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PECT Prek-4 Practice Test Module 2 |
Certified Exam Questions & Answers
A teacher is planning instruction to promote four-year-olds' development of skills
related to Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standard about reading, analyzing, and
interpreting text. With children at this developmental level, which of the following
approaches to a read-aloud activity would be most appropriate for the teacher to
use to develop the children's conceptual understanding of fact and opinion?
A. having the children identify characters who demonstrate examples of faulty
reasoning in a fable
B. asking the children to decide which statements related to an article in a
children's nature magazine are true or false
C. helping the children tell one thing they learned from a nonfiction text
D. showing the children how to differentiate between essential and nonessential
information in a nonfiction children's picture book - correct-answer -C
A fourth-grade teacher would like to promote reluctant readers' independent
reading. Which of the following teacher strategies is likely to be most effective in
achieving this goal?
A. engaging students in discussions about their interests and working with the
library media specialist to locate appropriate-level books on these topics
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B. reading aloud a variety of books from the classroom library on a regular basis
and engaging students in discussions related to the read-alouds
C. creating attractive displays of both fiction and nonfiction books and magazines
in the classroom library and regularly inviting students to browse the displays
D. providing opportunities for students to visit the school's library media center
and to learn about the center's resources and organization - correct-answer -A
A third-grade teacher regularly models for students how to paraphrase a portion
of a text and how to pose and respond to questions that clarify or follow up on
information presented in a text. These practices promote students' literacy
development primarily by:
A. supporting their development of dispositions and attitudes that help create a
purposeful, literate environment in the classroom.
B. enhancing their knowledge of the organizational structure of different types of
text.
C. promoting their development of self-monitoring skills that support reading and
learning across the curriculum.
D. fostering their ability to make connections between the reading curriculum and
their lives. - correct-answer -C
A first-grade teacher explains that he is going to read a story aloud and he wants
students to consider how the story makes them feel. Afterward, he prompts the
students to recall and discuss specific words and phrases the author used to evoke
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particular feelings. This oral language activity supports students' literacy
development primarily by helping the students:
A. retell a story's key events accurately.
B. make and verify predictions about a story.
C. connect key events in a story to their own lives.
D. develop an awareness of a story's tone. - correct-answer -D
A kindergarten teacher has placed many signs around the classroom, including
simple written directions (e.g., Please hang up coats!) and labels for objects (e.g.,
clock, Teacher's chair). During daily activities, the teacher regularly points to and
reads aloud relevant signs. The teacher has also created a classroom library filled
with age-appropriate books and has incorporated relevant signs and books into all
the learning centers. These strategies are most effective in addressing which of
the following goals related to effective instruction in emergent literacy?
A. creating a print-rich environment
B. providing guided and independent skills practice
C. encouraging independent reading
D. infusing reading activities across the curriculum - correct-answer -A
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher establishes a variety of
PECT Prek-4 Practice Test Module 2 |
Certified Exam Questions & Answers
A teacher is planning instruction to promote four-year-olds' development of skills
related to Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standard about reading, analyzing, and
interpreting text. With children at this developmental level, which of the following
approaches to a read-aloud activity would be most appropriate for the teacher to
use to develop the children's conceptual understanding of fact and opinion?
A. having the children identify characters who demonstrate examples of faulty
reasoning in a fable
B. asking the children to decide which statements related to an article in a
children's nature magazine are true or false
C. helping the children tell one thing they learned from a nonfiction text
D. showing the children how to differentiate between essential and nonessential
information in a nonfiction children's picture book - correct-answer -C
A fourth-grade teacher would like to promote reluctant readers' independent
reading. Which of the following teacher strategies is likely to be most effective in
achieving this goal?
A. engaging students in discussions about their interests and working with the
library media specialist to locate appropriate-level books on these topics
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B. reading aloud a variety of books from the classroom library on a regular basis
and engaging students in discussions related to the read-alouds
C. creating attractive displays of both fiction and nonfiction books and magazines
in the classroom library and regularly inviting students to browse the displays
D. providing opportunities for students to visit the school's library media center
and to learn about the center's resources and organization - correct-answer -A
A third-grade teacher regularly models for students how to paraphrase a portion
of a text and how to pose and respond to questions that clarify or follow up on
information presented in a text. These practices promote students' literacy
development primarily by:
A. supporting their development of dispositions and attitudes that help create a
purposeful, literate environment in the classroom.
B. enhancing their knowledge of the organizational structure of different types of
text.
C. promoting their development of self-monitoring skills that support reading and
learning across the curriculum.
D. fostering their ability to make connections between the reading curriculum and
their lives. - correct-answer -C
A first-grade teacher explains that he is going to read a story aloud and he wants
students to consider how the story makes them feel. Afterward, he prompts the
students to recall and discuss specific words and phrases the author used to evoke
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particular feelings. This oral language activity supports students' literacy
development primarily by helping the students:
A. retell a story's key events accurately.
B. make and verify predictions about a story.
C. connect key events in a story to their own lives.
D. develop an awareness of a story's tone. - correct-answer -D
A kindergarten teacher has placed many signs around the classroom, including
simple written directions (e.g., Please hang up coats!) and labels for objects (e.g.,
clock, Teacher's chair). During daily activities, the teacher regularly points to and
reads aloud relevant signs. The teacher has also created a classroom library filled
with age-appropriate books and has incorporated relevant signs and books into all
the learning centers. These strategies are most effective in addressing which of
the following goals related to effective instruction in emergent literacy?
A. creating a print-rich environment
B. providing guided and independent skills practice
C. encouraging independent reading
D. infusing reading activities across the curriculum - correct-answer -A
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher establishes a variety of
