PECT PreK-4 Practice Test Module 2
A teacher is planning instruction to promote four-year-olds' development of skills related to
Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standard about reading, analyzing, and interpreting text. With children at
this developmental level, which of the following approaches to a read-aloud activity would be most
appropriate for the teacher to use to develop the children's conceptual understanding of fact and
opinion?
A. having the children identify characters who demonstrate examples of faulty reasoning in a fable
B. asking the children to decide which statements related to an article in a children's nature magazine
are true or false
C. helping the children tell one thing they learned from a nonfiction text
D. showing the children how to differentiate between essential and nonessential information in a
nonfiction children's picture book - Answer-C
A fourth-grade teacher would like to promote reluctant readers' independent reading. Which of the
following teacher strategies is likely to be most effective in achieving this goal?
A. engaging students in discussions about their interests and working with the library media specialist to
locate appropriate-level books on these topics
B. reading aloud a variety of books from the classroom library on a regular basis and engaging students
in discussions related to the read-alouds
,C. creating attractive displays of both fiction and nonfiction books and magazines in the classroom
library and regularly inviting students to browse the displays
D. providing opportunities for students to visit the school's library media center and to learn about the
center's resources and organization - Answer-A
A third-grade teacher regularly models for students how to paraphrase a portion of a text and how to
pose and respond to questions that clarify or follow up on information presented in a text. These
practices promote students' literacy
development primarily by:
A. supporting their development of dispositions and attitudes that help create a purposeful, literate
environment in the classroom.
B. enhancing their knowledge of the organizational structure of different types of text.
C. promoting their development of self-monitoring skills that support reading and learning across the
curriculum.
D. fostering their ability to make connections between the reading curriculum and their lives. - Answer-
C
A first-grade teacher explains that he is going to read a story aloud and he wants students to consider
how the story makes them feel. Afterward, he prompts the students to recall and discuss specific words
and phrases the author used to evoke particular feelings. This oral language activity supports students'
literacy development primarily by helping the students:
A. retell a story's key events accurately.
B. make and verify predictions about a story.
C. connect key events in a story to their own lives.
D. develop an awareness of a story's tone. - Answer-D
A kindergarten teacher has placed many signs around the classroom, including
, simple written directions (e.g., Please hang up coats!) and labels for objects (e.g.,
clock, Teacher's chair). During daily activities, the teacher regularly points to and
reads aloud relevant signs. The teacher has also created a classroom library filled
with age-appropriate books and has incorporated relevant signs and books into all
the learning centers. These strategies are most effective in addressing which of
the following goals related to effective instruction in emergent literacy?
A. creating a print-rich environment
B. providing guided and independent skills practice
C. encouraging independent reading
D. infusing reading activities across the curriculum - Answer-A
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher establishes a variety of
classroom roles that rotate on a daily basis. The roles include Calendar Helper
and Star of the Day. The Calendar Helper identifies and announces the day of the
week, the date, and the day's weather, with teacher support if needed. The Star
of the Day shares an object, talking briefly about the item and then answering
three questions about it from classmates and/or the teacher. Regularly performing
these types of classroom roles directly benefits students' emergent literacy
development primarily by enhancing the students':
A. self-confidence and comfort level in front of their peers.
B. ability to use a range of expressive language skills.
C. knowledge of content vocabulary across the curriculum.
D. personal responsibility and perseverance with tasks. - Answer-B
In keeping with Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standards in language arts, which
A teacher is planning instruction to promote four-year-olds' development of skills related to
Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standard about reading, analyzing, and interpreting text. With children at
this developmental level, which of the following approaches to a read-aloud activity would be most
appropriate for the teacher to use to develop the children's conceptual understanding of fact and
opinion?
A. having the children identify characters who demonstrate examples of faulty reasoning in a fable
B. asking the children to decide which statements related to an article in a children's nature magazine
are true or false
C. helping the children tell one thing they learned from a nonfiction text
D. showing the children how to differentiate between essential and nonessential information in a
nonfiction children's picture book - Answer-C
A fourth-grade teacher would like to promote reluctant readers' independent reading. Which of the
following teacher strategies is likely to be most effective in achieving this goal?
A. engaging students in discussions about their interests and working with the library media specialist to
locate appropriate-level books on these topics
B. reading aloud a variety of books from the classroom library on a regular basis and engaging students
in discussions related to the read-alouds
,C. creating attractive displays of both fiction and nonfiction books and magazines in the classroom
library and regularly inviting students to browse the displays
D. providing opportunities for students to visit the school's library media center and to learn about the
center's resources and organization - Answer-A
A third-grade teacher regularly models for students how to paraphrase a portion of a text and how to
pose and respond to questions that clarify or follow up on information presented in a text. These
practices promote students' literacy
development primarily by:
A. supporting their development of dispositions and attitudes that help create a purposeful, literate
environment in the classroom.
B. enhancing their knowledge of the organizational structure of different types of text.
C. promoting their development of self-monitoring skills that support reading and learning across the
curriculum.
D. fostering their ability to make connections between the reading curriculum and their lives. - Answer-
C
A first-grade teacher explains that he is going to read a story aloud and he wants students to consider
how the story makes them feel. Afterward, he prompts the students to recall and discuss specific words
and phrases the author used to evoke particular feelings. This oral language activity supports students'
literacy development primarily by helping the students:
A. retell a story's key events accurately.
B. make and verify predictions about a story.
C. connect key events in a story to their own lives.
D. develop an awareness of a story's tone. - Answer-D
A kindergarten teacher has placed many signs around the classroom, including
, simple written directions (e.g., Please hang up coats!) and labels for objects (e.g.,
clock, Teacher's chair). During daily activities, the teacher regularly points to and
reads aloud relevant signs. The teacher has also created a classroom library filled
with age-appropriate books and has incorporated relevant signs and books into all
the learning centers. These strategies are most effective in addressing which of
the following goals related to effective instruction in emergent literacy?
A. creating a print-rich environment
B. providing guided and independent skills practice
C. encouraging independent reading
D. infusing reading activities across the curriculum - Answer-A
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher establishes a variety of
classroom roles that rotate on a daily basis. The roles include Calendar Helper
and Star of the Day. The Calendar Helper identifies and announces the day of the
week, the date, and the day's weather, with teacher support if needed. The Star
of the Day shares an object, talking briefly about the item and then answering
three questions about it from classmates and/or the teacher. Regularly performing
these types of classroom roles directly benefits students' emergent literacy
development primarily by enhancing the students':
A. self-confidence and comfort level in front of their peers.
B. ability to use a range of expressive language skills.
C. knowledge of content vocabulary across the curriculum.
D. personal responsibility and perseverance with tasks. - Answer-B
In keeping with Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standards in language arts, which
