STR Exam UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
01. According to findings in the Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority
Children and Youth which of the following curricular adjustments would most effectively
support the literacy development of English learners with respect to text comprehension? -
CORRECT ANSWER - integrating comprehensive oral language instruction with literacy
instruction
02. Which of the following actions by elementary school teachers in the early grades would best
demonstrate understanding that decoding and encoding are reciprocal skills that develop
synchronously during the early stages of reading development? - CORRECT ANSWER -
creating regular opportunities for students to apply new syllable patterns in their daily writings
that have been explicitly taught during phonics instruction.
03. A teacher would like to help students identify their literacy skills and strengths as part of an
assets-based approach to literacy instruction. Which of the following teacher actions is consistent
with this type of approach? - CORRECT ANSWER - Providing students with explicit
feedback about what they already know and are able to do well and helping them use this
information to establish realistic yet challenging learning goals.
04. A school district in Texas has adopted the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) model
of instruction in their K-3 literacy program which includes a core reading program (Tier 1)
supplemental instruction (Tier 2) and intensive instruction (Tier 3) Instructional grouping in Tier
2 is restricted to five or fewer students. This limitation enhances the effectiveness of literacy
instruction for the students primarily by: - CORRECT ANSWER - Providing students with
increased opportunities to practice developing skills with teacher feedback.
05. A second-grade student has been identified with dysgraphia but does not have difficulty with
decoding or encoding. Which of the following approaches to instruction would be most effective
in promoting the student's development with respect to the identified area of need? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Providing the student with explicit instruction in letter formation and frequent,
short, guided-practice sessions to build the student's handwriting fluency and automaticity in
letter memory and formation.
,06. In which line in the table below is the underlined portion of the example word accurately
matched to the phonics term that is used to describe that phonics element?
Line Phonics Term Example word
1 blend they
2 digraph factor
3 diphthong power
4 trigraph scrap - CORRECT ANSWER - Line 3
07. Use the information below to answer the two questions that follow. Students in a third-grade
class have been studying ways in which Earth's surface is always changing. As the culminating
project students choose a topic that they would like to learn more about (e.g. volcanic eruptions
earthquakes landslides floods) and establish a research group focused on that topic. The students
in each group generate questions to focus their research read a variety of texts to gather
information related to their questions and engage in focused discussions of the texts based on
their questions. The teacher's role is to support the groups by helping them gather a range of print
and digital informational texts related to their chosen topic modeling norms for equitable
discussions and monitoring each group's task progress to ensure group members stay focused.
In which of the following ways can the teacher best foster the students - CORRECT
ANSWER - by providing students' with a rubric with which they can self-evaluate their
text analysis
08. Several research groups include students with a diverse range of reading skills. The teacher
wants to differentiate instruction for students in a way that will also strengthen their capacity for
reading more complex text. Which of the following approaches best aligns with research-based
best practices to accomplish this purpose? - CORRECT ANSWER - providing a set of
texts representing a range of text-complexity levels and interactive formats, and allowing student
to work collaboratively to read the texts.
09. A kindergarten teacher regularly has students write and draw in their journals in response to
an open-ended prompt. During these writing sessions the teacher circulates among students asks
them to read aloud what they have written and documents their performance with anecdotal notes
in a teacher record.
, This type of informal assessment strategy would be most appropriate to use for which of the
following instructional purposes? - CORRECT ANSWER - observing individual student's
development in various dimensions of literacy over time.
10. Which of the following writing samples provides evidence that the student is beginning to
develop understanding of the alphabetic principle?
KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
ABCDEF
"Those are letters"
MIA
"I write my name!"
T Lo LE O
"The dog went home" - CORRECT ANSWER - KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
11. When planning assessments to measure students' comprehension of literary texts an
elementary school teacher selects a variety of passages from a range of cultures including those
that reflect the diverse cultural experiences of the students. The teacher also considers students'
familiarity with cultural content when evaluating students' responses to texts. The teacher's
actions best demonstrate the importance of taking which of the following factors into
consideration when selecting texts for assessments? - CORRECT ANSWER - A reader's
cultural background knowledge can be an important factor affecting their comprehension of a
literary text.
12. Which of the following statements identifies a characteristic of criterion-referenced tests that
in general makes them unsuitable for use as a formative assessment of foundational reading
skills? - CORRECT ANSWER - While criterion referenced assessment can measure
CORRECT Answers
01. According to findings in the Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority
Children and Youth which of the following curricular adjustments would most effectively
support the literacy development of English learners with respect to text comprehension? -
CORRECT ANSWER - integrating comprehensive oral language instruction with literacy
instruction
02. Which of the following actions by elementary school teachers in the early grades would best
demonstrate understanding that decoding and encoding are reciprocal skills that develop
synchronously during the early stages of reading development? - CORRECT ANSWER -
creating regular opportunities for students to apply new syllable patterns in their daily writings
that have been explicitly taught during phonics instruction.
03. A teacher would like to help students identify their literacy skills and strengths as part of an
assets-based approach to literacy instruction. Which of the following teacher actions is consistent
with this type of approach? - CORRECT ANSWER - Providing students with explicit
feedback about what they already know and are able to do well and helping them use this
information to establish realistic yet challenging learning goals.
04. A school district in Texas has adopted the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) model
of instruction in their K-3 literacy program which includes a core reading program (Tier 1)
supplemental instruction (Tier 2) and intensive instruction (Tier 3) Instructional grouping in Tier
2 is restricted to five or fewer students. This limitation enhances the effectiveness of literacy
instruction for the students primarily by: - CORRECT ANSWER - Providing students with
increased opportunities to practice developing skills with teacher feedback.
05. A second-grade student has been identified with dysgraphia but does not have difficulty with
decoding or encoding. Which of the following approaches to instruction would be most effective
in promoting the student's development with respect to the identified area of need? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Providing the student with explicit instruction in letter formation and frequent,
short, guided-practice sessions to build the student's handwriting fluency and automaticity in
letter memory and formation.
,06. In which line in the table below is the underlined portion of the example word accurately
matched to the phonics term that is used to describe that phonics element?
Line Phonics Term Example word
1 blend they
2 digraph factor
3 diphthong power
4 trigraph scrap - CORRECT ANSWER - Line 3
07. Use the information below to answer the two questions that follow. Students in a third-grade
class have been studying ways in which Earth's surface is always changing. As the culminating
project students choose a topic that they would like to learn more about (e.g. volcanic eruptions
earthquakes landslides floods) and establish a research group focused on that topic. The students
in each group generate questions to focus their research read a variety of texts to gather
information related to their questions and engage in focused discussions of the texts based on
their questions. The teacher's role is to support the groups by helping them gather a range of print
and digital informational texts related to their chosen topic modeling norms for equitable
discussions and monitoring each group's task progress to ensure group members stay focused.
In which of the following ways can the teacher best foster the students - CORRECT
ANSWER - by providing students' with a rubric with which they can self-evaluate their
text analysis
08. Several research groups include students with a diverse range of reading skills. The teacher
wants to differentiate instruction for students in a way that will also strengthen their capacity for
reading more complex text. Which of the following approaches best aligns with research-based
best practices to accomplish this purpose? - CORRECT ANSWER - providing a set of
texts representing a range of text-complexity levels and interactive formats, and allowing student
to work collaboratively to read the texts.
09. A kindergarten teacher regularly has students write and draw in their journals in response to
an open-ended prompt. During these writing sessions the teacher circulates among students asks
them to read aloud what they have written and documents their performance with anecdotal notes
in a teacher record.
, This type of informal assessment strategy would be most appropriate to use for which of the
following instructional purposes? - CORRECT ANSWER - observing individual student's
development in various dimensions of literacy over time.
10. Which of the following writing samples provides evidence that the student is beginning to
develop understanding of the alphabetic principle?
KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
ABCDEF
"Those are letters"
MIA
"I write my name!"
T Lo LE O
"The dog went home" - CORRECT ANSWER - KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
11. When planning assessments to measure students' comprehension of literary texts an
elementary school teacher selects a variety of passages from a range of cultures including those
that reflect the diverse cultural experiences of the students. The teacher also considers students'
familiarity with cultural content when evaluating students' responses to texts. The teacher's
actions best demonstrate the importance of taking which of the following factors into
consideration when selecting texts for assessments? - CORRECT ANSWER - A reader's
cultural background knowledge can be an important factor affecting their comprehension of a
literary text.
12. Which of the following statements identifies a characteristic of criterion-referenced tests that
in general makes them unsuitable for use as a formative assessment of foundational reading
skills? - CORRECT ANSWER - While criterion referenced assessment can measure
