MTTC ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS AND
WORLD LANGUAGES TEST QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
A kindergarten teacher regularly reads aloud "big books" to her students. As she reads
she points to each word, and during successive readings she encourages students to
join in the reading as she points. Which of the following emergent literacy skills is this
activity most likely to promote?
a. awareness of consonant and vowel phonemes
b. understanding of the relationship of speech to print
c. recognition of basic phonics and spelling patterns
d. knowledge of variations in letter-sound relationships - Answer-B
A kindergarten teacher regularly leads classroom discussions before beginning a new
read-aloud of informational texts. For example, he may conduct a book walk of the
pictures, point out some key vocabulary, and then ask students to share what they
already know about the subject of the book. This practice most clearly demonstrates the
teacher's understanding of which of the following factors that influence emergent
readers' construction of meaning?
a. the role of setting a purpose and goal prior to reading a text
b. the importance of using textual evidence to draw conclusions
c. the role of activating background knowledge related to a text
d. the importance of determining a text's main idea and details - Answer-C
Which of the following words would be most appropriate to include in phonics instruction
designed to promote beginning readers' ability to decode regular CVCe words?
a, done
b. give
c. make
d. were - Answer-C
A fifth-grade student who is having difficulty reading the word instinctively in a science
text would be best advised to apply which of the following skills?
a. word recognition
b. structural analysis
c. syllabication
d. phonic analysis - Answer-B
, A second-grade teacher would like to improve students' ability to read narrative texts
with appropriate expression. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most
effective in addressing this goal?
a. asking students to try to read a short story silently in a specified amount of time
b. engaging students in a round-robin reading of a short story
c. having students read and then rewrite a short story in the form of a song or poem
d. leading students in an echo reading of a short story - Answer-D
As part of an informal reading assessment, a teacher asks a first-grade student to read
a grade-level passage aloud. As the student reads, the teacher marks the student's
errors on a copy of the passage, indicating errors of substitution, insertion, omission,
and reversal. The teacher also notes any repetitions or self-corrections. This
assessment is likely to provide the most useful information about the student's skills in
which of the following areas of reading development?
a. reading comprehension
b. vocabulary knowledge
c. phonemic awareness
d. word recognition - Answer-D
Which of the following scenarios would provide the best evidence that a kindergarten
student is progressing according to typical stages of literacy development?
a. Now the student provides detailed drawings to accompany his written symbols,
whereas he never illustrated his writings at the beginning of the school year.
b. At the beginning of the school year, the student often incorporated words into his
writings that he had copied from environmental print, but now he only uses his own
original symbols.
c. Now the student knows that he is not writing real words, whereas at the beginning of
the school year he would point to clusters of letters and call them words.
d. At the beginning of the school year, the student told a different story each time he
reread his writings, but now he follows the letters with his finger and uses similar words
when rereading. - Answer-D
Which of the following words would be most appropriate to teach as a sight word to fifth-
grade students?
a. teacher
b. understand
c. scientist
d. explain - Answer-C
Which of the following teacher actions during a read-aloud of a "big book" is likely to be
most effective in supporting kindergartners' vocabulary development?
WORLD LANGUAGES TEST QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
A kindergarten teacher regularly reads aloud "big books" to her students. As she reads
she points to each word, and during successive readings she encourages students to
join in the reading as she points. Which of the following emergent literacy skills is this
activity most likely to promote?
a. awareness of consonant and vowel phonemes
b. understanding of the relationship of speech to print
c. recognition of basic phonics and spelling patterns
d. knowledge of variations in letter-sound relationships - Answer-B
A kindergarten teacher regularly leads classroom discussions before beginning a new
read-aloud of informational texts. For example, he may conduct a book walk of the
pictures, point out some key vocabulary, and then ask students to share what they
already know about the subject of the book. This practice most clearly demonstrates the
teacher's understanding of which of the following factors that influence emergent
readers' construction of meaning?
a. the role of setting a purpose and goal prior to reading a text
b. the importance of using textual evidence to draw conclusions
c. the role of activating background knowledge related to a text
d. the importance of determining a text's main idea and details - Answer-C
Which of the following words would be most appropriate to include in phonics instruction
designed to promote beginning readers' ability to decode regular CVCe words?
a, done
b. give
c. make
d. were - Answer-C
A fifth-grade student who is having difficulty reading the word instinctively in a science
text would be best advised to apply which of the following skills?
a. word recognition
b. structural analysis
c. syllabication
d. phonic analysis - Answer-B
, A second-grade teacher would like to improve students' ability to read narrative texts
with appropriate expression. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most
effective in addressing this goal?
a. asking students to try to read a short story silently in a specified amount of time
b. engaging students in a round-robin reading of a short story
c. having students read and then rewrite a short story in the form of a song or poem
d. leading students in an echo reading of a short story - Answer-D
As part of an informal reading assessment, a teacher asks a first-grade student to read
a grade-level passage aloud. As the student reads, the teacher marks the student's
errors on a copy of the passage, indicating errors of substitution, insertion, omission,
and reversal. The teacher also notes any repetitions or self-corrections. This
assessment is likely to provide the most useful information about the student's skills in
which of the following areas of reading development?
a. reading comprehension
b. vocabulary knowledge
c. phonemic awareness
d. word recognition - Answer-D
Which of the following scenarios would provide the best evidence that a kindergarten
student is progressing according to typical stages of literacy development?
a. Now the student provides detailed drawings to accompany his written symbols,
whereas he never illustrated his writings at the beginning of the school year.
b. At the beginning of the school year, the student often incorporated words into his
writings that he had copied from environmental print, but now he only uses his own
original symbols.
c. Now the student knows that he is not writing real words, whereas at the beginning of
the school year he would point to clusters of letters and call them words.
d. At the beginning of the school year, the student told a different story each time he
reread his writings, but now he follows the letters with his finger and uses similar words
when rereading. - Answer-D
Which of the following words would be most appropriate to teach as a sight word to fifth-
grade students?
a. teacher
b. understand
c. scientist
d. explain - Answer-C
Which of the following teacher actions during a read-aloud of a "big book" is likely to be
most effective in supporting kindergartners' vocabulary development?
