STR EXAM TEACHERS OF TOMORROW (2025)
UPDATED QUESTIONS WITH ACTUAL ANSWERS,
GUARANTEED A+
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? 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? 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? 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: 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? 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 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 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? 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? 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"
UPDATED QUESTIONS WITH ACTUAL ANSWERS,
GUARANTEED A+
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? 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? 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? 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: 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? 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 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 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? 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? 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"
