ILTS 305 Elementary Education Content Main Revised Exam 2025

ILTS 305 Elementary Education Content Main Revised Exam 2025 The Illinois Learning Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy include teaching students at the fourth-grade level how to use context, Greek and Latin roots, and reference materials to promote vocabulary acquisition. Which of the following statements best explains how these strategies contribute to students' overall reading development and will help them develop college and career readiness in vocabulary? A. Students need to develop a variety of independent word-learning strategies to deal with the volume of new words they will encounter in wide reading. B. Students need to develop an awareness of new words they may encounter in their reading so that they will be able to retain them effectively in the future. C. Students need to develop an ability to spell and properly pronounce words that they may need to apply in their future speaking and writing endeavors. D. Students need to develop knowledge of a ran - Correct Ans-A. Students need to develop a variety of independent word-learning strategies to deal with the volume of new words they will encounter in wide reading. A first-grade teacher is working with a small group of emergent readers and would like to promote their ability to identify the final consonant sound in spoken words. Which of the following student activities would best promote achievement of this goal? A. writing all the words they know that end in the same final sound and reading the words aloud B. circling the last letter of each word on a list of grade-level words and saying the letter's name aloud C. saying aloud the words depicted on picture cards and sorting the cards by the last sound in each word D. reading a simple grade-level poem aloud and segmenting the onsets and rimes of the final word in each line - Correct Ans-C. saying aloud the words depicted on picture cards and sorting the cards by the last sound in each word Which of the following sets of words would be most appropriate to use for assessing third-grade students' ability to use structural analysis skills to decode words? A. closed, living, held ITS 305 ITS 305 B. contestant, logically, correlation C. bunnies, cities, animals D. unhappy, daytime, noiseless - Correct Ans-D. Unhappy, daytime, noiseless A fifth-grade teacher periodically has students analyze short science and social studies passages that are written at or slightly above grade level. First, the teacher underlines key words, phrases, and sentences on copies of the text. The teacher then has pairs of students read the passage and ask each other clarifying questions about the underlined elements. Finally, the students paraphrase each of the underlined elements in their own words and use these to construct a written summary of the passage. These activities best demonstrate the teacher's awareness of which of the following factors affecting reading development? A. the benefits of guided practice in reinforcing students' word-learning strategies B. the role of academic language in supporting students' comprehension of complex texts C. the influence of prior language experiences on students' reading comprehension D. the importance of selecting texts for - Correct Ans-B. the role of academic language in supporting students' comprehension of complex texts A sixth-grade English language learner has grade-level literacy skills in Spanish and grade-level fluency skills in English, but the student struggles to comprehend academic texts in English. In an intervention designed to address the student's reading comprehension difficulties in English, which of the following strategies would be most important for the teacher to focus on first? A. developing the student's familiarity with common text structures used in English academic texts B. promoting the student's ability to use a cognate strategy to understand academic vocabulary in English C. providing the student with systematic, explicit instruction in phonics and other decoding strategies in English D. helping the student relate new content encountered in academic texts to the content of texts previously read in English - Correct Ans-B. promoting the student's ability to use a cognate strategy to understand academic vocabulary in English Before students begin reading an informational article about penguins, a teacher conducts a think-aloud while scanning the article. The teacher's think-aloud appears below: ITS 305 ITS 305 "The title of this article tells me that I'm going to read about penguins. I've seen cartoons about penguins, and we read the book Mr. Popper's Penguins in class. Those were funny stories, but they weren't about real penguins. I think this article is going to be about real penguins because I see photographs of real penguins. There are captions under the photographs. If I read the captions, I can probably find out the names of the penguins in the photographs. That way when I read about different kinds of penguins in the article, I'll be able to see what they look like. I also see a chart. It has drawings of 17 species of penguins. Wow! I didn't know there were so many kinds of penguins! The chart tells where each type of penguin lives. I can look - Correct Ans-B. promoting students' ability to analyze how graphic features relate to the article. Read the draft paragraph below from a student's informative essay; then answer the question that follows. "Kites were probably invented in China during the fifth century. The first known kites were made of a bamboo frame covered with silk or paper. They were usually flat rectangles, and unlike modern kites, they did not have tails. (Insert sentence 4 here) People used kites to measure distances, to test the wind, and to communicate. There is an ancient Chinese story about a Chinese emperor who used a kite to send a message for help when he was trapped by rebel soldiers. Some kites could actually carry warriors into the air and over enemy territory." Which of the following sentences, if inserted as Sentence 4, would most effectively support a logical development of ideas in the paragraph? A. In some countries, making and flying kites is an art. B. Early South Sea Islanders attached fishing nets to kites. C. Early - Correct Ans-C. Early kites were made to fulfill practical purposes.