GACE Elementary Education Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Phonemic awareness correct answers The ability to break down and hear separate or different sounds and to distinguish among the sounds one hears, the acknowledgement of sounds and words Phonics correct answers Method for teaching students to read which relies on studying the rules and patterns found in language, the connection between the sounds and letters on a page Comprehension correct answers The reader can ascribe meaning to text Fluency correct answers The ability to read in much ...

1. In a first-grade class, the teacher reads a story aloud while the students echo the words the teacher has read. Which of the following approaches to reading is the teacher using? A. Reader's workshop B. Shared reading C. Round robin D. Guided reading correct answers Option B is correct. In shared reading, an interactive reading experience, children join in the reading of a big book or other enlarged text as guided by a teacher or other adult. 2. Which of the following statements best ...

1/8, 2/5, 3/8, 4/5, 5/8 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 80% How many fraction-percent equivalents are listed in the worksheet represented above? A. One B. Two C. Three D. Four correct answers B. Two -The question requires an understanding of ways to help students develop a knowledge of fractions as numbers. 1/8 is equivalent to 12.5%; 2/5 is equivalent to 40%; 3/8 is equivalent to 37.5%; 4/5 is equivalent to 80%; and 5/8 is equivalent to 62.5%. Students in a fourth-grade class are learning how t...

Pouring sand from one container to another correct answers Which is the best definition of an informal learning experience for learning basic science concepts? Ammonia (NH3) correct answers Which gas is known as a compound gas? Refraction correct answers When we look at a straw in a glass of water, the straw appears broken or bent at the waterline. This appearance is a function of? Refraction of light correct answers The process which the speed of light is changed as it passes from one ...

Preconventional correct answers Kohlberg's stage of moral development in which rewards and punishments dominate moral thinking post conventional correct answers Kohlberg, whats right or wrong based on some higher moral reasoning, full internalization, adulthood if ever, not many reach it Conventional correct answers Kohlberg's stage of moral development where interpersonal accord, conformity(social norms), authority and social order maintaining orientation (law and order morality) are de...

A teacher assesses a child using a running record. She notes that the student's prosody need to improve. What is prosody? correct answers Cadence and expression What refers to how a student reads in phrases or whole thoughts? correct answers cadence A typical child will have narrowed his or her utterances from the range of all possible sounds to those relevant in his or her language at which of the following ages? correct answers 1 year According to Ehri, which of the following is true...

What is a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water? correct answers lagoon What is an artificial waterway for navigation or for draining or irrigating land? correct answers canal What is having or relating to a folded rock structure in which the sides dip toward a common line or plane? correct answers synclinal What is to bend the head or body forward? correct answers incline What is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area? c...

Children with internal locus of control are most likely NOT to engage in what? correct answers Feeling out of control Children with internal locus of control are able to do what? correct answers self-regulate their behavior The rules for ordering words is known as what? correct answers syntax What term refers to the rules that guide how words and sentences are formed? correct answers syntax What term focuses on the types and number of words that children learn? correct answers Expres...

The flow of speech is known as what? correct answers fluency The linguistic device of using pronouns to refer to things is known as? correct answers Pronomialization The typical 3 1/2 year old child adds how many words to his or her vocabulary per month? correct answers 50 words According to the interactive model of learning for English Language Arts, which language learning dimension addresses what students should know and be able to do with language? correct answers content Decodin...

Phonemic awareness Correct Answer The ability to break down and hear separate or different sounds and to distinguish among the sounds one hears, the acknowledgement of sounds and words Phonics Correct Answer Method for teaching students to read which relies on studying the rules and patterns found in language, the connection between the sounds and letters on a page Comprehension Correct Answer The reader can ascribe meaning to text Fluency Correct Answer The ability to read in much the ...