PECT PreK-4 Practice Test Module 2 Already Rated A+

PECT PreK-4 Practice Test Module 2 Already Rated A+ 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? A. revising writing by adding details or missing information B. focusing writing for a particular audience C. revising writing by varying sentence length and structures D. using transition words to clarify ideas in writing 8. A A teacher delivering standards-based literacy instruction grounded in scientificbased reading research is most likely to use the results of reading assessments for which of the following purposes? A. using formal and informal assessments to place students into the most appropriate reading group for a given school year B. using ongoing informal assessments to continually plan and modify individual students' reading goals and instruction C. using formal standardized assessments to diagnose each student's reading difficulties at the beginning of the school year D. using comprehensive summative reading achievement assessments on a weekly to biweekly basis to monitor students' progress Which of the following words contains a diphthong? A. anchor B. boiled C. measure D. truths B B A kindergarten teacher reads aloud a poem that contains alliteration in each line. The teacher reads the poem twice, each time emphasizing the alliteration. On the third reading, the teacher invites the children to repeat each line exactly as the teacher recited it. This activity is most effective in promoting the children's development in which of the following areas of emergent literacy? A. alphabetic awareness B. letter-sound correspondence C. letter recognition D. phonological awareness D A second-grade teacher is planning reading instruction at the beginning of the school year and would like to determine the entry-level skills of individual students in key areas of reading. Which of the following types of assessments would be most appropriate for the teacher to use to assess entering students' decoding skills? A. a norm-referenced reading achievement test B. an informal phonics inventory C. a summative curriculum-based measurement D. an oral reading fluency test B A prekindergarten teacher helps students memorize a poem and recite it chorally. The teacher could best use this activity to build a foundation for which of the following literacy skills? A. prosodic reading B. independent word-learning C. strategic reading D. responsive listening A A second-grade teacher is beginning an integrated content-area unit on farming. As an introduction to the unit, the teacher helps students brainstorm words related to the concept of farming and guides students in creating a semantic map with the words. This activity best illustrates a strategy targeting which of the following essential components of effective vocabulary instruction? A. deepening and clarifying students' knowledge of known words B. providing direct instruction in new content-specific words C. promoting students' comprehension of academic language D. fostering the use of independent word-learning strategies A A second-grade teacher is planning to read aloud a story to the class and would like to use this activity to reinforce and build on students' literary analysis skills. Which of the following strategies would likely be most appropriate and effective in achieving this goal at this grade level? A. guiding students to identify the main characters and major events in the story B. prompting students to retell the story orally in their own words after the reading C. inviting students to discuss their favorite and least favorite parts of the story D. asking students to use evidence from the story to explain the author's purpose Once a week, a second-grade teacher conducts a fluency check with each student. The teacher has the student read aloud an unfamiliar, appropriate-level passage for one minute as the teacher notes errors on a separate copy of the passage. The teacher calculates the number of words the student read correctly during that minute, and both the teacher and the student maintain charts of the student's weekly progress. This type of activity primarily focuses on which of the following aspects of reading fluency? A. accuracy B. rate C. prosody D. automaticity B A third-grade teacher would like to develop students' ability to understand and use longer sentence structures and academic vocabulary. Which of the following instructional practices would be most effective to use for this purpose during a A class discussion of a reading passage? A. modeling contextual analysis with a syntactically challenging sentence from the passage B. using restatement and open-ended questions to clarify and extend students' remarks about the passage C. posting definitions of key words from the passage on the board prior to the discussion D. asking students to create a graphic organizer representing the main ideas or argument in the passage B At the beginning of an inquiry-based multidisciplinary unit on birds of the region, a