Elementary MTTC (103)
During world language instruction, which of the following student activities would best
incorporate opportunities for students to negotiate meaning?
A. reading a text and underlining any words that are unfamiliar
B. playing a game in which a word must be guessed by use of circumlocution
C. filling out a worksheet of questions that require the use of a dictionary
D. writing a short story based on a sequential set of illustrations from a picture book -
ANS-B
Which of the following characteristics of literacy development best illustrates the
relationship between speaking and writing?
A. printing the letters of the alphabet
B. overgeneralizing regular verb tense endings
C. using phonetic spelling
D. recognizing examples of environmental print - ANS-C
A second-grade teacher notices that several students regularly place adjectives after
nouns in their writing and speaking. These students most likely require explicit
instruction related to which of the following English language systems?
A. phonological
B. semantic
C. syntactic
D. pragmatic - ANS-C
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher talks informally with
students' families about the kinds of prior experiences their children have had,
especially those related to learning and literacy. The teacher uses this information to
help plan dramatic play and literacy centers that reflect familiar settings, tasks, and
experiences. These actions most clearly demonstrate the teacher's awareness of the:
A. integrated nature of reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
B. interconnections between language, literacy, and culture.
C. relationship between oral language development and reading achievement.
D. links between vocabulary development and reading in the home. - ANS-B
As a regular component of whole-group mathematics instruction, a fifth-grade teacher
guides students in closely reading key pages from the grade-level textbook. Afterward,
in addition to guiding students in applying the new material presented in the text to
,sample exercises, the teacher also helps the students summarize the text's main ideas
orally. Finally, students draft their own written summaries of the new concepts,
processes, and/or terminology in their mathematics journals. This approach to
content-area instruction promotes students' school achievement primarily in which of the
following ways?
A. by providing a print-rich environment in which students at all skill levels participate in
differentiated literacy activities
B. by using nonverbal, concrete experiences to scaffold students' comprehension and
vocabulary development
C. by promoting students' development of skill in using listening, speaking, reading, -
ANS-C
A kindergarten teacher wants to involve all families in helping students develop oral
language skills that support literacy development. Which of the following teacher
recommendations to families is likely to be most effective in addressing this goal?
A. "Take your children to arts and cultural community events such as concerts and
festivals."
B. "Visit the local public library regularly with your child to borrow children's books such
as picture books and easy readers."
C. "Spend time with your children playing active games such as hopscotch and jump
rope."
D. "Talk with your children while working together when preparing meals and doing
other daily activities." - ANS-D
A teacher is designing a sequence of instruction for teaching letter recognition skills to
emergent readers. Which of the following sets of letters would be most appropriate for a
teacher to include in the first lessons?
A. c, o, w, x, y, z
B. I, L, T, H, E, F
C. a, m, t, s, f, d
D. A, a, B, b, C, c - ANS-C
An English Language Learner in a fourth-grade class can read fluently in a language
that is written using a nonalphabetic script. Which of the following concepts is likely to
be most difficult for this student to grasp when learning to read in English?
A. A series of letters represents a word.
B. Print symbolizes spoken language.
C. A sentence is composed of a sequence of words.
D. Letters correspond to phonemes. - ANS-D
,A kindergarten teacher regularly reads aloud "big books" to her students. As she reads
she points to each word, and during successive readings she encourages students to
join in the reading as she points. Which of the following emergent literacy skills is this
activity most likely to promote?
A. awareness of consonant and vowel phonemes
B. understanding of the relationship of speech to print
C. recognition of basic phonics and spelling patterns
D. knowledge of variations in letter-sound relationships - ANS-B
A kindergarten teacher regularly leads classroom discussions before beginning a new
read-aloud of informational texts. For example, he may conduct a book walk of the
pictures, point out some key vocabulary, and then ask students to share what they
already know about the subject of the book. This practice most clearly demonstrates the
teacher's understanding of which of the following factors that influence emergent
readers' construction of meaning?
A. the role of setting a purpose and goal prior to reading a text
B. the importance of using textual evidence to draw conclusions
C. the role of activating background knowledge related to a text
D. the importance of determining a text's main idea and details - ANS-C
Which of the following words would be most appropriate to include in phonics instruction
designed to promote beginning readers' ability to decode regular CVCe words?
A. done
B. give
C. make
D. were - ANS-C
A fifth-grade student who is having difficulty reading the word instinctively in a science
text would be best advised to apply which of the following skills?
A. word recognition
B. structural analysis
C. syllabication
D. phonic analysis - ANS-B
A second-grade teacher would like to improve students' ability to read narrative texts
with appropriate expression. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most
effective in addressing this goal?
A. asking students to try to read a short story silently in a specified amount of time
B. engaging students in a round-robin reading of a short story
C. having students read and then rewrite a short story in the form of a song or poem
, D. leading students in an echo reading of a short story - ANS-D
As part of an informal reading assessment, a teacher asks a first-grade student to read
a grade-level passage aloud. As the student reads, the teacher marks the student's
errors on a copy of the passage, indicating errors of substitution, insertion, omission,
and reversal. The teacher also notes any repetitions or self-corrections. This
assessment is likely to provide the most useful information about the student's skills in
which of the following areas of reading development?
A. reading comprehension
B. vocabulary knowledge
C. phonemic awareness
D. word recognition - ANS-D
Which of the following scenarios would provide the best evidence that a kindergarten
student is progressing according to typical stages of literacy development?
A. Now the student provides detailed drawings to accompany his written symbols,
whereas he never illustrated his writings at the beginning of the school year.
B. At the beginning of the school year, the student often incorporated words into his
writings that he had copied from environmental print, but now he only uses his own
original symbols.
C. Now the student knows that he is not writing real words, whereas at the beginning of
the school year he would point to clusters of letters and call them words.
D. At the beginning of the school year, the student told a different story each time he
reread his writings, but now he follows the letters with his finger and uses similar words
when rereading. - ANS-D
Which of the following words would be most appropriate to teach as a sight word to
fifth-grade students?
A. teacher
B. understand
C. scientist
D. explain - ANS-C
Which of the following teacher actions during a read-aloud of a "big book" is likely to be
most effective in supporting kindergartners' vocabulary development?
A. reading dramatically using exaggerated intonation and placing extra emphasis on key
words in the text
B. running a pointer under the text while reading and pausing to have students repeat
key words from the text several times chorally
During world language instruction, which of the following student activities would best
incorporate opportunities for students to negotiate meaning?
A. reading a text and underlining any words that are unfamiliar
B. playing a game in which a word must be guessed by use of circumlocution
C. filling out a worksheet of questions that require the use of a dictionary
D. writing a short story based on a sequential set of illustrations from a picture book -
ANS-B
Which of the following characteristics of literacy development best illustrates the
relationship between speaking and writing?
A. printing the letters of the alphabet
B. overgeneralizing regular verb tense endings
C. using phonetic spelling
D. recognizing examples of environmental print - ANS-C
A second-grade teacher notices that several students regularly place adjectives after
nouns in their writing and speaking. These students most likely require explicit
instruction related to which of the following English language systems?
A. phonological
B. semantic
C. syntactic
D. pragmatic - ANS-C
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher talks informally with
students' families about the kinds of prior experiences their children have had,
especially those related to learning and literacy. The teacher uses this information to
help plan dramatic play and literacy centers that reflect familiar settings, tasks, and
experiences. These actions most clearly demonstrate the teacher's awareness of the:
A. integrated nature of reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
B. interconnections between language, literacy, and culture.
C. relationship between oral language development and reading achievement.
D. links between vocabulary development and reading in the home. - ANS-B
As a regular component of whole-group mathematics instruction, a fifth-grade teacher
guides students in closely reading key pages from the grade-level textbook. Afterward,
in addition to guiding students in applying the new material presented in the text to
,sample exercises, the teacher also helps the students summarize the text's main ideas
orally. Finally, students draft their own written summaries of the new concepts,
processes, and/or terminology in their mathematics journals. This approach to
content-area instruction promotes students' school achievement primarily in which of the
following ways?
A. by providing a print-rich environment in which students at all skill levels participate in
differentiated literacy activities
B. by using nonverbal, concrete experiences to scaffold students' comprehension and
vocabulary development
C. by promoting students' development of skill in using listening, speaking, reading, -
ANS-C
A kindergarten teacher wants to involve all families in helping students develop oral
language skills that support literacy development. Which of the following teacher
recommendations to families is likely to be most effective in addressing this goal?
A. "Take your children to arts and cultural community events such as concerts and
festivals."
B. "Visit the local public library regularly with your child to borrow children's books such
as picture books and easy readers."
C. "Spend time with your children playing active games such as hopscotch and jump
rope."
D. "Talk with your children while working together when preparing meals and doing
other daily activities." - ANS-D
A teacher is designing a sequence of instruction for teaching letter recognition skills to
emergent readers. Which of the following sets of letters would be most appropriate for a
teacher to include in the first lessons?
A. c, o, w, x, y, z
B. I, L, T, H, E, F
C. a, m, t, s, f, d
D. A, a, B, b, C, c - ANS-C
An English Language Learner in a fourth-grade class can read fluently in a language
that is written using a nonalphabetic script. Which of the following concepts is likely to
be most difficult for this student to grasp when learning to read in English?
A. A series of letters represents a word.
B. Print symbolizes spoken language.
C. A sentence is composed of a sequence of words.
D. Letters correspond to phonemes. - ANS-D
,A kindergarten teacher regularly reads aloud "big books" to her students. As she reads
she points to each word, and during successive readings she encourages students to
join in the reading as she points. Which of the following emergent literacy skills is this
activity most likely to promote?
A. awareness of consonant and vowel phonemes
B. understanding of the relationship of speech to print
C. recognition of basic phonics and spelling patterns
D. knowledge of variations in letter-sound relationships - ANS-B
A kindergarten teacher regularly leads classroom discussions before beginning a new
read-aloud of informational texts. For example, he may conduct a book walk of the
pictures, point out some key vocabulary, and then ask students to share what they
already know about the subject of the book. This practice most clearly demonstrates the
teacher's understanding of which of the following factors that influence emergent
readers' construction of meaning?
A. the role of setting a purpose and goal prior to reading a text
B. the importance of using textual evidence to draw conclusions
C. the role of activating background knowledge related to a text
D. the importance of determining a text's main idea and details - ANS-C
Which of the following words would be most appropriate to include in phonics instruction
designed to promote beginning readers' ability to decode regular CVCe words?
A. done
B. give
C. make
D. were - ANS-C
A fifth-grade student who is having difficulty reading the word instinctively in a science
text would be best advised to apply which of the following skills?
A. word recognition
B. structural analysis
C. syllabication
D. phonic analysis - ANS-B
A second-grade teacher would like to improve students' ability to read narrative texts
with appropriate expression. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most
effective in addressing this goal?
A. asking students to try to read a short story silently in a specified amount of time
B. engaging students in a round-robin reading of a short story
C. having students read and then rewrite a short story in the form of a song or poem
, D. leading students in an echo reading of a short story - ANS-D
As part of an informal reading assessment, a teacher asks a first-grade student to read
a grade-level passage aloud. As the student reads, the teacher marks the student's
errors on a copy of the passage, indicating errors of substitution, insertion, omission,
and reversal. The teacher also notes any repetitions or self-corrections. This
assessment is likely to provide the most useful information about the student's skills in
which of the following areas of reading development?
A. reading comprehension
B. vocabulary knowledge
C. phonemic awareness
D. word recognition - ANS-D
Which of the following scenarios would provide the best evidence that a kindergarten
student is progressing according to typical stages of literacy development?
A. Now the student provides detailed drawings to accompany his written symbols,
whereas he never illustrated his writings at the beginning of the school year.
B. At the beginning of the school year, the student often incorporated words into his
writings that he had copied from environmental print, but now he only uses his own
original symbols.
C. Now the student knows that he is not writing real words, whereas at the beginning of
the school year he would point to clusters of letters and call them words.
D. At the beginning of the school year, the student told a different story each time he
reread his writings, but now he follows the letters with his finger and uses similar words
when rereading. - ANS-D
Which of the following words would be most appropriate to teach as a sight word to
fifth-grade students?
A. teacher
B. understand
C. scientist
D. explain - ANS-C
Which of the following teacher actions during a read-aloud of a "big book" is likely to be
most effective in supporting kindergartners' vocabulary development?
A. reading dramatically using exaggerated intonation and placing extra emphasis on key
words in the text
B. running a pointer under the text while reading and pausing to have students repeat
key words from the text several times chorally
