Actual PK-4 Module 1-3 Questions

Use of a circle graph is best when used to answer a question about what concept?

a) What is the difference between the minimum and maximum value?

b) Is there a change over time?

c) What is the relationship between the two variables?

d) How do all the parts relate to the whole?

D How do all the parts relate to the whole?

A kindergarten teacher wants to develop the concept of set and which items belong in a set. What would be an appropriate activity for her to do?

a) Have students use as many words as they can think of to describe a tree and a set of playground equipment

b) Look at two objects and tell how they are similar and different

c) Give students a set of pattern blocks and have the students sort the blocks into categories they see fit

d) Give students sticks of differing lengths and have them put them in order from smallest to biggest.

C Give students a set of pattern blocks and have the students sort the blocks into categories they see fit

A teacher has students cut a square or rectangle from a piece of paper. She then has students draw a line connecting opposing corners. The class discusses their findings. What is she trying to teach the students about?

a) Similarity

b) Right triangles

c) Parallel lines

d) Slope

B

Second graders are working with groups of blocks. The students find that with some groups of blocks, they can make two vertical stacks exactly the same height. With other groups of blocks, there is one block left over. What concept could be introduced?

a) Even and odd numbers

b) Common fractions

c) Inverse operations

d) None of the above

A Even and odd numbers

A student is having trouble with single by double digit addition. Which assessment could best pinpoint the problem?

a) Criterion referenced assessment

b) Norm referenced assessment

c) Performance assessment

d) Error analysis

D Error analysis

A kindergarten student is completing a triangle, circle, triangle, circle pattern at a math center. This practice is setting the stage for which mathematical concept?

a) Algebra

b) Geometry

c) Measurement

d) Probability

A Algebra

A kindergarten teacher shows the class a picture of two buildings and asks the questions: Which building has more windows? Which building has fewer cars outside? What mathematical skill is the teacher reinforcing?

a) Ordering numbers

b) Identifying patterns in the real world

c) Drawing conclusions from observational data

d) None of the above

C Drawing conclusions from observational data

Which skill must a student have before they are able to add the numbers 1-5?

a) Counting forward from 1-10

b) Counting backwards from 10-0

c) Recognizing written numerals

d) Writing numbers 1-10

A

A student is doing math problems that require adding two digit and one digit numbers and subtracting one digit numbers from two digit numbers. The student gets all the problems correct except for two subtraction problems. How should the teacher correct the student's problem?

a) Review place value with the student

b) Use manipulatives

c) Teach the student how to check subtraction through addition

d) None of the above

C Teach the student how to check subtraction through addition

How would you foster an awareness of the seasons and weather changes in a Kindergarten student?

a) Have students chart the daily temperature and precipitation using information from a local newspaper.

b) Sort clothes, tools, and toys according to their appropriate season.

c) Use a flashlight and a beach ball to explain how the earth's orbit affects the seasons.

d) Explore the weather of different countries.

B Sort clothes, tools, and toys according to their appropriate season

A kindergarten teacher wants to develop observational skills in her students. What would be an appropriate activity to use?

a) Describe the birds they see around the school using a list of terms provided by the teacher

b) Sort objects by common characteristics

c) Look at the different part of a flower using a magnifying glass

d) None of the above

B Sort objects by common characteristics

What activity would help show fourth grade students that white light is made up of different wavelengths of light?

a) Make a simple kaleidoscope out of cardboard tubes and wax paper

b) In a dark room, shine a white light into a prism and observe the different colors that come out

c) Use only blue and yellow light to grow plants in the classroom

d) None of the above

B In a dark room, shine a white light into a prism and observe the different colors that come out

A kindergarten teacher sets up a center with ramps of differing heights, trucks and balls. Interacting with these materials could introduce which concept to students?

a) Gravitational acceleration

b) Friction

c) Inertia

d) Gravity

D Gravity

A fourth grade science teacher is doing a unit on the solar system. She uses a poster to show the solar system and wants to illustrate the great distance between planets. What would be an appropriate activity?

a) Adjusting a recipe for making different amounts of cookies

b) Making a proportional map of the classroom

c) Comparing the surface area and volume of different boxes

d) None of the above

B Making a proportional map of the classroom

A group of second graders is posing theories on how clouds are formed. One student proposes the idea that clouds are made of snow and when the snow melts, it rains. Many students agree with this idea. How can you correct this thinking?

a) Show students the difference between summer and winter clouds

b) Explain that when people are in planes, they see white fluffy clouds

c) Make a cloud by heating water in a plastic bottle

d) Asking students in what part of the water cycle is snow evaporated

C Make a cloud by heating water in a plastic bottle

A third grade teacher is introducing a unit on weather and the water cycle. What would be an appropriate introductory activity?

a) Write reports on historical weather events

b) Have students recall experiences with extreme weather like a big snowstorm or heat wave

c) Ask students to provide guesses as to what causes severe weather

d) Tell students to wash their hands in cold water

B Have students recall experiences with extreme weather like a big snowstorm or heat wave

A teacher is starting a unit on earthquakes and volcanoes. She knows that most of her students have adequate prior knowledge of this topic except for five students. What should she do to ensure these students have adequate background knowledge before beginning the unit?

a) Put these five students in the same group and give them more time to work on assignments

b) Give the five students a website to explore at home so they can get background knowledge on their own time.

c) Show the whole class pictures and give explanations so that the whole class receives some background knowledge.

d) Put these five students in discussion groups with students who have prior knowledge of the topic.

C Show the whole class pictures and give explanations so that the whole class receives some background knowledge

Which disease can be prevented by vaccine?

a) Measles

b) Impetigo

c) Strep throat

d) Conjunctivitis

A Measles

What is the best benefit of having an active lifestyle for a child?

a) Reduces childhood obesity

b) Increases blood pressure

c) Quicker reaction time

A Reduces childhood obesity

Which physical activity would be appropriate for pre-kindergartners in the parallel play stage?

a) Relay races

b) Making a human pyramid

c) Mimicking animal movements

d) Playing catch

C Mimicking animal movements

A teacher wants to model I Messages as a healthy form of communication. What would be a good statement for the teacher to use to model an I Message?

a) I asked you to put it on the shelf the first time.

b) When you throw blocks, I feel worried that you will hit someone.

c) When you follow directions, I feel like you are good students.

d) None of the above

B When you throw blocks, I feel worried that you will hit someone.

What is the best practice to reduce the spread of common cold germs in the classroom?

a) Encourage sick kids to stay home

b) Disinfect the surfaces of all the desks

c) Encourage and promote the regular washing of hands

d) Separate the sick kids from the rest of the class

C Encourage and promote the regular washing of hands

A teacher engages her students in a discussion regarding safe and unsafe practices on the playground. What would be an appropriate follow up activity to this discussion?

a) Tell students that if they do one of the unsafe practices, they will be punished

b) Encourage students to report any unsafe practices to the teacher

c) As a class, come up with a list of playground rules to keep everyone safe.

d) Encourage seat belt use in cars

C As a class, come up with a list of playground rules to keep everyone safe.

A teacher instructs students to stand side by side, but not allow their shoulders to touch. The teacher asks the students to walk around room and then tells them to stop after a while. What concept is the teacher introducing?

a) Following directions

b) Hand/eye coordination

c) Motor skills

d) Personal space

D Personal space

Complete proteins come from which food group?

A. Fruits

B. Vegetables

C. Dairy

D. Whole grains

C Dairy

An Abacus helps reinforce which concept?

A. Place value

B. Rounding numbers

C. Fractions

D. None of the above

A Place value

What would be an accurate authentic assessment for a second grader completing a unit on rocks and minerals?

A. Identifying rocks using an identification card in a certain time frame, and then comparing how many students identified to the class average

B. Designing a proposal for a report relating to Earth Science at home

C. Making a poster to explain to the class a weather experiment

D. Taking a test

A. Identifying rocks using an identification card in a certain time frame, and then comparing how many students identified to the class average

Which activity practices gross motor skills?

A. Puzzles

B. Drawing shapes

C. Playing outside

D. Throwing a bean bag underhand

D. Throwing a bean bag underhand

Which practice reinforces geometry concepts?

A. Putting two colored squares on the board and discussing the color of each

B. Ask students, "Who is standing behind you? Beside you? In front of you?"

C. Ask students, "Who is first? Second? Third?"

D. Practicing fractions

B. Ask students, "Who is standing behind you? Beside you? In front of you?"

The strategy of "counting on" is essential for what math skill?

A. Addition

B. Subtraction

C. Geometry

D. Place value

A

Which can cause postnatal cognitive impairment?

A. Smoking

B. Lead paint

C. Food additives

D. Cleaning supplies

B Lead paint

A physical education teacher sets up hoops the following way. She encourages students to move through, landing one foot in each hoop. What skill is this reinforcing?

A. Power

B. Strength

C. Agility (balance, coordination, speed, reflexes)

D. Flexibility

C

A teacher is instructing a lesson about factors and gives pairs of students 8 plastic cubes. Which question could the teacher ask that would accurately introduce this concept?

A. How many different rectangles can you make?

B. How many sides does a cube have?

C. What shape do you make when you combine 4 cubes?

D. When you stack 3 cubes on top of each other, how many faces are covered?

A How many different rectangles can you make?

What is the best way to promote healthy classrooms/keep your room healthy?

A. Use disinfectant wipes

B. Teach and encourage the importance of washing hands

C. Move the children's seats so not to spread germs

D. Have kids that are sick stay home

B Teach and encourage the importance of washing hands

There is a preschool garden in a classroom, but bugs are eating plant leaves. What should the teacher instruct the students to do?

A. Teach how to maintain the ecosystem by providing natural blockades or removing the pests.

B. Use pesticides to kill them.

C. Let the bugs continue to eat the plants.

D. Eliminate the garden.

A Teach how to maintain the ecosystem by providing natural blockades or removing the pests.

Mr. Adams asks his students to match pictures to the type of energy that they represent. Which is most correct?

A. A banana and electrical energy

B. A light bulb and mechanical energy

C. A crawling baby and potential energy

D. An apple and chemical energy

D An apple and chemical energy

Mrs. Vote is reviewing decimals with her sixth grade class. She says that some decimals are terminating and some are repeating. Which is an example of a repeating decimal?

A. 0.315

B. 0.0376234

C. 0.0575757

D. 0.25254

C 0.0575757

Maria and her lab group have been watching the development of meal worm larva. They make a connection to caterpillars and indicate they think the meal worms will become butterflies. What is this an example of?

A. An observation

B. Organizing data

C. An experiment

D. An inference

D An inference

Which of the following is the most accessible example of weathering for students?

A. A tree root splitting a sidewalk

B. A nail that becomes rusted over several months

C. The smoothing and rounding of rocks in a stream

D. Water freezing and thawing to eventually form potholes

C The smoothing and rounding of rocks in a stream

You are on the playground at recess, and Johnny runs to the other side of the fence to chase after a ball. He is heading out into the street, and there is a car coming. You cannot get to him in time. What should you yell to be sure he stops?

A. "No Johnny!"

B. "Johnny, No!"

C. "Stop Johnny!"

D. "Watch out Johnny!"

B "Johnny, No!" (You should say the child's name First to make sure you have their attention and they know you are addressing them.)

A kindergarten student recognizes that, although buttons are much smaller than elephants, five elephants represent the same quantity as five buttons. This best demonstrates that the child has an understanding of:
A. estimation
B. numerical operations
C. multiplication
D. number sense

d. Number sense

-even though they are different sizes there are the same number of items

A teacher shows students a row with 5 blocks. She then adds two more rows of 5 blocks to make a 3x5 rectangle. What is she demonstrating?

A. Addition of unrelated numbers.

B. Skip‑counting only.

C. Multiplication and area.

D. Symmetry and reflection.

C

A student is struggling with counting and does not understand one-to-one correspondence. What activity could the teacher do with the child to help him/her understand?

A. Give the student a pile of blocks and ask them to estimate how many there are without touching them.

B. Let the student play freely with blocks while the teacher models writing numbers on paper.

C. count the blocks as the student place them in a bucket one-by-one

D. Show the student a number chart from 1–20 and have them trace the numerals with a pencil.

C

x+4=10, what part of algebra is the teacher introducing?

A. Constants

B. Variables

C. Expressions

D. Equations

B

An important lesson to teach young children about science experiments?

A. You must change only one variable at a time.

B. Always write a full lab report.

C. Only adults can collect data.

D. Experiments must always use expensive equipment

A

What sports do children most often enjoy?

A. Sports that require expensive equipment and long practice hours.

B. Sports that have simple rules and involve all children being active as often as possible in the game

C. Competitive leagues where only the best players get to play.

D. Activities that focus only on individual performance without group play.

The most effective and enjoyable sports for children have simple rules and involve all children being active as often as possible in the game.

What would be important to have in order to prove that seafood is an important to a healthy diet in order to reduce certain health risks?

A. A grocery list showing prices of seafood.

B. Celebrity endorsements and social media posts.

C. Personal anecdotes from a few friends or family members.

D. research and scientific evidence

D

In kindergarten, would you ask students to sort leaves by themselves or would you use a dichotomous key?

Allow them to sort the leaves into categories that the students determine.

Why would a teacher send home a survey before beginning a health unit on nutrition?

A. To publish students’ family eating habits on the school website.

B. So that they teacher can include examples that students are familiar with, thus teaching skills in context

C. To replace classroom lessons with individual homework packets.

B

Why would a teacher pass out menus during a health class?

A. To teach students how to make healthy choices.

B. To advertise local restaurants to students.

C. To have students calculate the cost of every meal for homework.

D. To replace lessons on nutrition with free time.

A

By asking students to guess a number between one and twenty and then asking if it is more than _____ or less than _____, a teacher is reinforcing what concept/ideas?

A. Memorizing multiplication facts only.

B. Building math vocabulary and the foundation for addition.

C. Geometry and spatial reasoning.

D. Time‑telling skills.

B

You are setting up ramps in a classroom for an experiment. What should you do before the experiment?

A. Allow students to play and explore the ramps (open investigation) to support inquiry‑based learning.

B. Hand out a multiple‑choice test about ramps before any hands‑on time.

C. Tell students the exact results they should observe so they don’t try different ideas.

D. Remove all materials so students only watch a demonstration.

A

How do you use math inquiry in the classroom?

A. Give only closed‑ended tasks with one right answer and no reflection.

B. Require every student to use the same procedure and penalize alternative methods.

C. Focus only on memorizing steps and never discuss reasoning.

D. Allow students to solve problems in different ways, and then record or talk about their strategies.

D

How do you show a class that sunlight has different wavelengths?

A. Shine white light through a prism to split it into its component colors (spectrum).

B. Use a single‑color LED and ask students to name other colors they think are present.

C. Hold a magnifying glass to make the light brighter without producing colors.

D. Tell students that light is one color and have them draw it from memory.

A

The first time students clap to a beat then they clap to a 4/4 beat while walking. Why is the second one harder?

A. Clapping while walking changes the musical meter from 4/4 to 3/4.

B. Walking slows down students’ hearing so they can’t hear the beat.

C. It requires more muscle coordination (gross motor skills) and performing movements simultaneously.

D. Students must read music notation while moving, which increases cognitive load.

C

What shapes show congruency (they give you four different shapes on the test)?

Congruent = 2 shapes that are exactly the same shape and size (if you cut them out, they would fit directly on top of each other.) Be careful though- 2 triangles (or any shape) that are the same shape, but different size are similar, NOT congruent. Also they try to trick you by turning congruent shapes on their side. They can be rotated.

When a red light shines on another color paper you get black/ brown. Why?

A. Red light travels slower and mixes with the paper to produce brown/black.

B. The paper changes color chemically when red light touches it.

C. Reflection

D. The paper sends the red light back to the source, creating a dark shadow.

C. Reflection **The only thing reflected in a red light is red - therefore, if it shines on brown paper, you will see brown or black paper, you will see black, etc. The red is reflected.

What do we use math journals?

A. Students write down their findings and show how they solved their work to build math inquiry; journals serve as informal, ongoing formative assessment.

B. To replace all classroom discussion so students only write silently.

C. To record only final answers without explanations or reasoning.

D. To create a permanent high‑stakes test record for grading every lesson.

A

A second grader is frustrated with cutting out shapes to paste on a graphic organizer. What should you do?

A. Require the student to keep cutting until they finish, even if they become upset.

B. Have him directly draw on the graphic organizer; this still gives the student ownership and is assessing the skill to sort shapes (the point is not to cut them but to sort them)

C. Remove the sorting task entirely because the student can't cut.

D. Ask the student to watch a classmate do the cutting and then copy their work.

B. have him draw directly on the graphic organizer **You don't want to have someone else do it. The child should still have full ownership, but you make a slight adaptation. Also, take note of what the point of the lesson is. Are you assessing their ability to sort shapes, or their ability to cut

Students are given 4(x + 10). What are you trying to teach?

A. Simplifying radicals.

B. Solving quadratic equations.

C. Graphing linear functions.

D. Factoring

D

Chromatography Question - They explain drawing on filter paper & the colors spreading. Why do different colors travel up the paper?

A. They move differently based on the solution (ex: salt water vs. sugar water)

B. The paper heats some pigments so they evaporate faster than others.

C. They move differently based on the different colors

D. Pigments change color as they react with air, causing them to appear in different places.

C

A fourth grade class is studying the energy flow through the grasslands ecosystem. One student asks what happens to the extra energy that is not transmitted to the next level. What is the appropriate explanation for this?

A. The extra energy disappears and is gone forever.

B. Energy is lost to heat

C. All unused energy turns into new animals at the same level.

D. The extra energy is stored as light and released later.

B

Students are doing an experiment on plant growth. Throughout the course of the project they are making notes in their notebook and recording results on a chart. The teacher also wants to make self-evaluation part of the project and assign a numeric grade. Which assessment tool would be most effective?

A. A teacher‑only checklist with no student input.

B. A single multiple‑choice test at the end of the project.

C. A timed quiz on plant vocabulary only.

D. A rubric that outlines what is expected of students

D

What instrument / experiment would you set up to demonstrate for students the rotation of the earth?

Sundial

A preschooler is playing kickball and is having a hard time kicking the ball because he is standing too far away from the ball. The teacher encourages the student but decides not to intervene unless the child shows extreme frustration. After repeated tries, the student kicks the ball. The teacher smiles and praises the student. What does this teach the student?

A. That avoiding practice is the best way to succeed.

B. That adults will always fix the problem for them.

C. To persevere in similarly challenging circumstances

D. That only praise, not effort, matters for success.

C

A kindergarten teacher notices that some of her students don't eat breakfast and therefore come to school very tired. She wants to do a unit on nutrition. What would be a good introductory activity?

A. Give a long lecture on calories and metabolic pathways.

B. Have students write an essay about their favorite restaurants.

C. Start the unit with a timed vocabulary quiz on nutrition terms.

D. Do some simple snack preparation as a class and discuss how food is fuel

D

A teacher is teaching a lesson about ecosystems. She encourages her students to discuss or predict what might happen if something was removed from the ecosystem. What concept is she reinforcing?

A. Recording observations without drawing conclusions.

B. Memorizing scientific vocabulary without application.

C. Inferences- educated guess based on info they have been presented with

D. Performing exact measurements only

C

A map with houses along a road in a question about parallel vs perpendicular lines:

A. Parallel lines never meet and stay the same distance apart; perpendicular lines cross at right angles.

B. Parallel lines cross at right angles; perpendicular lines curve away from each other.

C. Parallel lines meet at one point; perpendicular lines never touch.

D. Parallel lines always form triangles; perpendicular lines always form circles.

A

Which is most likely to interrupt a student's reading fluency?

A. Text is too much to read in one sitting

B. Student doesn't understand 15% of vowels

C. Student doesn't know sight words or phonetic sounds

D. None of the above

C Student doesn't know sight words or phonetic sounds

You ask a student to look at a book without words and orally tell a story just by looking at the pictures. Which ability are you assessing?

A. Concept of print

B. Story structure

C. Phonics

D. None of the above

B Story structure

A boy reads slowly but accurately. What is an appropriate intervention?

A. Repeated reading on a text that is at his independent level

B. Echo read of a text that is at his instructional level

C. Group reading

D. None of the above

A Repeated reading on a text that is at his independent level

If a child struggles with fluency, what can you expect?

A. The student will struggle with comprehension.

B. The student will struggle with phonics.

C. The student will struggle with vocabulary.

D. The student will never learn to read.

A The student will struggle with comprehension. (Think of fluency as the "bridge to comprehension":

Word recognition_______(Fluency)_____Comprehension)

A teacher has her students crouch when the music is low and stand on their tiptoes when the music is high. What musical concept is she reinforcing?

A. Tempo

B. Pitch

C. Timbre

D. Dynamics

B Pitch

A class goes on a field trip to a supermarket. The produce manager explains to the class that fruits are grown in other areas and then transported to the store. Which activity would further the student's knowledge of spatial interaction?

A. Research the climates of the areas the fruits come from.

B. Chart the different modes of transportation used to move the fruit.

C. Study the food traditions in the different areas.

D. Find the location of where different fruits are grown and map how they get to the store.

D Find the location of where different fruits are grown and map how they get to the store.

A first grade class visits a pet store. Once returning back to the classroom the students are broken up into various groups for different jobs (i.e., designing the pet cages and arranging desks, determining name and setting up the shop, what type of animals, etc.) After this the teacher holds a discussion on their activities, what topic is the teacher laying the foundation for in future years?

A. Opportunity cost

B. Universal needs

C. Economic interdependence

D. Disposable income

C Economic interdependence (this was previously referred to on the PECT as global interdependence)

A teacher wants to connect a Science unit with Social Studies. The students are charting a plant's growth. Which concept is the teacher targeting?

A. Time

B. Continuity

C. Location

D. Environment

A Time

Ms. Duke is teaching a small group of first grade students. She is giving them the sounds /b/, /i/, /g/ and then sweeping them together to say "big". Her group is practicing this skill with several short vowel words. What skill is Ms. Duke working on with this group?

A. Alphabetic knowledge

B. Print awareness

C. Fluency

D. Phonemic awareness

D Phonemic awareness

A kindergarten teacher includes poetry in her daily read-alouds. She asks her students to listen to the rhymes of familiar poems and sometimes to provide a new rhyming word. Which reading skill is she practicing with her class?

A. Sight or concrete words

B. Print awareness

C. Phonemic awareness

D. Connecting print to letter sounds

C Phonemic awareness

Sometimes parents are not up-to-date on current instructional practices. Which would be a good way to explain invented spelling to a parent of a kindergarten student?

A. A system invented by teachers to help students learn to spell words correctly

B. The ability to recognize and read words by translating the letters into speech sounds

C. Vocabulary words which students should know by the end of the year

D. The use of letter-sound relationship to attempt to write words

D The use of letter-sound relationship to attempt to write words

There are yellow balloons that your students make into a sculpture. What concept is being taught?

A. Line

B. Form

C. Shape

D. None of the above

B Form

You want to teach the concept of change over a period of time. What activity should you choose?

A. Make a poster with a timeline of your birth to your kindergarten years.

B. Have a discussion about the presidents of the U.S.

C. Watch a video and answer questions about timelines.

D. None of the above.

A Make a poster with a timeline of your birth to your kindergarten years.

Young children often begin to recognize words that they see like names of restaurants and toy stores or names of cereal on the boxes. This type of familiar print is referred to as:

A. Visual literacy

B. Frequency literacy

C. Environmental print

D. Morphemes

C Environmental print

Which of the following design elements would you teach in correlation with a math unit?

A. Harmony

B. Variety

C. Rhythm

D. Pattern

D Pattern

A kindergarten teacher wants her students to understand that words are made up of smaller sound units or syllables. Which of the following questions should the teacher use to work on phonological awareness?

A. Which of the following words rhymes with sunny?

B. Can you give me another word that starts with the same sound as seven?

C. First say older, now add sh. What is the new word?

D. Say tiger. Now say "ti" and then say "ger."

D Say tiger. Now say "ti" and then say "ger"

Which phonics unit should be taught last?

A. Silent e combinations

B. Silent consonants

C. Consonant Digraphs

D. Consonant Blends

B Silent consonants (These would be the most difficult concept out of all 4 listed. Silent consonants include the kn, gn, mn combinations among others.)

What is an appropriate art activity for kindergarten?

A. Silk screening

B. Woodworking

C. Stamping

D. Etching

C Stamping (all the other art activities are too advanced for kindergarten...this question has also appeared with a choice of mosaics instead of "stamping." Mosaics are also appropriate for kindergarteners

How is a student demonstrating civic responsibility/being a good citizen?

A. Raising his hand in class

B. Clean up for recycling

C. Behaving while walking down the hallway

D. Voting to pick the class field trip

B Clean up for recycling

What is it called when a student speaks alone on stage during a play?

A. Monologue

B. Recitation

C. Commentary

D. Exhortation

A Monologue

During a first grade social studies lesson, a child mentions that she lives near the city library. The teacher could take this time to reinforce which social studies concept?

A. Location

B. Region

C. Community

D. Habitat

C Community (This is a first grade social studies standard.)

A teacher in a kindergarten classroom wants to take an initial assessment of the students in her class. She ask them individually to pick a book from the reading center and pretend to read it by flipping through the pages. What is she assessing?

A. Book handling skills

B. Text to print connection

C. Fluency

D. Phonemic Awareness

A Book handling skills

What is the best way to develop children's prewriting skills?

A. Write spontaneously for 5 minutes a day

B. Discussing ideas with a partner before drafting

C. Read examples of their work to the class

D. Have a daily edit exercise

B Discussing ideas with a partner. (Writing spontaneously for 5 minutes would be working on the drafting phase. Sharing stories is part of the publishing phase and a daily edit is part of the editing phase.)

In a 4th grade class you are learning about making a hypothesis for which candidate will win an election. Which activity would best support this learning goal?

A. Watch a debate between the candidates

B. Read candidate's websites

C. Read through surveys of voters' opinions on candidates

D. Read about past elections

C Read through surveys of voters' opinions on candidates

A music teacher wants to show young students how dance relates to feelings and ideas. What would be a good activity?

A. Reenact a favorite story through dance.

B. Move with different levels and rhythms

C. Watch videos of other cultures dancing

D. Talk about dancers in history

A Reenact a favorite story through dance (Always look for answers where the kids are doing the most)

What is the purpose in teaching students civic education?

A. To show students that laws are created by members of society and are constantly changing.

B. To show that laws are a specific set of rules by which a society operates

C. To review important historical events.

A To show students that laws are created by members of society and are constantly changing.

Which activity boosts child's vocabulary development?

A. Flipping through a picture book and making up a story

B. Playing and interacting with other students - social stories/play

C. Talking with adults

B Playing and interacting with other students - social stories/dramatic play (Talking with adults could be above the child's vocabulary level, but when interacting with peers, they will use vocabulary words they have heard and are new to them)

What marked the change from 18th century farm workers in Western PA to 19th century steel workers?

A. Technological advances

B. Cultural infusion

C. Loss of resources

A Technological advances

A fourth grade teacher is moving her students from learning to read to reading to learn. She wants them to read a passage independently to themselves. What should she do to scaffold this activity?

A. Have students raise their hand when they need help.

B. Provide an outline that details the main ideas of each section

C. Review the headings and subheadings with students before they begin reading.

D. Have students read it on their own and then answer comprehension questions.

C Review the headings and subheadings with students before they begin reading. (Scaffolding is support from a teacher - think of a window washer standing on scaffolding - The teacher should start all of the students out at the same starting line, and then helping them as they see fit as they go. In order to start everyone at the same place, she would review the subheadings.)

Which would be an appropriate initial assessment of word recognition?

A. Picking a book from a class library and reading it

B. Graded word lists

C. Giving a word bank and asking children to fill in the blanks

B Graded word lists (Think of "Dolch Words" used as benchmark assessments in K-2

A student is able to read quickly and above grade level. However, they make careless mistakes such as saying "car" for "care" or replacing "me" with "my." What reading strategy does this child need help with?

A. Phonics and word attack stills

B. Sight words

C. Fluency

D. Checking for understanding

D Checking for understanding (The student needs to slow down and monitor comprehension)

A student can spell vocabulary words, understand their usage, and put the words into his or her own story, but when given a quiz, they cannot match the words to the correct definition. Why?

A. They understand the denotative, but not connotative meaning.

B. They can use the words contextually, but do not understand the exact wording of definitions.

C. They have receptive language skills, but not expressive.

B They can use the words contextually, but do not understand the exact wording of definitions.