TCR 716 - Texas Teachers Practice Exam
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Title: Standard 2.8
Students in Ms. Wood's history class have expressed interest in researching how
various news outlets have covered a recent presidential trip to a foreign
country. Ms. Wood presents several video clips from different news broadcasts
about the presidential travels. She then has the students compare and contrast
the representations of each news media. Which of the following are students
primarily practicing in the discussion?
a. Assessing how the media capitalizes on recent events.
b. Interpreting propaganda techniques used by diverse groups.
c. Evaluating the use of images by various media types. d. Analyzing how the
media shapes public perception of current events - ✔✔The correct answer is
analyzing how the media shapes public perception of current events. In the
comparison of multiple media outlets, students discovered inconsistencies and
persuasive techniques used by the outlets to sway the viewer's opinion.
Title: Standard 2.4
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,A teacher has just finished reading aloud the novel The Watsons Go to
Birmingham and then has students read Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream
speech. Which of the following would promote higher level comprehension
skills?
a. The students write a summary of each text.
b. The students make a personal connection to each story.
c. The students compare themes and related ideas across texts.
d. The students watch a video about Civil Rights in the 1960's. - ✔✔The correct
answer is the students compare themes and related ideas across texts. This
activity allows students to connect one author's civil rights experiences
compared to another's and have a better understanding of both texts as a
result.
Title: Standard 1.1
Which of the following activities best promotes oral language development in a
culturally responsive way?
a. Have students research their cultural backgrounds and write reports about
them.
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,b. Have a guest speaker visit the class to talk about her own cultural
background.
c. Have students to interview family members and then share speeches about
their cultures to the class.
d. Have students read a culturally diverse book and write a summary about it. -
✔✔The correct answer is require students to interview family members and
then share speeches about their cultures to the class. The interview allows the
student to practice oral language skills at home while the speech allows the
teacher to evaluate oral language skills.
Title: Standard 2.5
Which of the following would best help a student develop comprehension
through different genres of writing?
a. Create a class library of nonfiction texts and establish time for extended silent
reading of the texts.
b. Read excerpts from each genre with students and have students identify and
paraphrase the main idea of each text.
c. Create a power-point on the features of each genre and have students take
notes.
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, d. Highlight thematic connections between fiction and non-fiction texts. -
✔✔The correct answer is read excerpts from each genre with students and have
students paraphrase the main idea of each text.
Title: Standard 2.6
A student writes the following sentence during a writing assignment:
"Mi muthr sed to go tu de stor. I wint tu the stor and got sum kandi. The kandi
wuz choklit and it wuz gud."
a. Phonetic
b. Pictorial
c. Pre-communicative
d. Conventional - ✔✔The correct answer is phonetic. The student writes by
using the sounds he hears as he speaks. This is the phonetic stage.
Title: Standard 1.3
Repeatedly reading a variety of texts at various reading levels chorally as a
whole class promotes
a. Word identification.
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Title: Standard 2.8
Students in Ms. Wood's history class have expressed interest in researching how
various news outlets have covered a recent presidential trip to a foreign
country. Ms. Wood presents several video clips from different news broadcasts
about the presidential travels. She then has the students compare and contrast
the representations of each news media. Which of the following are students
primarily practicing in the discussion?
a. Assessing how the media capitalizes on recent events.
b. Interpreting propaganda techniques used by diverse groups.
c. Evaluating the use of images by various media types. d. Analyzing how the
media shapes public perception of current events - ✔✔The correct answer is
analyzing how the media shapes public perception of current events. In the
comparison of multiple media outlets, students discovered inconsistencies and
persuasive techniques used by the outlets to sway the viewer's opinion.
Title: Standard 2.4
1|Page
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,A teacher has just finished reading aloud the novel The Watsons Go to
Birmingham and then has students read Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream
speech. Which of the following would promote higher level comprehension
skills?
a. The students write a summary of each text.
b. The students make a personal connection to each story.
c. The students compare themes and related ideas across texts.
d. The students watch a video about Civil Rights in the 1960's. - ✔✔The correct
answer is the students compare themes and related ideas across texts. This
activity allows students to connect one author's civil rights experiences
compared to another's and have a better understanding of both texts as a
result.
Title: Standard 1.1
Which of the following activities best promotes oral language development in a
culturally responsive way?
a. Have students research their cultural backgrounds and write reports about
them.
2|Page
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,b. Have a guest speaker visit the class to talk about her own cultural
background.
c. Have students to interview family members and then share speeches about
their cultures to the class.
d. Have students read a culturally diverse book and write a summary about it. -
✔✔The correct answer is require students to interview family members and
then share speeches about their cultures to the class. The interview allows the
student to practice oral language skills at home while the speech allows the
teacher to evaluate oral language skills.
Title: Standard 2.5
Which of the following would best help a student develop comprehension
through different genres of writing?
a. Create a class library of nonfiction texts and establish time for extended silent
reading of the texts.
b. Read excerpts from each genre with students and have students identify and
paraphrase the main idea of each text.
c. Create a power-point on the features of each genre and have students take
notes.
3|Page
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, d. Highlight thematic connections between fiction and non-fiction texts. -
✔✔The correct answer is read excerpts from each genre with students and have
students paraphrase the main idea of each text.
Title: Standard 2.6
A student writes the following sentence during a writing assignment:
"Mi muthr sed to go tu de stor. I wint tu the stor and got sum kandi. The kandi
wuz choklit and it wuz gud."
a. Phonetic
b. Pictorial
c. Pre-communicative
d. Conventional - ✔✔The correct answer is phonetic. The student writes by
using the sounds he hears as he speaks. This is the phonetic stage.
Title: Standard 1.3
Repeatedly reading a variety of texts at various reading levels chorally as a
whole class promotes
a. Word identification.
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