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NES TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% PASSED A 6th grade teacher at Sinagua Middle School reads an informational text and asks the students to think of a good title to the excerpt. After reading she asks for some volunteers and then writes their responses on the board. They then talk about the different possible titles and eventually agree upon one that best reflects the information in the passage. What does this activity promote with regard to the students' development of listening skills? a. Listen to the author's primary purpose for the text and figure out the main idea(s) b. Use listening skills in order to evaluate supporting evidence c. Predicting to support listening comprehension d. Use the information to create mental images that support listening comprehension a. Listen to the author's primary purpose for the text and figure out the main idea(s) Emma is a beginning reader. She is reading a book and comes across a new word. Once she decodes the word how is she able to succeed in understanding the meaning of the word she just decoded? a. The new word is easy to spell b. The new word rhymes with some site words c. The new word is inside a passage of text that is interesting to Emma d. The new word is already a part of Emma's oral vocabulary d. The new word is already a part of Emma's oral vocabulary Jamison, a kindergartner, says that there are eight words in the spoken sentence "My kite is blue and flies really high." What skill is this student demonstrating? a. Phonological awareness b. Oral language fluency c. Letter-sound correspondence d. Print awareness a. Phonological awareness For English Language Learners, early literacy skills that transfer from the child's first language to his or her second language include: a. Knowing the sounds of the alphabet b. Knowing the functions of and purpose of printed words and writing c. Being able to rhyme words d. Being able to decode digraphs and sound blends b. Knowing the functions of and purpose of printed words and writing A first grade teacher is teaching her students a new song and asks one student to identify any words that have similar sounds. This teacher is demonstrating the best practice of promoting the students' awareness of : a. phonemic patterns b. decoding strategies c. letter-sound correspondence d. word identification strategy a. phonemic patterns At Humphrey Elementary School, many of the second graders are struggling with grade level sights words and are limited in their abilities to recognize words. Choose the best strategy that would assist them in overcoming this challenge. a. Give them explicit directions for spelling their sight words as well as many opportunities to use the words during journal responses or any other type of writing exercise. b. Give the students multiple activities that allow them to sort the words in order to learn various spelling patterns. c. Teach them the roots that are often used and also the prefixes that are often used in the English language. This will help them understand their sight words and/or spelling words better with automatic recognition. d. Provide the students with experiential learning so that they learn to independently find opportunities to use and learn sight words. a. Give them explicit directions for spelling their sight words as well as many opportunities to use the words during journal responses or any other type of writing exercise. When working with English Language Learners (ELL), which teaching strategy is NOT likely to be utilized? a. The teacher works with the students using context clues to understand words that they do not recognize. b. The instructional aide working with a small group adjusts her reading rate of a particular passage. c. The students are instructed to look up words in the dictionary and record them in a journal. d. The teacher stops after every few sentences in a passage she is reading allowed to check for comprehension. c. The students are instructed to look up words in the dictionary and record them in a journal. When assigning a research project paper to her class, Ms. Jones reviews skills with the students that will assist them in conducting their research. Which of the following would probably NOT be a topic the Ms. Jones is going to review with the students? a. Ask the students to write down a topic sentence for each of their paragraphs in the report. b. Give the students an outline template and discuss how outlines are created and used in the writing process. c. Have students write down questions about their topic that they would like to answer through their research. a. Ask the students to write down a topic sentence for each of their paragraphs in the report. A seventh grade social studies teacher reads informational text aloud to his students every day at the beginning of class. What does this strategy promote? a. The use of functional text and features of text b. Obtaining information about academic ideas and language c. Familiarity of various genres d. Understanding how the brain develops b. Obtaining information about academic ideas and language Graphic organizers including webs and clusters can help students expand their vocabulary because it allows them to... a. Learn new components of speech b. Learn how to spell news words c. Learn similarities and differences of new words d. Learn the definition of new words c. Learn similarities and differences of new words Which of the following activities might promote students' overall understanding and appreciation for cultural diversity? a. Incorporating stories about different races and cultures throughout the year in reading class. b. Reading about Mexican History prior to Cinco de Mayo. c. Allowing students to choose a book from the library that include cultural themes. d. Having the students complete a research project about their own heritage. a. Incorporating stories about different races and cultures throughout the year in reading class. Which of the following defines a cinquain poem? a. six lines of unrhymed verse b. five lines or A, A, B, B, A rhyming pattern c. five lines of 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 syllabic pattern d. three lines with an alternating 5, 7, 5 syllabic pattern c. five lines of 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 syllabic pattern Which contains a plot that progresses through dialogue and action only? a. Comedy b. Autobiography c. Drama d. Fiction c. Drama Mr. Green's class is working on a research project about bears in Alaska. Which library reference material would be the most beneficial to his students? a. A Almanac b. A student thesaurus and dictionary set c. A set of Compton Encyclopedias d. An atlas of North America c. A set of Compton Encyclopedias Which of the following source would be most effective for finding information regarding predicted weather forecasts for the entire year? a. an almanac b. a regional map c. an encyclopedia d. weather pattern reports from the previous year a. an almanac A fourth grade class is preparing to read an expository text about the State of Arizona. The teacher wants to assign a pre-reading activity that will assist the students in their comprehension of the text. In order to achieve this, what activity might the teacher assign? a. Ask the students to flip through the text and stop to discuss headings and photographs in the chapter. b. Have the students brainstorm a list of the cities in Arizona. c. Write a list of words on the board and ask the students to decode them. d. Tell the students they are going to write a short story about an animal that lives in Arizona and a day in its life. a. Ask the students to flip through the text and stop to discuss headings and photographs in the chapter. To enhance the flow of writing and strengthen the relationship among ideas it is important to produce writing that: 1. includes a variety of sentence structures such as simple, complex, and compound sentences. 2. uses descriptive words 3. follows an outline 4. reflects the writer's own opinions 1. includes a variety of sentence structures such as simple, complex, and compound sentences. The president of a company is preparing a presentation to her employees outlining a proposal for increasing sales in the coming year. Which type of organizational arrangement would focus the listeners' attention most effectively and lay out the method for the employees to follow? a. cause-effect arrangement b. problem-solution arrangement c. topical arrangement d. chronological arrangement d. chronological arrangement Which of the following would be an example of a cause-effect arrangement in a presentation that a principal was giving to his staff in an attempt to improve reading scores of the student body. a. Giving the teachers a calendar of activities to follow in the coming year in an effort to improve the student scores. b. Introducing a new text book and explaining how to best use the scope and sequence. c. Discussing the reading scores from the prior year and reviewing the current curriculum in place. d. Displaying last years reading scores, identifying the target scores for the coming year and asking for advice from the staff on how to meet the goal. d. Displaying last years reading scores, identifying the target scores for the coming year and asking for advice from the staff on how to meet the goal. A magazine advertisement for fruit snacks in the shape of a popular children's character depicts a group of students in the lunchroom smiling, talking and eating the snacks. The design of this ad was most likely based on the idea of influencing a child's opinions and values by: a. encouraging the child to consider the fun associated with eating in the cafeteria. b. inspiring a child's desire to be accepted by their peers. c. appealing to the child's love of the popular character. d. arousing the child's interest in how the fruit snacks taste. b. inspiring a child's desire to be accepted by their peers.