iTeach GRADE A Q&A
A teacher instructs her students to write in a journal a few times a week. Sometimes she
provides them with prompts, but most of the time their entries are reflections on their
day or thoughts on topics of their choice. She occasionally asks the students to bring
their journals to class so she can check whether they have been writing in it. She asks
them to share one piece of writing. What is the purpose of this? - (correct answer)/NOT
RIGHT/ Having students write in a journal is a good way to informally assess their
writing
A teacher has provided her class with a descriptive writing assignment. The students
have chosen a topic and are now filling out a sensory-focused graphic organizer in
which they list descriptions matching with each of the five sentences. What step in the
writing process are the students most likely to be in? - (correct answer)Prewriting
A student is having trouble fully comprehending a paragraph he just read about tectonic
plate movement. The student doesn't normally struggle with fluency or vocabulary, so
the teacher assumes the student is struggling to visualize the process. What should the
teacher do to help the student fully comprehend the topic? - (correct answer)Ask the
student a basic level question about the passage, then continue with more prompts and
guided questions to encourage understanding.
An eighth-grade class is reading "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë.
During class, the teacher pulls out the following passage from the novel to focus on. In
this passage, the protagonist is describing her thoughts on people who live in the
countryside.
"I perceive that people in these regions acquire over people in towns the value that a
spider in a dungeon does over a spider in a cottage, to their various occupants; and yet
the deepened attraction is not entirely owing to the situation of the looker-on. They do
live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous
external things. I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed
unbeliever in any love of a year's standing. One state resembles setting a hungry man
down to a single dish, on which he may concentrate his entire appetite and do it justice;
the other, introducing him to a table laid out by French cooks - (correct answer)"A rural
lifestyle encourages people to be more reflective and attentive to what they have."
,An eighth-grade class is reading "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë.
During class, the teacher pulls out the following passage from the novel to focus on. In
this passage, the protagonist is describing her thoughts on people who live in the
countryside.
"I perceive that people in these regions acquire over people in towns the value that a
spider in a dungeon does over a spider in a cottage, to their various occupants; and yet
the deepened attraction is not entirely owing to the situation of the looker-on. They do
live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous
external things. I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed
unbeliever in any love of a year's standing. One state resembles setting a hungry man
down to a single dish, on which he may concentrate his entire appetite and do it justice;
the other, introducing him to a table laid out by French cooks - (correct
answer)metaphor
An eighth-grade class is reading "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë.
During class, the teacher pulls out the following passage from the novel to focus on. In
this passage, the protagonist is describing her thoughts on people who live in the
countryside.
"I perceive that people in these regions acquire over people in towns the value that a
spider in a dungeon does over a spider in a cottage, to their various occupants; and yet
the deepened attraction is not entirely owing to the situation of the looker-on. They do
live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous
external things. I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed
unbeliever in any love of a year's standing. One state resembles setting a hungry man
down to a single dish, on which he may concentrate his entire appetite and do it justice;
the other, introducing him to a table laid out by French cooks - (correct answer)Why
does the author use these metaphors to compare life in a town to life in the
countryside?
The following questions reference this excerpt from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel
Hawthorne.
In my native town of Salem, at the head of what, half a century ago, in the days of old
King Derby, was a bustling wharf--but which is now burdened with decayed wooden
warehouses, and
, exhibits few or no symptoms of commercial life; except, perhaps, a bark or brig, half-
way down its melancholy length, discharging hides; or, nearer at hand, a Nova Scotia
schooner, pitching out her cargo of firewood--at the head, I say, of this dilapidated
wharf, which the tide often overflows, and along which, at the base and in the rear of the
row of buildings, the track of many
languid years is seen in a border of unthrifty grass--here, with a view from its front
windows down this not very enlivening prospect, and thence across the harbour, stands
a spacious edifice of brick. From the loftiest point of its roof, during precisely three and a
- (correct answer)/NOT RIGHT/ The Scarlet Letter serves as a commentary on
economic progress in colonial Salem. MAYBE: I also remember growing up next to a
wharf; the sights and sounds are fresh in my memory.?
A high school English teacher assigns students a novel to read outside of class along
with corresponding discussion questions. The students come to class with the novel
questions completed. Which of the following oral presentation strategies will allow
students to share ideas with each other while also allowing the teacher to assess
student understanding of the novel's main points? - (correct answer)/NOT RIGHT/
Students break into two groups depending on their opinion of the novel, positive or
negative. Then, pair off one student who has a positive viewpoint and one student who
has a negative viewpoint to debate.
Which of the following descriptions explains the purpose of prewriting within the writing
process? - (correct answer)Prewriting is the initial generation and organization of ideas
in order to create a coherent piece of writing for a specific audience.
A middle school teacher wants to do more to promote reading to her students. Which of
the following strategies should she try?
Select all answers that apply. - (correct answer)/NOT RIGHT/
Ask students to present to the class a summary of a chapter within the book they are
reading.
Make books accessible to students by setting up a system where students can easily
borrow and return books.
A teacher instructs her students to write in a journal a few times a week. Sometimes she
provides them with prompts, but most of the time their entries are reflections on their
day or thoughts on topics of their choice. She occasionally asks the students to bring
their journals to class so she can check whether they have been writing in it. She asks
them to share one piece of writing. What is the purpose of this? - (correct answer)/NOT
RIGHT/ Having students write in a journal is a good way to informally assess their
writing
A teacher has provided her class with a descriptive writing assignment. The students
have chosen a topic and are now filling out a sensory-focused graphic organizer in
which they list descriptions matching with each of the five sentences. What step in the
writing process are the students most likely to be in? - (correct answer)Prewriting
A student is having trouble fully comprehending a paragraph he just read about tectonic
plate movement. The student doesn't normally struggle with fluency or vocabulary, so
the teacher assumes the student is struggling to visualize the process. What should the
teacher do to help the student fully comprehend the topic? - (correct answer)Ask the
student a basic level question about the passage, then continue with more prompts and
guided questions to encourage understanding.
An eighth-grade class is reading "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë.
During class, the teacher pulls out the following passage from the novel to focus on. In
this passage, the protagonist is describing her thoughts on people who live in the
countryside.
"I perceive that people in these regions acquire over people in towns the value that a
spider in a dungeon does over a spider in a cottage, to their various occupants; and yet
the deepened attraction is not entirely owing to the situation of the looker-on. They do
live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous
external things. I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed
unbeliever in any love of a year's standing. One state resembles setting a hungry man
down to a single dish, on which he may concentrate his entire appetite and do it justice;
the other, introducing him to a table laid out by French cooks - (correct answer)"A rural
lifestyle encourages people to be more reflective and attentive to what they have."
,An eighth-grade class is reading "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë.
During class, the teacher pulls out the following passage from the novel to focus on. In
this passage, the protagonist is describing her thoughts on people who live in the
countryside.
"I perceive that people in these regions acquire over people in towns the value that a
spider in a dungeon does over a spider in a cottage, to their various occupants; and yet
the deepened attraction is not entirely owing to the situation of the looker-on. They do
live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous
external things. I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed
unbeliever in any love of a year's standing. One state resembles setting a hungry man
down to a single dish, on which he may concentrate his entire appetite and do it justice;
the other, introducing him to a table laid out by French cooks - (correct
answer)metaphor
An eighth-grade class is reading "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë.
During class, the teacher pulls out the following passage from the novel to focus on. In
this passage, the protagonist is describing her thoughts on people who live in the
countryside.
"I perceive that people in these regions acquire over people in towns the value that a
spider in a dungeon does over a spider in a cottage, to their various occupants; and yet
the deepened attraction is not entirely owing to the situation of the looker-on. They do
live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous
external things. I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed
unbeliever in any love of a year's standing. One state resembles setting a hungry man
down to a single dish, on which he may concentrate his entire appetite and do it justice;
the other, introducing him to a table laid out by French cooks - (correct answer)Why
does the author use these metaphors to compare life in a town to life in the
countryside?
The following questions reference this excerpt from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel
Hawthorne.
In my native town of Salem, at the head of what, half a century ago, in the days of old
King Derby, was a bustling wharf--but which is now burdened with decayed wooden
warehouses, and
, exhibits few or no symptoms of commercial life; except, perhaps, a bark or brig, half-
way down its melancholy length, discharging hides; or, nearer at hand, a Nova Scotia
schooner, pitching out her cargo of firewood--at the head, I say, of this dilapidated
wharf, which the tide often overflows, and along which, at the base and in the rear of the
row of buildings, the track of many
languid years is seen in a border of unthrifty grass--here, with a view from its front
windows down this not very enlivening prospect, and thence across the harbour, stands
a spacious edifice of brick. From the loftiest point of its roof, during precisely three and a
- (correct answer)/NOT RIGHT/ The Scarlet Letter serves as a commentary on
economic progress in colonial Salem. MAYBE: I also remember growing up next to a
wharf; the sights and sounds are fresh in my memory.?
A high school English teacher assigns students a novel to read outside of class along
with corresponding discussion questions. The students come to class with the novel
questions completed. Which of the following oral presentation strategies will allow
students to share ideas with each other while also allowing the teacher to assess
student understanding of the novel's main points? - (correct answer)/NOT RIGHT/
Students break into two groups depending on their opinion of the novel, positive or
negative. Then, pair off one student who has a positive viewpoint and one student who
has a negative viewpoint to debate.
Which of the following descriptions explains the purpose of prewriting within the writing
process? - (correct answer)Prewriting is the initial generation and organization of ideas
in order to create a coherent piece of writing for a specific audience.
A middle school teacher wants to do more to promote reading to her students. Which of
the following strategies should she try?
Select all answers that apply. - (correct answer)/NOT RIGHT/
Ask students to present to the class a summary of a chapter within the book they are
reading.
Make books accessible to students by setting up a system where students can easily
borrow and return books.
