NES SUBTEST 1 - Practice Test questions with correct answers

A parent is reading a familiar book one on one with a child. the parent asks the child to point to each of the words of the story as the parent reads them aloud. This activity would be most effective for enhancing the child's awareness of: - Answer A. the alphabetic principle B. Sight words C. the tracking of print D. structural analysis one principle of both first- and second- language acquisition is that learning a first or second language occurs: - Answer A. through explicit instruction in the grammatical rules of the language B. in predictable stages and patterns of development C. at a superficial level until formal language instruction is provided D. through the limitation of the speech For a beginning reader to succeed in recognizing the meaning of a word the reader has just decoded, which of the following must be true? - Answer A. the word rhymes with one or more high-frequency words B. the word appears in a text that is of interest to the reader