STR Representative Exam 2025 With
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Question 1 O out of 1 points 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✔✔Selected Answer: using multimodal techniques to
teach emergent literacy skills
Question 2 1 out of 1 points 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✔✔Selected Answer: creating regular opportunities for students to apply
new syllable patterns in their daily writing that have been explicitly taught during phonics
instruction
Question 3 1 out of 1 points 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✔✔SelectedAnswer: 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
Question 4 1 out of 1 points 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✔✔Selected Answer: providing students with increased opportunities to practice
developing skills with teacher feedback.
,Question 5 1 out of 1 points 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✔✔Selected 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
Question 6 1 out of 1 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? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔CHART Selected Answer: Line 3 DIPHTHONG
Question 7 1 out of 1 points 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 be - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Selected Answer: by providing students with a rubric with which they can self-
evaluate their text analysis
Question 8 1 out of 1 points 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✔✔SelectedAnswer: providing a set of texts representing a range of text-complexity
levels and interactive formats, and allowing students to work collaboratively to read the text
Question 9 1 out of 1 points Use the information below to answer the two questions that follow.
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✔✔Selected
Answer: observing individual students' development in various dimensions of literacy over time
Question 10 O out of 1 points Which of the following writing samples provides evidence that
the student is beginning to develop understanding of the alphabetic principle? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Selected Answer: ABCDEF("'Those are letters!") IT IS NOT "MIA" I WROTE MY
NAME
Question 11 1 out of 1 points 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✔✔Selected Answer: A reader's cultural background knowledge can be an important
factor affecting their comprehension of a literary text.
Question 12 1 out of 1 points 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✔✔Selected 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.
Question 13 1 out of 1 points 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 better understand the student's process of constructing meaning from text. Which
of the following assessment procedures administered individually would be most effective for
the teacher to use? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Selected Answer: having the student read aloud a
short narrative text and then retell the story in the student's own words
, Question 14 1 out of 1 points How could a teacher best determine if a particular text is written
at an appropriate level for a student to read independently (i.e. with little or no teacher
support) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Selected Answer: by having the students read aloud a section
of the text and answers questions about and then determining if the students accuracy is at
least 95 percent and comprehension is at least 90
Question 15 1 out of 1 points A third-grade teacher meets regularly with individual students to
discuss their reading. At the beginning of one student's conference the student enthusiastically
shows the teacher an illustrated children's book about the Apollo space program that the
student selected for independent reading. The student points out favorite photographs and
graphics in the text. When the teacher asks the student to read aloud a paragraph the student
encounters difficulty understanding some longer technical words in the text. Which of the
following approaches to providing feedback would be most effective for the teacher to use to
support the student's continued growth in reading? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Selected Answer:
Praising the student for finding such an exciting book and showing the student where to find
more information about the technical terminology included (eg. looking for a glossary in the
book, finding appropriate online resources)
Question 16 1 out of 1 points Use the information below to answer the three questions that
follow. A second-grade teacher has been using a Tier 2 (targeted) intervention with a small
group of students who have difficulty producing oral and written retellings of narrative texts.
The intervention includes the following steps. 1. The students listen to or read a narrative text.
2. The teacher uses written sentence frames to support the students in orally generating
sentences about the story focused on key elements of story grammar (e.g. main characters)]
setting initiating event internal response internal plan attempt[s] consequence resolution). 3.
The teacher helps the students put the sentences together in an oral group retelling of the
story. 4. The students in the group work in pairs to engage in an oral rehearsal of the retelling.
The teacher monitors the pairs of students and provides feedback as needed. 5. The st -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔SelectedAnswer: during step 3, explicitly teaching the students how to
use transition words such as but, so, because, and then to connect the sentences logically to
reflect relationships between story elements
Question 17 1 out of 1 points Which of the following strategies for assessing students'
performance in steps 4 and 5 would provide the teacher with the most appropriate data to
determine if the students are making adequate progress in oral language and writing related to
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Question 1 O out of 1 points 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✔✔Selected Answer: using multimodal techniques to
teach emergent literacy skills
Question 2 1 out of 1 points 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✔✔Selected Answer: creating regular opportunities for students to apply
new syllable patterns in their daily writing that have been explicitly taught during phonics
instruction
Question 3 1 out of 1 points 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✔✔SelectedAnswer: 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
Question 4 1 out of 1 points 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✔✔Selected Answer: providing students with increased opportunities to practice
developing skills with teacher feedback.
,Question 5 1 out of 1 points 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✔✔Selected 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
Question 6 1 out of 1 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? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔CHART Selected Answer: Line 3 DIPHTHONG
Question 7 1 out of 1 points 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 be - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Selected Answer: by providing students with a rubric with which they can self-
evaluate their text analysis
Question 8 1 out of 1 points 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✔✔SelectedAnswer: providing a set of texts representing a range of text-complexity
levels and interactive formats, and allowing students to work collaboratively to read the text
Question 9 1 out of 1 points Use the information below to answer the two questions that follow.
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✔✔Selected
Answer: observing individual students' development in various dimensions of literacy over time
Question 10 O out of 1 points Which of the following writing samples provides evidence that
the student is beginning to develop understanding of the alphabetic principle? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Selected Answer: ABCDEF("'Those are letters!") IT IS NOT "MIA" I WROTE MY
NAME
Question 11 1 out of 1 points 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✔✔Selected Answer: A reader's cultural background knowledge can be an important
factor affecting their comprehension of a literary text.
Question 12 1 out of 1 points 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✔✔Selected 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.
Question 13 1 out of 1 points 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 better understand the student's process of constructing meaning from text. Which
of the following assessment procedures administered individually would be most effective for
the teacher to use? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Selected Answer: having the student read aloud a
short narrative text and then retell the story in the student's own words
, Question 14 1 out of 1 points How could a teacher best determine if a particular text is written
at an appropriate level for a student to read independently (i.e. with little or no teacher
support) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Selected Answer: by having the students read aloud a section
of the text and answers questions about and then determining if the students accuracy is at
least 95 percent and comprehension is at least 90
Question 15 1 out of 1 points A third-grade teacher meets regularly with individual students to
discuss their reading. At the beginning of one student's conference the student enthusiastically
shows the teacher an illustrated children's book about the Apollo space program that the
student selected for independent reading. The student points out favorite photographs and
graphics in the text. When the teacher asks the student to read aloud a paragraph the student
encounters difficulty understanding some longer technical words in the text. Which of the
following approaches to providing feedback would be most effective for the teacher to use to
support the student's continued growth in reading? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Selected Answer:
Praising the student for finding such an exciting book and showing the student where to find
more information about the technical terminology included (eg. looking for a glossary in the
book, finding appropriate online resources)
Question 16 1 out of 1 points Use the information below to answer the three questions that
follow. A second-grade teacher has been using a Tier 2 (targeted) intervention with a small
group of students who have difficulty producing oral and written retellings of narrative texts.
The intervention includes the following steps. 1. The students listen to or read a narrative text.
2. The teacher uses written sentence frames to support the students in orally generating
sentences about the story focused on key elements of story grammar (e.g. main characters)]
setting initiating event internal response internal plan attempt[s] consequence resolution). 3.
The teacher helps the students put the sentences together in an oral group retelling of the
story. 4. The students in the group work in pairs to engage in an oral rehearsal of the retelling.
The teacher monitors the pairs of students and provides feedback as needed. 5. The st -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔SelectedAnswer: during step 3, explicitly teaching the students how to
use transition words such as but, so, because, and then to connect the sentences logically to
reflect relationships between story elements
Question 17 1 out of 1 points Which of the following strategies for assessing students'
performance in steps 4 and 5 would provide the teacher with the most appropriate data to
determine if the students are making adequate progress in oral language and writing related to
