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GRADED A+
✔✔ensuring that a variety of materials are available in the classroom for students to try
out and explore during playtime - ✔✔A prekindergarten teacher wants to establish a
classroom environment in which spontaneous play is encouraged and play is
recognized and valued as meaningful learning. Which of the following strategies would
likely be most effective for the teacher to use to achieve this goal?
✔✔examine their own cultures and beliefs and their impact on interactions with
students. - ✔✔PreK-4 teachers have the goal of being culturally competent educators
who use an understanding of diversity among young children to plan developmentally,
culturally, and linguistically appropriate instruction that meets the needs of all their
students. The most important first step for the teachers to take in achieving this goal is
to:
✔✔the amount of verbal input the child receives from caregivers and others -
✔✔According to convergent research, which of the following factors has been shown to
have the greatest effect on a child's language development?
✔✔monitoring and adjusting a teaching strategy during the learning process based on
individual students progress - ✔✔Which of the following is an essential component of a
formative assessment?
✔✔align daily lessons and activities with the targeted learning outcomes. - ✔✔A third-
grade teacher develops an assessment for a particular unit prior to writing up the daily
lesson plans for the unit. The most important advantage of this approach is that it helps
the teacher:
✔✔using ongoing informal assessments of students' learning to guide the instructional
process - ✔✔Which of the following assessment practices would be considered ethical?
✔✔helping the teacher identify areas where students may need additional
reinforcement - ✔✔A fourth-grade teacher uses a variety of techniques, including
questioning and journal prompts, to check for students' understanding of content-area
instruction. Which of the following outcomes is likely to be the most important benefit of
this strategy?
✔✔establishing partnerships with families in the assessment of their children's learning
and development - ✔✔A kindergarten teacher frequently uses home-school notebooks
to communicate with families about their children's progress. For example, the teacher
and family of one student recently used such a notebook to keep one another informed
about the student's progress in mastering specific self-help skills. This approach is likely
to be most effective in promoting which of the following outcomes?
, ✔✔identifying specific gaps in students' learning - ✔✔Using spreadsheet software to
maintain students' performance data is likely to provide a teacher with the most support
in which of the following areas?
✔✔clarifying the standards assessed on the PSSA to support students' learning of
essential skills and knowledge - ✔✔Which of the following statements best describes a
major role of assessment anchors in the PSSA?
✔✔help ensure that the language function of the assessment is appropriate for the
students' level of English language proficiency. - ✔✔A fourth-grade class includes a
number of students who are English language learners. The teacher is designing
formative assessment to measure students' understanding of a specific science
concept. When developing this assessment, the teacher can use PA's Language
Proficiency Standards for English Language Learners PreK-12 (ELPS) most effectively
to:
✔✔identifying any specific weaknesses in the student's academic knowledge and skills -
✔✔A student who is an English language learner who qualifies for migrant education
services joins a second grade class partly into the school year. The teacher is preparing
to administer a variety of informal assessments to the student. Which of the following
teacher goals should be the main focus of these assessments?
✔✔make connections between oral and written English. - ✔✔A first-grade teacher uses
a language experience approach with beginning-level students who are English
language learners. A student dictates a story based on personal experience to the
teacher who writes the story verbatim. The teacher then leads the student in various
reading and language activities using the dictates text. A primary benefit of this
approach is that it helps the student:
✔✔providing digital textbooks with features such as images, text-to-speech, videos, and
modifiable text - ✔✔Which of the following accommodations to a content-area reading
assignment best provides universal access for all learners?
✔✔responding to the intent and content of the students' utterances - ✔✔A second-
grade teacher is reading a story aloud to a class that includes several students who are
English language learners. Throughout the reading, the teacher pauses to verify
students' comprehension. The teacher encourages all students to speak and participate
in discussions during and after the reading. Which of the following types of feedback
from the teacher would provide meaningful English language input to the students who
are English language learners during the discussions?
✔✔go through a silent period during which they produce very little oral language. - ✔✔A
kindergarten teacher works with two students who are English language learners who
have no prior exposure to English. She exposes them to natural English in meaningful
GRADED A+
✔✔ensuring that a variety of materials are available in the classroom for students to try
out and explore during playtime - ✔✔A prekindergarten teacher wants to establish a
classroom environment in which spontaneous play is encouraged and play is
recognized and valued as meaningful learning. Which of the following strategies would
likely be most effective for the teacher to use to achieve this goal?
✔✔examine their own cultures and beliefs and their impact on interactions with
students. - ✔✔PreK-4 teachers have the goal of being culturally competent educators
who use an understanding of diversity among young children to plan developmentally,
culturally, and linguistically appropriate instruction that meets the needs of all their
students. The most important first step for the teachers to take in achieving this goal is
to:
✔✔the amount of verbal input the child receives from caregivers and others -
✔✔According to convergent research, which of the following factors has been shown to
have the greatest effect on a child's language development?
✔✔monitoring and adjusting a teaching strategy during the learning process based on
individual students progress - ✔✔Which of the following is an essential component of a
formative assessment?
✔✔align daily lessons and activities with the targeted learning outcomes. - ✔✔A third-
grade teacher develops an assessment for a particular unit prior to writing up the daily
lesson plans for the unit. The most important advantage of this approach is that it helps
the teacher:
✔✔using ongoing informal assessments of students' learning to guide the instructional
process - ✔✔Which of the following assessment practices would be considered ethical?
✔✔helping the teacher identify areas where students may need additional
reinforcement - ✔✔A fourth-grade teacher uses a variety of techniques, including
questioning and journal prompts, to check for students' understanding of content-area
instruction. Which of the following outcomes is likely to be the most important benefit of
this strategy?
✔✔establishing partnerships with families in the assessment of their children's learning
and development - ✔✔A kindergarten teacher frequently uses home-school notebooks
to communicate with families about their children's progress. For example, the teacher
and family of one student recently used such a notebook to keep one another informed
about the student's progress in mastering specific self-help skills. This approach is likely
to be most effective in promoting which of the following outcomes?
, ✔✔identifying specific gaps in students' learning - ✔✔Using spreadsheet software to
maintain students' performance data is likely to provide a teacher with the most support
in which of the following areas?
✔✔clarifying the standards assessed on the PSSA to support students' learning of
essential skills and knowledge - ✔✔Which of the following statements best describes a
major role of assessment anchors in the PSSA?
✔✔help ensure that the language function of the assessment is appropriate for the
students' level of English language proficiency. - ✔✔A fourth-grade class includes a
number of students who are English language learners. The teacher is designing
formative assessment to measure students' understanding of a specific science
concept. When developing this assessment, the teacher can use PA's Language
Proficiency Standards for English Language Learners PreK-12 (ELPS) most effectively
to:
✔✔identifying any specific weaknesses in the student's academic knowledge and skills -
✔✔A student who is an English language learner who qualifies for migrant education
services joins a second grade class partly into the school year. The teacher is preparing
to administer a variety of informal assessments to the student. Which of the following
teacher goals should be the main focus of these assessments?
✔✔make connections between oral and written English. - ✔✔A first-grade teacher uses
a language experience approach with beginning-level students who are English
language learners. A student dictates a story based on personal experience to the
teacher who writes the story verbatim. The teacher then leads the student in various
reading and language activities using the dictates text. A primary benefit of this
approach is that it helps the student:
✔✔providing digital textbooks with features such as images, text-to-speech, videos, and
modifiable text - ✔✔Which of the following accommodations to a content-area reading
assignment best provides universal access for all learners?
✔✔responding to the intent and content of the students' utterances - ✔✔A second-
grade teacher is reading a story aloud to a class that includes several students who are
English language learners. Throughout the reading, the teacher pauses to verify
students' comprehension. The teacher encourages all students to speak and participate
in discussions during and after the reading. Which of the following types of feedback
from the teacher would provide meaningful English language input to the students who
are English language learners during the discussions?
✔✔go through a silent period during which they produce very little oral language. - ✔✔A
kindergarten teacher works with two students who are English language learners who
have no prior exposure to English. She exposes them to natural English in meaningful
