ILTS Elementary Education (Grades 1-6) Practice Exam
Domain I: Language and Literacy
1. A fourth-grade teacher is creating a list of suggested literary texts to guide
students' independent reading choices. Which o
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ILTS Elementary Education (Grades 1-6) Practice Exam
Domain I: Language and Literacy
1. A fourth-grade teacher is creating a list of suggested literary texts to guide
students' independent reading choices. Which of the following factors should the
teacher take into consideration when qualitatively measuring a text's complexity?
A. The length of the sentences and the number of syllables per word.
B. The reader's motivation, prior knowledge, and experiences.
C. The literal and inferential levels of meaning in the text.
D. The difficulty of the vocabulary and the text's readability score.
Answer: C. Qualitative measures of text complexity are judged by a knowledgeable
human reader and include levels of meaning (literal vs. inferential), structure, language
conventionality and clarity, and knowledge demands. Sentence length and vocabulary
difficulty are typically part of quantitative measures. Reader and task factors are separate
considerations .
2. A teacher is using a Big Book in a read-aloud session with students at the
beginning of first grade. Which of the following methods would likely be most
effective for the teacher to use to develop students' knowledge of print and
emergent literacy concepts?
A. Asking students to point to the title and the author's name on the cover.
B. Using a finger to track the text from left to right and top to bottom while reading.
C. Having students identify rhyming words they hear in the story.
D. Discussing the meaning of new vocabulary words before reading.
Answer: B. Tracking print (using a finger to follow words as they are read) explicitly
models fundamental print concepts, such as directionality (left to right, top to bottom) and
the one-to-one correspondence between spoken and written words .
3. Which of the following questions should a teacher use in a phonemic awareness
lesson designed to give students practice in segmenting phonemes?
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