ILTS 305 ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
CONTENT COMPREHENSIVE EXAM STUDY
GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
●● What tool is most appropriate for a 4th grade music teacher to assess
students playing ability?
Answer: Providing students with self assessment scoring rubric.
●● What factors should a 4th grade teacher take into account when
qualitatively measuring a text's complexity?
Answer: The literal and inferential levels of meaning of the text.
●● In a phonemic awareness lesson, what question would help students
practice segmenting phonemes?
Answer: How many sounds do you hear in the word crush?
●● A blend (e.g., fr) counts as how many sounds?
Answer: Two
●● A digraph (sh) counts as how many sounds?
Answer: One
,●● What is a VCV word?
Answer: The first syllable ends with a vowel. Se-cond, le-mon, de-mon.
●● What is a CVC word?
Answer: Closes with consanant. Cat, gel, rim, hop, bud.
●● What is a diphthong?
Answer: A diphthong is one vowel sound formed by the combination of
two vowel sounds. example: oil, boy, out.
●● Which exercise is best for teaching students automaticity when
reading high frequency regular and irregular words?
Answer: Having students engage in repeated oral reading aloud with a
recorded version of a text that includes targeted words.
●● What are regular words?
Answer: Words in which the letters made their most common sound,
such as kin.
●● What are irregular words?
Answer: Words in which the letters make their least common sound, like
in the word kind.
,●● What is word consciousness?
Answer: An awareness of and an interest in words, their meanings and
their power; helps students develop vocabulary.
●● How can a teacher encourage word consciousness?
Answer: Encourage students to discuss well-chosen language they notice
in literature.
●● What is close reading?
Answer: Close reading means reading to uncover layers of meaning that
lead to deep comprehension.
●● If a 3rd grader is able to read accurately but cannot answer text-
specific questions, what might be causing the problem?
Answer: The students lacks the necessary vocabulary and academic
language.
●● What is the method of counting on?
Answer: When a person begins at the value of one number and counts up
the number of units until they get to the second number.
●● How should you set up a problem where you are changing units?
Answer: 94 inches 1 foot 1 mile
, ---------- x ---------- x -----------
1 revolution 12 inches 5,280 feet
●● How do you read a box plot?
Answer: A box plot shows a 5 number summary in a data set. The line of
a box plot begins at the minimum value and ends at the maximum value.
The beginning of the box is the 1st quartile and the end of the box is the
3rd quartile. The line inside the box is the median. The stars on the
outside of the graph are outliers.
●● How do you find the missing value in a congruent triangle?
Answer: Set up an equivalent proportion to find the missing value.
●● A square can also be classified as a...
Answer: Rectangle or rhombus.
●● What part of a triangle changes if you move the third vertex?
Answer: The perimeter.
●● When balancing, why does it help to bend the knees?
Answer: It lowers the center of gravity.
CONTENT COMPREHENSIVE EXAM STUDY
GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
●● What tool is most appropriate for a 4th grade music teacher to assess
students playing ability?
Answer: Providing students with self assessment scoring rubric.
●● What factors should a 4th grade teacher take into account when
qualitatively measuring a text's complexity?
Answer: The literal and inferential levels of meaning of the text.
●● In a phonemic awareness lesson, what question would help students
practice segmenting phonemes?
Answer: How many sounds do you hear in the word crush?
●● A blend (e.g., fr) counts as how many sounds?
Answer: Two
●● A digraph (sh) counts as how many sounds?
Answer: One
,●● What is a VCV word?
Answer: The first syllable ends with a vowel. Se-cond, le-mon, de-mon.
●● What is a CVC word?
Answer: Closes with consanant. Cat, gel, rim, hop, bud.
●● What is a diphthong?
Answer: A diphthong is one vowel sound formed by the combination of
two vowel sounds. example: oil, boy, out.
●● Which exercise is best for teaching students automaticity when
reading high frequency regular and irregular words?
Answer: Having students engage in repeated oral reading aloud with a
recorded version of a text that includes targeted words.
●● What are regular words?
Answer: Words in which the letters made their most common sound,
such as kin.
●● What are irregular words?
Answer: Words in which the letters make their least common sound, like
in the word kind.
,●● What is word consciousness?
Answer: An awareness of and an interest in words, their meanings and
their power; helps students develop vocabulary.
●● How can a teacher encourage word consciousness?
Answer: Encourage students to discuss well-chosen language they notice
in literature.
●● What is close reading?
Answer: Close reading means reading to uncover layers of meaning that
lead to deep comprehension.
●● If a 3rd grader is able to read accurately but cannot answer text-
specific questions, what might be causing the problem?
Answer: The students lacks the necessary vocabulary and academic
language.
●● What is the method of counting on?
Answer: When a person begins at the value of one number and counts up
the number of units until they get to the second number.
●● How should you set up a problem where you are changing units?
Answer: 94 inches 1 foot 1 mile
, ---------- x ---------- x -----------
1 revolution 12 inches 5,280 feet
●● How do you read a box plot?
Answer: A box plot shows a 5 number summary in a data set. The line of
a box plot begins at the minimum value and ends at the maximum value.
The beginning of the box is the 1st quartile and the end of the box is the
3rd quartile. The line inside the box is the median. The stars on the
outside of the graph are outliers.
●● How do you find the missing value in a congruent triangle?
Answer: Set up an equivalent proportion to find the missing value.
●● A square can also be classified as a...
Answer: Rectangle or rhombus.
●● What part of a triangle changes if you move the third vertex?
Answer: The perimeter.
●● When balancing, why does it help to bend the knees?
Answer: It lowers the center of gravity.
