FTCE Pk-3 Practice Questions with verified answers
A 3rd grade teacher wants to develop students' respectful behavior.
Which of the following methods would be most effective for this
purpose?
A. teaching the class a commercial unit of study on character
development
B. creating goals within the class community that reflect students' ideas
and contributions
C. providing a competitive environment in the classroom to promote
students' sense of fair play
D. defining rules for the class based on the teacher's previous
experiences Ans✓✓✓ B. creating goals within the class community
that reflect students' ideas and contributions
A 3rd-grade teacher is developing a research unit on habitats. Identify
the best resource for
selecting lesson plans and activities to satisfy the grade-level standard.
A. Department of Education Web site
B. National Science Foundation
C. Early Childhood Research Quarterly
D. International Reading Association Ans✓✓✓ B. National Science
Foundation
,A 6-year-old child cannot traverse a 5-foot-long balance beam without
assistance and cannot catch a large ball. Which of the following areas of
development is most likely delayed?
A. social
B. cognitive
C. affective
D. motor Ans✓✓✓ D. motor
A beginning teacher, upon receiving the Sunshine State Standards, asks
his peer mentor,
"What is the purpose of these standards?"
What would be the most accurate response?
A. "To help teachers design appropriate grade-level instruction."
B. "To help students achieve mastery on the Florida Comprehensive
Achievement Test."
C. "To help principals assess the competency of teachers."
D. "To help parents evaluate the effectiveness of their child's teacher."
Ans✓✓✓ A. "To help teachers design appropriate grade-level
instruction."
A child who is highly creative, uses advanced language, and learns new
information easily
would be identified as
A. ADHD.
,B. gifted.
C. bilingual.
D. physically challenged. Ans✓✓✓ B. gifted.
A group of kindergarten children is playing in the block area. A conflict
arises about how to build a tower. The teacher should initially respond
by
A. allowing the children to try to resolve the problem themselves
B. separating the children into different centers
C. mediating the situation between the children immediately
D. encouraging the children to build their own structures Ans✓✓✓ A.
allowing the children to try to resolve the problem themselves
A kindergarten teacher asks students to say words sound by sound
while moving blocks for
each sound. What instructional method is the teacher using
A. shared reading instruction
B. differentiated instruction
C. explicit systematic instruction
D. intensive instruction Ans✓✓✓ C. explicit systematic instruction
A kindergarten teacher has been teaching the letter-sound relationship.
The students have
, mastered matching beginning sounds. What is the most appropriate
next activity for these
students?
A. matching pictures to medial sounds
B. matching pictures of objects whose names rhyme
C. matching pictures to final sounds
D. matching pictures of objects whose names share blending sounds
Ans✓✓✓ C. matching pictures to final sounds
A kindergarten teacher, demonstrating the concept of conservation,
poured water into a tall,
narrow glass. The teacher then poured the same amount of water into
a short, wide glass. The
teacher asked the question, "Which container has the most water?"
The children responded,
"The tall glass."
This is an example of which Piagetian stage?
A. sensorimotor
B. preoperational
C. concrete operations
D. formal operations Ans✓✓✓ B. preoperational
A major factor contributing to the literacy level of a family is
A 3rd grade teacher wants to develop students' respectful behavior.
Which of the following methods would be most effective for this
purpose?
A. teaching the class a commercial unit of study on character
development
B. creating goals within the class community that reflect students' ideas
and contributions
C. providing a competitive environment in the classroom to promote
students' sense of fair play
D. defining rules for the class based on the teacher's previous
experiences Ans✓✓✓ B. creating goals within the class community
that reflect students' ideas and contributions
A 3rd-grade teacher is developing a research unit on habitats. Identify
the best resource for
selecting lesson plans and activities to satisfy the grade-level standard.
A. Department of Education Web site
B. National Science Foundation
C. Early Childhood Research Quarterly
D. International Reading Association Ans✓✓✓ B. National Science
Foundation
,A 6-year-old child cannot traverse a 5-foot-long balance beam without
assistance and cannot catch a large ball. Which of the following areas of
development is most likely delayed?
A. social
B. cognitive
C. affective
D. motor Ans✓✓✓ D. motor
A beginning teacher, upon receiving the Sunshine State Standards, asks
his peer mentor,
"What is the purpose of these standards?"
What would be the most accurate response?
A. "To help teachers design appropriate grade-level instruction."
B. "To help students achieve mastery on the Florida Comprehensive
Achievement Test."
C. "To help principals assess the competency of teachers."
D. "To help parents evaluate the effectiveness of their child's teacher."
Ans✓✓✓ A. "To help teachers design appropriate grade-level
instruction."
A child who is highly creative, uses advanced language, and learns new
information easily
would be identified as
A. ADHD.
,B. gifted.
C. bilingual.
D. physically challenged. Ans✓✓✓ B. gifted.
A group of kindergarten children is playing in the block area. A conflict
arises about how to build a tower. The teacher should initially respond
by
A. allowing the children to try to resolve the problem themselves
B. separating the children into different centers
C. mediating the situation between the children immediately
D. encouraging the children to build their own structures Ans✓✓✓ A.
allowing the children to try to resolve the problem themselves
A kindergarten teacher asks students to say words sound by sound
while moving blocks for
each sound. What instructional method is the teacher using
A. shared reading instruction
B. differentiated instruction
C. explicit systematic instruction
D. intensive instruction Ans✓✓✓ C. explicit systematic instruction
A kindergarten teacher has been teaching the letter-sound relationship.
The students have
, mastered matching beginning sounds. What is the most appropriate
next activity for these
students?
A. matching pictures to medial sounds
B. matching pictures of objects whose names rhyme
C. matching pictures to final sounds
D. matching pictures of objects whose names share blending sounds
Ans✓✓✓ C. matching pictures to final sounds
A kindergarten teacher, demonstrating the concept of conservation,
poured water into a tall,
narrow glass. The teacher then poured the same amount of water into
a short, wide glass. The
teacher asked the question, "Which container has the most water?"
The children responded,
"The tall glass."
This is an example of which Piagetian stage?
A. sensorimotor
B. preoperational
C. concrete operations
D. formal operations Ans✓✓✓ B. preoperational
A major factor contributing to the literacy level of a family is
