GACE Practice Test 1 UPDATED Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
A first-grade teacher is concerned about several students whose sight vocabulary is very limited.
Which of the following would be the most effective strategy for the teacher to use to help the
students increase their sight vocabulary? - CORRECT ANSWER - Providing explicit
instruction in the study of high-frequency words, to improve oral reading fluency
A teacher is informally assessing second-grade students' listening-comprehension skills after
reading Aesop's fable about the lion and the mouse. Which of the following prompts requires the
children to draw an inference from the fable? - CORRECT ANSWER - What lesson does
the fable teach us?
Which of the following activities involves structural analysis? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Students determining the meaning of a word by considering the word's parts
I Y m H s a lm
Question:
A student writes the sentence shown and reads it to the teacher as follows.
"I was at my house and saw a little mouse."
The student's written sentence indicates that the student does not understand which of the
following concepts? - CORRECT ANSWER - Most words contain several letter-sound
combinations.
During which stage of the writing process are students most likely to share their writing with the
entire class? - CORRECT ANSWER - Publishing
COET (coat)RITE (right)COL (cool)BAUGHT (bought)CRL (curl)HICH (hitch)
Question:
Based on the sample of a student's spelling test shown, which of the following statements best
describes the student's spelling development? - CORRECT ANSWER - Recognizes that
words are made up of letter patterns that represents sounds
, While working on a research project, a student uses the Internet and finds a great deal of
information on a chosen topic. Which of the following is the best step for the student to take
next? - CORRECT ANSWER - Making a decision about the relevance of the various
pieces of information
During a unit on folktales, a second-grade teacher wants to help students engage in higher-order
thinking. After the students read The Little Red Hen, the teacher asks the students to justify the
little red hen's decision to eat the bread herself. Which level of Bloom's taxonomy does the
activity address? - CORRECT ANSWER - Evaluation
A teacher observes that a first-grade student does not employ beginning and final consonants
correctly while reading. Which of the following teaching strategies is most likely to help the
student? - CORRECT ANSWER - Teaching decoding skills and modeling how to use the
skills in context
A teacher gives students a set of cards with headlines written on them and a set of clippings of
news articles. The teacher asks the students to match each news article with its corresponding
headline. Which of the following skills is the activity most likely to develop? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Identifying main ideas
Foot →→ FeetChild →→ ChildrenTooth →→ Teeth
Question:
A second-grade teacher writes the words above on the board. Which of the following best
describes the lesson she is introducing? - CORRECT ANSWER - irregular nouns
Which of the following is the primary area of focus when scoring a writing assignment based on
a holistic rubric? - CORRECT ANSWER - The overall structure and quality of the
assignment
While working on a writing assignment, a student asks a peer to listen to her read the rough draft
and offer suggestions for clarifying, expanding, or condensing parts of the draft. The student is
engaged in which stage of the writing process? - CORRECT ANSWER - Revising
Questions and CORRECT Answers
A first-grade teacher is concerned about several students whose sight vocabulary is very limited.
Which of the following would be the most effective strategy for the teacher to use to help the
students increase their sight vocabulary? - CORRECT ANSWER - Providing explicit
instruction in the study of high-frequency words, to improve oral reading fluency
A teacher is informally assessing second-grade students' listening-comprehension skills after
reading Aesop's fable about the lion and the mouse. Which of the following prompts requires the
children to draw an inference from the fable? - CORRECT ANSWER - What lesson does
the fable teach us?
Which of the following activities involves structural analysis? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Students determining the meaning of a word by considering the word's parts
I Y m H s a lm
Question:
A student writes the sentence shown and reads it to the teacher as follows.
"I was at my house and saw a little mouse."
The student's written sentence indicates that the student does not understand which of the
following concepts? - CORRECT ANSWER - Most words contain several letter-sound
combinations.
During which stage of the writing process are students most likely to share their writing with the
entire class? - CORRECT ANSWER - Publishing
COET (coat)RITE (right)COL (cool)BAUGHT (bought)CRL (curl)HICH (hitch)
Question:
Based on the sample of a student's spelling test shown, which of the following statements best
describes the student's spelling development? - CORRECT ANSWER - Recognizes that
words are made up of letter patterns that represents sounds
, While working on a research project, a student uses the Internet and finds a great deal of
information on a chosen topic. Which of the following is the best step for the student to take
next? - CORRECT ANSWER - Making a decision about the relevance of the various
pieces of information
During a unit on folktales, a second-grade teacher wants to help students engage in higher-order
thinking. After the students read The Little Red Hen, the teacher asks the students to justify the
little red hen's decision to eat the bread herself. Which level of Bloom's taxonomy does the
activity address? - CORRECT ANSWER - Evaluation
A teacher observes that a first-grade student does not employ beginning and final consonants
correctly while reading. Which of the following teaching strategies is most likely to help the
student? - CORRECT ANSWER - Teaching decoding skills and modeling how to use the
skills in context
A teacher gives students a set of cards with headlines written on them and a set of clippings of
news articles. The teacher asks the students to match each news article with its corresponding
headline. Which of the following skills is the activity most likely to develop? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Identifying main ideas
Foot →→ FeetChild →→ ChildrenTooth →→ Teeth
Question:
A second-grade teacher writes the words above on the board. Which of the following best
describes the lesson she is introducing? - CORRECT ANSWER - irregular nouns
Which of the following is the primary area of focus when scoring a writing assignment based on
a holistic rubric? - CORRECT ANSWER - The overall structure and quality of the
assignment
While working on a writing assignment, a student asks a peer to listen to her read the rough draft
and offer suggestions for clarifying, expanding, or condensing parts of the draft. The student is
engaged in which stage of the writing process? - CORRECT ANSWER - Revising
