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 w
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PACT EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
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.
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