FTCE K-6 ELA EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Which of the following strategies is most effective in increasing students automaticity
- ✔✔repeated reading
✔✔A student is reading through the text. He is stopping at periods, pausing at commas,
and reading with inflection. The student is using ___________________ as he reads -
✔✔prosody
✔✔Students are looking at the list of words below. What would be the best strategy to
use with these words
incredible, credibility, and credit - ✔✔etymology
✔✔A teaching is helping students with their metacognition. Which of the following
activities would be most effective - ✔✔help students think about their thinking
✔✔What can a teacher do to ensure her students are using the correct mode of writing -
✔✔evaluate what type of audience students are writing to
✔✔A kindergarten teacher prefaces reading to the class by pointing out the title, author,
illustrator, and the page. Which skill is this teacher most likely developing with his
students - ✔✔understanding concepts of books
✔✔A fourth grade teacher walks around the room, stopping to question students who
are working in cooperative learning groups about the story. Which type of assessment is
the teacher using - ✔✔informal
✔✔Which literary device is a teacher using when he has students give animals or
inanimate objects human characteristics - ✔✔personification
✔✔Which of the following describes what happens in the graphophonic component of
writing - ✔✔students learn that one sound may be formed by a number of ways (shun
and tion)
✔✔Which of the following modes of writing conveys factual information with data is free
from bias - ✔✔expository
✔✔The most effective way to develop students reading fluency is through - ✔✔repeated
reading
,✔✔Which of the following resources or strategies would be the best way to introduce a
variety of genres to a class in order to compare and contrast information across different
types of text - ✔✔book clubs
✔✔What is it called when a teacher is modeling reading, stopping to talk out the
process in her brain, and showing students how she works through difficult aspects of
the text - ✔✔read aloud/think aloud
✔✔Students are working in collaborative structures to analyze text. Each student has a
job where he or she is responsible for part of the collaborative process. All students are
engaged and working together. What type of activity is this - ✔✔literature circles
✔✔A student has just learned how to use letters correctly to write his name. What stage
of writing is the student in - ✔✔emergent
✔✔A student is learning how to spell words correctly based on the basic rules of the
English language. What is the student working on - ✔✔phonics
✔✔A teacher walks around the room as students engage in a cooperative learning
activity. As she observes her student, she writes down anecdotal notes about each
student's progress. She later uses the notes to make decisions about her upcoming
lessons. What type of assessment did the teacher use - ✔✔formative
✔✔What is the most effective strategy for a teacher to use to help her students become
more proficient at writing complex sentences - ✔✔digram complex sentences to
understand structure
✔✔The following are all comprehension strategies EXCEPT
predicting
questioning
metacognition
decoding - ✔✔decoding
✔✔A student is using fix-up strategies while he reads complex text. What stage of
reading is the student in - ✔✔emergent
✔✔A teacher wants to increase comprehension and critical thinking in her students.
What would be the most effective strategy to use - ✔✔have students work individually to
evaluate text structure and meaning
✔✔A teacher is working with students to help them maximize sentence variety in their
writing. What would be most effective in achieving this goal - ✔✔individual conferences
with specific and meaningful feedback
, ✔✔How should a student read another student's writing when inducing a peer review -
✔✔read through the text in its entirety to understand structure and content
✔✔A teacher shows a video of hurricanes before students begin to free-write on the
topic of hurricane. What stage of writing are the students in - ✔✔prewriting
✔✔The first developmental phase in reading is - ✔✔emergent
✔✔Which statement is NOT true about emergent readers
They hear individual sounds in words
They use illustrations to extract meaning
They reading without point to individual words
They recognize letters in their own name - ✔✔they use illustrations to extract meaning
✔✔Which type of of formative assessment is not utilized in the scenario below:
Ms. Lopez administers an oral reading fluency assessment to Marisa. While Marisa
reads, the teacher marks errors on her copy of the text and also notes the words she
says in place of the correct word(s). After the assessment, the teacher examines her
records to identify the types of errors Marisa made in order to determine the next sep in
reading instruction
running records
silent reading comprehension
miscue analysis
oral fluency check - ✔✔silent reading comprehension
✔✔After a guided reading activity, the teacher asks his fourth grade students to divide
any compound words found in the text. This student activity is an example of -
✔✔structural analysis
✔✔Which is the best instructional strategy for developing concepts of print - ✔✔shared
reading
✔✔Mr. Skinner's students are breaking down word parts to better understand their
meaning.
Which instructional strategy is Mr. Skinner using? - ✔✔structural analysis
✔✔Mrs. Diaz implements readers theatre into her third grade class. This activity
involves reading parts from a text.
What does this strategy help to build?
vocabulary
comprehension
fluency
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Which of the following strategies is most effective in increasing students automaticity
- ✔✔repeated reading
✔✔A student is reading through the text. He is stopping at periods, pausing at commas,
and reading with inflection. The student is using ___________________ as he reads -
✔✔prosody
✔✔Students are looking at the list of words below. What would be the best strategy to
use with these words
incredible, credibility, and credit - ✔✔etymology
✔✔A teaching is helping students with their metacognition. Which of the following
activities would be most effective - ✔✔help students think about their thinking
✔✔What can a teacher do to ensure her students are using the correct mode of writing -
✔✔evaluate what type of audience students are writing to
✔✔A kindergarten teacher prefaces reading to the class by pointing out the title, author,
illustrator, and the page. Which skill is this teacher most likely developing with his
students - ✔✔understanding concepts of books
✔✔A fourth grade teacher walks around the room, stopping to question students who
are working in cooperative learning groups about the story. Which type of assessment is
the teacher using - ✔✔informal
✔✔Which literary device is a teacher using when he has students give animals or
inanimate objects human characteristics - ✔✔personification
✔✔Which of the following describes what happens in the graphophonic component of
writing - ✔✔students learn that one sound may be formed by a number of ways (shun
and tion)
✔✔Which of the following modes of writing conveys factual information with data is free
from bias - ✔✔expository
✔✔The most effective way to develop students reading fluency is through - ✔✔repeated
reading
,✔✔Which of the following resources or strategies would be the best way to introduce a
variety of genres to a class in order to compare and contrast information across different
types of text - ✔✔book clubs
✔✔What is it called when a teacher is modeling reading, stopping to talk out the
process in her brain, and showing students how she works through difficult aspects of
the text - ✔✔read aloud/think aloud
✔✔Students are working in collaborative structures to analyze text. Each student has a
job where he or she is responsible for part of the collaborative process. All students are
engaged and working together. What type of activity is this - ✔✔literature circles
✔✔A student has just learned how to use letters correctly to write his name. What stage
of writing is the student in - ✔✔emergent
✔✔A student is learning how to spell words correctly based on the basic rules of the
English language. What is the student working on - ✔✔phonics
✔✔A teacher walks around the room as students engage in a cooperative learning
activity. As she observes her student, she writes down anecdotal notes about each
student's progress. She later uses the notes to make decisions about her upcoming
lessons. What type of assessment did the teacher use - ✔✔formative
✔✔What is the most effective strategy for a teacher to use to help her students become
more proficient at writing complex sentences - ✔✔digram complex sentences to
understand structure
✔✔The following are all comprehension strategies EXCEPT
predicting
questioning
metacognition
decoding - ✔✔decoding
✔✔A student is using fix-up strategies while he reads complex text. What stage of
reading is the student in - ✔✔emergent
✔✔A teacher wants to increase comprehension and critical thinking in her students.
What would be the most effective strategy to use - ✔✔have students work individually to
evaluate text structure and meaning
✔✔A teacher is working with students to help them maximize sentence variety in their
writing. What would be most effective in achieving this goal - ✔✔individual conferences
with specific and meaningful feedback
, ✔✔How should a student read another student's writing when inducing a peer review -
✔✔read through the text in its entirety to understand structure and content
✔✔A teacher shows a video of hurricanes before students begin to free-write on the
topic of hurricane. What stage of writing are the students in - ✔✔prewriting
✔✔The first developmental phase in reading is - ✔✔emergent
✔✔Which statement is NOT true about emergent readers
They hear individual sounds in words
They use illustrations to extract meaning
They reading without point to individual words
They recognize letters in their own name - ✔✔they use illustrations to extract meaning
✔✔Which type of of formative assessment is not utilized in the scenario below:
Ms. Lopez administers an oral reading fluency assessment to Marisa. While Marisa
reads, the teacher marks errors on her copy of the text and also notes the words she
says in place of the correct word(s). After the assessment, the teacher examines her
records to identify the types of errors Marisa made in order to determine the next sep in
reading instruction
running records
silent reading comprehension
miscue analysis
oral fluency check - ✔✔silent reading comprehension
✔✔After a guided reading activity, the teacher asks his fourth grade students to divide
any compound words found in the text. This student activity is an example of -
✔✔structural analysis
✔✔Which is the best instructional strategy for developing concepts of print - ✔✔shared
reading
✔✔Mr. Skinner's students are breaking down word parts to better understand their
meaning.
Which instructional strategy is Mr. Skinner using? - ✔✔structural analysis
✔✔Mrs. Diaz implements readers theatre into her third grade class. This activity
involves reading parts from a text.
What does this strategy help to build?
vocabulary
comprehension
fluency
