TExES Science of Teaching Reading (STR)
(293) UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
A second-grade class is halfway through a class novel. The teacher is designing a formative
assessment to determine each student's ability to make a prediction. Which of the following
approaches should the teacher take when designing the assessment? - CORRECT
ANSWER - have students guess what happens next in the text and provide support with
text evidence
A kindergarten teacher is planning to read the book Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins, by James
Dean, to the class and ask some text-dependent questions. The teacher has several English
Language Learners in the classroom and wants to ask developmentally appropriate questions. In
the book, five pumpkins sit on a gate, fly in the air, and trick or treat, among other fall activities.
The book talks about each pumpkin, from number one to number five, and each one's unique
characteristics. At the end of the story, the pumpkins are shown walking away from the reader,
ready to have fun.
On one page of the text, the pumpkins are scared because the wind has blown out the candles.
The picture in the book shows just the pumpkins' scared eyes and the lights out all around them.
The teacher says, "All we can see are the pumpkins' eyes. How do you think they are feeling
right now?" A student answers, "Sad. It dark." This respons - CORRECT ANSWER -
intermediate
A kindergarten teacher is planning to read the book Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins, by James
Dean, to the class and ask some text-dependent questions. The teacher has several English
Language Learners in the classroom and wants to ask developmentally appropriate questions. In
the book, five pumpkins sit on a gate, fly in the air, and trick or treat, among other fall activities.
The book talks about each pumpkin, from number one to number five, and each one's unique
characteristics. At the end of the story, the pumpkins are shown walking away from the reader,
ready to have fun.
The teacher turns to the page in the book where the pumpkins are flying and says, "What are the
pumpkins doing?" When calling on students, the teacher should expect a student with a
beginning level of oral language proficiency to respond by: - CORRECT ANSWER -
Pointing to the flying pumpkin in the book while the teacher holds it open
, A third-grade class contains students at various levels of English language proficiency. Some
have been learning English for less than a year. This week, the teacher has been conducting read
alouds featuring biographies as part of a unit on book genres. So far, the teacher has read from
the following biographies: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and Harriet Tubman.
However, next week, the teacher plans to incorporate excerpts from biographies on Caesar
Chavez and Frida Kahlo. Then, the students will pick another person of interest, conduct
research, and complete the organizer below:
After the organizers are complete, the teacher tells students to take the information they have
learned and form a paragraph summarizing the most important aspects of their research. At a
later date, students will revise and edit their paragraphs with a peer and then read them aloud
individually to the class.
The teacher notices some - CORRECT ANSWER - Provide the students with sentence
stems to guide their writing
A third-grade class contains students at various levels of English language proficiency. Some
have been learning English for less than a year. This week, the teacher has been conducting read
alouds featuring biographies as part of a unit on book genres. So far, the teacher has read from
the following biographies: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and Harriet Tubman.
However, next week, the teacher plans to incorporate excerpts from biographies on Caesar
Chavez and Frida Kahlo. Then, the students will pick another person of interest, conduct
research, and complete the organizer below:
After the organizers are complete, the teacher tells students to take the information they have
learned and form a paragraph summarizing the most important aspects of their research. At a
later date, students will revise and edit their paragraphs with a peer and then read them aloud
individually to the class.
By including biographies - CORRECT ANSWER - Including culturally relevant texts in
the curriculum
A first-grade teacher would like to model metacognitive reading strategies with her students.
Which of the following activities would be best for the teacher to implement to accomplish this
goal? - CORRECT ANSWER - Conducting a think aloud in which the teacher reads the
text orally, stopping along the way to ask questions and model making predicting
(293) UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions
and CORRECT Answers
A second-grade class is halfway through a class novel. The teacher is designing a formative
assessment to determine each student's ability to make a prediction. Which of the following
approaches should the teacher take when designing the assessment? - CORRECT
ANSWER - have students guess what happens next in the text and provide support with
text evidence
A kindergarten teacher is planning to read the book Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins, by James
Dean, to the class and ask some text-dependent questions. The teacher has several English
Language Learners in the classroom and wants to ask developmentally appropriate questions. In
the book, five pumpkins sit on a gate, fly in the air, and trick or treat, among other fall activities.
The book talks about each pumpkin, from number one to number five, and each one's unique
characteristics. At the end of the story, the pumpkins are shown walking away from the reader,
ready to have fun.
On one page of the text, the pumpkins are scared because the wind has blown out the candles.
The picture in the book shows just the pumpkins' scared eyes and the lights out all around them.
The teacher says, "All we can see are the pumpkins' eyes. How do you think they are feeling
right now?" A student answers, "Sad. It dark." This respons - CORRECT ANSWER -
intermediate
A kindergarten teacher is planning to read the book Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins, by James
Dean, to the class and ask some text-dependent questions. The teacher has several English
Language Learners in the classroom and wants to ask developmentally appropriate questions. In
the book, five pumpkins sit on a gate, fly in the air, and trick or treat, among other fall activities.
The book talks about each pumpkin, from number one to number five, and each one's unique
characteristics. At the end of the story, the pumpkins are shown walking away from the reader,
ready to have fun.
The teacher turns to the page in the book where the pumpkins are flying and says, "What are the
pumpkins doing?" When calling on students, the teacher should expect a student with a
beginning level of oral language proficiency to respond by: - CORRECT ANSWER -
Pointing to the flying pumpkin in the book while the teacher holds it open
, A third-grade class contains students at various levels of English language proficiency. Some
have been learning English for less than a year. This week, the teacher has been conducting read
alouds featuring biographies as part of a unit on book genres. So far, the teacher has read from
the following biographies: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and Harriet Tubman.
However, next week, the teacher plans to incorporate excerpts from biographies on Caesar
Chavez and Frida Kahlo. Then, the students will pick another person of interest, conduct
research, and complete the organizer below:
After the organizers are complete, the teacher tells students to take the information they have
learned and form a paragraph summarizing the most important aspects of their research. At a
later date, students will revise and edit their paragraphs with a peer and then read them aloud
individually to the class.
The teacher notices some - CORRECT ANSWER - Provide the students with sentence
stems to guide their writing
A third-grade class contains students at various levels of English language proficiency. Some
have been learning English for less than a year. This week, the teacher has been conducting read
alouds featuring biographies as part of a unit on book genres. So far, the teacher has read from
the following biographies: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and Harriet Tubman.
However, next week, the teacher plans to incorporate excerpts from biographies on Caesar
Chavez and Frida Kahlo. Then, the students will pick another person of interest, conduct
research, and complete the organizer below:
After the organizers are complete, the teacher tells students to take the information they have
learned and form a paragraph summarizing the most important aspects of their research. At a
later date, students will revise and edit their paragraphs with a peer and then read them aloud
individually to the class.
By including biographies - CORRECT ANSWER - Including culturally relevant texts in
the curriculum
A first-grade teacher would like to model metacognitive reading strategies with her students.
Which of the following activities would be best for the teacher to implement to accomplish this
goal? - CORRECT ANSWER - Conducting a think aloud in which the teacher reads the
text orally, stopping along the way to ask questions and model making predicting
