PECT PreK-4 Practice Test Module 2 Test Questions with
Answers Graded A+
A teacher is planning instruction to promote four- ANSWER -A
year-olds' development of skills related to
Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standard about
reading, analyzing, and interpreting text. With
children at this developmental level, which of the A third-grade teacher regularly models for
following approaches to a read-aloud activity students how to paraphrase a portion of a text
would be most appropriate for the teacher to use and how to pose and respond to questions that
to develop the children's conceptual clarify or follow up on information presented in a
understanding of fact and opinion? text. These practices promote students' literacy
development primarily by:
A. having the children identify characters who
demonstrate examples of faulty reasoning in a A. supporting their development of dispositions
fable and attitudes that help create a purposeful,
B. asking the children to decide which literate environment in the classroom.
statements related to an article in a children's B. enhancing their knowledge of the
nature magazine are true or false organizational structure of different types of text.
C. helping the children tell one thing they learned C. promoting their development of self-monitoring
from a nonfiction text skills that support reading and learning across
D. showing the children how to differentiate the curriculum.
between essential and nonessential information D. fostering their ability to make connections
in a nonfiction children's picture book - between the reading curriculum and their lives. -
ANSWER -C ANSWER -C
A fourth-grade teacher would like to promote A first-grade teacher explains that he is going to
reluctant readers' independent reading. Which of read a story aloud and he wants students to
the following teacher strategies is likely to be consider how the story makes them feel.
most effective in achieving this goal? Afterward, he prompts the students to recall and
discuss specific words and phrases the author
A. engaging students in discussions about their used to evoke particular feelings. This oral
interests and working with the library media language activity supports students' literacy
specialist to locate appropriate-level books on development primarily by helping the students:
these topics
B. reading aloud a variety of books from the A. retell a story's key events accurately.
classroom library on a regular basis and B. make and verify predictions about a story.
engaging students in discussions related to the C. connect key events in a story to their own
read-alouds lives.
C. creating attractive displays of both fiction and D. develop an awareness of a story's tone. -
nonfiction books and magazines in the classroom ANSWER -D
library and regularly inviting students to browse
the displays
D. providing opportunities for students to visit the
school's library media center and to learn about A kindergarten teacher has placed many signs
the center's resources and organization - around the classroom, including
, PECT PreK-4 Practice Test Module 2 Test Questions with
Answers Graded A+
simple written directions (e.g., Please hang up
coats!) and labels for objects (e.g.,
clock, Teacher's chair). During daily activities,
the teacher regularly points to and In keeping with Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning
reads aloud relevant signs. The teacher has also standards in language arts, which
created a classroom library filled of the following writing skills would be most
with age-appropriate books and has incorporated appropriate to include in language arts
relevant signs and books into all instruction at the first-grade level?
the learning centers. These strategies are most A. revising writing by adding details or missing
effective in addressing which of information
the following goals related to effective instruction B. focusing writing for a particular audience
in emergent literacy? C. revising writing by varying sentence length
A. creating a print-rich environment and structures
B. providing guided and independent skills D. using transition words to clarify ideas in writing
practice 8. - ANSWER -A
C. encouraging independent reading
D. infusing reading activities across the
curriculum - ANSWER -A
A teacher delivering standards-based literacy
instruction grounded in scientificbased
reading research is most likely to use the results
At the beginning of the school year, a of reading assessments
kindergarten teacher establishes a variety of for which of the following purposes?
classroom roles that rotate on a daily basis. The A. using formal and informal assessments to
roles include Calendar Helper place students into the most
and Star of the Day. The Calendar Helper appropriate reading group for a given school year
identifies and announces the day of the B. using ongoing informal assessments to
week, the date, and the day's weather, with continually plan and modify individual
teacher support if needed. The Star students' reading goals and instruction
of the Day shares an object, talking briefly about C. using formal standardized assessments to
the item and then answering diagnose each student's reading
three questions about it from classmates and/or difficulties at the beginning of the school year
the teacher. Regularly performing D. using comprehensive summative reading
these types of classroom roles directly benefits achievement assessments on a
students' emergent literacy weekly to biweekly basis to monitor students'
development primarily by enhancing the progress - ANSWER -B
students':
A. self-confidence and comfort level in front of
their peers.
B. ability to use a range of expressive language A group of primary-grade teachers is reviewing
skills. potential core instructional
C. knowledge of content vocabulary across the materials for teaching beginning-reading skills.
curriculum. The most important selection
D. personal responsibility and perseverance with criteria for the teachers to consider would be to
tasks. - ANSWER -B ensure that the materials:
Answers Graded A+
A teacher is planning instruction to promote four- ANSWER -A
year-olds' development of skills related to
Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standard about
reading, analyzing, and interpreting text. With
children at this developmental level, which of the A third-grade teacher regularly models for
following approaches to a read-aloud activity students how to paraphrase a portion of a text
would be most appropriate for the teacher to use and how to pose and respond to questions that
to develop the children's conceptual clarify or follow up on information presented in a
understanding of fact and opinion? text. These practices promote students' literacy
development primarily by:
A. having the children identify characters who
demonstrate examples of faulty reasoning in a A. supporting their development of dispositions
fable and attitudes that help create a purposeful,
B. asking the children to decide which literate environment in the classroom.
statements related to an article in a children's B. enhancing their knowledge of the
nature magazine are true or false organizational structure of different types of text.
C. helping the children tell one thing they learned C. promoting their development of self-monitoring
from a nonfiction text skills that support reading and learning across
D. showing the children how to differentiate the curriculum.
between essential and nonessential information D. fostering their ability to make connections
in a nonfiction children's picture book - between the reading curriculum and their lives. -
ANSWER -C ANSWER -C
A fourth-grade teacher would like to promote A first-grade teacher explains that he is going to
reluctant readers' independent reading. Which of read a story aloud and he wants students to
the following teacher strategies is likely to be consider how the story makes them feel.
most effective in achieving this goal? Afterward, he prompts the students to recall and
discuss specific words and phrases the author
A. engaging students in discussions about their used to evoke particular feelings. This oral
interests and working with the library media language activity supports students' literacy
specialist to locate appropriate-level books on development primarily by helping the students:
these topics
B. reading aloud a variety of books from the A. retell a story's key events accurately.
classroom library on a regular basis and B. make and verify predictions about a story.
engaging students in discussions related to the C. connect key events in a story to their own
read-alouds lives.
C. creating attractive displays of both fiction and D. develop an awareness of a story's tone. -
nonfiction books and magazines in the classroom ANSWER -D
library and regularly inviting students to browse
the displays
D. providing opportunities for students to visit the
school's library media center and to learn about A kindergarten teacher has placed many signs
the center's resources and organization - around the classroom, including
, PECT PreK-4 Practice Test Module 2 Test Questions with
Answers Graded A+
simple written directions (e.g., Please hang up
coats!) and labels for objects (e.g.,
clock, Teacher's chair). During daily activities,
the teacher regularly points to and In keeping with Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning
reads aloud relevant signs. The teacher has also standards in language arts, which
created a classroom library filled of the following writing skills would be most
with age-appropriate books and has incorporated appropriate to include in language arts
relevant signs and books into all instruction at the first-grade level?
the learning centers. These strategies are most A. revising writing by adding details or missing
effective in addressing which of information
the following goals related to effective instruction B. focusing writing for a particular audience
in emergent literacy? C. revising writing by varying sentence length
A. creating a print-rich environment and structures
B. providing guided and independent skills D. using transition words to clarify ideas in writing
practice 8. - ANSWER -A
C. encouraging independent reading
D. infusing reading activities across the
curriculum - ANSWER -A
A teacher delivering standards-based literacy
instruction grounded in scientificbased
reading research is most likely to use the results
At the beginning of the school year, a of reading assessments
kindergarten teacher establishes a variety of for which of the following purposes?
classroom roles that rotate on a daily basis. The A. using formal and informal assessments to
roles include Calendar Helper place students into the most
and Star of the Day. The Calendar Helper appropriate reading group for a given school year
identifies and announces the day of the B. using ongoing informal assessments to
week, the date, and the day's weather, with continually plan and modify individual
teacher support if needed. The Star students' reading goals and instruction
of the Day shares an object, talking briefly about C. using formal standardized assessments to
the item and then answering diagnose each student's reading
three questions about it from classmates and/or difficulties at the beginning of the school year
the teacher. Regularly performing D. using comprehensive summative reading
these types of classroom roles directly benefits achievement assessments on a
students' emergent literacy weekly to biweekly basis to monitor students'
development primarily by enhancing the progress - ANSWER -B
students':
A. self-confidence and comfort level in front of
their peers.
B. ability to use a range of expressive language A group of primary-grade teachers is reviewing
skills. potential core instructional
C. knowledge of content vocabulary across the materials for teaching beginning-reading skills.
curriculum. The most important selection
D. personal responsibility and perseverance with criteria for the teachers to consider would be to
tasks. - ANSWER -B ensure that the materials:
