GACE Elementary Education questions with correct answers

A teacher assesses a child using a running record. She notes that the student's prosody need to improve. What is prosody? Answer Cadence and expression What refers to how a student reads in phrases or whole thoughts? Answer cadence A typical child will have narrowed his or her utterances from the range of all possible sounds to those relevant in his or her language at which of the following ages? Answer 1 year According to Ehri, which of the following is true during the partial alphabetic stage of literacy development? Answer Children are incapable of segmenting sounds Your students love to sit in the "Author's Chair" in your language arts center. Which stage of writing would your children be in when using the "Author's Chair?" Answer publishing What is the final step of the writing process? Answer publishing According to Gentry,what is true of a child's written communication in the transitional stage? Answer Vowels will appear in every word The typical abilities of children of a given age in a given cultural group are known as what? Answer Normative development