sounds instead

long vowels ✔✔-the vowel sounds that are also names of the alphabet letters.

• baby, meter, tiny, broken, humor.

After a student learns to identify individual phonemes and to blend onsets and rimes. What should they learn next? ✔✔short and long vowels

What are root words? ✔✔words that can either stand alone or be combined with another word

What is the best way to help students understand a new text? ✔✔ask students to make predictions about a story before they see the cover a book

What is didactic questioning? ✔✔focuses on factual questions and not open-ended questions

KWL charts ✔✔helps build and activate background knowledge, which promotes reading comprehension

How do you assess fluency skills and reading levels? ✔✔count the number of words a student reads correctly during a one-minute oral reading

formative assessment ✔✔teachers' adjusting their instruction based on their assessment of students

summative assessment ✔✔a teacher evaluating a students learning, often at the end of a unit, usually a high-stakes test

What is a learning goal most appropriate for a third-grade unit of money? ✔✔students will be able to determine the value of a collection of coins and bills

What is convection? ✔✔the process of heat transfer by currents in fluids

What are the two most abundant gases in Earth's atmosphere? ✔✔oxygen and nitrogen

What is the Coriolis effect? ✔✔where a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force

What must students do before they can improvise tonally? ✔✔students must be able to sing in tune

Using the Kodály method, what is the first interval taken from Folk song and used in echo singing? ✔✔sol , mi

What music symbol means to perform loudly then immediately quietly? ✔✔fp

What is cephalocaudal development? ✔✔physical development that starts from the head, then progresses to lower parts of the body, such as the legs and feet

What is phonology? ✔✔the study of speech sounds in language

What is semantics? ✔✔meaning of words and sentences

What is syntax? ✔✔sentence structure

What is phonological awareness? ✔✔a broad skill that includes identifying and manipulating units of oral language - parts such as words, syllables, and onsets and rimes

What is pragmatics? ✔✔field of study that emphasizes how language is used in specific situations to accomplish goals

What is phonemic awareness? ✔✔The ability to hear, identify,and manipulate the individual sounds, phonemes, in oral language.