STR Exam teachers of tomorrow Exam
Questions and Answers fully solved
2025 updated A+
01. 1. As a pre-assessment, say a sentence and ask the
students to write down whether they think it is a fact or
opinion. Do not disclose the answer to
students.)
2. Provide an explicit explanation of a fact and an opinion.
3. Identify words that often provide a clue that a statement is
an opinion.
5. Practice identifying statements as facts or opinions.
6. Write sentences that are facts and sentences that are
opinions.
7. As a post-assessment, say the same sentence as was said
in the pre-assessment, and ask students to write down
whether it is a fact or an opinion.
Have them explain their reasoning.
8. Review the sentence and discuss.
Which of the following strategies would best complete the
small-group lesson structure as step 4?
Model how to analyze a statement to determine if it is a fact or an
opinion.
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 feelings of self-efficacy as readers in the context of
the research projects?
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?
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?
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"
ABCDEF
"Those are letters"
MIA
"I write my name!"
T Lo LE O
"The dog went home"
KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
11. When planning assessments to measure students'
comprehension of literary texts an elementary school teacher
selects a variety of passages from a range of cultures
including those that reflect the diverse cultural experiences
of the students. The teacher also considers students'
familiarity with cultural content when evaluating students'
responses to texts. The teacher's actions best demonstrate
the importance of taking which of the following factors into
consideration when selecting texts for assessments?
, A reader's cultural background knowledge can be an important
factor affecting their comprehension of a literary text.
12. Which of the following statements identifies a
characteristic of criterion-referenced tests that in general
makes them unsuitable for use as a formative assessment of
foundational reading skills?
While criterion referenced assessment can measure students
mastery of target skills, they provide little information about the
extent of students skill development toward mastery.
13. A second-grade student demonstrates grade-level oral
reading fluency but is reluctant to participate in post-reading
discussions and frequently exhibits comprehension difficulty
when answering questions about assigned literary texts. The
teacher would like to better understand the student's process
of constructing meaning from text.
Which of the following assessment procedures administered
individually would be most effective for the teacher to use?
having the student read aloud a short narrative text and then retell
the story in the student's own words
14. How could a teacher best determine if a particular text is
written at an appropriate level for a student to read
independently (i.e. with little or no teacher support)
by having the students read aloud a section of the text and
answers questions about and then determining if the students
accuracy is at least 95 percent and comprehension is at least 90
15. A third-grade teacher meets regularly with individual
students to discuss their reading. At the beginning of one
student's conference the student enthusiastically shows the
teacher an illustrated children's book about the Apollo space
program that the student selected for independent reading.
Questions and Answers fully solved
2025 updated A+
01. 1. As a pre-assessment, say a sentence and ask the
students to write down whether they think it is a fact or
opinion. Do not disclose the answer to
students.)
2. Provide an explicit explanation of a fact and an opinion.
3. Identify words that often provide a clue that a statement is
an opinion.
5. Practice identifying statements as facts or opinions.
6. Write sentences that are facts and sentences that are
opinions.
7. As a post-assessment, say the same sentence as was said
in the pre-assessment, and ask students to write down
whether it is a fact or an opinion.
Have them explain their reasoning.
8. Review the sentence and discuss.
Which of the following strategies would best complete the
small-group lesson structure as step 4?
Model how to analyze a statement to determine if it is a fact or an
opinion.
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 feelings of self-efficacy as readers in the context of
the research projects?
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?
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?
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"
ABCDEF
"Those are letters"
MIA
"I write my name!"
T Lo LE O
"The dog went home"
KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
11. When planning assessments to measure students'
comprehension of literary texts an elementary school teacher
selects a variety of passages from a range of cultures
including those that reflect the diverse cultural experiences
of the students. The teacher also considers students'
familiarity with cultural content when evaluating students'
responses to texts. The teacher's actions best demonstrate
the importance of taking which of the following factors into
consideration when selecting texts for assessments?
, A reader's cultural background knowledge can be an important
factor affecting their comprehension of a literary text.
12. Which of the following statements identifies a
characteristic of criterion-referenced tests that in general
makes them unsuitable for use as a formative assessment of
foundational reading skills?
While criterion referenced assessment can measure students
mastery of target skills, they provide little information about the
extent of students skill development toward mastery.
13. A second-grade student demonstrates grade-level oral
reading fluency but is reluctant to participate in post-reading
discussions and frequently exhibits comprehension difficulty
when answering questions about assigned literary texts. The
teacher would like to better understand the student's process
of constructing meaning from text.
Which of the following assessment procedures administered
individually would be most effective for the teacher to use?
having the student read aloud a short narrative text and then retell
the story in the student's own words
14. How could a teacher best determine if a particular text is
written at an appropriate level for a student to read
independently (i.e. with little or no teacher support)
by having the students read aloud a section of the text and
answers questions about and then determining if the students
accuracy is at least 95 percent and comprehension is at least 90
15. A third-grade teacher meets regularly with individual
students to discuss their reading. At the beginning of one
student's conference the student enthusiastically shows the
teacher an illustrated children's book about the Apollo space
program that the student selected for independent reading.
