NBPTS MIDDLE CHILDHOOD GENERALIST-ELA TEST 1 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
Research has found which outcome occurs for students via revision and rewriting? - (answer) Students
often incorporate new ideas when they rewrite.
With a teacher's guidance, a class brainstorms main ideas, topics, or concepts from a text. Students
choose a select number of these ideas and copy them onto separate index cards. The students then
individually review the text, recording any supporting evidence on the notecard with the applicable main
idea. This activity would be an excellent pre-lesson for teaching which skill set? - (answer) Organizing
ideas for writing a cohesive and persuasive essay or research paper that asserts supported arguments
with valid supporting evidence.
A teacher is working with a group of third graders at the same reading level. Her goal is to improve
reading fluency. She asks each child in turn to read a page from a book about mammal young. She asks
the children to read with expression. She also reminds them they don't need to stop between each
word; they should read as quickly as they comfortably can. She cautions them, however, not to read so
quickly that hey leave out or misread a word. The teacher know the components of reading fluency are: -
(answer) rate, accuracy, and prosody
Caret, carrot, to, two and too share something in common. They: - (answer) are homophones
Which staement adheres to Information Literacy standards? - (answer) Students accessing information
must critically evaluate it and its sources before using it
Third-grade students typically recieve their spelling word lists each Monday so that they can practice
them at home before the test on Friday. While their teacher is pleased that the students usually receive
high grades on spelling tests, she observes that they misspell those same words when writing in journals
or doing classwork. How should this teacher modify her instruction? - (answer) Integrate spelling words
into writing, reading, grammar, phonics, and other activities to help students learn the words in a variety
of contexts.
Of the three tiers of words, the most important words for direct instruction are: - (answer) two-tier
words
, NBPTS MIDDLE CHILDHOOD GENERALIST-ELA TEST 1 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
Which student is most likely to need referral to a reading specialist for assessment, special instruction,
or intervention? - (answer) Barrett: a 3rd grader who often confuses the sounds of certain letters, such
as /b/ and /d/ or /v/ and /u/
The MLA guidelines for citing multiple authors of the same source in the in-text citations of a research
paper are to use the first author's name and "et al" for the others in the case of... - (answer) 4 or more
authors
A child in kindergarten is most likely to be referred to a speech-language pathologist if s/he does not
correctly produce which phoneme? - (answer) /p/ as in pepper or poppies
Which best explains the importance prior knowledge brings to the act of reading? - (answer)
knowledge the student brings from previous life or learning experiences to the act of reading.
A 4th grade teacher had her students write haiku in order to promote the students'... - (answer)
vocabulary
Mnemonic device - (answer) a saying or image used to help remember a complex concept
the instruction of the alphabetic principle - (answer) letter-sound relationships with the highest utility
should be the earliest ones introduced.
All members of a group of kindergarten students early in the year are able to chant the alphabet. The
teacher is now teaching the students what the alphabet looks like in written form. The teacher points to
a letter and the students vocalize the correspondent sound. Alternatively, the teacher vocalizes a
phoneme and a student points to it on the alphabet chart. The teacher is using... - (answer) letter-
sound correspondence
Components of "explicit instruction" - (answer) clarifying the goal, modeling strategies, and offering
explanations geared to a student's level of understanding
diction - (answer) the overall choice of language you make for your writing
Research has found which outcome occurs for students via revision and rewriting? - (answer) Students
often incorporate new ideas when they rewrite.
With a teacher's guidance, a class brainstorms main ideas, topics, or concepts from a text. Students
choose a select number of these ideas and copy them onto separate index cards. The students then
individually review the text, recording any supporting evidence on the notecard with the applicable main
idea. This activity would be an excellent pre-lesson for teaching which skill set? - (answer) Organizing
ideas for writing a cohesive and persuasive essay or research paper that asserts supported arguments
with valid supporting evidence.
A teacher is working with a group of third graders at the same reading level. Her goal is to improve
reading fluency. She asks each child in turn to read a page from a book about mammal young. She asks
the children to read with expression. She also reminds them they don't need to stop between each
word; they should read as quickly as they comfortably can. She cautions them, however, not to read so
quickly that hey leave out or misread a word. The teacher know the components of reading fluency are: -
(answer) rate, accuracy, and prosody
Caret, carrot, to, two and too share something in common. They: - (answer) are homophones
Which staement adheres to Information Literacy standards? - (answer) Students accessing information
must critically evaluate it and its sources before using it
Third-grade students typically recieve their spelling word lists each Monday so that they can practice
them at home before the test on Friday. While their teacher is pleased that the students usually receive
high grades on spelling tests, she observes that they misspell those same words when writing in journals
or doing classwork. How should this teacher modify her instruction? - (answer) Integrate spelling words
into writing, reading, grammar, phonics, and other activities to help students learn the words in a variety
of contexts.
Of the three tiers of words, the most important words for direct instruction are: - (answer) two-tier
words
, NBPTS MIDDLE CHILDHOOD GENERALIST-ELA TEST 1 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
Which student is most likely to need referral to a reading specialist for assessment, special instruction,
or intervention? - (answer) Barrett: a 3rd grader who often confuses the sounds of certain letters, such
as /b/ and /d/ or /v/ and /u/
The MLA guidelines for citing multiple authors of the same source in the in-text citations of a research
paper are to use the first author's name and "et al" for the others in the case of... - (answer) 4 or more
authors
A child in kindergarten is most likely to be referred to a speech-language pathologist if s/he does not
correctly produce which phoneme? - (answer) /p/ as in pepper or poppies
Which best explains the importance prior knowledge brings to the act of reading? - (answer)
knowledge the student brings from previous life or learning experiences to the act of reading.
A 4th grade teacher had her students write haiku in order to promote the students'... - (answer)
vocabulary
Mnemonic device - (answer) a saying or image used to help remember a complex concept
the instruction of the alphabetic principle - (answer) letter-sound relationships with the highest utility
should be the earliest ones introduced.
All members of a group of kindergarten students early in the year are able to chant the alphabet. The
teacher is now teaching the students what the alphabet looks like in written form. The teacher points to
a letter and the students vocalize the correspondent sound. Alternatively, the teacher vocalizes a
phoneme and a student points to it on the alphabet chart. The teacher is using... - (answer) letter-
sound correspondence
Components of "explicit instruction" - (answer) clarifying the goal, modeling strategies, and offering
explanations geared to a student's level of understanding
diction - (answer) the overall choice of language you make for your writing
