PECT PreK-4 Practice Test Module 2
Exam Questions and Answers
A teacher is planning instruction to promote four-year-olds' development of skills related
to Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standard about reading, analyzing, and interpreting
text. With children at this developmental level, which of the following approaches to a
read-aloud activity would be most appropriate for the teacher to use to develop the
children's conceptual understanding of fact and opinion?
A. having the children identify characters who demonstrate examples of faulty reasoning
in a fable
B. asking the children to decide which statements related to an article in a children's
nature magazine are true or false
C. helping the children tell one thing they learned from a nonfiction text
D. showing the children how to differentiate between essential and nonessential
information in a nonfiction children's picture book - ANSWER-C
A fourth-grade teacher would like to promote reluctant readers' independent reading.
Which of the following teacher strategies is likely to be most effective in achieving this
goal?
A. engaging students in discussions about their interests and working with the library
media specialist to locate appropriate-level books on these topics
B. reading aloud a variety of books from the classroom library on a regular basis and
engaging students in discussions related to the read-alouds
C. creating attractive displays of both fiction and nonfiction books and magazines in the
classroom library and regularly inviting students to browse the displays
D. providing opportunities for students to visit the school's library media center and to
learn about the center's resources and organization - ANSWER-A
A third-grade teacher regularly models for students how to paraphrase a portion of a
text and how to pose and respond to questions that clarify or follow up on information
presented in a text. These practices promote students' literacy
development primarily by:
A. supporting their development of dispositions and attitudes that help create a
purposeful, literate environment in the classroom.
B. enhancing their knowledge of the organizational structure of different types of text.
C. promoting their development of self-monitoring skills that support reading and
learning across the curriculum.
D. fostering their ability to make connections between the reading curriculum and their
lives. - ANSWER-C
, A first-grade teacher explains that he is going to read a story aloud and he wants
students to consider how the story makes them feel. Afterward, he prompts the students
to recall and discuss specific words and phrases the author used to evoke particular
feelings. This oral language activity supports students' literacy development primarily by
helping the students:
A. retell a story's key events accurately.
B. make and verify predictions about a story.
C. connect key events in a story to their own lives.
D. develop an awareness of a story's tone. - ANSWER-D
A kindergarten teacher has placed many signs around the classroom, including
simple written directions (e.g., Please hang up coats!) and labels for objects (e.g.,
clock, Teacher's chair). During daily activities, the teacher regularly points to and
reads aloud relevant signs. The teacher has also created a classroom library filled
with age-appropriate books and has incorporated relevant signs and books into all
the learning centers. These strategies are most effective in addressing which of
the following goals related to effective instruction in emergent literacy?
A. creating a print-rich environment
B. providing guided and independent skills practice
C. encouraging independent reading
D. infusing reading activities across the curriculum - ANSWER-A
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher establishes a variety of
classroom roles that rotate on a daily basis. The roles include Calendar Helper
and Star of the Day. The Calendar Helper identifies and announces the day of the
week, the date, and the day's weather, with teacher support if needed. The Star
of the Day shares an object, talking briefly about the item and then answering
three questions about it from classmates and/or the teacher. Regularly performing
these types of classroom roles directly benefits students' emergent literacy
development primarily by enhancing the students':
A. self-confidence and comfort level in front of their peers.
B. ability to use a range of expressive language skills.
C. knowledge of content vocabulary across the curriculum.
D. personal responsibility and perseverance with tasks. - ANSWER-B
In keeping with Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standards in language arts, which
of the following writing skills would be most appropriate to include in language arts
instruction at the first-grade level?
A. revising writing by adding details or missing information
B. focusing writing for a particular audience
C. revising writing by varying sentence length and structures
D. using transition words to clarify ideas in writing
8. - ANSWER-A
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Exam Questions and Answers
A teacher is planning instruction to promote four-year-olds' development of skills related
to Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standard about reading, analyzing, and interpreting
text. With children at this developmental level, which of the following approaches to a
read-aloud activity would be most appropriate for the teacher to use to develop the
children's conceptual understanding of fact and opinion?
A. having the children identify characters who demonstrate examples of faulty reasoning
in a fable
B. asking the children to decide which statements related to an article in a children's
nature magazine are true or false
C. helping the children tell one thing they learned from a nonfiction text
D. showing the children how to differentiate between essential and nonessential
information in a nonfiction children's picture book - ANSWER-C
A fourth-grade teacher would like to promote reluctant readers' independent reading.
Which of the following teacher strategies is likely to be most effective in achieving this
goal?
A. engaging students in discussions about their interests and working with the library
media specialist to locate appropriate-level books on these topics
B. reading aloud a variety of books from the classroom library on a regular basis and
engaging students in discussions related to the read-alouds
C. creating attractive displays of both fiction and nonfiction books and magazines in the
classroom library and regularly inviting students to browse the displays
D. providing opportunities for students to visit the school's library media center and to
learn about the center's resources and organization - ANSWER-A
A third-grade teacher regularly models for students how to paraphrase a portion of a
text and how to pose and respond to questions that clarify or follow up on information
presented in a text. These practices promote students' literacy
development primarily by:
A. supporting their development of dispositions and attitudes that help create a
purposeful, literate environment in the classroom.
B. enhancing their knowledge of the organizational structure of different types of text.
C. promoting their development of self-monitoring skills that support reading and
learning across the curriculum.
D. fostering their ability to make connections between the reading curriculum and their
lives. - ANSWER-C
, A first-grade teacher explains that he is going to read a story aloud and he wants
students to consider how the story makes them feel. Afterward, he prompts the students
to recall and discuss specific words and phrases the author used to evoke particular
feelings. This oral language activity supports students' literacy development primarily by
helping the students:
A. retell a story's key events accurately.
B. make and verify predictions about a story.
C. connect key events in a story to their own lives.
D. develop an awareness of a story's tone. - ANSWER-D
A kindergarten teacher has placed many signs around the classroom, including
simple written directions (e.g., Please hang up coats!) and labels for objects (e.g.,
clock, Teacher's chair). During daily activities, the teacher regularly points to and
reads aloud relevant signs. The teacher has also created a classroom library filled
with age-appropriate books and has incorporated relevant signs and books into all
the learning centers. These strategies are most effective in addressing which of
the following goals related to effective instruction in emergent literacy?
A. creating a print-rich environment
B. providing guided and independent skills practice
C. encouraging independent reading
D. infusing reading activities across the curriculum - ANSWER-A
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher establishes a variety of
classroom roles that rotate on a daily basis. The roles include Calendar Helper
and Star of the Day. The Calendar Helper identifies and announces the day of the
week, the date, and the day's weather, with teacher support if needed. The Star
of the Day shares an object, talking briefly about the item and then answering
three questions about it from classmates and/or the teacher. Regularly performing
these types of classroom roles directly benefits students' emergent literacy
development primarily by enhancing the students':
A. self-confidence and comfort level in front of their peers.
B. ability to use a range of expressive language skills.
C. knowledge of content vocabulary across the curriculum.
D. personal responsibility and perseverance with tasks. - ANSWER-B
In keeping with Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standards in language arts, which
of the following writing skills would be most appropriate to include in language arts
instruction at the first-grade level?
A. revising writing by adding details or missing information
B. focusing writing for a particular audience
C. revising writing by varying sentence length and structures
D. using transition words to clarify ideas in writing
8. - ANSWER-A
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