- Multiple times a year a third-grade teacher administers a formal assessment of her students' oral reading fluency. While assessing a student's reading, she notices that the child performs well on the portion of the test that asks the student to read a paragraph, but struggles when reading many of the same words in list form. Which of the following would best describe a strength of this student?A. using morphology to determine word meaningB. structural analysisC. sight word memorizationD. using context clues to determine a word
- Effective vocabulary instruction can be achieved with which of the following methods?A. Limiting word lists to include word families only and studying these lists in isolation.B. All of the above.C. Choosing words that appear in multiple contexts and forms across a student's reading and listening activities.D. Letting students choose their own words to study outside of class time.
- While reading a historical fiction book about The Great Depression, a teacher asks students to look for text-to-self connections when analyzing characters in the story. Which of the following literary features is the teacher trying to promote among the students?A. author's purposeB. alliteration and symbolismC. point-of-viewD. characterization
- Which of the following is a qualitative feature of text complexity?A. levels of meaningB. length of textC. lengths of sentencesD. difficulty of vocabulary
- While students are between activities, a teacher is looking for a way to help build and encourage oral language development. Which of these short activities would best promote her students' oral language skills?A. magnetic poetry boardsB. Mad Lib creationC. charadesD. hangman
- A sixth-grade classroom is working on a unit about perspective and active listening. The teacher needs to design an activity that will help students understand how emotional response to the speaker can influence how the audience listens and responds. The teacher plans to show multiple video clips and ask guided questions after the viewings. Which activity below would meet this goal?A. Watch multiple video clips of speakers presenting on the same topic and purpose. For example, two or three ads for cereal brands.B. Watch videos where the topics and purpose are the same, but the speaker changes. For example, a video from National Geographic about lions and a classroom presentation by a third grader on lions.C. Watch video clips about two different topics and then summarize the information presented. For example, one clip about habitat loss in the Arctic and one clip about sustainable farming.D. Watch video clips of
- A sixth-grade teacher is planning a lesson on the Constitution. Which of the following would be the most appropriate primary source to use when presenting the lesson?A. Thomas Paine's Common SenseB. a painting of the Constitutional Convention of 1787C. a copy of the Declaration of IndependenceD. a copy of the Constitution
- The following is a first draft from a sixth-grade student's persuasive essay.(1)More time should be spent outside. (2)When I go outside I have lots of fun and my brother and I ride bikes play base ball and look for snakes. (3)To many kids stay in all day on youtube or play videogames. (4)The auther said kids should be out side for 15 hours per weak. (5)I am only outside 1 hour or less.In sentence 2, the teacher should provide additional instruction in which of the following skills?A. comma usageB. subject/verb agreementC. maintaining verb tenseD. commonly confused words
- A teacher divides students up into small groups. She projects a prefix, suffix, or root and gives the groups 60 seconds to come up with as many words as they can that contain the specified word part. This activity is assessing her students':A. morphemic word knowledge.B. teamwork abilities.C. rhyming knowledge.D. phonemic knowledge.
- Mrs. Adams gives each student a copy of a poem and a copy of her cookie recipe. She asks the students to view each document and compare how it looks--not yet focusing on what it says. Which of the following comprehension skills is Mrs. Adams asking her students to practice?A. making predictionsB. literary analysisC. recognizing text featuresD. metacognitive skills
- Mrs. Mendez explains to her sixth-grade students that she wants them to start using technology for specific reasons as they do more oral and written presentations. For this week's assignment, they are to do a brief written report about their recent social studies unit of study. They will then find related pictures on the computer and print them off to attach to their reports. They will also need to identify the sources of their information. Which of the following best explains why Mrs. Mendez would have them identify their sources?A. It will help her students develop lists of websites that contain pictures for social studies reports.B. This will help other students use some of the same sources.C. It will help establish an understanding of the need to document websites and other sources for their work.D. She wants to determine if the students did the research themselves.
- A sixth-grade teacher presents the class with the following description of a fictional confrontation between a middle school principal and a middle school student:The student was sent to the office due to a dress code infraction. The secretary provided the student with a different pair of shorts to wear for the remainder of the day. The student refused to wear the shorts, explaining that she did not believe her shorts were too short or inappropriate. The principal and the student discuss, disagree, and the student ends up receiving an after school detention.The teacher then randomly provides each student with either the email that was sent to the parent of the student or the text message that the student sent to her parents after school. The students are placed in pairs to evaluate how the content of the principal's email varies from the student text message.This activity is most likely designed to teach the stude
- Choose ONE of the following words to correctly complete BOTH of the following sentences.bus train teach show carI rode in a ________ to visit my grandmother.I hope to ________ my dog to roll over.Now work with a partner to write two sentences. Each sentence must show a different meaning of the word right.Which of the following concepts is the teacher introducing to her class?A. homographsB. context cluesC. synonymsD. homophones
- During morning work time, a teacher walks around and visits with two or three students individually. During this time, she asks the students questions about their lives, interests, friends, books they're reading, or various other topics. While the students speak, the teacher makes a note of whether or not each student is answering in complete sentences, if they reframe the questions in their answers, and how well each student maintains eye contact. What is the most likely purpose of these individual chats?A. To diagnose speech issues and students who may need additional support outside of the classroom.B. To make connections with the student and develop teacher-student relationships.C. To informally assess a student's oral language proficiency.D. To formally assess a student's use of proper speaking etiquette.
- A classroom has broken out into writing centers. One group of students sits with the teacher. The teacher hands one student a card with 3-5 sentences on it. The student reads the sentences silently and then out loud. Next, the teacher takes the card and asks the student to explain to the group what was read. After the student gives an oral explanation, the group discusses if there are any facts to add or remove. Then the process repeats with a new student reading and paraphrasing.This activity will help develop writing skills most appropriate to which type of writing?A. informationalB. persuasiveC. narrativeD. correspondence
- Which of the following would best promote the increase of students' reading vocabulary?A. have students read different perspectives of the same historical eventprovide students with books at, or near, their frustrational reading levelB. provide students with books at, or near, their frustrational reading levelC. make time for students to engage in independent readingD. review students' journal entries with the student
- A class has recently completed a science unit and the teacher would like to incorporate some form of writing task into an upcoming lesson. She breaks students up into groups based on what stage of writing development they are in. Which activity would be best suited to students in the transitional stage of writing development?A. Have students draw an image related to the content and write a caption for the image.B. Complete a prewrite graphic organizer and draft a paragraph for an essay.C. Complete a prewrite graphic organizer for a mock short essay.D. Working with a partner, identify the name of the scientific content shown in an image and write the starting letter.
- A teacher presents students with a historical chart detailing what trade goods, and in what amounts, were transported during the colonization of North America. The teacher reviews the legend, title, axes, and other headings with the students to ensure that they are accurately reading the chart. Once students have previewed the chart titles, what is the next step they should take to comprehend the chart?A. Discuss whether or not colonial tradesmen made the best choices in what items they chose to transport.B. Look for high and low points in the data to establish a sense of what the data means.C. Search for details from an accompanying article that support the evidence in the chart.D. Discuss whether or not this is the best type of graph to present this information.
- While researching for information to use on an upcoming persuasive essay, the writer identifies the author or organizations responsible for the website, then considers possible biases that may influence the information presented. This approach demonstrates an understanding of which part of the research process?A. accurately citing sourcesB. distinguishing between paraphrasing and plagiarismC. determining source credibilityD. distinguishing between primary and secondary sources
- While reading aloud in front of the class, the teacher comes across the word "desirable." The teacher then points to clues in the surrounding text that help the students to understand what "desirable" means. What is the teacher modeling?A. structural analysisB. contextual analysisC. morphemic analysisD. phonemic awareness