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PECT PreK-4 Practice Test Module 2
Questions and Correct 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
Ans: 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?
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A. engaging students in discussions about their interests and
working with the library media specialist to locate appropriate-
level books on these topics
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 Ans: 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.
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D. fostering their ability to make connections between the reading
curriculum and their lives. Ans: 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 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. Ans: 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
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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 Ans: A
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher
establishes a variety of
classroom roles that rotate on a daily basis. The roles include
Calendar Helper
and Star of the Day. The Calendar Helper identifies and announces
the day of the
week, the date, and the day's weather, with teacher support if
needed. The Star
of the Day shares an object, talking briefly about the item and then
answering
three questions about it from classmates and/or the teacher.
Regularly performing
these types of classroom roles directly benefits students' emergent
literacy
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PECT PreK-4 Practice Test Module 2
Questions and Correct 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
Ans: 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?
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A. engaging students in discussions about their interests and
working with the library media specialist to locate appropriate-
level books on these topics
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 Ans: 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.
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D. fostering their ability to make connections between the reading
curriculum and their lives. Ans: 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 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. Ans: 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
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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 Ans: A
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher
establishes a variety of
classroom roles that rotate on a daily basis. The roles include
Calendar Helper
and Star of the Day. The Calendar Helper identifies and announces
the day of the
week, the date, and the day's weather, with teacher support if
needed. The Star
of the Day shares an object, talking briefly about the item and then
answering
three questions about it from classmates and/or the teacher.
Regularly performing
these types of classroom roles directly benefits students' emergent
literacy
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