GACE Practice test 1 Questions and
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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? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔What lesson
does the fable teach us?
Which of the following activities involves structural analysis? - ✔✔Students
determining the meaning of a word by considering the word's parts
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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."
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,The student's written sentence indicates that the student does not understand which of
the following concepts? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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
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, likely to help the student? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔irregular nouns
Which of the following is the primary area of focus when scoring a writing assignment
based on a holistic rubric? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔Revising
"It took the child a long time to lick the mile high ice cream cone."
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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? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔What lesson
does the fable teach us?
Which of the following activities involves structural analysis? - ✔✔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."
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,The student's written sentence indicates that the student does not understand which of
the following concepts? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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
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, likely to help the student? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔irregular nouns
Which of the following is the primary area of focus when scoring a writing assignment
based on a holistic rubric? - ✔✔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? - ✔✔Revising
"It took the child a long time to lick the mile high ice cream cone."
Question:
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