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Core Subjects EC-6 Practice Test Questions
with Detailed Verified Answers
Mr. Zuniga's kindergarten students can divide words into syllables. Based on this
information, it would be most correct to assume that his students have already
mastered which of the following skills? Ans: Separating a spoken sentence into its
individual words
A third-grade teacher is planning a writing lesson. Her goal is to be able to identify
the characteristics of good writing. Which of the following strategies would most likely
support the teacher's goal? Ans: Showing students writing samples and leading a
discussion about what aspects of the samples are effective or ineffective
Mr. Cartwright, a second grade teacher, selects the poem below for the reading
center:
Green is grass.
Green is leaves.
Green is grapes.
Green is peas.
Green is great!
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As a student reads the poem out loud Mr. Cartwright annotates the following reading
errors.
Actual word/ Word Read/ Self-correction
Grass /Great/ No
Leaves/ Leves/ No
Grapes/ Great/ No
Peas/ Pes/ No
Based on the student's errors, the student would most benefit from which of the
following phonics activities? Ans: Closed word sort with vowel digraphs
Mr. Phong has students choose any country in the world to independently research
the lives of its daily people. Next, he has students compile their information to
determine the similarities and differences between the students' culture and that of
the country they researched. Which of the following graphic organizers would best
illustrate the students' findings? Ans: A venn diagram
Ms. Johnson, a kindergarten teacher, administers a mid-year reading-readiness
assessment. The following are the initial screening results and teacher comments for
a student.
Student name: Karen Hill
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-recognizes 10 out of the 26 letters of the alphabet
-articulates the correct sounds for 7 letters
-has difficulty manipulating sounds in words
note: Karen could not identify what sound the word cat began with, could not identify
what sounds the words bike, boy, and ball had in common.
-Based on the screening results, Karen is exhibiting Ans: limited phonemic
awareness
(Phonemic awareness is the ability to focus on and manipulate individual sounds in
spoken words)
Identifying the beginning sound in the word "cat" is most closely associated with
phoneme Ans: Isolation
After an analysis of Karen's screening results, the best instructional intervention is to
Ans: Provide explicit instruction for Karen that focuses on manipulating phonemes
using letters
Based on the initial screening results, it can be assumed that Karen Ans: Would
have difficulty deleting the final sound from a word
A fifth- grade teacher has students look at an editorial cartoon and answer the
following questions:
-What event is portrayed?
Core Subjects EC-6 Practice Test Questions
with Detailed Verified Answers
Mr. Zuniga's kindergarten students can divide words into syllables. Based on this
information, it would be most correct to assume that his students have already
mastered which of the following skills? Ans: Separating a spoken sentence into its
individual words
A third-grade teacher is planning a writing lesson. Her goal is to be able to identify
the characteristics of good writing. Which of the following strategies would most likely
support the teacher's goal? Ans: Showing students writing samples and leading a
discussion about what aspects of the samples are effective or ineffective
Mr. Cartwright, a second grade teacher, selects the poem below for the reading
center:
Green is grass.
Green is leaves.
Green is grapes.
Green is peas.
Green is great!
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As a student reads the poem out loud Mr. Cartwright annotates the following reading
errors.
Actual word/ Word Read/ Self-correction
Grass /Great/ No
Leaves/ Leves/ No
Grapes/ Great/ No
Peas/ Pes/ No
Based on the student's errors, the student would most benefit from which of the
following phonics activities? Ans: Closed word sort with vowel digraphs
Mr. Phong has students choose any country in the world to independently research
the lives of its daily people. Next, he has students compile their information to
determine the similarities and differences between the students' culture and that of
the country they researched. Which of the following graphic organizers would best
illustrate the students' findings? Ans: A venn diagram
Ms. Johnson, a kindergarten teacher, administers a mid-year reading-readiness
assessment. The following are the initial screening results and teacher comments for
a student.
Student name: Karen Hill
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-recognizes 10 out of the 26 letters of the alphabet
-articulates the correct sounds for 7 letters
-has difficulty manipulating sounds in words
note: Karen could not identify what sound the word cat began with, could not identify
what sounds the words bike, boy, and ball had in common.
-Based on the screening results, Karen is exhibiting Ans: limited phonemic
awareness
(Phonemic awareness is the ability to focus on and manipulate individual sounds in
spoken words)
Identifying the beginning sound in the word "cat" is most closely associated with
phoneme Ans: Isolation
After an analysis of Karen's screening results, the best instructional intervention is to
Ans: Provide explicit instruction for Karen that focuses on manipulating phonemes
using letters
Based on the initial screening results, it can be assumed that Karen Ans: Would
have difficulty deleting the final sound from a word
A fifth- grade teacher has students look at an editorial cartoon and answer the
following questions:
-What event is portrayed?
