MTTC 103 Elementary Education Sample Multiple Choice Questions with correct answers

A fourth-grade teacher regularly has students maintain individual learning logs of their observations and questions during science experiments. Students then share and discuss their learning-log entry with a partner before the whole class meets to draw conclusions about what they learned. This approach to fostering student learning best demonstrates the teacher's recognition of the importance of: A. helping students make connections and comparisons between different modes of communication. B. considering students' physical, social, and cognitive development when planning academic instruction. C. encouraging students to consider pragmatic elements when listening and speaking in academic situations. D. enhancing students' understanding of content-area concepts through reading, writing, listening, and speaking. CORRECT ANSWER D. enhancing students' understanding of content-area concepts through reading, writing, listening, and speaking. A kindergarten teacher notices that some students are having difficulty developing an understanding of the alphabetic principle and letter-sound correspondence. Which of the following strategies would be most effective to use first in addressing the students' needs? A. helping the students develop automaticity recognizing grade- level-appropriate, high-frequency words B. having the students practice identifying all the printed words in a book that begins with the same letter C. assessing the students' ability to write both uppercase and lowercase letters clearly and accurately D. focusing the students' attention on letters whose sound-symbol relationships are most consistent CORRECT ANSWER D. focusing the students' attention on letters whose sound-symbol relationships are most consistent