MTEL Exam Secrets Test Prep Team

“(1) Phonological awareness is recognizing the sound structures of spoken language, not just the meanings it conveys. This is a reading prerequisite. (2) Phonemic awareness is the skill of recognizing and manipulating individual speech sounds or phonemes. Students must be able to segment words and syllables into phonemes to learn to read. (3) The Alphabetic Principle is the concept that printed language consists of alphabet letters that are deliberately and systematically related to the individual sounds of spoken language. Reading depends on understanding this concept. (4) Orthographic awareness is recognition of printed language structures, such as orthographic rules, patterns in spelling; derivational morphology and inflectional morphology, i.e. structural changes indicating word types and grammatical differences; and etymology, i.e. word and meaning”
― MTEL Exam Secrets Test Prep Team, MTEL Foundations of Reading (90) Exam Secrets Study Guide: MTEL Test Review for the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure

“Decoding   Basically, being able to apply one’s knowledge of patterns in printed letters and of correspondences between letters and the sounds they represent, and to pronounce printed words correctly, constitute word decoding.”
― MTEL Exam Secrets Test Prep Team, MTEL Foundations of Reading (90) Exam Secrets Study Guide: MTEL Test Review for the Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure