PECT Module 2 PreK-4 Test Questions and Answers
Which is most likely to interrupt a student's A class goes on a field trip to a supermarket. The
reading fluency? produce manager explains to the class that fruits
a. Text is too much to read in one sitting are grown in other areas and then transported to
b. Student doesn't understand 15% of vowels the store. Which activity would further the
c. Student doesn't know sight words or phonetic student's knowledge of spatial interaction?
sounds a. Research the climates of the areas the fruits
d. None of the above - ANSWER -C come from
b. Chart the different modes of transportation
used to move the fruit
You ask a student to look at a book without c. Study the food traditions in the different areas
words and orally tell a story just by looking at d. Find the location of where different fruits are
pictures. Which ability are you assessing? grown and map how they get to the store -
a. Concept of print ANSWER -D
b. Story Structure
c. Phonics
d. None of the above - ANSWER -B A first grade class visits a pet store. Once
returning back to the classroom the students are
broken up into various groups for different jobs.
A boy reads slowly but accurately. What is an After this, the teacher holds a discussion on their
appropriate intervention? activities. What topic is the teacher laying the
a. Repeated reading on a text that is at his foundation for in future years?
independent level a. Opportunity cost
b. Echo read of a text at his instructional level b. Universal needs
c. Group reading c. Economic interdependence
d. None of the above - ANSWER -A d. Disposable income - ANSWER -C
If a child struggles with fluency, what can you A teacher wants to connect a science unit with
expect? social studies. The students are charting a plant's
a. The student will struggle with comprehension growth. Which concept is the teacher targeting?
b. The student will struggle with phonics a. Time
c. The student will struggle with vocabulary b. Continuity
d. The student will never learn to read - c. Location
ANSWER -A d. Environment - ANSWER -A
A teacher has her students crouch when the Ms. Duke is teaching a small group of first grade
music is low and stand on their tiptoes when the students. She is giving them the sounds /b/ /i/ /g/
music is high. What musical concept is she and then sweeping them together to say "big."
reinforcing? Her group is practicing this skill with several short
a. Tempo vowel words. What skill is Ms. Duke working on
b. Pitch with this group?
c. Timbre a. Alphabetic knowledge
d. Dynamics - ANSWER -B b. Print awareness
c. Fluency
d. Phonemic awareness - ANSWER -D
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, PECT Module 2 PreK-4 Test Questions and Answers
A kindergarten teacher includes poetry in her Young children often begin to recognize words
daily read-alouds. She asks her students to listen that they see like names of restaurants and toy
to the rhymes of familiar poems and sometimes stores or names of cereal on the boxes. This type
to provide a new rhyming word. Which reading of familiar print is referred to as:
skill is she practicing with her class? a. Visual literacy
a. Sight or concrete words b. Frequency literacy
b. Print awareness c. Environmental print
c. Phonemic awareness d. Morphemes - ANSWER -C
d. Connecting print to letter sounds -
ANSWER -C
Which of the following design elements would
you teach in correlation with a math unit?
Sometimes parents are not up-to-date on current a. Harmony
instructional practices. Which would be a good b. Variety
way to explain invented spelling to a parent of a c. Rhythm
kindergarten student? d. Pattern - ANSWER -D
a. A system invented by teachers to help
students learn to spell words correctly
b. The ability to recognize and read words by A kindergarten teacher wants her students to
translating the letters into speech sounds understand that words are made up of smaller
c. Vocabulary words which students should know sound units or syllables. Which of the following
by the end of the year questions should the teacher use to work on
d. The use of letter-sound relationship to attempt phonological awareness?
to write words - ANSWER -D a. Which of the following words rhymes with
sunny?
b. Can you give me another word that starts with
There are yellow balloons that your students the same sound as seven?
make into a sculpture. What concept is being c. First say older, now add sh. What is the new
taught? word?
a. Line d. Say tiger. Now say "ti" and then say "ger." -
b. Form ANSWER -D
c. Shape
d. None of the above - ANSWER -B
Which phonics unit should be taught last?
a. Silent e combinations
You want to teach the concept of change over a b. Silent consonants
period of time. What activity should you choose? c. Consonant digraphs
a. Make a poster with a timeline of your birth to d. Consonant blends - ANSWER -B
your kindergarten years
b. Have a discussion about the presidents of the
U.S. What is an appropriate art activity for
c. Watch a video and answer questions about kindergarten?
timelines a. Silk screening
d. None of the above - ANSWER -A b. Woodworking
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Which is most likely to interrupt a student's A class goes on a field trip to a supermarket. The
reading fluency? produce manager explains to the class that fruits
a. Text is too much to read in one sitting are grown in other areas and then transported to
b. Student doesn't understand 15% of vowels the store. Which activity would further the
c. Student doesn't know sight words or phonetic student's knowledge of spatial interaction?
sounds a. Research the climates of the areas the fruits
d. None of the above - ANSWER -C come from
b. Chart the different modes of transportation
used to move the fruit
You ask a student to look at a book without c. Study the food traditions in the different areas
words and orally tell a story just by looking at d. Find the location of where different fruits are
pictures. Which ability are you assessing? grown and map how they get to the store -
a. Concept of print ANSWER -D
b. Story Structure
c. Phonics
d. None of the above - ANSWER -B A first grade class visits a pet store. Once
returning back to the classroom the students are
broken up into various groups for different jobs.
A boy reads slowly but accurately. What is an After this, the teacher holds a discussion on their
appropriate intervention? activities. What topic is the teacher laying the
a. Repeated reading on a text that is at his foundation for in future years?
independent level a. Opportunity cost
b. Echo read of a text at his instructional level b. Universal needs
c. Group reading c. Economic interdependence
d. None of the above - ANSWER -A d. Disposable income - ANSWER -C
If a child struggles with fluency, what can you A teacher wants to connect a science unit with
expect? social studies. The students are charting a plant's
a. The student will struggle with comprehension growth. Which concept is the teacher targeting?
b. The student will struggle with phonics a. Time
c. The student will struggle with vocabulary b. Continuity
d. The student will never learn to read - c. Location
ANSWER -A d. Environment - ANSWER -A
A teacher has her students crouch when the Ms. Duke is teaching a small group of first grade
music is low and stand on their tiptoes when the students. She is giving them the sounds /b/ /i/ /g/
music is high. What musical concept is she and then sweeping them together to say "big."
reinforcing? Her group is practicing this skill with several short
a. Tempo vowel words. What skill is Ms. Duke working on
b. Pitch with this group?
c. Timbre a. Alphabetic knowledge
d. Dynamics - ANSWER -B b. Print awareness
c. Fluency
d. Phonemic awareness - ANSWER -D
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, PECT Module 2 PreK-4 Test Questions and Answers
A kindergarten teacher includes poetry in her Young children often begin to recognize words
daily read-alouds. She asks her students to listen that they see like names of restaurants and toy
to the rhymes of familiar poems and sometimes stores or names of cereal on the boxes. This type
to provide a new rhyming word. Which reading of familiar print is referred to as:
skill is she practicing with her class? a. Visual literacy
a. Sight or concrete words b. Frequency literacy
b. Print awareness c. Environmental print
c. Phonemic awareness d. Morphemes - ANSWER -C
d. Connecting print to letter sounds -
ANSWER -C
Which of the following design elements would
you teach in correlation with a math unit?
Sometimes parents are not up-to-date on current a. Harmony
instructional practices. Which would be a good b. Variety
way to explain invented spelling to a parent of a c. Rhythm
kindergarten student? d. Pattern - ANSWER -D
a. A system invented by teachers to help
students learn to spell words correctly
b. The ability to recognize and read words by A kindergarten teacher wants her students to
translating the letters into speech sounds understand that words are made up of smaller
c. Vocabulary words which students should know sound units or syllables. Which of the following
by the end of the year questions should the teacher use to work on
d. The use of letter-sound relationship to attempt phonological awareness?
to write words - ANSWER -D a. Which of the following words rhymes with
sunny?
b. Can you give me another word that starts with
There are yellow balloons that your students the same sound as seven?
make into a sculpture. What concept is being c. First say older, now add sh. What is the new
taught? word?
a. Line d. Say tiger. Now say "ti" and then say "ger." -
b. Form ANSWER -D
c. Shape
d. None of the above - ANSWER -B
Which phonics unit should be taught last?
a. Silent e combinations
You want to teach the concept of change over a b. Silent consonants
period of time. What activity should you choose? c. Consonant digraphs
a. Make a poster with a timeline of your birth to d. Consonant blends - ANSWER -B
your kindergarten years
b. Have a discussion about the presidents of the
U.S. What is an appropriate art activity for
c. Watch a video and answer questions about kindergarten?
timelines a. Silk screening
d. None of the above - ANSWER -A b. Woodworking
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