GACE 087 Practice Test Questions and
Answers
A campus initiative ensuring that curriculum follows common streams from kindergarten
through twelfth grade reflects the importance of which of the following?
A. Horizontal alignment
B. Differentiated curriculum
C. Integrated curriculum
D. Vertical alignment - ANSWER-Option (D) is correct. Vertical alignment refers to a
curriculum in which there are common streams that flow throughout a student's
educative experience.
A fifth-grade teacher wants to increase the opportunity for students to craft authentic
writing assignments that are based on a historical novel that the class is reading. Which
of the following activities will best accomplish the teacher's goal?
A. Preparing a newspaper article about a significant event in the novel
B. Completing a résumé and cover letter for a historical figure in the novel
C. Writing a letter to the author to express a personal connection to the novel
D. Drafting an essay comparing two significant events in the novel - ANSWER-Option
(C) is correct. A letter to an author has both an authentic audience and topic. When
students' writing has an authentic audience beyond the classroom teacher, they can see
a direct connection between their lives and their literacy development.
A high school literature teacher has students engage in a close reading of a literary
passage. The teacher states:
"As students read, I walk around the classroom and observe their annotations. I
encourage students to mark sections of text that they don't understand, and I look for
patterns in their responses."
Question: Based on the statement, the best step for the teacher to take next is to
A. evaluate strengths and weaknesses in students' passage-based vocabulary
knowledge
B. organize students in mixed-ability pairs to reread the piece orally
,C. provide students with an alternate version of the piece at a lower readability level
D. use the recorded comments as a formative assessment to drive further instruction -
ANSWER-Option (D) is correct. The best next step the teacher should take is to use the
data he or she collects while moving around the classroom as a formative assessment.
Because some students were confused by the same section of the text, the teacher
needs to plan to model reading that section through an instructional technique such as a
think-aloud. The teacher intervention, classroom discussion, and subsequent rereadings
for different purposes following the close reading will assist the students who are having
difficulty to better comprehend the text.
A language arts teacher requires students keep a reading response journal. The
primary purpose of a reading response journal is to
A. serve as a check that students have completed a reading
assignment
B. keep students engaged in independent work and limit free time
C. facilitate student interactions with a text
D. keep a record of the books the students have read throughout the yea - ANSWER-
Option (C) is correct. The most important function of a reading response journal is to
capture student-text interactions.
A middle school English teacher is preparing a novel study unit in the genre of historical
fiction. Initially, students will select a novel from a collection and then discussion groups
will be established. Which of the following titles best represent the genre?
A. The Giver, Among the Hidden, The Hunger Games
B. Holes, Stargirl, The Outsiders
C. My Brother Sam is Dead, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Copper Sun
D. The Lightning Thief, The Graveyard Book, The Hobbit - ANSWER-Option (C) is
correct. These titles are all historical fiction.
A middle school science teacher asks students to read a chapter in the textbook on
different types of rock formations. A student predicts that because of his limited
background on the topic, the reading will be difficult. The student expects his
comprehension of the text to be poor.The scenario indicates that the student
demonstrates metacognitive knowledge of
A. Regulation
, B. Monitoring
C. Self-correction
D. Oneself as a learner - ANSWER-Option (D) is correct. Typically, readers know the
extent of their background of a particular subject and know themselves as readers.
These factors influence their ability to read and often their attitudes toward reading a
particular text.
A middle school teacher wants students to support their ideas with evidence from the
text they are reading. Which of the following strategies will best help the teacher
achieve this goal?
A. Responding to comprehension questions orally
B. Recording student questions on sticky notes
C. Illustrating memorable scenes on art paper
D. Writing a response in a double-entry journal - ANSWER-Option (D) is correct. The
double-entry journal strategy enables students to record their responses to text as they
read. Students write down phrases or sentences from their assigned reading and then
write their own reaction to that passage. The purpose of this strategy is to give students
the opportunity to express their thoughts and become actively involved with the material
they read
A second-grade teacher administers an informal reading inventory (IRI) to students in
September. The teacher discovers that three students are reading grade-level texts with
accuracy, but their oral reading fluency is below grade level. The best instructional
intervention for the students is to group the students together and assign
A. reader's theater activities
B. main idea and supporting detail activities
C. blending and segmenting activities
D. semantic mapping activities - ANSWER-Option (A) is correct because readers'
theater allows students to practice their fluency skills through oral reading. Hasbrouck,
J. (2006).
A social studies teacher plans to consider text complexity in selecting print resources to
include in a unit on the ancient Roman Empire. Which of the following is a component of
the quantitative dimension related to text complexity that the teacher should keep in
mind?
A. Knowledge demands
B. Language conventionality
C. Word frequency
D. Levels of meaning - ANSWER-Option (C) is correct. According to the Common Core
State Standards, word frequency is a quantitative measure of text complexity. The
terms "quantitative dimensions" and "quantitative factors" refer to those aspects of text
complexity, such as word length or frequency, sentence length, and text cohesion, that
Answers
A campus initiative ensuring that curriculum follows common streams from kindergarten
through twelfth grade reflects the importance of which of the following?
A. Horizontal alignment
B. Differentiated curriculum
C. Integrated curriculum
D. Vertical alignment - ANSWER-Option (D) is correct. Vertical alignment refers to a
curriculum in which there are common streams that flow throughout a student's
educative experience.
A fifth-grade teacher wants to increase the opportunity for students to craft authentic
writing assignments that are based on a historical novel that the class is reading. Which
of the following activities will best accomplish the teacher's goal?
A. Preparing a newspaper article about a significant event in the novel
B. Completing a résumé and cover letter for a historical figure in the novel
C. Writing a letter to the author to express a personal connection to the novel
D. Drafting an essay comparing two significant events in the novel - ANSWER-Option
(C) is correct. A letter to an author has both an authentic audience and topic. When
students' writing has an authentic audience beyond the classroom teacher, they can see
a direct connection between their lives and their literacy development.
A high school literature teacher has students engage in a close reading of a literary
passage. The teacher states:
"As students read, I walk around the classroom and observe their annotations. I
encourage students to mark sections of text that they don't understand, and I look for
patterns in their responses."
Question: Based on the statement, the best step for the teacher to take next is to
A. evaluate strengths and weaknesses in students' passage-based vocabulary
knowledge
B. organize students in mixed-ability pairs to reread the piece orally
,C. provide students with an alternate version of the piece at a lower readability level
D. use the recorded comments as a formative assessment to drive further instruction -
ANSWER-Option (D) is correct. The best next step the teacher should take is to use the
data he or she collects while moving around the classroom as a formative assessment.
Because some students were confused by the same section of the text, the teacher
needs to plan to model reading that section through an instructional technique such as a
think-aloud. The teacher intervention, classroom discussion, and subsequent rereadings
for different purposes following the close reading will assist the students who are having
difficulty to better comprehend the text.
A language arts teacher requires students keep a reading response journal. The
primary purpose of a reading response journal is to
A. serve as a check that students have completed a reading
assignment
B. keep students engaged in independent work and limit free time
C. facilitate student interactions with a text
D. keep a record of the books the students have read throughout the yea - ANSWER-
Option (C) is correct. The most important function of a reading response journal is to
capture student-text interactions.
A middle school English teacher is preparing a novel study unit in the genre of historical
fiction. Initially, students will select a novel from a collection and then discussion groups
will be established. Which of the following titles best represent the genre?
A. The Giver, Among the Hidden, The Hunger Games
B. Holes, Stargirl, The Outsiders
C. My Brother Sam is Dead, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Copper Sun
D. The Lightning Thief, The Graveyard Book, The Hobbit - ANSWER-Option (C) is
correct. These titles are all historical fiction.
A middle school science teacher asks students to read a chapter in the textbook on
different types of rock formations. A student predicts that because of his limited
background on the topic, the reading will be difficult. The student expects his
comprehension of the text to be poor.The scenario indicates that the student
demonstrates metacognitive knowledge of
A. Regulation
, B. Monitoring
C. Self-correction
D. Oneself as a learner - ANSWER-Option (D) is correct. Typically, readers know the
extent of their background of a particular subject and know themselves as readers.
These factors influence their ability to read and often their attitudes toward reading a
particular text.
A middle school teacher wants students to support their ideas with evidence from the
text they are reading. Which of the following strategies will best help the teacher
achieve this goal?
A. Responding to comprehension questions orally
B. Recording student questions on sticky notes
C. Illustrating memorable scenes on art paper
D. Writing a response in a double-entry journal - ANSWER-Option (D) is correct. The
double-entry journal strategy enables students to record their responses to text as they
read. Students write down phrases or sentences from their assigned reading and then
write their own reaction to that passage. The purpose of this strategy is to give students
the opportunity to express their thoughts and become actively involved with the material
they read
A second-grade teacher administers an informal reading inventory (IRI) to students in
September. The teacher discovers that three students are reading grade-level texts with
accuracy, but their oral reading fluency is below grade level. The best instructional
intervention for the students is to group the students together and assign
A. reader's theater activities
B. main idea and supporting detail activities
C. blending and segmenting activities
D. semantic mapping activities - ANSWER-Option (A) is correct because readers'
theater allows students to practice their fluency skills through oral reading. Hasbrouck,
J. (2006).
A social studies teacher plans to consider text complexity in selecting print resources to
include in a unit on the ancient Roman Empire. Which of the following is a component of
the quantitative dimension related to text complexity that the teacher should keep in
mind?
A. Knowledge demands
B. Language conventionality
C. Word frequency
D. Levels of meaning - ANSWER-Option (C) is correct. According to the Common Core
State Standards, word frequency is a quantitative measure of text complexity. The
terms "quantitative dimensions" and "quantitative factors" refer to those aspects of text
complexity, such as word length or frequency, sentence length, and text cohesion, that
