GACE Practice Test 1 Exam Questions
and Verified Answers
A first-grade teacher is concerned about several students whose sight
vocabulary is very limited. Which of the following would be the most effective
strategy for the teacher to use to help the students increase their sight
vocabulary?
Providing explicit instruction using think-alouds, to improve oral reading fluency
Providing explicit instruction in writing words, to improve memorization
Providing explicit instruction in letter-sound correlation, to improve phonemic
awareness
Providing explicit instruction in the study of high-frequency words, to improve
oral reading fluency - ✔✔Option (D) is correct. The question requires an
understanding of the roles of phonological awareness, phonics, and word-
recognition skills in literacy development. Sight words are high-frequency words
that are instantly recognized as a whole and do not require word-analysis for
recognition. They rarely follow any rules and need to be memorized.
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,A teacher is informally assessing second-grade students' listening-
comprehension skills after reading Aesop's fable about the lion and the mouse.
Which of the following prompts requires the children to draw an inference from
the fable?
Who are the characters in the fable?
What lesson does the fable teach us?
How does the mouse help the lion?
Can mice and lions really talk? - ✔✔Option (B) is correct. The question requires
an understanding of integrating knowledge and ideas to promote students'
comprehension of texts. Making an inference is the act of drawing a conclusion
based on information that is not directly stated in a story. (B) requires the
students to provide answers by making judgments based on information in the
story.
Which of the following activities involves structural analysis?
Students identifying the beginning, middle, and ending sounds of words
Students using individual sounds to blend the letters that make up a word
Students determining the number of syllables that make up different words
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,Students determining the meaning of a word by considering the word's parts -
✔✔Option (D) is correct. The question requires an understanding of the basic
components of vocabulary and strategies to determine the meaning of
unknown words. Structural analysis deals with using familiar word parts (base
words, prefixes, and suffixes) to determine the meaning of a word.
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Question:
A student writes the sentence shown and reads it to the teacher as follows.
"I was at my house and saw a little mouse."
The student's written sentence indicates that the student does not understand
which of the following concepts?
Most words contain several letter-sound combinations.
Printed material is made up of letters.
Letters have both uppercase and lowercase forms.
Letters represent sounds. - ✔✔Option (A) is correct. The question requires an
understanding of key ideas relevant to the foundations of literacy and reading
development and the stages of early orthographic development. From the
sample, the child uses only one letter to represent a single word or several
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, words. The child does not yet understand that consonants and vowels combine
to make up most words.
During which stage of the writing process are students most likely to share their
writing with the entire class?
Drafting
Revising
Editing
Publishing - ✔✔Option (D) is correct. The question requires an understanding of
how to help students produce clear and coherent writing using the stages of the
writing process. During the publishing stage, students make their writing public
by reading it to others or putting the writing into a booklet.
COET (coat)
RITE (right)
COL (cool)
BAUGHT (bought)
CRL (curl)
HICH (hitch)
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and Verified Answers
A first-grade teacher is concerned about several students whose sight
vocabulary is very limited. Which of the following would be the most effective
strategy for the teacher to use to help the students increase their sight
vocabulary?
Providing explicit instruction using think-alouds, to improve oral reading fluency
Providing explicit instruction in writing words, to improve memorization
Providing explicit instruction in letter-sound correlation, to improve phonemic
awareness
Providing explicit instruction in the study of high-frequency words, to improve
oral reading fluency - ✔✔Option (D) is correct. The question requires an
understanding of the roles of phonological awareness, phonics, and word-
recognition skills in literacy development. Sight words are high-frequency words
that are instantly recognized as a whole and do not require word-analysis for
recognition. They rarely follow any rules and need to be memorized.
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,A teacher is informally assessing second-grade students' listening-
comprehension skills after reading Aesop's fable about the lion and the mouse.
Which of the following prompts requires the children to draw an inference from
the fable?
Who are the characters in the fable?
What lesson does the fable teach us?
How does the mouse help the lion?
Can mice and lions really talk? - ✔✔Option (B) is correct. The question requires
an understanding of integrating knowledge and ideas to promote students'
comprehension of texts. Making an inference is the act of drawing a conclusion
based on information that is not directly stated in a story. (B) requires the
students to provide answers by making judgments based on information in the
story.
Which of the following activities involves structural analysis?
Students identifying the beginning, middle, and ending sounds of words
Students using individual sounds to blend the letters that make up a word
Students determining the number of syllables that make up different words
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,Students determining the meaning of a word by considering the word's parts -
✔✔Option (D) is correct. The question requires an understanding of the basic
components of vocabulary and strategies to determine the meaning of
unknown words. Structural analysis deals with using familiar word parts (base
words, prefixes, and suffixes) to determine the meaning of a word.
I Y m H s a lm
Question:
A student writes the sentence shown and reads it to the teacher as follows.
"I was at my house and saw a little mouse."
The student's written sentence indicates that the student does not understand
which of the following concepts?
Most words contain several letter-sound combinations.
Printed material is made up of letters.
Letters have both uppercase and lowercase forms.
Letters represent sounds. - ✔✔Option (A) is correct. The question requires an
understanding of key ideas relevant to the foundations of literacy and reading
development and the stages of early orthographic development. From the
sample, the child uses only one letter to represent a single word or several
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, words. The child does not yet understand that consonants and vowels combine
to make up most words.
During which stage of the writing process are students most likely to share their
writing with the entire class?
Drafting
Revising
Editing
Publishing - ✔✔Option (D) is correct. The question requires an understanding of
how to help students produce clear and coherent writing using the stages of the
writing process. During the publishing stage, students make their writing public
by reading it to others or putting the writing into a booklet.
COET (coat)
RITE (right)
COL (cool)
BAUGHT (bought)
CRL (curl)
HICH (hitch)
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