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Chapter One
Subarea 1: English Language Arts
Objective 0001
Understands the foundations of reading development.
The following topics are covered under the subject area of Objective 0001:
* Demonstrating knowledge of the developmental progression from prereading to conventional literacy, with individual
variations, and analyzing how literacy develops in multiple contexts through reading, writing, and oral language
experiences
* Defining phonological awareness and phonemic awareness and analyzing their roles in reading development
* Demonstrating knowledge of concepts about print (e.g., book-handling skills, awareness that print carries meaning,
recognition of directionality, ability to track print, ability to recognize and name letters)
* Demonstrating knowledge of the alphabetic principle and analyzing how emergent readers use this principle to
master letter-sound correspondence and to decode simple words
* Demonstrating knowledge of a variety of word identification strategies, including ... read full excerpt from CliffsTestPrep® NYSTCE®: Multi-Subject Content Specialty Test (CST) ebook
