MTTC 103 Elementary Education Sample Multiple Choice Questions 2023

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. - 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 - D. focusing the students' attention on letters whose sound-symbol relationships are most consistent A kindergarten student has good oral language skills and enjoys looking at, listening to, and discussing informational picture books about a range of subjects. However, when the teacher reads aloud narrative texts, the student often seems restless and confused and is unable to answer basic questions about the story. Which of the following factors is most likely interfering with this student's construction of meaning? A. lack of ability to make text-to-text connections B. limited experience with literary material C. lack of understanding of question words D. limited awareness of the alphabetic principle - B. limited experience with literary material A student who has mastered six high- frequency letter-sound correspondences and can segment and blend CVC words presented orally is most likely ready to begin instruction in which of the following reading skills? A. decoding other word types and phonics patterns B. learning how to pronounce words with consonant clusters C. sounding out printed CVC words letter by letter D. reading short passages containing primarily CVC words - C. sounding out printed CVC words letter by letter A sixth-grade teacher observes that an advanced-level English Language Learner's oral reading lacks fluency. Although the student can accurately decode the words in an English text and has a good comprehension of the meaning of the text, he sometimes uses inappropriate phrasing, intonation, and word stress. Which of the following statements provides the best explanation for this student's reading behavior? A. The student's expressive vocabulary in English is less developed than his receptive vocabulary. B. The student is generalizing regular letter-sound correspondences to irregular words. C. The student's primary language is influencing his production of English. D. The student's academic-language skills are less developed than his social-language skills. - C. The student's primary language is influencing his production of English. Which of the following options best exemplifies inferential comprehension? A. recognizing cause-and-effect relationships in a science text about the processes of condensation and evaporation B. making connections between past personal experiences and information presented in an article about nutrition C. following a sequence of steps in a set of written instructions for creating a pattern using stencils and paint D. determining an author's point of view in a social studies text about the consequences of industrialization - D. determining an author's point of view in a social studies text about the consequences of industrialization A sixth-grade teacher is planning a unit on autobiography. Several students have expressed disinterest in reading nonfiction. Which of the following student activities would most likely help engage students' interest in reading an autobiography? A. giving a multimedia presentation about the author's life to the class B. portraying the author in appearance and personality while being