PECT Module 2 PreK-4 Exam Questions & Answers Solved 100%

Which is most likely to interrupt a student's reading fluency? a. Text is too much to read in one sitting b. Student doesn't understand 15% of vowels c. Student doesn't know sight words or phonetic sounds d. None of the above - Answer C You ask a student to look at a book without words and orally tell a story just by looking at pictures. Which ability are you assessing? a. Concept of print b. Story Structure c. Phonics d. None of the above - Answer B A boy reads slowly but accurately. What is an appropriate intervention? a. Repeated reading on a text that is at his independent level b. Echo read of a text at his instructional level c. Group reading d. None of the above - Answer A If a child struggles with fluency, what can you expect? a. The student will struggle with comprehension b. The student will struggle with phonics c. The student will struggle with vocabulary d. The student will never learn to read - Answer A A teacher has her students crouch when the music is low and stand on their tiptoes when the music is high. What musical concept is she reinforcing? a. Tempo b. Pitch c. Timbre d. Dynamics - Answer B A class goes on a field trip to a supermarket. The produce manager explains to the class that fruits are grown in other areas and then transported to the store. Which activity would further the student's knowledge of spatial interaction? a. Research the climates of the areas the fruits come from b. Chart the different modes of transportation used to move the fruit c. Study the food traditions in the different areas d. Find the location of where different fruits are grown and map how they get to the store - Answer D A first grade class visits a pet store. Once returning back to the classroom the students are broken up into various groups for different jobs. After this, the teacher holds a discussion on their activities. What topic is the teacher laying the foundation for in future years? a. Opportunity cost b. Universal needs c. Economic interdependence d. Disposable income - Answer C A teacher wants to connect a science unit with social studies. The students are charting a plant's growth. Which concept is the teacher targeting? a. Time b. Continuity c. Location d. Environment - Answer A Ms. Duke is teaching a small group of first grade students. She is giving them the sounds /b/ /i/ /g/ and then sweeping them together to say "big." Her group is practicing this skill with several short vowel words. What skill is Ms. Duke working on with this group? a. Alphabetic knowledge b. Print awareness c. Fluency d. Phonemic awareness - Answer D A kindergarten teacher includes poetry in her daily read-alouds. She asks her students to listen to the rhymes of familiar poems and sometimes to provide a new rhyming word. Which reading skill is she practicing with her class? a. Sight or concrete words b. Print awareness c. Phonemic awareness d. Connecting print to letter sounds - Answer C Sometimes parents are not up-to-date on current instructional practices. Which would be a good way to explain invented spelling to a parent of a kindergarten student? a. A system invented by teachers to help students learn to spell words correctly b. The ability to recognize and read words by translating the letters into speech sounds c. Vocabulary words which students should know by the end of the year d. The use of letter-sound relationship to attempt to write words - Answer D There are yellow balloons that your students make into a sculpture. What concept is being taught? a. Line b. Form c. Shape d. None of the above - Answer B You want to teach the concept of change over a period of time. What activity should you choose? a. Make a poster with a timeline of your birth to your kindergarten years b. Have a discussion about the presidents of the U.S. c. Watch a video and answer questions about timelines d. None of the above - Answer A Young children often begin to recognize words that they see like names of restaurants and toy stores or names of cereal on the boxes. This type of familiar print is referred to as: a. Visual literacy b. Frequency literacy c. Environmental print d. Morphemes - Answer C Which of the following design elements would you teach in correlation with a math unit? a. Harmony b. Variety c. Rhythm d. Pattern - Answer D A kindergarten teacher wants her students to understand that words are made up of smaller sound units or syllables. Which of the following questions should the teacher use to work on phonological awareness? a. Which of the following words rhymes with sunny? b. Can you give me another word that starts with the same sound as seven? c. First say older, now add sh. What is the new word? d. Say tiger. Now say "ti" and then say "ger." - Answer D