STR Exam Teachers Of Tomorrow - Questions
With Correct Solutions
01. According to findings in the Report of the National Literacy
Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth which of the
following curricular adjustments would most effectively support the
literacy development of English learners with respect to text
comprehension? Correct Answer - integrating comprehensive
oral language instruction with literacy instruction
02. Which of the following actions by elementary school teachers in
the early grades would best demonstrate understanding that
decoding and encoding are reciprocal skills that develop
synchronously during the early stages of reading development?
Correct Answer - creating regular opportunities for students to
apply new syllable patterns in their daily writings that have been
explicitly taught during phonics instruction.
03. A teacher would like to help students identify their literacy skills
and strengths as part of an assets-based approach to literacy
instruction. Which of the following teacher actions is consistent with
this type of approach? Correct Answer - Providing students
with explicit feedback about what they already know and are able to
do well and helping them use this information to establish realistic
yet challenging learning goals.
04. A school district in Texas has adopted the Multi-Tiered Systems
of Support (MTSS) model of instruction in their K-3 literacy program
which includes a core reading program (Tier 1) supplemental
instruction (Tier 2) and intensive instruction (Tier 3) Instructional
grouping in Tier 2 is restricted to five or fewer students. This
limitation enhances the effectiveness of literacy instruction for the
students primarily by: Correct Answer - Providing students
,with increased opportunities to practice developing skills with
teacher feedback.
05. A second-grade student has been identified with dysgraphia but
does not have difficulty with decoding or encoding. Which of the
following approaches to instruction would be most effective in
promoting the student's development with respect to the identified
area of need? Correct Answer - Providing the student with
explicit instruction in letter formation and frequent, short, guided-
practice sessions to build the student's handwriting fluency and
automaticity in letter memory and formation.
06. In which line in the table below is the underlined portion of the
example word accurately matched to the phonics term that is used
to describe that phonics element?
Line Phonics Term Example word
1 blend they
2 digraph factor
3 diphthong power
4 trigraph scrap Correct Answer - Line 3
07. Use the information below to answer the two questions that
follow. Students in a third-grade class have been studying ways in
which Earth's surface is always changing. As the culminating project
students choose a topic that they would like to learn more about
(e.g. volcanic eruptions earthquakes landslides floods) and establish
a research group focused on that topic. The students in each group
generate questions to focus their research read a variety of texts to
gather information related to their questions and engage in focused
discussions of the texts based on their questions. The teacher's role
is to support the groups by helping them gather a range of print and
digital informational texts related to their chosen topic modeling
,norms for equitable discussions and monitoring each group's task
progress to ensure group members stay focused.
In which of the following ways can the teacher best foster the
students Correct Answer - by providing students' with a rubric
with which they can self-evaluate their text analysis
08. Several research groups include students with a diverse range of
reading skills. The teacher wants to differentiate instruction for
students in a way that will also strengthen their capacity for reading
more complex text. Which of the following approaches best aligns
with research-based best practices to accomplish this purpose?
Correct Answer - providing a set of texts representing a range of
text-complexity levels and interactive formats, and allowing student
to work collaboratively to read the texts.
09. A kindergarten teacher regularly has students write and draw in
their journals in response to an open-ended prompt. During these
writing sessions the teacher circulates among students asks them to
read aloud what they have written and documents their
performance with anecdotal notes in a teacher record.
This type of informal assessment strategy would be most
appropriate to use for which of the following instructional
purposes? Correct Answer - observing individual student's
development in various dimensions of literacy over time.
10. Which of the following writing samples provides evidence that
the student is beginning to develop understanding of the alphabetic
principle?
KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
, ABCDEF
"Those are letters"
MIA
"I write my name!"
T Lo LE O
"The dog went home" Correct Answer - KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
11. When planning assessments to measure students'
comprehension of literary texts an elementary school teacher
selects a variety of passages from a range of cultures including those
that reflect the diverse cultural experiences of the students. The
teacher also considers students' familiarity with cultural content
when evaluating students' responses to texts. The teacher's actions
best demonstrate the importance of taking which of the following
factors into consideration when selecting texts for assessments?
Correct Answer - A reader's cultural background knowledge can
be an important factor affecting their comprehension of a literary
text.
12. Which of the following statements identifies a characteristic of
criterion-referenced tests that in general makes them unsuitable for
use as a formative assessment of foundational reading skills?
Correct Answer - While criterion referenced assessment can
measure students mastery of target skills, they provide little
information about the extent of students skill development toward
mastery.
13. A second-grade student demonstrates grade-level oral reading
fluency but is reluctant to participate in post-reading discussions
and frequently exhibits comprehension difficulty when answering
questions about assigned literary texts. The teacher would like to
With Correct Solutions
01. According to findings in the Report of the National Literacy
Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth which of the
following curricular adjustments would most effectively support the
literacy development of English learners with respect to text
comprehension? Correct Answer - integrating comprehensive
oral language instruction with literacy instruction
02. Which of the following actions by elementary school teachers in
the early grades would best demonstrate understanding that
decoding and encoding are reciprocal skills that develop
synchronously during the early stages of reading development?
Correct Answer - creating regular opportunities for students to
apply new syllable patterns in their daily writings that have been
explicitly taught during phonics instruction.
03. A teacher would like to help students identify their literacy skills
and strengths as part of an assets-based approach to literacy
instruction. Which of the following teacher actions is consistent with
this type of approach? Correct Answer - Providing students
with explicit feedback about what they already know and are able to
do well and helping them use this information to establish realistic
yet challenging learning goals.
04. A school district in Texas has adopted the Multi-Tiered Systems
of Support (MTSS) model of instruction in their K-3 literacy program
which includes a core reading program (Tier 1) supplemental
instruction (Tier 2) and intensive instruction (Tier 3) Instructional
grouping in Tier 2 is restricted to five or fewer students. This
limitation enhances the effectiveness of literacy instruction for the
students primarily by: Correct Answer - Providing students
,with increased opportunities to practice developing skills with
teacher feedback.
05. A second-grade student has been identified with dysgraphia but
does not have difficulty with decoding or encoding. Which of the
following approaches to instruction would be most effective in
promoting the student's development with respect to the identified
area of need? Correct Answer - Providing the student with
explicit instruction in letter formation and frequent, short, guided-
practice sessions to build the student's handwriting fluency and
automaticity in letter memory and formation.
06. In which line in the table below is the underlined portion of the
example word accurately matched to the phonics term that is used
to describe that phonics element?
Line Phonics Term Example word
1 blend they
2 digraph factor
3 diphthong power
4 trigraph scrap Correct Answer - Line 3
07. Use the information below to answer the two questions that
follow. Students in a third-grade class have been studying ways in
which Earth's surface is always changing. As the culminating project
students choose a topic that they would like to learn more about
(e.g. volcanic eruptions earthquakes landslides floods) and establish
a research group focused on that topic. The students in each group
generate questions to focus their research read a variety of texts to
gather information related to their questions and engage in focused
discussions of the texts based on their questions. The teacher's role
is to support the groups by helping them gather a range of print and
digital informational texts related to their chosen topic modeling
,norms for equitable discussions and monitoring each group's task
progress to ensure group members stay focused.
In which of the following ways can the teacher best foster the
students Correct Answer - by providing students' with a rubric
with which they can self-evaluate their text analysis
08. Several research groups include students with a diverse range of
reading skills. The teacher wants to differentiate instruction for
students in a way that will also strengthen their capacity for reading
more complex text. Which of the following approaches best aligns
with research-based best practices to accomplish this purpose?
Correct Answer - providing a set of texts representing a range of
text-complexity levels and interactive formats, and allowing student
to work collaboratively to read the texts.
09. A kindergarten teacher regularly has students write and draw in
their journals in response to an open-ended prompt. During these
writing sessions the teacher circulates among students asks them to
read aloud what they have written and documents their
performance with anecdotal notes in a teacher record.
This type of informal assessment strategy would be most
appropriate to use for which of the following instructional
purposes? Correct Answer - observing individual student's
development in various dimensions of literacy over time.
10. Which of the following writing samples provides evidence that
the student is beginning to develop understanding of the alphabetic
principle?
KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
, ABCDEF
"Those are letters"
MIA
"I write my name!"
T Lo LE O
"The dog went home" Correct Answer - KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
11. When planning assessments to measure students'
comprehension of literary texts an elementary school teacher
selects a variety of passages from a range of cultures including those
that reflect the diverse cultural experiences of the students. The
teacher also considers students' familiarity with cultural content
when evaluating students' responses to texts. The teacher's actions
best demonstrate the importance of taking which of the following
factors into consideration when selecting texts for assessments?
Correct Answer - A reader's cultural background knowledge can
be an important factor affecting their comprehension of a literary
text.
12. Which of the following statements identifies a characteristic of
criterion-referenced tests that in general makes them unsuitable for
use as a formative assessment of foundational reading skills?
Correct Answer - While criterion referenced assessment can
measure students mastery of target skills, they provide little
information about the extent of students skill development toward
mastery.
13. A second-grade student demonstrates grade-level oral reading
fluency but is reluctant to participate in post-reading discussions
and frequently exhibits comprehension difficulty when answering
questions about assigned literary texts. The teacher would like to
