GACE Test 1 (001) Exam Questions and
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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? - ✔✔A. Providing explicit instruction using think-alouds, to improve
oral reading fluency
B. Providing explicit instruction in writing words, to improve memorization
C. Providing explicit instruction in letter-sound correlation, to improve
phonemic awareness
D. Providing explicit instruction in the study of high-frequency words, to
improve oral reading fluency
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? - ✔✔A. Who are the characters in the fable?
B. What lesson does the fable teach us?
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,C. How does the mouse help the lion?
D. Can mice and lions really talk?
Which of the following activities involves structural analysis? - ✔✔A. Students
identifying the beginning, middle, and ending sounds of words
B. Students using individual sounds to blend the letters that make up a word
C. Students determining the number of syllables that make up different words
D. Students determining the meaning of a word by considering the word's parts
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? - ✔✔A. Most words contain several letter-
sound combinations.
B. Printed material is made up of letters.
C. Letters have both uppercase and lowercase forms.
D. Letters represent sounds.
During which stage of the writing process are students most likely to share their
writing with the entire class? - ✔✔A. Drafting
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,B. Revising
C. Editing
D. Publishing
COET (coat)RITE (right) COL (cool)BAUGHT (bought) CRL (curl)HICH (hitch)
Question:
Based on the sample of a student's spelling test shown, which of the following
statements best describes the student's spelling development? - ✔✔A.
Represents words with random letters that have no letter-sound
correspondence
B. Represents words phonetically, with a single letter representing each sound
C. Recognizes that words are made up of letter patterns that represents sounds
D. Knows simple letter-sound correspondence, but does not understand
consonant combinations
While working on a research project, a student uses the Internet and finds a
great deal of information on a chosen topic. Which of the following is the best
step for the student to take next? - ✔✔A. Making a decision about the
relevance of the various pieces of information
B. Downloading the information and compiling it into a packet for the final
report
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, C. Deciding on a format and outline for the final report
D. Searching for graphics to use as illustrations in the final report
During a unit on folktales, a second-grade teacher wants to help students
engage in higher-order thinking. After the students read The Little Red Hen, the
teacher asks the students to justify the little red hen's decision to eat the bread
herself. Which level of Bloom's taxonomy does the activity address? - ✔✔A.
Application
B. Analysis
C. Synthesis
D. Evaluation
A teacher observes that a first-grade student does not employ beginning and
final consonants correctly while reading. Which of the following teaching
strategies is most likely to help the student? - ✔✔A. Teaching decoding skills
and modeling how to use the skills in context
B. Showing a video of a children's story and listing some of the words that are
used in the story
C. Pairing the student with another student who is able to use consonants
correctly
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Graded A+
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? - ✔✔A. Providing explicit instruction using think-alouds, to improve
oral reading fluency
B. Providing explicit instruction in writing words, to improve memorization
C. Providing explicit instruction in letter-sound correlation, to improve
phonemic awareness
D. Providing explicit instruction in the study of high-frequency words, to
improve oral reading fluency
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? - ✔✔A. Who are the characters in the fable?
B. What lesson does the fable teach us?
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,C. How does the mouse help the lion?
D. Can mice and lions really talk?
Which of the following activities involves structural analysis? - ✔✔A. Students
identifying the beginning, middle, and ending sounds of words
B. Students using individual sounds to blend the letters that make up a word
C. Students determining the number of syllables that make up different words
D. Students determining the meaning of a word by considering the word's parts
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? - ✔✔A. Most words contain several letter-
sound combinations.
B. Printed material is made up of letters.
C. Letters have both uppercase and lowercase forms.
D. Letters represent sounds.
During which stage of the writing process are students most likely to share their
writing with the entire class? - ✔✔A. Drafting
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,B. Revising
C. Editing
D. Publishing
COET (coat)RITE (right) COL (cool)BAUGHT (bought) CRL (curl)HICH (hitch)
Question:
Based on the sample of a student's spelling test shown, which of the following
statements best describes the student's spelling development? - ✔✔A.
Represents words with random letters that have no letter-sound
correspondence
B. Represents words phonetically, with a single letter representing each sound
C. Recognizes that words are made up of letter patterns that represents sounds
D. Knows simple letter-sound correspondence, but does not understand
consonant combinations
While working on a research project, a student uses the Internet and finds a
great deal of information on a chosen topic. Which of the following is the best
step for the student to take next? - ✔✔A. Making a decision about the
relevance of the various pieces of information
B. Downloading the information and compiling it into a packet for the final
report
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, C. Deciding on a format and outline for the final report
D. Searching for graphics to use as illustrations in the final report
During a unit on folktales, a second-grade teacher wants to help students
engage in higher-order thinking. After the students read The Little Red Hen, the
teacher asks the students to justify the little red hen's decision to eat the bread
herself. Which level of Bloom's taxonomy does the activity address? - ✔✔A.
Application
B. Analysis
C. Synthesis
D. Evaluation
A teacher observes that a first-grade student does not employ beginning and
final consonants correctly while reading. Which of the following teaching
strategies is most likely to help the student? - ✔✔A. Teaching decoding skills
and modeling how to use the skills in context
B. Showing a video of a children's story and listing some of the words that are
used in the story
C. Pairing the student with another student who is able to use consonants
correctly
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