ESL Supplemental Practice Test 1
Questions With Correct Answers
Which of the following programs provides federally mandated
accountability data on the progress of ELL students in Texas in meeting
language proficiency goals?
A. The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR)
B. Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS)
C. Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
D. English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔-B
A high school English teacher plans a unit focused on a frequently
taught short story from American literature. Because half of his
students are intermediate to advanced ESL students, he needs to
provide appropriate accommodations to create comprehensible input.
,Which of the following instructional activities should the teacher select
to meet this goal?
A. Before starting the unit, the teacher writes 20 vocabulary words on
the board and gives students a class period to look them up.
B. Students watch a film on the author's novels and stories, focusing on
the shared thematic elements.
C. The teacher begins the unit with a "book talk" in which he introduces
the characters, the initiating event, and touches on the conflict. He then
reads a few pivotal passages from the story.
D. For homework prior to the first unit day, students are required to
read the story and answer a set of questions. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-C
A writing teacher has shown intermediate-level ESL students how to
brainstorm, how to do webs, and how to pose questions about the
topic. An additional strategy that would help students during the
planning stage of writing would be to
A. create an outline.
B. draw a simple illustration.
,C. write the essay in Spanish and then translate it into English.
D. write a thesis statement. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-B
Ms. Contreras is reading a set of student drafts. The following sentence
is in Remi's draft: "I knew that if I just had too more minutes, I could of
finished." Remi's sentence demonstrates difficulty in
A. using past tense correctly.
B. distinguishing between the oral and written forms of homonyms.
C. using modals correctly.
D. spelling. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-B
Remi's draft ends with this sentence: "You should never feel bad just cuz
u didn't finish." Which of the following strategies should Ms. Contreras
use to help Remi understand the difference between social and
academic registers?
, A. She should mark an X through "cuz" and "u" and write "misspelled"
in the margin
B. She should use Remi's sentence in the next day's daily oral language
exercise and have students try to correct the sentence
C. She should have a minilesson on texting language versus academic
language, explaining expectations for each register
D. Since the sentence occurs in a draft, she should expect that Remi will
correct the forms during editing and revision - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-C
An elementary teacher has a class of beginning ESL students. During
oral reading times, the teacher notices that the students are using many
L1 phonemes in pronouncing L2 words. The most effective strategy in
helping students use their L1 phonological knowledge in producing L2
strings would be for the teacher to
A. correct the students each time they mispronounce a word during oral
reading.
B. have students read along silently as she plays an audio recording of a
short book they are familiar with. She plays the recording once more,
with the students reading along chorally.
Questions With Correct Answers
Which of the following programs provides federally mandated
accountability data on the progress of ELL students in Texas in meeting
language proficiency goals?
A. The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR)
B. Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS)
C. Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
D. English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS) - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔-B
A high school English teacher plans a unit focused on a frequently
taught short story from American literature. Because half of his
students are intermediate to advanced ESL students, he needs to
provide appropriate accommodations to create comprehensible input.
,Which of the following instructional activities should the teacher select
to meet this goal?
A. Before starting the unit, the teacher writes 20 vocabulary words on
the board and gives students a class period to look them up.
B. Students watch a film on the author's novels and stories, focusing on
the shared thematic elements.
C. The teacher begins the unit with a "book talk" in which he introduces
the characters, the initiating event, and touches on the conflict. He then
reads a few pivotal passages from the story.
D. For homework prior to the first unit day, students are required to
read the story and answer a set of questions. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-C
A writing teacher has shown intermediate-level ESL students how to
brainstorm, how to do webs, and how to pose questions about the
topic. An additional strategy that would help students during the
planning stage of writing would be to
A. create an outline.
B. draw a simple illustration.
,C. write the essay in Spanish and then translate it into English.
D. write a thesis statement. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-B
Ms. Contreras is reading a set of student drafts. The following sentence
is in Remi's draft: "I knew that if I just had too more minutes, I could of
finished." Remi's sentence demonstrates difficulty in
A. using past tense correctly.
B. distinguishing between the oral and written forms of homonyms.
C. using modals correctly.
D. spelling. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-B
Remi's draft ends with this sentence: "You should never feel bad just cuz
u didn't finish." Which of the following strategies should Ms. Contreras
use to help Remi understand the difference between social and
academic registers?
, A. She should mark an X through "cuz" and "u" and write "misspelled"
in the margin
B. She should use Remi's sentence in the next day's daily oral language
exercise and have students try to correct the sentence
C. She should have a minilesson on texting language versus academic
language, explaining expectations for each register
D. Since the sentence occurs in a draft, she should expect that Remi will
correct the forms during editing and revision - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-C
An elementary teacher has a class of beginning ESL students. During
oral reading times, the teacher notices that the students are using many
L1 phonemes in pronouncing L2 words. The most effective strategy in
helping students use their L1 phonological knowledge in producing L2
strings would be for the teacher to
A. correct the students each time they mispronounce a word during oral
reading.
B. have students read along silently as she plays an audio recording of a
short book they are familiar with. She plays the recording once more,
with the students reading along chorally.
