STR Certify Teacher (293) Exam
Questions and Answers
In order to best improve his students' speaking ability, Mr. Lathan should implement
which additional activity? - Answers -D. Partners take turns describing to each other
what they have learned from their reading and their discussion of the text.
How would this activity tend to improve students' comprehension skills? - Answers -C. It
would improve students' engagement with the text and increase their comprehension.
At the beginning of the year, a kindergarten teacher notices most students in the class
lack an understanding of ways oral language connects to print. Which of the following
activities will best help students understand this connection? - Answers -C. Using the
language experience approach
Which of the following represents the second tier of the Response to Intervention (RtI)
instructional model? - Answers -B. the teacher performs small group interventions
Ms. Foster is an elementary teacher who has a student who is getting low grades in
reading. Which of the following would be possible indicators that this student might have
dyslexia? - Answers -C. The student has difficulty with decoding, but his listening
comprehension is better than his reading comprehension.
Which of the following statements about the relationship between reading and writing is
NOT correct? - Answers -C. the decoding process used in writing is reciprocal to the
encoding process used in reading.
Students who are in the confirmation and fluency stage, or consolidated-alphabetic
stage would be categorized as which of the following? - Answers -C. Transitional
The book Corduroy by Dan Freeman is an example of a book that is ideal for which
grade-level student? - Answers -A. K (kinder)
Based on the previous information, several students are having trouble keeping up with
the rest of their group in reading the novel. The teacher suspects that the students are
having trouble with fluency. Which of the following would not be an assessment you
would recommend? - Answers -A. vocabulary knowledge measure
Mrs. Jamison is attempting to teach her students to develop better word attack skills by
teaching the to use structural (morphemic) analysis. One of the first things she will need
to do is - - Answers -A. Develop students' ability to recognize prefixed and suffixes.
, Mrs. Shaw is teaching a unit on biographies. Which of the following assignments is most
likely to reflect cultural diversity and deepen students' knowledge of how literature can
develop an understanding of people's lives as they relate to the culture and environment
in which they live? - Answers -D. Have students select two biographies to read that are
about individuals from two different cultures. Have students compare the subjects of the
biographies with a special emphasis on how their lives were shaped by their
surroundings.
Miss. Charles is reviewing the standardized reading test results for her students. Which
of the following statements best reflects what she should consider as she reviews for
her english learners? - Answers -B. Standardized test in English often do not reflect the
true content knowledge of English learners.
Several English learners in Mrs. Night's 1st grade class are having a particular difficulty
with sight words. Sight words are most likely difficult for these students because - -
Answers -A. they are irregular words which are difficult to decode using
graphophenemic knowledge.
A fourth grade English-as-a-second-language teacher is working with a group of
students who are about to begin some pre-vocational training. It is important for these
students to learn certain sight words before beginning this training. Which of the
following words would the teacher most likely want to focus on teaching as sight words?
- Answers -C. through, light, said, there
Which of the following strategies is most effective in teaching students to recognize the
words listed in the picture above? - Answers -D. using creative way to expose the
students to the words in multiple situations and context.
Which of the following best describes one important way in which this activity is likely to
benefit English learners? - Answers -C. Discussion and writing about a content-area
topic supports english learners' reading of related texts by reinforcing key vocabulary,
language structures, and schemata.
The paragraph-building activity designed by Mr. Batista is likely to promote english
learners reading development primarily by helping them - - Answers -B. transfer skills
from oral language to written language
Which of the following activities would promote the development of grade-level oral
language knowledge and skills among 4th grade students? - Answers -D. Students are
placed into small group and given a specific task to accomplish. Each small group of
students works together to develop a plan that delegates group roles and
responsibilities.
A sixth grade teacher plays a short video clip report from a credible and safe news
channel and has students orally provide the main ide of the news report. Which of the
Questions and Answers
In order to best improve his students' speaking ability, Mr. Lathan should implement
which additional activity? - Answers -D. Partners take turns describing to each other
what they have learned from their reading and their discussion of the text.
How would this activity tend to improve students' comprehension skills? - Answers -C. It
would improve students' engagement with the text and increase their comprehension.
At the beginning of the year, a kindergarten teacher notices most students in the class
lack an understanding of ways oral language connects to print. Which of the following
activities will best help students understand this connection? - Answers -C. Using the
language experience approach
Which of the following represents the second tier of the Response to Intervention (RtI)
instructional model? - Answers -B. the teacher performs small group interventions
Ms. Foster is an elementary teacher who has a student who is getting low grades in
reading. Which of the following would be possible indicators that this student might have
dyslexia? - Answers -C. The student has difficulty with decoding, but his listening
comprehension is better than his reading comprehension.
Which of the following statements about the relationship between reading and writing is
NOT correct? - Answers -C. the decoding process used in writing is reciprocal to the
encoding process used in reading.
Students who are in the confirmation and fluency stage, or consolidated-alphabetic
stage would be categorized as which of the following? - Answers -C. Transitional
The book Corduroy by Dan Freeman is an example of a book that is ideal for which
grade-level student? - Answers -A. K (kinder)
Based on the previous information, several students are having trouble keeping up with
the rest of their group in reading the novel. The teacher suspects that the students are
having trouble with fluency. Which of the following would not be an assessment you
would recommend? - Answers -A. vocabulary knowledge measure
Mrs. Jamison is attempting to teach her students to develop better word attack skills by
teaching the to use structural (morphemic) analysis. One of the first things she will need
to do is - - Answers -A. Develop students' ability to recognize prefixed and suffixes.
, Mrs. Shaw is teaching a unit on biographies. Which of the following assignments is most
likely to reflect cultural diversity and deepen students' knowledge of how literature can
develop an understanding of people's lives as they relate to the culture and environment
in which they live? - Answers -D. Have students select two biographies to read that are
about individuals from two different cultures. Have students compare the subjects of the
biographies with a special emphasis on how their lives were shaped by their
surroundings.
Miss. Charles is reviewing the standardized reading test results for her students. Which
of the following statements best reflects what she should consider as she reviews for
her english learners? - Answers -B. Standardized test in English often do not reflect the
true content knowledge of English learners.
Several English learners in Mrs. Night's 1st grade class are having a particular difficulty
with sight words. Sight words are most likely difficult for these students because - -
Answers -A. they are irregular words which are difficult to decode using
graphophenemic knowledge.
A fourth grade English-as-a-second-language teacher is working with a group of
students who are about to begin some pre-vocational training. It is important for these
students to learn certain sight words before beginning this training. Which of the
following words would the teacher most likely want to focus on teaching as sight words?
- Answers -C. through, light, said, there
Which of the following strategies is most effective in teaching students to recognize the
words listed in the picture above? - Answers -D. using creative way to expose the
students to the words in multiple situations and context.
Which of the following best describes one important way in which this activity is likely to
benefit English learners? - Answers -C. Discussion and writing about a content-area
topic supports english learners' reading of related texts by reinforcing key vocabulary,
language structures, and schemata.
The paragraph-building activity designed by Mr. Batista is likely to promote english
learners reading development primarily by helping them - - Answers -B. transfer skills
from oral language to written language
Which of the following activities would promote the development of grade-level oral
language knowledge and skills among 4th grade students? - Answers -D. Students are
placed into small group and given a specific task to accomplish. Each small group of
students works together to develop a plan that delegates group roles and
responsibilities.
A sixth grade teacher plays a short video clip report from a credible and safe news
channel and has students orally provide the main ide of the news report. Which of the
