FTCE: Subject Area K-6: Language Arts
A teacher and class write a language experience story about their trip to the zoo. The class reads
the story together as the teacher sweeps a hand along the lines of text. This is
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FTCE: Subject Area K-6: Language Arts
A teacher and class write a language experience story about their trip to the zoo. The class reads
the story together as the teacher sweeps a hand along the lines of text. This is a good practice
activity to develop_______ - ANS - Print Concept
Which word recognition skill would be most effective for teaching the following words;
"disagreeable, reappearance, substandard, intramural" - ANS - Structural analysis
Which of the following skills should students use to decode the following words "infiltrate,
intervene, disarm, transport" - ANS - Structural analysis and phonics
A teacher who provides direct word study instruction beginning with vowel-consonant and
consonant-vowel-consonant words and progressing to consonant-consonant-consonant-vowelconsonant and consonant-consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant words is using -
ANS - Explicit Systematic instruction
When reading a book to a kindergartner, a teacher changes tone of voice to show different
characters, pauses at commas, and changes pitch to show punctuation. Which component of
fluency is the teacher demonstrating - ANS - Prosody
On Friday afternoons, students in a 4th grade reading class reread a story selection with a
classmate, then read in unison with each other, and finally, choose a new book to read together.
This activity is called - ANS - Shared Reading
In a 6th grade language arts lesson on storytelling, a teacher wants students to use visual
representations in lieu of words to tell their autobiography. Which of the following activities
would best match the learning objective? - ANS - Creating a picture book
Which activity would best help students to understand the authors organization of content-area
test? - ANS - Preview topics and subtopics
A 1st grade teacher is reading a big book to students. While reading, the teacher moves a pointer
under the words. On which emergent literacy concept is the teacher focusing? - ANS -
Directionality
A teacher's class has written a paragraph about their summer vacation. The teacher has asked that
they reread their paragraphs and check carefully for mechanical errors. This teacher is teaching
the class to - ANS - Edit
Which mode of writing consists of the main focus as entertaining including stories, poems, and
plays? - ANS - Narrative writing
A teacher is concerned about a student and feels there may be difficulties that are interfering with
their academic work. The teacher does want to draw attention to the student and feels writing
about it would be most effective in opening a line of communication between the teacher and the
student in this scenario? - ANS - Dialogue Journal
Which of the following words is spelled incorrectly? - ANS - Separate
Which of the following assessment procedures would most effectively measure students
understanding of the word meaning? - ANS - Sentence generation using the words
Which of the following assessment methods is an individual, informal observation in which a
teacher indicates a students oral reading behavior using a series of check marks and notes? -
ANS - A fluency inventory
Shondra is a 5th grader who is struggling with a reading assignment. Her teacher wants to give
her extra help and thus accumulated the following test information:
Percentile Stanine
Vocabulary 52 4
Comprehension 38 3
Reading analysis 83 7
IRI GE 2.1
Comments: Shondra has good word attack skills, but she does not seem to remember what she
reads. What strategy would be most helpful for Shondra? - ANS - Teacher the student
comprehension strategies such as prediction and self questioning.
The correlation between the results of a final exam and the results of a standardized test taken
just prior to the final is -0.65. Bases on this information, which is the most likely conclusion? -
ANS - The standardized test and the final exam appear to be measuring different content
A student scored at the 80th percentile on a standardized reading achievement test. This
indicated that the student - ANS - Scored as well as or better than 80% of the norming group
An activity in which the participants read aloud a selection as though it were a play is a - ANS -
Readers theatre
While reviewing beginning of the year test data, a kindergarten teacher notices that the students
were unable to consistently hear initial sounds in words. Which of the following activities would
help develop this skill? - ANS - Listening to tongue twisters
Which of the following is a measure of a students emergent oral skill set? - ANS - Nonsense
word Fluency
Which of the following elements of legibility would a students use to analyze their own
handwriting? - ANS - Alignment
Which of the following best describes passive listening? - ANS - Listening to a book on CD and
wearing headphones for privacy
Which of the following skills are both productive? - ANS - Writing and Speaking
A student write the following "I wnt to da bech" Which type of writing is this? - ANS - String
Letters
Which of the following activities would be most effective in stimulating the development of oral
language for primary students? - ANS - using puppets to retell or create stories.
Which of the following has the strongest influence on a child's ability to understand stories that
are read or told to the child? - ANS - Language Development
A teacher has a small group of 1st grade students who have very limited sight word and few
decoding skills. Select the most effective strategies the teacher can use to develop their word
recognition skills. - ANS - Labeling objects in the classroom, molding books that have controlled
vocabularies, and providing explicit phonics instruction
A teacher develops a set of word cards emphasizing the -at sound. He identities the first words as
bat. Each of the next few words contain the -at sound but has a different beginning letter. The
teacher ask students to read words. If a student cannot read the word, the teacher points out the
letter differences and how the pronunciation of each word changes when the beginning
consonant letter is changed. The teacher is teaching the students to use - ANS - Graphophonemic
cues
Which of the following is the best definitions of prosody? - ANS - A linguistic term that
describes they rhythmic patterns of speech using changes in pitch, stress, and duration
A 4th grade teacher wants students to read with fluency and in expression. To achieve this
objective, the teacher reads aloud every day. This type of instructional strategy is called - ANS -
Modeling
A 1st Grade teacher encourages students who are ELL's to read each basal reading story five
times to their caregiver. The purpose of this oral reading is to increase - ANS - Automaticity
Which of the following word recognition method would be most effective for teacher the
following words: rattlesnake, mailman, fireplace, anchorwomen - ANS - Structural analysis
Choose the most appropriate instructional method for dev
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