Elementary Education Study

Question 1

Research has found which of the following outcomes occur for students via revision and rewriting?

Answer 1

Students often incorporate new ideas when they rewrite.

Question 2

With a teacher’s guidance, a class brainstorms main ideas, topics, or concepts from a text. Students choose a select number of these ideas and copy them onto separate index cards. The students then individually review the text, recording any supporting evidence on the note card with the applicable main idea. This activity would be an excellent pre-lesson for teaching which skill set?

Answer 2

Organizing ideas for writing a cohesive and persuasive essay or research paper that asserts supported arguments with valid supporting evidence.

Question 3

A teacher is working with a group of third graders at the same reading level. Her goal is to improve reading fluency. She asks each child in turn to read a page from a book about mammal young. She asks the children to read with expression. She also reminds them they don’t need to stop in between each word; they should read as quickly as they comfortably can. She cautions them, however, not to read so quickly that they leave out or misread a word. The teacher knows the components of reading fluency are:

Answer 3

Rate, accuracy, and prosody.

Question 4

Caret, carrot, to, two and too share something in common. They:

Answer 4

Homophones

Question 5

Of the following statements, which adheres to Information Literacy Standards?

Answer 5

Students accessing information must critically evaluate it and its sources before using.

Question 6

Third-grade students typically receive their spelling lists each Monday so that they can practice them at home before the test on Friday. While the teacher is pleased that the students usually receive high grades on spelling tests she observes that they misspell those same words when writing in journals or doing classwork. How should this teacher modify her instruction?

Answer 6

b

Question 7

O the three timers of words, the most important words for direct instruction are:

Answer 7

c

Question 8

Which student is most likely to need referral to a reading specialist for assessment, special instruction, or intervention?

Answer 8

d

Question 9

The MLA guidelines for citing multiple authors of the same source in the in-text citations of a research paper are house the first author’s name and “et al” for the others in the case of…

Answer 9

d

Question 10

A child in kindergarten is most likely to be referred to a speech-language pathologist if they do not correctly produce which of the following phonemes?

Answer 10

a

Question 11

Which of the following best explains the importance prior knowledge brings to the act of reading?

Answer 11

b

Question 12

A fourth-grade teacher had her students write haiku in order to promote the students’

Answer 12

b

Question 13

What is a mnemonic device?

Answer 13

a

Question 14

Of the following, which statement is true about instruction in the alphabetic principle?

Answer 14

a

Question 15

All members of a group of kindergarten students early in the year are able to chant the alphabet. The teacher is now teaching the students what the alphabet looks like in written form. The teacher points to a letter and the students vocalize the correspondent sound. Alternatively, the teacher vocalizes a phoneme and a student points to it on the alphabet chart. The teacher is using ________ in her instruction.

Answer 15

a

Question 16

Components of “explicit instruction” include:

Answer 16

a

Question 17

___________ is the overall choice of language you make for your writing; ______________ are the specific words form a given discipline that you use from within or about that discipline.

Answer 17

c

Question 18

Regarding these elements of print awareness in literacy development, which is true?

Answer 18

b

Question 19

It is the beginning of the school year. To determine which second-grade students might need support, the reading teacher wants to identify those who are reading below grade level. She works with students one at a time. Sher gives each child a book at second-grade reading level and asks the child to read aloud for two minutes. Children who need reading support are those who read:

Answer 19

a

Question 20

When working with English Language Learners, the teacher should:

Answer 20

a

Question 21

Which of the following processes used in writing is the most complex?

Answer 21

a

Question 22

When a teacher instructs elementary school students in analyzing phonetically regular words, which of the following would most represent a sequence from a simpler to progressively more complex?

Answer 22

d

Question 23

Which text(s) are likely to foster the greatest enthusiasm for and increase comprehension in reading and literature among students?

Answer 23

c

Question 24

“Coarticulation” affects:

Answer 24

b

Question 25

Some of the students in Mr. Smit’s fourth-grade class cannot decode words well enough to read fluently in class. He knows they are well behind grade level and that he needs provide them with activities that will help the to be successful, building skills and confidence at the same time. Which activity would be best for this purpose?

Answer 25

b

Question 26

Which of the following involves evaluative reading comprehension?

Answer 26

b

Question 27

Since, wether, and accordingly are examples of which type of signal words?

Answer 27

c

Question 28

In the Three Cueing Systems model of word recognition reading instruction, which system most relates to how words are assembled into meaningful language?

Answer 28

c

Question 29

Which adult would be most effective in helping a student who frequently mispronounces both in reading and in conversation?

Answer 29

b

Question 30

Of the following, which represents an indirect way in which students receive instruction in and learn vocabulary?

Answer 30

b

Question 31

A teacher is teaching students analogizing. She is teaching them to:

Answer 31

c

Question 32

Scholars have identified three types of connections that students make when reading: connecting text to self, text to the world, and text to text. Which of the following student statements best reflect(s) the connection of text to the world?

Answer 32

a

Question 33

Learning to construct a reading response would be most beneficial in enhancing which language skill?

Answer 33

b

Question 34

Which of the following ways of presenting information is best for showing change over time?

Answer 34

c

Question 35

A teaching is working with a student who is struggling with reading. The teacher gives him a story with keywords missing:
The boy wanted to take the dog for a walk. The boy opened the door. The ____ ran out. The ____ looked fo rate dog. When he found the dog, he was very ______..
The student is able to fill in the blanks by considering:

Answer 35

c

Question 36

Which statement is most accurate about social contexts of L1 and L2 acquisition?

Answer 36

c

Question 37

Which of the following choices would be the best comprehensive project for a 4th-grade class at the end of the school year?

Answer 37

b

Question 38

How should teachers best instruct students in writing?

Answer 38

d

Question 39

A teacher has a child who does not volunteer in class. When the teacher asks the student a question the student can answer, she does so with as few words as possible. The teacher isn’t sure how to best help the child. She should:

Answer 39

c

Question 40

The source of the silent b in English word debt was originally…

Answer 40

Latin for the war debitum.

Question 41

Which choice describes the most complete method of displaying student achievement or progress in language arts?

Answer 41

c

Question 42

Among four categories of media that teachers instruct students to identify, in which one are books primarily classified?

Answer 42

c

Question 43

A sixth-grade student is able to decode most words fluently and has a borderline/acceptable vocabulary, but his reading comprehension is quite low. He can be helped with instructional focus on:

Answer 43

a