PECT Module 2

Question 1

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

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 pictures. Which ability are you assessing?
a. Concept of print
b. Story Structure
c. Phonics
d. None of the above

Answer 2

B. story structure

Question 3

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 at his instructional level
c. Group reading
d. None of the above

Answer 3

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

Question 4

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

Answer 4

A. the student will struggle with comprehension

Question 5

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

Answer 5

B. Pitch

Question 6

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

Answer 6

D. FInd the location of where different fruits are grownand map how they get to the store

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?
a. Time
b. Continuity
c. Location
d. Environment

Answer 7

A. Time

Question 7

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. 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

Answer 7

C. Economic interdependence

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?
a. Alphabetic knowledge
b. Print awareness
c. Fluency
d. Phonemic awareness

Answer 8

D. 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?
a. Sight or concrete words
b. Print awareness
c. Phonemic awareness
d. Connecting print to letter sounds

Answer 9

C. 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?
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

Answer 10

D. 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?
a. Line
b. Form
c. Shape
d. None of the above

Answer 11

B. Form

Question 12

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

Answer 12

A. 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:
a. Visual literacy
b. Frequency literacy
c. Environmental print
d. Morphemes

Answer 13

C. Enviormental print

Question 14

Which of the following design elements would you teach in correlation with a math unit?
a. Harmony
b. Variety
c. Rhythm
d. Pattern

Answer 14

D. pattern

Question 15

Which phonics unit should be taught last?
a. Silent e combinations
b. Silent consonants
c. Consonant digraphs
d. Consonant blends

Answer 15

B. Silent consonants

Question 16

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.”

Answer 16

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

Question 17

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

Answer 17

B. Clean up for recycling

Question 17

What is an appropriate art activity for kindergarten?
a. Silk screening
b. Woodworking
c. Stamping
d. Etching

Answer 17

Stamping

Question 18

What is it called when a student speaks alone on stage during a play?
a. Monologue
b. Recitation
c. Commentary
d. Exhortation

Answer 18

A. Monolouge

Question 19

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

Answer 19

C. Community

Question 20

A teacher in a kindergarten classroom wants to take an initial assessment of the students in her class. She asks 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

Answer 20

A. Book handling skills

Question 21

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

Answer 21

B. Discussing ideas with a partner before drafting

Question 22

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 candidates’ websites
c. Read through surveys of voters’ opinions on candidates
d. Read about past elections

Answer 22

C. Read through surveys of voters’ opinions on candidates

Question 22

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

Answer 22

A. Reenact a favorite story through dance

Question 23

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

Answer 23

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

Question 24

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

Answer 24

B. playing and interacting with other students – social stories/ play

Question 25

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

Answer 25

A. technological advances

Question 26

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

Answer 26

C. review the headings and subheading with students before they begin reading

Question 27

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

Answer 27

B. graded word lists

Question 28

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 skills
b. Sight words
c. Fluency
d. Checking for understanding

Answer 28

D. checking for understanding

Question 29

A student can spell vocabulary words, understand their usage, and put the words into his 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

Answer 29

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

Question 30

How does recognizing words with the same ending sounds help a child?
a. Helps gain concept of print
b. Strengthens vocabulary
c. Builds automaticity and fluency
d. Helps comprehension

Answer 30

C. helps build automaticity and fluency

Question 31

A teacher gives her students cards with modes of transportation on them. She wants the students to categorize them. What should she do first?
a. Give a worksheet to explain transportation
b. Use dictionaries to look up transportation words
c. Go over the criteria for sorting

Answer 31

C. go over the criteria for sorting

Question 32

When is it appropriate to use decodable books with students?
a. When the students are fluent readers
b. When the students are good at phonics and sight words, but still working on automaticity and decoding words
c. When the students are learning about story elements

Answer 32

B. when students are good at phonics and sight words but still working on automaticity and decoding words

Question 33

Which word has a consonant blend?
a. Frog
b. Can
c. Boil
d. The

Answer 33

A. Frog

Question 33

A student is having trouble reading words that contain silent consonant combinations. What would be a good approach to help the student?
a. Provide students with graded word list that contains silent consonant combination words
b. Compare and contrast between words that do and do not have silent consonant combinations, like no and know
c. Take out the silent consonant combination in the word and let the student read it
d. Read silent consonant combination letter words in chunks

Answer 33

B. compare and contrast between words that do and do not have silent consonant combinations, like no and know

Question 34

How do you teach 2nd graders to positively perceive and reflect on their environment?
a. Proving ink activity
b. Use imaginary image
c. Walk around the school and draw a favorite thing they see
d. Draw the format of their classroom

Answer 34

C. walk around the school and draw a favorite thing they see

Question 35

Which is an example of active listening?
a. You should have told me that a long time ago!
b. What happened to you also happened to me, only worse.
c. Sorry, can you please repeat that?
d. So what I hear you say, is that you are upset about…

Answer 35

D. So what I hear you say is that you are upset about

Question 36

How to help first graders learn about the community?
a. Invite a guest speaker to come in and speak about their roles shared in the community
b. Create a list of responsibilities shared with adults at home
c. Discuss the community roles within the school between upper grades

Answer 36

A. Invite a guest speaker to come in and speak about their roles shared in the community