Elementary Education Practice Test Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards for review

Develop Oral Language Skills

To talk with your children while working together when preparing meals and doing other daily activities.

Reading in English

Letters correspond to phonemes.

Emergent Literacy Skills

Awareness of consonant and vowel phonemes.

Factors That Influence Emergent Reader's Construction of Meaning

The role of activating background knowledge related to a text.

CVCe Words

Make

Instinctively

Structural analysis.

Students' Ability to Read Narrative Texts With Appropriate Expression

Leading students in an echo reading of a short story.

Reading Development

Word recognition.

Progressing Literacy Development

At the beginning of the school year, the student told a different story each time he reread his writings, but now he follows the letters with his finger and uses similar words when rereading.

Sight Word

Understand

Kindergartners' Vocabulary Development

Pausing regularly to elaborate on the content of a passage and to question students about key words in the text.

Comprehension of Text

Developing a timeline of events.

Build Knowledge of Content-Specific Vocabulary Words

Guiding students in creating a graphic organizer to visually represent relationship between the key words in a given text.

Levels of Reading Comprehension

Inferential.

Fourth-Grade Teacher Example Words

Undeniable, regroup, pregame, submarine.

Expository Text

Newspaper article.

Television Commercial for Breakfast Cereal

The cereal is a good source of energy.

Themes Frequently Explored

The determination to overcome social injustice.

Promoting Comprehension of Expository Texts

Determining the importance of information presented in a text.

Instructional Strategy

Active construction of meaning.

Error in Usage

Would have

Writing Process

Brainstorming.

Formal Letter

Although I have limited work experience, I learn new skills quickly and apply them effectively.

Revising the Speech

Thesaurus.

Writing Process

Peer reviewing.

Communication Skills

Addressing the values and concerns of the audience.

Critical Listening

How many people have donated money to your organization?

Teacher Strategies

Modeling how to properly paraphrase, quote, and cite sources.

Slang and Idiomatic Language

Establish rapport with the audience.

Active Listening Skills

Waiting to speak until other students take their turn.

Construction of the Mackinac Bridge

Unified Michigan by allowing easy transportation between the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Primary Source

My chief mate informed me this morning that our supplies of salt pork and fresh water were unlikely to last as long as planned.

Economic Growth in the Midwest Region of the United States

The opening of the Erie Canal.

Historical Interpretation

But these were peak years of what publisher Henry Luce called the "American Century," a time when people felt good about themselves and were willing to try anything.

Enhance Students' Understanding

Providing maps that show population density in the western United States in 1860 and 1890.

Diagram illustrates Concept

Diffusion.

Assessing The Students' Understanding

Each student writes a letter from the perspective of someone moving to Michigan during a historical period of the student's choice, explaining why he or she is moving.

Remote Sensing Technology

To study climate variability.

Information Best Describes Major Characteristics

South Asia.

Statistical Indices

Energy consumption.

Principles of Constitutional Democracy in the United States

Representative government.

Purposes of Government

To promote the general welfare.

Concurrent Powers

Establishing courts.

Elements of the Bill of Rights

Freedom of speech and assembly.

Shaped the Formation of Governments

The unification of Germany during the nineteenth century.

Inexpensive Manufactured Goods

The energy stored in fossil fuels like coal and oil has been used to do more work than humans and animals had been able to do on their own.

Decision-Making Models

Consensual decision making.

The Federal Reserve

Reducing the discount rate on loans to banks.

Global Economic Interdependence

The international reduction of barriers to trade and investment.

Teaching Lesson On Which Of The Following Topics

Interaction between buyers and sellers in the market.

Research Tasks

Obtaining economics information.

Ensure That All Sides Receive Full Consideration of Their Views

Inviting interested and informed individuals to speak at a public hearing.

Skills Enable Students To Participate Constructively

Synthesizing information from diverse sources.

Student Understanding of Economics

Scarcity and opportunity cost.

Styles of Dance

Ballet.

Playwright Giving Play A Sense of Tension

Introducing a conflict between two or more characters.

Concept of Harmony

Singing a round in groups.

Essential to a Performance of Live Theatre

An audience and actors.

Kinesthetic Awareness

A dance activity in which students try to sense where their own and others' bodies are in space without looking.

Murals

Storytelling.

Dancer's Posture

Ballet.

Art Can Be Used To

Express collective feelings.

Prepare The Students To Appreciate The Performance

Talking to students about the background of the art form and having them create and use basic shadow puppets to retell a familiar story.

Collaborate with the School's Fine Arts Teacher

Meeting with the fine arts teacher throughout the school year to brainstorm ways for the arts to reference and be integrated into other curricula.

Construct Meaning From One Of These Paintings

What story do you think the artist is trying to tell with this painting?

Ethical Considerations

Sending a written request for permission to the song's publisher well in advance of the concert.

Science and Music

Vibration.

Student's Lives Outside of School

Reviewing privacy laws and providing release forms to be signed by the individuals that the students photograph.

Effective Lesson

What do you see in this painting?

Problem-Solving Strategies

Simulating the situation using a random process.

Ethical Guidelines

Obtaining permission from parents/guardians before posting pictures of the students.

Mathematical Reasoning Skills

Area of composite figures.

The Solution Provided

A proof.

Evaluate Student's Work

The student used the equal sign incorrectly.

Set of Numbers

Rational numbers.

Understanding the Concept of Multiplication

Skip counting by different intervals on a number line.

Least Common Denominator

2a

Equivalent Numbers

5.72 * 10 and 572,000.0

Represents a Number

Rational numbers.

Simplifying the Expression

4 - 5

Difference In Savings

$20.

Teacher's Approach

Finding number pairs that sum to easily recognizable numbers.

Modeled Using Fraction Strips

A farmer plants of a field in the morning and of the same field in the evening. How much of the field did the farmer plant that day?

Division Problem

Equivalent

0.000027 liters.

How Much Longer

2 inches.

How Much Longer

25 minutes.

Area of Table

30 + square feet.

Activity Is Using

indirect measurement to determine area.

Resulting Cross Section is An Ellipse

Figure A.

Measure of Angle

115°

Additional Information

Circumference of the Circle

6π

Promoting Students' Skills

Equations in two variables.

Sixth Term in the Sequence

16

Function Is Represented By the Graph

y = x - 3

Value of B

b = 3c - 3

Functions Gives the Total Cost

C(n) = 10,000 + 15n

Probability

Appropriate For This Activity

What is the probability that a six-sided number cube will come up 5 when rolled?