TEXES PPR EXAM |ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS|BRAND NEW 2026-2027
UPDATE|GRADED A+
Question 1
A grade 9 teacher whose ELL students are not meeting satisfactory standards on the
campus benchmarks is concerned that these low achievement levels will have a negative
impact on the students' persistence in developing higher levels of English proficiency. The
teacher's concern demonstrates awareness of
A. the connection between the belief that success is possible and the motivation to learn.
B. the difficulty of promoting English proficiency in students who lack basic language
abilities.
C. the lack of correlation between ELPS and day-to-day classroom activities.
D. the reality that ELLs need long-term bilingual education in order to sustain academic
progress.
CORRECT ANSWER
A. the connection between the belief that success is possible and the motivation to
learn.
Question 2
A second-grade teacher maintains a chart entitled, Trying All the Time. Each time a student
attempts sometime new or risky—like trying to pronounce a difficult new word during
read-alouds or volunteering to solve a math problem on the board—the student gets to
put a red star on his or her row on the chart. This strategy primarily demonstrates the
teacher's awareness of the students' developmental needs and characteristics by
A. showing students that failure does not matter.
B. rewarding students for attempting things that are within their current abilities.
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,C. creating a culture of high expectations in a developmentally appropriate context.
D. showing students that grades are not the only way to measure achievement.
CORRECT ANSWER
C. creating a culture of high expectations in a developmentally appropriate context.
Question 3
Ms. Bensen, a grade 11 English teacher notices that Joel has been arriving late each day, is
nonparticipatory, and is failing his daily work. Several days a week, the students write in
their journals. If they want to share what they have written with Ms. Bensen, they put the
journals in her inbox. Joel submits an entry in which he writes about how depressed he is
because his girlfriend broke up with him. The behavior Ms. Bensen has observed fits which
of Erikson's stages of psychosocial development?
A. Initiative versus guilt
B. Identity versus role confusion
C. Intimacy versus isolation
D. Integrity versus despair
CORRECT ANSWER
C. Intimacy versus isolation
In Erikson's stages theory, Joel's behavior is explained by the intimacy versus isolation
crisis.
Question 4
Ms. Parks's fifth-grade science students are studying sound using interactive videodisc
technology. Using computers, appropriate software, and the videodisc resources, each
group is to create a lesson on a particular aspect of sound, such as volume or pitch. Each
group will then teach the lesson to the rest of the class.The videodisc technology enables
students to actually observe demonstrations of how sound waves work. Teaching students
by allowing them to experience the natural phenomenon of sound waves is
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, developmentally appropriate for Ms. Parks's fifth-graders because these students are
likely to be in which of the following stages of cognitive development?
A. Piaget's sensorimotor stage
B. Piaget's concrete operational stage
C. Piaget's formal operational stage
D. Piaget's zone of proximal development
CORRECT ANSWER
B. Piaget's concrete operational stage
Grade 5 students are in the concrete operational stage; they understand complex ideas
by seeing specific examples, such as what would be provided by the videodisc.
Question 5
In working with mainstreamed ELL students, which of the following strategies would
enable a grade 3 teacher to adapt lessons to promote higher levels of English proficiency
as described by ELPS?
A. The teacher schedules a meeting with an ESL teacher to ask for handouts and worksheets
in basic areas of grammar
B. The teacher uses formal and informal assessments to determine ELL students'
competency based on their performance and to adjust instruction to meet students'
instructional needs
C. The teacher schedules a parent-teacher conference to give parents guidelines for
integrating English into the home environment
D. The teacher asks the ELL students to stay in during lunch and recess for tutoring and for
correcting problems in homework and class assignments
CORRECT ANSWER
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VERIFIED ANSWERS|BRAND NEW 2026-2027
UPDATE|GRADED A+
Question 1
A grade 9 teacher whose ELL students are not meeting satisfactory standards on the
campus benchmarks is concerned that these low achievement levels will have a negative
impact on the students' persistence in developing higher levels of English proficiency. The
teacher's concern demonstrates awareness of
A. the connection between the belief that success is possible and the motivation to learn.
B. the difficulty of promoting English proficiency in students who lack basic language
abilities.
C. the lack of correlation between ELPS and day-to-day classroom activities.
D. the reality that ELLs need long-term bilingual education in order to sustain academic
progress.
CORRECT ANSWER
A. the connection between the belief that success is possible and the motivation to
learn.
Question 2
A second-grade teacher maintains a chart entitled, Trying All the Time. Each time a student
attempts sometime new or risky—like trying to pronounce a difficult new word during
read-alouds or volunteering to solve a math problem on the board—the student gets to
put a red star on his or her row on the chart. This strategy primarily demonstrates the
teacher's awareness of the students' developmental needs and characteristics by
A. showing students that failure does not matter.
B. rewarding students for attempting things that are within their current abilities.
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,C. creating a culture of high expectations in a developmentally appropriate context.
D. showing students that grades are not the only way to measure achievement.
CORRECT ANSWER
C. creating a culture of high expectations in a developmentally appropriate context.
Question 3
Ms. Bensen, a grade 11 English teacher notices that Joel has been arriving late each day, is
nonparticipatory, and is failing his daily work. Several days a week, the students write in
their journals. If they want to share what they have written with Ms. Bensen, they put the
journals in her inbox. Joel submits an entry in which he writes about how depressed he is
because his girlfriend broke up with him. The behavior Ms. Bensen has observed fits which
of Erikson's stages of psychosocial development?
A. Initiative versus guilt
B. Identity versus role confusion
C. Intimacy versus isolation
D. Integrity versus despair
CORRECT ANSWER
C. Intimacy versus isolation
In Erikson's stages theory, Joel's behavior is explained by the intimacy versus isolation
crisis.
Question 4
Ms. Parks's fifth-grade science students are studying sound using interactive videodisc
technology. Using computers, appropriate software, and the videodisc resources, each
group is to create a lesson on a particular aspect of sound, such as volume or pitch. Each
group will then teach the lesson to the rest of the class.The videodisc technology enables
students to actually observe demonstrations of how sound waves work. Teaching students
by allowing them to experience the natural phenomenon of sound waves is
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, developmentally appropriate for Ms. Parks's fifth-graders because these students are
likely to be in which of the following stages of cognitive development?
A. Piaget's sensorimotor stage
B. Piaget's concrete operational stage
C. Piaget's formal operational stage
D. Piaget's zone of proximal development
CORRECT ANSWER
B. Piaget's concrete operational stage
Grade 5 students are in the concrete operational stage; they understand complex ideas
by seeing specific examples, such as what would be provided by the videodisc.
Question 5
In working with mainstreamed ELL students, which of the following strategies would
enable a grade 3 teacher to adapt lessons to promote higher levels of English proficiency
as described by ELPS?
A. The teacher schedules a meeting with an ESL teacher to ask for handouts and worksheets
in basic areas of grammar
B. The teacher uses formal and informal assessments to determine ELL students'
competency based on their performance and to adjust instruction to meet students'
instructional needs
C. The teacher schedules a parent-teacher conference to give parents guidelines for
integrating English into the home environment
D. The teacher asks the ELL students to stay in during lunch and recess for tutoring and for
correcting problems in homework and class assignments
CORRECT ANSWER
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