MTTC ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS AND WORLD LANGUAGES
TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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 - ANSWER-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 - ANSWER-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 - ANSWER-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. - ANSWER-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, - ANSWER-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." - ANSWER-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
TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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 - ANSWER-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 - ANSWER-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 - ANSWER-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. - ANSWER-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, - ANSWER-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." - ANSWER-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
