STR Exam teachers of tomorrow Exam
Questions and Answers
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
Answers ✅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 Answers ✅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 Answers ✅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
,STR Exam teachers of tomorrow Exam
Questions and Answers
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
Answers ✅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 Answers ✅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 Answers ✅Line 3
,STR Exam teachers of tomorrow Exam
Questions and Answers
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 Answers ✅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 Answers
✅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.
, STR Exam teachers of tomorrow Exam
Questions and Answers
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 Answers ✅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!"
Questions and Answers
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
Answers ✅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 Answers ✅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 Answers ✅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
,STR Exam teachers of tomorrow Exam
Questions and Answers
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
Answers ✅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 Answers ✅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 Answers ✅Line 3
,STR Exam teachers of tomorrow Exam
Questions and Answers
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 Answers ✅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 Answers
✅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.
, STR Exam teachers of tomorrow Exam
Questions and Answers
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 Answers ✅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!"
