ESL Test Study Guide

ESL Test Study Guide Which of the following programs provides federally mandated accountability data on the progress of ELL students in Texas in meeting language proficiency goals? - Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS) A high school English teacher plans a unit focused on a frequently taught short story from American literature. Because half of his students are intermediate to advanced ESL students, he needs to provide appropriate accommodations to create comprehensible input. Which of the following instructional activities should the teacher select to meet this goal? - The teacher begins the unit with a "book talk" in which he introduces the characters, the initiating event, and touches on the conflict. He then reads a few pivotal passages from the story. A writing teacher has shown intermediate-level ESL students how to brainstorm, how to do webs, and how to pose questions about the topic. An additional strategy that would help students during the planning stage of writing would be to - draw a simple illustration. Ms. Contreras is reading a set of student drafts. The following sentence is in Remi's draft: "I knew that if I just had too more minutes, I could of finished." Remi's sentence demonstrates difficulty in - distinguishing between the oral and written forms of homonyms. Remi's draft ends with this sentence: "You should never feel bad just cuz u didn't finish." Which of the following strategies should Ms. Contreras use to help Remi understand the difference between social and academic registers? - She should have a minilesson on texting language versus academic language, explaining expectations for each register An elementary teacher has a class of beginning ESL students. During oral reading times, the teacher notices that the students are using many L1 phonemes in pronouncing L2 words. The most effective strategy in helping students use their L1 phonological knowledge in producing L2 strings would be for the teacher to - have students read along silently as she plays an audio recording of a short book they are familiar with. She plays the recording once more, with the students reading along chorally. The best rationale for integrating culturally relevant literature into ELL curricula is that - students are better able to connect meaningfully with stories and characters that reflect their culture and/ or native country environment. A third-grade ESL teacher creates a Home Words Homework Page. The teacher tells the students to ask their parents or siblings to help them write down 10 words describing their home or objects in their home. The teacher tells the students to put the words in two columns: one column for the English word and one column for the Spanish translation. This assignment best addresses which of the following ESL instructional strategies? - The teacher is creating an opportunity for family involvement in the ESL students' education ELL students in a third-grade class are having trouble learning the names of math figures (for example, hexagon, quadrilateral, pentagon, and so on). Which of the following instructional strategies would most effectively promote students' learning in this area of math? - The teacher puts students into groups and assigns a different figure to each group. Their task is to make several models of their figure using a variety of resources such as craft sticks, twigs, pencils, construction paper strips, chenille sticks, and any other materials they can think of. An elementary school teacher has introduced word problems in his ESL class. The teacher knows that word problems pose conceptual difficulties even for native speakers, so he wants to provide appropriate instructional support for his ESL students' understanding of this math concept. Which of the following strategies would best reinforce his ESL students' understanding of math word problems? - The teacher organizes students into groups and gives each group 12 pencil cap erasers. Each group writes a short word problem focusing on math operations about the erasers. To promote students' understanding of social studies content, a third-grade ESL teacher writes keywords and focal points on the board as he lectures. Which of the following additional strategies would best promote students' understanding of content knowledge during each class lecture? - The teacher stops every 10-15 minutes to conduct a "state of the class" session, during which he asks questions about key points and encourages students to explain what they understand and identify what they don't understand. In their August orientation, teachers at a Central Texas school discuss the following statement from the school's Handbook of Daily Operating Procedures: "The teacher creates an environment that values the beliefs, backgrounds, home learning, home language,