- A third-grade teacher has been reading one chapter aloud to her class each day from a book that occasionally includes challenging vocabulary. One morning, as she reads the day's chapter, the teacher realizes that many of her students do not understand the use of the word "hysterics" in the book. Which of the following would best support the student's future vocabulary development while also clarifying their understanding of the day's reading?A. Tell the students the meaning of the word and make a note to use that word in pre-reading activities the following school year.B. Revisit the sentence in the text and facilitate the use of context clues to infer the word's meaning. Provide an opportunity to compare their inferred meaning with a denotative definition.C. Ask each student to write the word in their notebook. For homework, require them to look up the word and copy down any definitions provided in the dictionary
- A fourth-grade class reads a nonfiction article about the Battle of the Alamo and then reads a short fiction story set during the battle. After reading both texts, the students are asked to complete a graphic organizer to compare and contrast the details of each text. Which activity below should the teacher include to help promote her students' development of oral language skills?A. Have students draw a picture of a scene from either the nonfiction or fiction text and write a caption describing why this scene was important to the text.B. Have students write a letter as if they were alive during the time period in the texts, incorporating events from the texts into the letter.C. Group students to discuss and review their graphic organizers' content, adding or removing items as necessary.D. Show students a video summary of the historical event and complete a second graphic organizer that includes this new informati
- A fourth-grade class is working on using the correct homophone in writing. The majority of the class is able to correctly spell both words in a pair, but they are struggling to choose the correct homophone when writing. Which activity could the teacher use to help students select the correct homophone while writing?A. Provide students with pairs of homophones and have them draw a picture of each word's definition.B. Create word webs for each homophone pair that includes synonyms students can use to check for correct usage.C. Using a word bank, fill in the blank in pre-written sentences, choosing the correct homophone.D. Review vowel blends, diphthongs, and digraphs that commonly occur in homophone words.
- A student is currently in the conventional stage of writing development. His teacher wants to incorporate activities that will build on his current strengths but also push his development towards proficient. Which activity below would be best suited to this purpose?A. Review the formation of capital letters and introduce and practice writing lower-case letters.B. Review correct usage of periods and introduce the proper use of question and exclamation marks.C. Review simple and complex sentence structures and introduce how to incorporate transition words into writing.D. Review print concepts and introduce and practice letter formation.
- A language arts teacher who wants to integrate music into a lesson might have students:A. take their journals to music class and write observations using figurative language.B. write words that rhyme with their spelling words.
- A fourth-grade class has just finished writing a persuasive essay, and now the teacher would like each student to give a 90 second oral presentation to the class. With teacher guidance, the students have pulled the main points and supporting ideas from their essay and created note cards to use while presenting. What is the next step the teacher should take to ensure students have successful presentations?A. Instruct students in the creation and use of presentation software during a speech.B. Let students practice their presentations with a partner of their choice.C. Record themselves giving their presentation and fill out a self-evaluation of their performance.D. Review and model public speaking expectations and have students practice these with an impromptu speaking game.
- During a unit on short stories and fables, a fourth-grade teacher presents students with a series of 5-10 sentence stories. After each story, students are asked to write a statement identifying the theme or moral of the story and provide textual evidence to support their thematic statement. This lesson focuses on which level of reading comprehension?A. literalB. appreciativeC. evaluativeD. inferential
- After learning the theoretical probability of a two-sided coin landing on any one side, students work in groups to flip the coin several times and get the following results: 9 heads and 6 tails. Based on the scenario, which of the following observations made by students about probability is accurate?A.The theoretical probability of a coin's landing on heads, 0.5, is equal to the experimental probability obtained.B. The theoretical probability of a coin's landing on heads is less than the experimental probability obtained.C. The experimental probability of a coin's landing on heads, 0.6, is lower than expected.D. The experimental probability would have been more accurate if the students had decreased the number of trials.
- Which of the following geometric solids has five faces, eight edges and five vertices?A. A pentagonal pyramidB. A rectangular pyramidC. An octagonal prismD. A triangular prism
- Which of the following assignments best assesses students' use of quotation marks in writing?A. A journal entry describing the outcome of a science experimentB. A compare and contrast essay about two battles reviewed in social studies classC. A persuasive letter to the school board about the school dress codeD. A personal narrative about a time that students disagreed with a friend
- Celeste is buying erasers for 8 of her friends. There are 76 erasers left at the store. Which of the following approaches can Celeste use to determine the greatest number of erasers she can buy to give each of her friends the same number and have none remaining?A. Drawing a picture of 76 erasers and circling groups of 8 before counting the number of groups createdB. Creating a table in which one column represents the number of erasers at the store and the other represents the number of erasers each friend receivesC. Using a standard algorithm learned previously in class to solve 76 divided by 8D. Making an organized list of the multiples of 8 to see which one is closest to 76
- Third-grade students are assigned to write about their city after reading various texts about it. Which of the following types of writing will best allow the students to include academic vocabulary they learned from the reading?A. Rhyming poetryB. AutobiographyC. Expository essayD. Fictional story
- Students are working independently to solve the equation -4 + ? = -10. The teacher says the following to help them understand the problem."If you owe somebody $44 dollars, you have a negative $44 dollar balance with that person. If you borrow more money from the person, you will owe more and have a more negative balance with that person."After speaking with several students, the teacher finds that some of them are still having trouble with the concept of negative numbers. As a result, the teacher then reteaches the concept using a number line. Which of the following types of assessments has the teacher used?A. FormativeB. SummativeC. FormalD. Criterion
- Which of the following activities is most effective in helping kindergarten students understand measurement of the lengths of small objects, such as pencils or cups?A. Placing interlocking cubes next to the objects and counting the cubes.B. Cutting sheets of construction paper so that they are the same dimensions as the objects.C. Listening to the teacher explain how to line up a ruler next to the objects and mark their lengths.D. Watching the teacher demonstrate how to estimate the lengths of the objects using a child's hand or shoe.
- A teacher presents students with a set of three black and white images taken at a local botanical garden. The students are asked to write a paragraph describing only one image. The goal is that the writing should be so descriptive that the teacher can tell which image the student had chosen.This activity will help develop writing skills most appropriate for which type of writing?A. correspondenceB. narrativeC.persuasiveD. informational
- A first-grade teacher has set up the following math workstations for students to work in pairs.Station 1: Students toss 7 two-color counters from a cup and record the addition equation represented. They repeat the process ten times.Station 2: Each student builds a tower of 8 cubes using two different colors, and then records the addition equation that the colors represent. Students then exchange towers and record the addition equation for the new towers.Station 3: Students are provided with 9 counters each. One student hides some of the counters. The other student looks at how many counters remain present and determines how many are hidden. The students then record the equation that the missing counters represent.Which of the following relationships are the students most likely exploring in the stations?A. Spatial conceptsB. One more and one lessC. Benchmarking numbersD. Part-part-whole
- As part of a unit in which students explore the most significant scientific discoveries in the last hundred years, a fifth-grade teacher wants to include activities that expand students' understanding of new vocabulary learned in the unit. Which of the following activities would likely be most effective for this purpose?A. Sorting newly learned words into labeled categoriesB. Working with a peer to memorize word meaningsC. Recording definitions of unknown words in a journalD. Writing authentic responses that include the new words
- Which of the following actions best represents the first step in the process students should use to interpret graphs and charts containing numerical information?A. Looking at the title, axes, headings, and legends to develop a sense of the content of the graph or chartB. Analyzing whether the type of graph or chart used is the best method of presenting the information givenC. Determining the largest and smallest values represented on the graph or chart to get an impression of the dataD. Comparing and contrasting the various areas of the graph or chart to determine high and low points of the data
- When selecting vocabulary from magazine or newspaper articles used in instruction, which of the following methods is most effective?A.Selecting vocabulary based on the teacher's experience from previous years of instructionB. Asking students to identify words for further study when they read an article for the first timeC. Using newspapers and magazines specifically made for school use, with bolded vocabulary termsD. Cross-referencing articles taught in class with district vocabulary lists to identify key words
- During a back-to-school night, an elementary teacher discusses the use of media in the classroom and at home. Which of the following suggestions is best for the teacher to make to parents regarding students' television viewing and Internet use at home?A. Viewing media with their children and discussing what they see and hearB. Preventing children from having any media exposure at home, since most of it will be of little academic value to childrenC. Trusting children to make their own choices about media but asking them to discuss these choices with the parentsD. Requiring children to watch certain educational programs recommended by the teacher before they watch any other programs