Module 2

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Student doesn’t know sight words or phonetic sounds

Question 2

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?

Answer 2

B. Story structure

Question 3

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

Answer 3

The student will struggle with comprehension.

Question 4

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?

Answer 4

B. Pitch

Question 5

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?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

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?

Answer 6

. Economic interdependence

Question 7

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?

Answer 7

Time

Question 8

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?

Answer 8

Phonemic awareness

Question 9

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?

Answer 9

. Phonemic awareness

Question 10

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?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Form

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

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:

Answer 13

Environmental print

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Pattern

Question 15

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?

Answer 15

Say tiger. Now say “ti” and then say “ger.”

Question 16

Which phonics unit should be taught last?

Answer 16

Silent consonants

Question 17

What is an appropriate art activity for kindergarten?

Answer 17

Stamping

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Clean up for recycling

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Monologue

Question 20

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?

Answer 20

Community

Question 21

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?

Answer 21

Book handling skills

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Discussing ideas with a partner before drafting

Question 23

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?

Answer 23

Read through surveys of voters’ opinions on candidates

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Reenact a favorite story through dance.

Question 25

What is the purpose in teaching students civic education?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Which activity boosts child’s vocabulary development?

Answer 26

Playing and interacting with other students – social stories/play

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Technological advances

Question 28

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?

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Which would be an appropriate initial assessment of word recognition?

Answer 29

Graded word lists

Question 30

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?

Answer 30

Checking for understanding

Question 31

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?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

How does recognizing words with the same ending sounds help a child?

Answer 32

Builds automaticity and fluency

Question 33

A teacher gives her students cards with modes of transportation on them. She wants the students to categorize them. What should she do first?

Answer 33

Go over the criteria for sorting

Question 34

When is it appropriate to use decodable books with students?

Answer 34

When the students are good at phonics and sight words, but still working on automaticity and decoding words

Question 35

Which word has a consonant blend?

Answer 35

frog

Question 36

A teacher reads through a big book and then reads through it again because students enjoy it so much. What follow up activity would best promote oral language development?

Answer 36

Acting out the story with puppets (Dramatic play center)

Question 37

A teacher reads a big book and then has the students practice reading it with expression. What concept is the teacher reinforcing?

Answer 37

Prosody (

Question 38

A teacher points to words in a book as she reads. What concept is she reinforcing?

Answer 38

Text to print connection

Question 39

A teacher reads a big book and then uses notecards with words from the story on them. As a class, they sort the words into words that rhyme. What is the teacher instructing?

Answer 39

Phonics

Question 40

Talking with your students about an assembly they saw yesterday reinforces what skill?

Answer 40

Reflection – causes them to reflect on what they learned

Question 41

Students are exploring an evasive species that is targeting the wilderness in Pennsylvania. Where could they check for more information?

Answer 41

The Environment Protection Website

Question 42

What teaching plan can help students find out what they already know about a topic and what they would like to know?

Answer 42

A KWL Chart – have students fill out a KWL chart