PECT Module 2 Practice Test – Q/A
A teacher is planning instruction to promote four-year-olds' development of
skills related to Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standard about reading,
analyzing, and interpreting text. With children at this developmental level,
which of the following approaches to a read-aloud activity would be most
appropriate for the teacher to use to develop the children's conceptual
understanding of fact and opinion? ✔️Ans -helping the children tell
one thing they learned from a nonfiction text
A fourth-grade teacher would like to promote reluctant readers' independent
reading. Which of the following teacher strategies is likely to be most effective
in achieving this goal? ✔️Ans -engaging students in discussions
about their interests and working with the library media specialist to locate
appropriate-level books on these topics
A third-grade teacher regularly models for students how to paraphrase a
portion of a text and how to pose and respond to questions that clarify or
follow up on information presented in a text. These practices promote
students' literacy development primarily by: ✔️Ans -promoting
their development of self-monitoring skills that support reading and learning
across the curriculum.
A first-grade teacher explains that he is going to read a story aloud and he
wants students to consider how the story makes them feel. Afterward, he
prompts the students to recall and discuss specific words and phrases the
author used to evoke particular feelings. This oral language activity supports
students' literacy development primarily by helping the students:
✔️Ans -develop an awareness of a story's tone.
A kindergarten teacher has placed many signs around the classroom,
including simple written directions (e.g., Please hang up coats!) and labels for
objects (e.g., clock, Teacher's chair). During daily activities, the teacher
regularly points to and reads aloud relevant signs. The teacher has also
created a classroom library filled with age-appropriate books and has
incorporated relevant signs and books into all the learning centers. These
strategies are most effective in addressing which of the following goals related
, to effective instruction in emergent literacy? ✔️Ans -creating a
print-rich environment
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher establishes a
variety of classroom roles that rotate on a daily basis. The roles include
Calendar Helper and Star of the Day. The Calendar Helper identifies and
announces the day of the week, the date, and the day's weather, with teacher
support if needed. The Star of the Day shares an object, talking briefly about
the item and then answering three questions about it from classmates and/or
the teacher. Regularly performing these types of classroom roles directly
benefits students' emergent literacy development primarily by enhancing the
students': ✔️Ans -ability to use a range of expressive language
skills.
In keeping with Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standards in language arts,
which of the following writing skills would be most appropriate to include in
language arts instruction at the first-grade level? ✔️Ans -revising
writing by adding details or missing information
A teacher delivering standards-based literacy instruction grounded in
scientific- based reading research is most likely to use the results of reading
assessments for which of the following purposes? ✔️Ans -using
ongoing informal assessments to continually plan and modify individual
students' reading goals and instruction
A group of primary-grade teachers is reviewing potential core instructional
materials for teaching beginning-reading skills. The most important selection
criteria for the teachers to consider would be to ensure that the materials:
✔️Ans -are aligned with relevant state learning standards.
Which of the following words contains a diphthong? ✔️Ans -boiled
A prekindergarten teacher regularly writes students' comments on chart
paper during whole-class discussions and rereads the comments to the class.
This practice supports young children's emergent literacy development
primarily by promoting their: ✔️Ans -awareness of the
relationship between print and spoken language.
A teacher is planning instruction to promote four-year-olds' development of
skills related to Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standard about reading,
analyzing, and interpreting text. With children at this developmental level,
which of the following approaches to a read-aloud activity would be most
appropriate for the teacher to use to develop the children's conceptual
understanding of fact and opinion? ✔️Ans -helping the children tell
one thing they learned from a nonfiction text
A fourth-grade teacher would like to promote reluctant readers' independent
reading. Which of the following teacher strategies is likely to be most effective
in achieving this goal? ✔️Ans -engaging students in discussions
about their interests and working with the library media specialist to locate
appropriate-level books on these topics
A third-grade teacher regularly models for students how to paraphrase a
portion of a text and how to pose and respond to questions that clarify or
follow up on information presented in a text. These practices promote
students' literacy development primarily by: ✔️Ans -promoting
their development of self-monitoring skills that support reading and learning
across the curriculum.
A first-grade teacher explains that he is going to read a story aloud and he
wants students to consider how the story makes them feel. Afterward, he
prompts the students to recall and discuss specific words and phrases the
author used to evoke particular feelings. This oral language activity supports
students' literacy development primarily by helping the students:
✔️Ans -develop an awareness of a story's tone.
A kindergarten teacher has placed many signs around the classroom,
including simple written directions (e.g., Please hang up coats!) and labels for
objects (e.g., clock, Teacher's chair). During daily activities, the teacher
regularly points to and reads aloud relevant signs. The teacher has also
created a classroom library filled with age-appropriate books and has
incorporated relevant signs and books into all the learning centers. These
strategies are most effective in addressing which of the following goals related
, to effective instruction in emergent literacy? ✔️Ans -creating a
print-rich environment
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher establishes a
variety of classroom roles that rotate on a daily basis. The roles include
Calendar Helper and Star of the Day. The Calendar Helper identifies and
announces the day of the week, the date, and the day's weather, with teacher
support if needed. The Star of the Day shares an object, talking briefly about
the item and then answering three questions about it from classmates and/or
the teacher. Regularly performing these types of classroom roles directly
benefits students' emergent literacy development primarily by enhancing the
students': ✔️Ans -ability to use a range of expressive language
skills.
In keeping with Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standards in language arts,
which of the following writing skills would be most appropriate to include in
language arts instruction at the first-grade level? ✔️Ans -revising
writing by adding details or missing information
A teacher delivering standards-based literacy instruction grounded in
scientific- based reading research is most likely to use the results of reading
assessments for which of the following purposes? ✔️Ans -using
ongoing informal assessments to continually plan and modify individual
students' reading goals and instruction
A group of primary-grade teachers is reviewing potential core instructional
materials for teaching beginning-reading skills. The most important selection
criteria for the teachers to consider would be to ensure that the materials:
✔️Ans -are aligned with relevant state learning standards.
Which of the following words contains a diphthong? ✔️Ans -boiled
A prekindergarten teacher regularly writes students' comments on chart
paper during whole-class discussions and rereads the comments to the class.
This practice supports young children's emergent literacy development
primarily by promoting their: ✔️Ans -awareness of the
relationship between print and spoken language.
