Practice Test: English Language
Arts and Reading and the Science
of Teaching Reading exam Q’s
and A’s
During the pre-reading stage of the shared book experience, teachers can
increase interest in the story by: - -encouraging students to make
predictions based on the title and the pictures.
- Luke's mother has commented that her two year old is constructing
sentences with only two or three words at a time. For instance, she says that
Luke responds by saying "no more play" and "mommy milk more." She
suggests that he has heard his brothers use phrases like these. Luke uses
these two phrases frequently. Based on the information above, in which
stage of language acquisition is Luke at this point? - -telegraphic stage
- Identify the main benefit of using a thesaurus. - -it can expand the
vocabulary repertoire of the child
- Mr Michel provides guiding questions to guide Tamara's writing. A couple
of the questions are "what evidence do you need to prove your thesis to
skeptics?" and "what would you say to convince them?" Based on this
information, what type of writing is Tamara developing? - -persuasive writing
- Identify the factor that most likely can affect the development of early
literacy among preschool children. - -parents read frequently to their
children and have books available at home
- Identify the most appropriate strategy to meet the needs of children at the
emergent stage of writing development - -provide a shared writing or
language experience in which the teacher writes what the children says
- Which of the following summaries best describes aspects of the writing
process of competent writers? - -brainstorming for ideas, completing an
initial draft, revising content, proofreading for errors in spelling, punctuation,
and usage, and writing a final draft
- Mrs. London frequently leads students in choral reading to promote
reading fluency. What is the main purpose of the activity? - -to teach the
intonation pattern of the language
, - Mr. Chapman is a third grade teacher at a school that is implementing a
balanced reading program. Which of the following TWO sets of learning
experiences will he include to provide the major components of a balanced
literacy program? - -- reading aloud, shared reading, guided reading, and
independent reading
- shared writing and independent writing
- Dan is an eight year old whose oral communication has significantly
improved over the past two months. He is beginning to use relative pronoun
clauses when speaking and more sophisticated constructions. However, his
teacher has discovered that he struggles when using subordinate clauses.
Based on this current limitation, Dan might have problems with the following
types of sentences: - -if you want me to go, I will need to start getting ready
now
- Marcus can separate a word into syllables by tapping as he says the word.
However, he has problems telling what the word is when the teacher says
"th-at" or "b-ed". Based on this description, Marcus needs additional support
with what type of phonological skill? - -blending onset and rime
- Connectors are used in writing to create cohesive and coherent
compositions. Connections like "on the contrary," "conversely," and "on the
other hand" are commonly used in compositions addressing - -contrast
- English writing samples from Spanish dominant ELLs may contain which
key feature? - -the stories might be perceived as disjointed and lacking a
logical sequence
- Mr. Martinez is going to be introducing the Dolch words to his first grade
students. Before showing the list of words to his students, Mr. Martinez
explains that these words are the most frequently used words in English.
Which of the following words should not be included in the list that Mr.
Martinez is going to show to his students? - -awesome
- Identify the statement that best describes the advantages of using the
language experience approach to teach reading to language minority
students. - -when students' language is the basis of what they read students
are more apt to be able to say the words and learn words as they read what
they dictated
- Identify the strategies that lead the child from the stage of learning to read
to the stage of reading to learn. - -introduce children to different kinds of
texts, and teach how to scan to locate and retrieve information
Arts and Reading and the Science
of Teaching Reading exam Q’s
and A’s
During the pre-reading stage of the shared book experience, teachers can
increase interest in the story by: - -encouraging students to make
predictions based on the title and the pictures.
- Luke's mother has commented that her two year old is constructing
sentences with only two or three words at a time. For instance, she says that
Luke responds by saying "no more play" and "mommy milk more." She
suggests that he has heard his brothers use phrases like these. Luke uses
these two phrases frequently. Based on the information above, in which
stage of language acquisition is Luke at this point? - -telegraphic stage
- Identify the main benefit of using a thesaurus. - -it can expand the
vocabulary repertoire of the child
- Mr Michel provides guiding questions to guide Tamara's writing. A couple
of the questions are "what evidence do you need to prove your thesis to
skeptics?" and "what would you say to convince them?" Based on this
information, what type of writing is Tamara developing? - -persuasive writing
- Identify the factor that most likely can affect the development of early
literacy among preschool children. - -parents read frequently to their
children and have books available at home
- Identify the most appropriate strategy to meet the needs of children at the
emergent stage of writing development - -provide a shared writing or
language experience in which the teacher writes what the children says
- Which of the following summaries best describes aspects of the writing
process of competent writers? - -brainstorming for ideas, completing an
initial draft, revising content, proofreading for errors in spelling, punctuation,
and usage, and writing a final draft
- Mrs. London frequently leads students in choral reading to promote
reading fluency. What is the main purpose of the activity? - -to teach the
intonation pattern of the language
, - Mr. Chapman is a third grade teacher at a school that is implementing a
balanced reading program. Which of the following TWO sets of learning
experiences will he include to provide the major components of a balanced
literacy program? - -- reading aloud, shared reading, guided reading, and
independent reading
- shared writing and independent writing
- Dan is an eight year old whose oral communication has significantly
improved over the past two months. He is beginning to use relative pronoun
clauses when speaking and more sophisticated constructions. However, his
teacher has discovered that he struggles when using subordinate clauses.
Based on this current limitation, Dan might have problems with the following
types of sentences: - -if you want me to go, I will need to start getting ready
now
- Marcus can separate a word into syllables by tapping as he says the word.
However, he has problems telling what the word is when the teacher says
"th-at" or "b-ed". Based on this description, Marcus needs additional support
with what type of phonological skill? - -blending onset and rime
- Connectors are used in writing to create cohesive and coherent
compositions. Connections like "on the contrary," "conversely," and "on the
other hand" are commonly used in compositions addressing - -contrast
- English writing samples from Spanish dominant ELLs may contain which
key feature? - -the stories might be perceived as disjointed and lacking a
logical sequence
- Mr. Martinez is going to be introducing the Dolch words to his first grade
students. Before showing the list of words to his students, Mr. Martinez
explains that these words are the most frequently used words in English.
Which of the following words should not be included in the list that Mr.
Martinez is going to show to his students? - -awesome
- Identify the statement that best describes the advantages of using the
language experience approach to teach reading to language minority
students. - -when students' language is the basis of what they read students
are more apt to be able to say the words and learn words as they read what
they dictated
- Identify the strategies that lead the child from the stage of learning to read
to the stage of reading to learn. - -introduce children to different kinds of
texts, and teach how to scan to locate and retrieve information
