FTCE Subject Area Exam K-6 Practice Questions

The most effective way to develop students' reading fluency is through - Answer- Repeated Reading The best instructional strategy to use when introducing a variety of genres to a class in order to compare and contrast information about a subject - Answer- Book Clubs Which literary device is being used when inanimate objects or abstract concepts are seemingly endowed with human characteristics? - Answer- Personification Which of the following describes what happens in the graphophonic component of writing? - Answer- Students learn that one sound maybe formed a number of different ways. A 3rd-grade teacher asks the students to partner-read a literary selection. The teacher walks around the room and stops to question each pair of students about the story. Which type of assessment is the teacher using? - Answer- Informal Which of the following modes of writing is intended to provide information and includes facts and data? - Answer- Expository A kindergarten teacher prefaces reading to the class by pointing out the title, author, illustrator, and title page. Which skill is this teacher most likely developing with his students? - Answer- Concepts about books Students need a collection of maps to complete an assignment. The best resource for students to use would be a(an) - Answer- Atlas To assess a student's ability to analyze the draining of the Everglades and the development of South Florida, it would be most effective to ask the student to - Answer- Write a cause-and-effect essay about the region A 2nd-grade teacher is planning a lesson on the Constitution. Of the following, which would be the most appropriate primary source through which to present the lesson? - Answer- View a replica of the Constitution document The Sons of Liberty organized a demonstration primarily in response to the - Answer- Tea Act Between 1849 and 1852, nearly 250,000 people arrived in California, which ultimately led to the admission of California as a state in 1850. Which was the cause of the largest migration in American history to date? - Answer- California Gold Rush The fo