MTTC Elementary Education Exam All Possible Questions and Answers with complete solution

phonological awareness - Answer knowledge of sounds and syllables and of the sound structure of words (rhyming, segmentation, blending, syllables, alliteration) alliteration, assonance, onomatopea - Answer alliteration: Repetition of sounds in words (Black Bird, Peter Pipper, "CHirp, CHirp said the CHick") assonance: repition of similar sounds or vowels in words (the brIDE crIED, hEar the wEdding bElls, the rAIN in spAIN) onomatopea: mimicking sounds (honk, chrip, click, quack, meow) syntactic - Answer the study of sentences and phrases, correct grammatical structure of a sentence (student places adjectives after nouns is NOT SYNTACTIC) KWL charts - Answer what you KNOW, what you WONDER, and what you LEARNED (use to remind students about what you read/discussed, expand on the topic, and show relationships) synonym - Answer a word that has the same meaning as another word (funny, hilarious) antonym - Answer a word that means the opposite of another word (good and bad) literal comprehension vs critical comprehension - Answer literal- skills used to identify the main idea, important facts, and using context clues critical- involves prior knowledge and understanding (inferences, point of view, tone, language, fact and opinion) Metacognition - Answer "Thinking about thinking" or the ability to evaluate a cognitive task to determine how best to accomplish it, and then to monitor and adjust one's performance on that task metacognitive skills are grouped into 3 categories: awareness, planning, and self monitoring & reflection letter recognition- which letters should be taught first? - Answer lower case letters that are most commonly used like a, m, t, s, dCVCe words - Answer a group of words that contain the same vowel(s) for example, rOpE, pOkE, hOlE, jOkE, vOtE define "Echo Reading" and explain when you would use it - Answer Reading of a text where an adult or experienced reader reads a line of text, and the student repeats the line. Good technique for Emergent and Early Readers to build fluency and teach expression. what would be a way in effectively supporting kindergarten vocabulary development during whole group read aloud? - Answer pausing regularly to elaborate on the content of the passage and to question students about key words in the text which theme was frequently explored by Julia Alvarez, mildred taylor, and laurence yep ? - Answer the determination to overcome social injustice (the lack of human rights that are manifested in the daily lives of people in the society) Which of the following oral responses most clearly indicates that critical listening has occurred? "Are donations to your organization tax-deductible?" "How many people have donated money to your organization?" "How does your organization use private donations?" "I can't donate money to your organization, but I can donate my time." - Answer "How does your organization use private donations?" define rapport - Answer a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well. A third-grade teacher plans to assess students' active listening skills by observing small-group discussions and using a checklist to record observations. Which of the following criteria would be most appropriate to include on the checklist? speaking at least 25 percent of the time rephrasing a speaker's statement before responding nodding and smiling during the discussion waiting to speak until other students take their turn - Answer rephrasing a speaker's statement before responding what is a primary source? secondary? - Answer Primary Sources are immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it. (example: someone telling yousomething, journals, voice recordings, pictures) Secondary Sources are information that was created later by someone who did NOT experience first-hand or participate in the events (textbook, bibliography, newspaper article) Which of the following events or developments had the greatest impact on economic growth in the Midwest region of the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century? - Answer the opening of the erie canal (because it greatly facilitated the transportation of passengers and freight between the eastern seaboard and Michigan ports) define interdependence - Answer the dependence of two or more people or things on each other. (oil, corn, cars) (how climate influences what crops are cultivated in different regions of the United States) define diffusion - Answer the spreading of something more widely (A drop of food coloring diffuses throughout the water in a glass so that eventually the entire glass will be colored, perfume sprayed in the air so that everyone can smell it)