GACE Elementary Education ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Bloom's Taxonomy - CORRECT ANSWER - remembering (knowledge), understanding
(comprehension), application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, creating
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER - Observation and recall of
information; knowledge of dates, events, places; knowledge of major ideas; mastery of subject
matter. Question Cues: list, define, tell, describe, identify, show, label, collect, examine, tabulate,
quote, name, who, when, where, etc.
Bloom's Taxonomy: Comprehension - CORRECT ANSWER - Understanding information;
grasping meaning; translating knowledge into new context; interpreting facts, comparing,
contrasting; ordering, grouping, inferring causes; predicting consequences. Question Cues:
summarize, describe, interpret, contrast, predict, associate, distinguish, estimate, differentiate,
discuss, extend.
Stages of English Literacy Development - CORRECT ANSWER - Beginning, early
intermediate, intermediate, early advanced
Stages of English literacy development: beginning - CORRECT ANSWER - Receptive
language development.
Stages of English literacy development: early intermediate - CORRECT ANSWER - when
a child begins to communicate to express a need or attempt to ask or respond to a question.
Stages of English literacy development: intermediate - CORRECT ANSWER -
Demonstration of more complex vocabulary and abstract ideas. Using newly acquired literacy
skills to read, write, listen and speak.
Stages of English literacy development: early advanced - CORRECT ANSWER - Able to
apply literacy skills to learn new information across many subject.
, Stages of Orthographic Development - CORRECT ANSWER - Emergent Stage, Letter
Name/Alphabetic Stage, Within Word Pattern Stage, Syllables and Affixes Stage, Derivational
Relations Stage
Emergent Stage - CORRECT ANSWER - Children in the emergent stage are just entering
the world of reading and writing. Children at this stage are beginning to learn basic print
concepts and simple reading strategies. They often engage in "pretend" reading. Children at this
stage need books with text that possess repetition and predictability. The illustrations in these
books should support the text, so that the child can follow the storyline.
Letter Name-Alphabetic Stage - CORRECT ANSWER - Students' use "names of the
letters" as their dominant approach to spelling and learn to segment sounds. Mostly consonants.
Within Word Pattern Stage - CORRECT ANSWER - Students can read and spell many
words correctly and can think about words in more than one dimension; they study words by
sound and pattern simultaneously. Incorporate vowels, consonant blends and digraphs.
Syllables and Affixes Stage - CORRECT ANSWER - The fourth stage of spelling
development, which coincides with intermediate reading. Syllables and affixes spellers learn
about the spelling changes that often take place at the point of transition from one syllable to the
next. Frequently this transition involves consonant doubling or dropping the final -e before
adding a suffix.
Derivational relations stage - CORRECT ANSWER - last stage of spelling development in
which spellers learn from the process by which new words are created from existing words.
POWER strategy - CORRECT ANSWER - Planning
Organization
Writing
Editing
Rewriting
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Bloom's Taxonomy - CORRECT ANSWER - remembering (knowledge), understanding
(comprehension), application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation, creating
Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER - Observation and recall of
information; knowledge of dates, events, places; knowledge of major ideas; mastery of subject
matter. Question Cues: list, define, tell, describe, identify, show, label, collect, examine, tabulate,
quote, name, who, when, where, etc.
Bloom's Taxonomy: Comprehension - CORRECT ANSWER - Understanding information;
grasping meaning; translating knowledge into new context; interpreting facts, comparing,
contrasting; ordering, grouping, inferring causes; predicting consequences. Question Cues:
summarize, describe, interpret, contrast, predict, associate, distinguish, estimate, differentiate,
discuss, extend.
Stages of English Literacy Development - CORRECT ANSWER - Beginning, early
intermediate, intermediate, early advanced
Stages of English literacy development: beginning - CORRECT ANSWER - Receptive
language development.
Stages of English literacy development: early intermediate - CORRECT ANSWER - when
a child begins to communicate to express a need or attempt to ask or respond to a question.
Stages of English literacy development: intermediate - CORRECT ANSWER -
Demonstration of more complex vocabulary and abstract ideas. Using newly acquired literacy
skills to read, write, listen and speak.
Stages of English literacy development: early advanced - CORRECT ANSWER - Able to
apply literacy skills to learn new information across many subject.
, Stages of Orthographic Development - CORRECT ANSWER - Emergent Stage, Letter
Name/Alphabetic Stage, Within Word Pattern Stage, Syllables and Affixes Stage, Derivational
Relations Stage
Emergent Stage - CORRECT ANSWER - Children in the emergent stage are just entering
the world of reading and writing. Children at this stage are beginning to learn basic print
concepts and simple reading strategies. They often engage in "pretend" reading. Children at this
stage need books with text that possess repetition and predictability. The illustrations in these
books should support the text, so that the child can follow the storyline.
Letter Name-Alphabetic Stage - CORRECT ANSWER - Students' use "names of the
letters" as their dominant approach to spelling and learn to segment sounds. Mostly consonants.
Within Word Pattern Stage - CORRECT ANSWER - Students can read and spell many
words correctly and can think about words in more than one dimension; they study words by
sound and pattern simultaneously. Incorporate vowels, consonant blends and digraphs.
Syllables and Affixes Stage - CORRECT ANSWER - The fourth stage of spelling
development, which coincides with intermediate reading. Syllables and affixes spellers learn
about the spelling changes that often take place at the point of transition from one syllable to the
next. Frequently this transition involves consonant doubling or dropping the final -e before
adding a suffix.
Derivational relations stage - CORRECT ANSWER - last stage of spelling development in
which spellers learn from the process by which new words are created from existing words.
POWER strategy - CORRECT ANSWER - Planning
Organization
Writing
Editing
Rewriting
