Teacher Certification: English questions
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initiate interventions to promote oral language development. - correct answer ✔✔A
kindergarten teacher notices that Junie has not developed the ability to use or understand
complex sentences in speech. The teacher should —
syntactic - correct answer ✔✔A kindergarten student told her teacher, "I goed there before."
The teacher responded with "I went there, too. In her corrected sentence, the teacher was
reinforcing the ___________________ component of oral language.
Show and tell time - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following activities would a beginning
teacher most likely use to build on students' oral language skills?
Mrs. Klements has students tell her how many sounds they hear in each word she says aloud. -
correct answer ✔✔Mrs. Klements plans phonemic awareness activities for a small group of
students who need additional practice with segmenting phonemes. Which of the following
activities promotes phoneme segmentation?
Isolating the final consonant sounds in words - correct answer ✔✔Most students in a
kindergarten class can isolate initial consonant sounds in a word. Which of the following
phonemic skills is most appropriate for the teacher to work on next?
recommend a hearing screening to ensure there are no other barriers to learning. - correct
answer ✔✔Maggie, a first grader, struggles with phonemic awareness skills such as blending
and rhyming words and isolating and segmenting phonemes. Maggie's teacher has
implemented small group interventions with no success. Maggie's teacher would most likely
, these words are irregular, meaning they do not reflect the typical rules students apply to the
graphophonemic pronunciation of words. - correct answer ✔✔Several first graders in Mr.
Hornsby's first grade class are having a particular difficulty with sight words. Students struggle
with sight word recognition because
The teacher has students look at the letter m, while at the same time, say it, hear, and trace it. -
correct answer ✔✔A kindergarten class is learning about the letter m. The teacher plans
multisensory activities around this focus. Which of the following activities provides multisensory
practice?
The teacher should ask the student what other sound the a might make. - correct answer
✔✔During an informal assessment, a first grade teacher notes that a student pronounces the
letter a with a long a sound. Which of the following responses should the teacher provide?
entertain - correct answer ✔✔A third-grade teacher uses the "pie" analogy to teach her
students about the author's purpose. The acronym stands for the most common purposes -- the
P stands for persuade, the I stands for inform, and the E stands for
The teacher recommended the parent and child read books aloud together for pleasure. -
correct answer ✔✔In a meeting with a teacher, a parent expresses concern that his child does
not like to read. He asks the teacher about ways he could encourage reading and improve
reading skills for his child at home. Which of the following is the most effective
recommendation for the teacher to make?
students can read the books with 95-100% accuracy. - correct answer ✔✔The third-grade
reading teachers want students to select books from the library that are at the students'
independent reading level. This means:
semantic cuing system - correct answer ✔✔A fourth grader was able to decode a word in a
sentence using meaning-based supports within the sentence (context clues). Which cueing
system is relied upon when children use this strategy?
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initiate interventions to promote oral language development. - correct answer ✔✔A
kindergarten teacher notices that Junie has not developed the ability to use or understand
complex sentences in speech. The teacher should —
syntactic - correct answer ✔✔A kindergarten student told her teacher, "I goed there before."
The teacher responded with "I went there, too. In her corrected sentence, the teacher was
reinforcing the ___________________ component of oral language.
Show and tell time - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following activities would a beginning
teacher most likely use to build on students' oral language skills?
Mrs. Klements has students tell her how many sounds they hear in each word she says aloud. -
correct answer ✔✔Mrs. Klements plans phonemic awareness activities for a small group of
students who need additional practice with segmenting phonemes. Which of the following
activities promotes phoneme segmentation?
Isolating the final consonant sounds in words - correct answer ✔✔Most students in a
kindergarten class can isolate initial consonant sounds in a word. Which of the following
phonemic skills is most appropriate for the teacher to work on next?
recommend a hearing screening to ensure there are no other barriers to learning. - correct
answer ✔✔Maggie, a first grader, struggles with phonemic awareness skills such as blending
and rhyming words and isolating and segmenting phonemes. Maggie's teacher has
implemented small group interventions with no success. Maggie's teacher would most likely
, these words are irregular, meaning they do not reflect the typical rules students apply to the
graphophonemic pronunciation of words. - correct answer ✔✔Several first graders in Mr.
Hornsby's first grade class are having a particular difficulty with sight words. Students struggle
with sight word recognition because
The teacher has students look at the letter m, while at the same time, say it, hear, and trace it. -
correct answer ✔✔A kindergarten class is learning about the letter m. The teacher plans
multisensory activities around this focus. Which of the following activities provides multisensory
practice?
The teacher should ask the student what other sound the a might make. - correct answer
✔✔During an informal assessment, a first grade teacher notes that a student pronounces the
letter a with a long a sound. Which of the following responses should the teacher provide?
entertain - correct answer ✔✔A third-grade teacher uses the "pie" analogy to teach her
students about the author's purpose. The acronym stands for the most common purposes -- the
P stands for persuade, the I stands for inform, and the E stands for
The teacher recommended the parent and child read books aloud together for pleasure. -
correct answer ✔✔In a meeting with a teacher, a parent expresses concern that his child does
not like to read. He asks the teacher about ways he could encourage reading and improve
reading skills for his child at home. Which of the following is the most effective
recommendation for the teacher to make?
students can read the books with 95-100% accuracy. - correct answer ✔✔The third-grade
reading teachers want students to select books from the library that are at the students'
independent reading level. This means:
semantic cuing system - correct answer ✔✔A fourth grader was able to decode a word in a
sentence using meaning-based supports within the sentence (context clues). Which cueing
system is relied upon when children use this strategy?
