FTCE - Elementary Education K–6 - ELA

The most effective way to develop students' reading fluency is through

a. repeated reading

b. choral reading

c. round-robin reading

d. reader theatre

a. repeated reading

Which of the following instructional strategies would be a good way to introduce a variety of genres to a class in order to compare and contrast information about a subject?

a. sign systems

b. read alouds

c. book clubs

d. text sets

c. book clubs

What is the most effective method for teaching beginning 1st-grade students, who have had very little experience with print, to read?

a. instruction in language experience

b. instruction in context clues

c. instruction in linguistics

d. instruction in phonics

d. instruction in phonics

Which of the following is the best definition of oral reading fluency?

a. accurate reading of grade-level text at a high rate with appropriate prosody

b. accurate reading of connected text at a high rate with deep comprehension

c. accurate reading of connected text at a conversational rate with appropriate prosody

d. accurate reading of grade-level text with appropriate prosody and deep and comprehension

c. accurate reading of connected text at a conversational rate with appropriate prosody

A classroom teacher working with low-ability students uses the repeated reading strategy for the purpose of

a. improving reading fluency

b. determining students' reading level

c. determining word recognition deficits

d. improving students' interest in reading

a. improving reading fluency

Repeated reading is most effective when accompanied by a

a. peer providing complimentary feedback

b. adult providing corrective feedback

c. adult who listens to reading

d. peer who monitors reading

b. adult providing corrective feedback

The following exercise provides practice of which vocabulary skill?

"The knight will bow before the kind."

What does bow mean?

- using a weapon with arrows

- awarding a ribbon

- bending at the waist to show homage

- feasting to celebrate victory

a. homophones

b. homographs

c. antonyms

d. synonyms

b. homographs

A teacher is having his students rewrite their favorite fairy tale. As part of the assignment, the students must use a thesaurus. What processing skill is the teacher requiring his students to use?

a. graphonemic

b. morphemic

c semantic

d. syntactic

c. semantic

a strategy that is used to facilitate decoding as students become more proficient readers. These advanced decoding strategies help students learn parts of words so they can more easily decode unknown multi-‐syllabic word

structural analysis

For 1st grade students, the best strategy to encourage vocabulary development through writing is to have students

a. incorporate words from a list into their writing

b. use a thesaurus while writing

c. look up new words in a dictionary

d. check their spelling frequently

a. incorporate words from a list into their writing

Before students learn about reading a time zone map, the teacher presents slides of her trip to Greenwhich, England, where the meridian time line was established by the British. The teacher then encourages discussion of the reasons for time zones and how they affect us. Which set of reading comprehension factors is demonstrated by this lesson

a. purpose and oral language

b. vocabulary meaning and automaticity

c. content skill development and prosody

d. background information and building concepts

d. background information and building concepts

Jeff is having difficulty remembering details from the story he has just read. What strategy would help him focus on details?

a. summarizing

b. recognizing text structure

c. visualizing

d. questioning

c. visualizing

After students read a detective story in their basal reader, a teacher asks them to make a judgement about the guilt or innocence of the main character. What type of thinking is the teacher encouraging?

a. divergent

b. evaluative

c. literal

d. convergent

b. evaluative

Which of the following tasks is the best for representing a sequence of events in a 2nd grade language arts lesson?

a. picture

b. diorama

c. podcast

d. timeline

. d. timeline

A teacher is having his students locate who, where, when, why and how in a newspaper story. This activity will help the students develop which of the following reading skills?

a. creative reading skills

b. literal reading skills

c. critical reading skills

d. word recognition skills

b. literal reading skills

Willa is a potentially at-risk emergent learner who lacks exposure to literature. The most effective activity for her to engage in is

a. teacher read alouds

b. reading from grade-level basals

c. selecting books from the classroom library

d. watching educational television

a. teacher read alouds

Which literary device is being used when inanimate objects or abstract concepts are seemingly endowed with human characteristics?

a. imagery

b. paradox

c. personification

d. metonymy

c. personification

directions for characters is an example of an element frequently found in

a. drama

b. poetry

c. realistic fiction

d. science fiction

a. drama

Last summer, a student read a fact-based book about the life of Rosa Parks. The literary genre of this book is

a. historical fiction

b. tall tale

c. short story

d. biography

d. biography

By definition, poetry should contain

a. rhyming words

b. short lines

c. soothing rhythms

d. vivid images

d. vivid images

A 3rd- grade teacher reads an informational, nonfictional text about frogs, and a fictional narrative text about frogs. He wants his students to write an expository piece using facts and details to compare and contrast the two texts. Which of the following graphic organizers would be best to compare and contrast the two texts?

a. story structure chart

b. sequence of events

c. venn diagram

d. semantic map

c. venn diagram

one of the best methods from improving a reader's attitude toward reading is to

a. place all of the students in the same book

b. place students in books at the appropriate reading level

c. provide peer tutors for pair reading

d. provide opportunities for oral reading

b. place students in books at the appropriate reading level

Which of the following describes what happens in the graphophonic component of writing?

a. students learn how to form letters correctly and legibly

b. students learn how to organize ideas into various text features

c.students learn that one sound may be formed a number of different ways

d. students learn that words are made up of letters that represent objects and ideas

c. students learn that one sound may be formed a number of different ways

Which of the following modes of writing is intended to provide information and include facts and data ?

a. descriptive

b. narrative

c. expository

d. persuasive

c. expository

Which developmental stage of writing does Amy exhibit when she writes a string of standard letters from left to right on her paper?

a. early

b. beginning

c. developing

d. emergent

d. emergent

Which of the following best represents a student's writing sample in the emergent writing stage?

a. use of scribbles with left-to-right orientation

b. use of invented spelling to represent words

c. use of capital letters or punctuation marks

d. use of one-letter labels accompanying pictures

.a. use of scribbles with left-to-right orientation

A kindergarten teacher is reviewing students' journals. She notices one student's writing is not legible and the marks do not correspond to letters of the alphabet. Which stage of emergent writing is the student demonstrating?

a. conventional writing

b. scribbling

c. labeling

d. invented spelling

. b. scribbling

To be most productive during the revising process, students should

a. interact freely

b. work in small peer groups

c. set their own pace

d. finish within a class period

b. work in small peer groups

Recent studies of the stages of the writing process indicate that drafting is

a. a silent and solitary activity

b. predominantly dependent on inspiration

c. best accomplished by imitating others

d. an exploratory and tentative activity

d. exploratory and tentative activity

Beginning in the 4th grade, students must draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support which of the following?

a. task, relevance, and research

b. description, purpose, and task

c. reflection, research and analysis

d. purpose, description and reflection

c. reflection, research, and analysis

A 6th-grade teacher has asked students to write a selection of prose in which they analyze the positive and negative aspects of a recent field trip. The best mode of writing for students to use for this assignment would be

a. narrative

b. reflective

c. persuasive

d. creative

b. reflective

What organizational pattern does the author of the following passage use to present the information?

A drought has a number of consequences for ranchers. Grass ceases to grow and, in some cases, dies. Cattle become lean, and thus bring less cash at market. Calves born in a drought have a higher mortality rate.

a. cause and effect

b. sequence

c. contrast and compare

d. problem and solution

a, cause and effect

Many members of a second-grade class have difficulty remembering which words are spelled with the letters i-e and which are spelled with e-i. Which of the following instructional methods would best help them overcome this problem?

a. having students identify words containing i-e and e-i patterns in stories

b. using word walls with i-e and e-i patterns

c. assigning i-e e-i dictionary activities

d. making flash cards of words containing i-e and e-i patterns

b. using word walls with i-e and e-i patterns

A 3rd grade teacher asks the students to partner-read a literary selection. The teacher walks around the room and stops to question each pair of students about the story. Which type of assessment is the teacher using?

a. informal

b. formal

c. diagnostic

d. standardized

a. informal

A kindergarten teacher prefaces reading to the class by pointing out the title, author, illustrator, and title page. Which skill is this teacher most likely developing with his students?

a. generating questions

b. expanding vocabulary

c. concepts about books

d. comprehensions of text

c. concepts about books

A sixth -grade language arts teacher is looking for an assessment tool to use with his students' performance products this year. He would like a tool that has scoring standards composed of model answers to score the tasks. The best tool for this purpose would be a

a. criterion- referenced test

b. norm-referenced test

c. portfolio

d. rubric

d. rubric

A 5th-grade teacher is preparing to teach map skills to her social studies class. She should

a. set up a center with maps for children to look at and explore on their own.

b. give a pretest on map skills to determine what students know about maps.

c. have a discussion about what maps are, their purposes, and key vocabulary words.

d. give a map of the classroom to the children and have them locate familiar areas.

b. give a pretest on map skills to determine what students know about maps.

An assessment device in which a student reads a series of selections gradually increasing in difficulty and showing the level of materials a student can read independently is a(an)

a. holistic reading inventory.

b. informal reading inventory.

c. criterion-referenced test.

d. running record test.

b. informal reading inventory.

Which of the following information about student assessment data can be shared with the public?

a. individual spelling scores organized by weekly student progress

b. class reading levels combined in an overall point system

c. class data walls depicting discipline

d. instructional reading levels by student

b. class reading levels combined in an overall point system

A 3rd-grade student is working at a 2.5 instructional reading level. The student enjoys reading but has difficulty with comprehension when unable to pronounce many of the words within a passage. What would be the first type of assessment for a teacher to administer?

a. phonics test

b. concept about print test

c. cloze word test

d. spelling test

a. phonics test

Students are assigned a complex project to include research, a visual aid, and a presentation. To provide the criteria for the assignment, the teacher should use a(an)

a. informal reading inventory

b. student interest survey

c. portfolio

d. rubric

d. rubric

Teachers must make informed decisions about the appropriateness of modifications needed when using assessment instruments with special populations. In deciding how to address this issue in a class that includes several ELL which would be the best choice?

a. preparing all alternate assessment form, based on the ELL's ability levels

b. developing an alternate assignment for ELLs to complete in the library

c. excusing the ELLs from assessment

d. having the ELLs take the same test as non- ELLs

a. preparing all alternate assessment form, based on the ELL's ability levels

While conducting a guided reading lesson, a 1st -grade teacher notices students in a small group were having difficulty with one-to-one correspondence. Which of the following instructional strategies would help develop this skill?

a. memory games

b. counting sounds

c. sight word cards

d. Elkonin boxes

d. Elkonin boxes

Students need a collection of maps to complete an assignment. The best resource for students to use would be a(an)

a. dictionary

b. periodical

c. atlas

d. encyclopedia

c. atlas

Handwriting is a skill best described as

a. trisensory

b. fine motor

c. gross motor

d. manipulative

d. manipulative