GACE Elementary Education Exam
Questions and Correct Answers
A teacher assesses a child using a running record. She notes that the student's
prosody need to improve. What is prosody? - ✔✔Cadence and expression
What refers to how a student reads in phrases or whole thoughts? - ✔✔cadence
A typical child will have narrowed his or her utterances from the range of all
possible sounds to those relevant in his or her language at which of the
following ages? - ✔✔1 year
According to Ehri, which of the following is true during the partial alphabetic
stage of literacy development? - ✔✔Children are incapable of segmenting
sounds
Your students love to sit in the "Author's Chair" in your language arts center.
Which stage of writing would your children be in when using the "Author's
Chair?" - ✔✔publishing
What is the final step of the writing process? - ✔✔publishing
According to Gentry,what is true of a child's written communication in the
transitional stage? - ✔✔Vowels will appear in every word
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, The typical abilities of children of a given age in a given cultural group are
known as what? - ✔✔Normative development
What type of assessment occurs at the end of a specific period of time and
represent a student's mastery? - ✔✔summative assessment
What type of assessment occurs during learning and guide instruction and
monitors a student's progress? - ✔✔formative assessment
An assessment is considered to be a running record if it does what? - ✔✔It
reflects the student's instructional reading level
At what age would you expect a typical child to be reliably using sentences of
more than 5 words? - ✔✔5 years
Language which does not refer to any immediate experience or information is
known as what? - ✔✔Decontextualized speech
What is another name for Decontextualized speech? - ✔✔disembedded speech
Children develop the ability to understand decontextualized speech around
what age? - ✔✔3 years
The tendency of a young child to repeat another's statement as if it were his or
her own is known as what? - ✔✔repeitition
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Questions and Correct Answers
A teacher assesses a child using a running record. She notes that the student's
prosody need to improve. What is prosody? - ✔✔Cadence and expression
What refers to how a student reads in phrases or whole thoughts? - ✔✔cadence
A typical child will have narrowed his or her utterances from the range of all
possible sounds to those relevant in his or her language at which of the
following ages? - ✔✔1 year
According to Ehri, which of the following is true during the partial alphabetic
stage of literacy development? - ✔✔Children are incapable of segmenting
sounds
Your students love to sit in the "Author's Chair" in your language arts center.
Which stage of writing would your children be in when using the "Author's
Chair?" - ✔✔publishing
What is the final step of the writing process? - ✔✔publishing
According to Gentry,what is true of a child's written communication in the
transitional stage? - ✔✔Vowels will appear in every word
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, The typical abilities of children of a given age in a given cultural group are
known as what? - ✔✔Normative development
What type of assessment occurs at the end of a specific period of time and
represent a student's mastery? - ✔✔summative assessment
What type of assessment occurs during learning and guide instruction and
monitors a student's progress? - ✔✔formative assessment
An assessment is considered to be a running record if it does what? - ✔✔It
reflects the student's instructional reading level
At what age would you expect a typical child to be reliably using sentences of
more than 5 words? - ✔✔5 years
Language which does not refer to any immediate experience or information is
known as what? - ✔✔Decontextualized speech
What is another name for Decontextualized speech? - ✔✔disembedded speech
Children develop the ability to understand decontextualized speech around
what age? - ✔✔3 years
The tendency of a young child to repeat another's statement as if it were his or
her own is known as what? - ✔✔repeitition
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