GACE 087 Practice Test Questions AND ANSWERS GRADE A+ SOLUTIONS

A language arts teacher requires students keep a reading response journal. The primary purpose of a reading response journal is to A. serve as a check that students have completed a reading assignment B. keep students engaged in independent work and limit free time C. facilitate student interactions with a text D. keep a record of the books the students have read throughout the yea Option (C) is correct. The most important function of a reading response journal is to capture student-text interactions. Which of the following is a characteristic of the language experience approach (LEA) ? A. Use of a grade-leveled series of texts that are read aloud B. Emphasis on sequenced skills instruction and practice C. Focus on language as the bridge between the oral and written language D. Preteaching by using oral language activities and vocabulary words as a basis for predicting Option (C) is correct. The language experience approach focuses on children's ability to produce language as a bridge between the spoken and written language. Which of the following is a research-based method for improving a student's reading fluency? A. Providing many opportunities to students to reread the same passage B. Teaching students to recognize story structure C. Encouraging students to use context clues to determine word meaning D. Providing direct instruction to students on self-questioning Option (A) is correct. Research indicates that repeated readings improve fluency. The repetition helps students improve recognition and recall of sight words. A teacher is concerned that many intermediate-level students use nonstandard English in their speech and writing. A colleague who has kept abreast of recent trends is most likely to advise the teacher to A. provide extensive practice using written exercises that require students to make choices between standard and nonstandard word forms B. insist that the students be more consistent in using standard forms in oral communications at school C. provide examples of experiences from which the students can conclude that different usage styles are appropriate in different situations D. encourage students to be more consistent in using standard forms in oral communications outside of school Option (C) is correct. Providing examples of standard English and allowing students to explicitly learn the differences between their home languages and academic language without judgment allows students to transition more easily. Which of the following is an effective instructional strategy for helping kindergarten students develop an understanding of concepts about print? A. Exposing students to a variety of rhyming texts B. Finger tapping to count phonemes in words C. Facilitating guided practice of visualization techniques D. Modeling how to track during shared reading Option (D) is correct. Children are more likely to attend to print when engaged in shared reading with an adult who uses print-referencing behavior. Each day, Ms. Nelson sings songs with her kindergarten students during calendar time. Using a chart with song lyrics on it, she taps her pointer on each word as she sings it with her students. She is demonstrating A. concept of print B. decoding C. a think-aloud D. the alphabetic principle Option (A) is correct. The teacher is demonstrating concept of print by using her pointer to show one-to-one correspondence for the words in the song. The best way to develop students' metacognitive skills is for teachers to do which of the following? A. Give students a few global prereading questions to guide their reading B. Advocate and model the use of self-questioning strategies during reading C. Have students memorize the new vocabulary words needed to comprehend the reading selection D. Provide opportunities for students to write comprehension questions for one another Option (B) is correct. To create strategic readers, it is important to show students how to use the strategy and be explicit about why the strategy is helpful to them. Metacognitive strategies are used to ensure that a goal has been reached (e.g., quizzing oneself to evaluate one's understanding of a text) Which of the following concepts is best supported by current research on emergent literacy? A. Children begin their literacy learning when they enter school. B. Reading and writing development have distinct beginning and ending points. C. Reading and writing develop in children concurrently and in interrelated ways. D. Children begin their literacy learning after having mastered basic letter-sound skills. Option (C) is correct. Research has shown that both reading and writing require interaction between the reader and text that lead to new knowledge and interpretations. A teacher is designing an instructional plan for a small group of fifth-grade students who are having difficulty decoding unfamiliar multisyllabic words. The most appropriate approach to address the students' need is to teach them to A. sound out multisyllabic words phoneme by phoneme B. clap out the number of syllables in multisyllabic words C. memorize grade-appropriate word lists that contain multisyllabic words D. look for affixes and morphemes in multisyllabic words Option (D) is correct. Research suggests that teaching students to recognize affixes and morphemes is an effective way to aid students in decoding multisyllabic words. Students who know how to use structural analysis to learn a new word can use that skill to best understand which of the following words? A. Help B. Abnormal C. Maintain D. Detail Option (B) is correct. Structural analysis is the use of prefixes, suffixes, and root words to understand the meaning of an unknown word. The word "abnormal," being the only word that has a prefix and a root word, is the best word to use when teaching structural analysis. A campus initiative ensuring that curriculum follows common streams from kindergarten through twelfth grade reflects the importance of which of the following? A. Horizontal alignment B. Differentiated curriculum C. Integrated curriculum D. Vertical alignment Option (D) is correct. Vertical alignment refers to a curriculum in which there are common streams that flow throughout a student's educative experience. Words that cannot be sounded out according to regular pronunciation rules are called irregular words. Which of the following lists contains irregular words? A. Man, came, well, in B. We, him, get, so C. Do, said, was, of D. How, had, make, not CONTINUED....