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A sixth-grade teacher plays a short video clip report from a credible and safe news channel and has students orally provide the main idea of the news report. Which of the following answers best reflect why this strategy is effective for supporting oral language skills. Select ALL that apply.

- The students evaluate spoken language of others and rephrase using their own language. - The students practice getting the gist of a story in a quick and engaging way.

Find the slope of the line. y = (0,8) X = (-2, 0)

4 Slope is rise over run (m = rise/run) the rise from 0 to 8 is 8 units. The run, from -2 to 0, is 2 units. So, the slope is m = rise/run = 8/2 = 4

The teacher could best help the students understand that the triangle is equivalent to half a square by showing them how to:

Create a reflection of the triangle along its longest side

Mr. Brogna's six-grade students are very knowledgeable of editing software on their computers and use spell check very effectively. Which of the following errors will spell check identify?

Errors with orthography

A teaching strategy used in the classroom to encourage students to write without interruption of the flow of thoughts is called --

Freewriting

A second grade teacher introducing quadrilaterals to the class has asked the students to apply logical reasoning to justify and prove why a geometric shape is a quadrilateral. Which of the following would NOT be a generalization or justification that a geometric shape is a quadrilateral?

It always has four right angles not all quadrilaterals have four equal sides or four right angles, some are obtuse/acute Ex. trapezoids

Mr. Lathan's fourth-grade social studies students are engaged in the following activity: -Each student is assigned a reading buddy -Each buddy reads a section from the social studies text aloud while the other listens -After the reader finishes, the listener asks questions focused on the reading which both then discuss. -After the discussion, the listener briefly summarizes, out loud, what the section was about. How would this activity tend to improve students' comprehension skills?

It would improve students' engagement with the text and increase their comprehension

Third graders have been exploring finding the area of regular and nonregular polygons, as well as, writing the area as a fraction of the whole. Students were given two rectangles drawn on grid paper and asked to decompose each rectangle into two shapes with the same area but not the exact same shape. What explanation may the students have given to know the areas are equal? [][][][] [][][][] [][][][] [][][][] [][][][] [][][][] [][][][] [][][][] [][][][] [][][][] [][][][] [][][][] A B

Students may have decomposed rectangle A vertically and rectangle B horizontally; whereas rectangle A would have 6 rows of 2 to represent 1/2 and rectangle B would have 3 rows of 4 to represent 1/2.

16--------------------------------------- 14--------------------------------------- 12--------------------------------------- & 10------------------&------------------- & & 8-------------------&------&---&------ & & & & 6--&----&----------&------&---&------ & & & & & & 4--&----&-----&---&---&--&---&------ 2--&----&-----&---&---&--&---&------ 0--&----&-----&---&---&--&---&------ Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fr Sat How many home runs were hit during the entire week?

50

Nissa and Alex are picking apples in the orchard. They had picked enough apples to fill two buckets. They knew they had picked 53 apples and that there were 32 apples in the second bucket. Which expression will help Nissa and Alex determine how many apples are in the first bucket?

? + 32 = 53

Which of the following is not a technique used during prewriting?

Anticipatory Set

Students in a middle-school class frequently use Venn Diagrams to clarify their understanding of informational texts. To assess a student's comprehension of a passage about comets and meteoroids, the teacher asks the student to use facts from the text to complete a Venn Diagram. This strategy is likely to be particularly useful in helping the teacher evaluate the student's ability to --

organize textural information by analyzing similarities and differences

Mrs. Clarinton is working with her first-grade students on recognizing phonemes. She is presenting them with various words and asking them to count the phonemes in them. Another activity Mrs. Clarinton has planned is to have students attempt to spell various words given to them orally and them to analyze the spelling results of each student. Which end-result will this activity most likely assist Mrs. Clarinton to measure for her students?

phonics skills

Mrs. Firebaugh, a second-grade teacher, notices that one of her students is reading well overall but still struggles with words such as "though" and "been". Which of the following instructional strategies would most benefit this student?

high-frequency word with irregular spellings

Complete the table to show the correct of syllables for each word listed. individual crocodile disturbances correctness

individual - 5 crocodile - 3 disturbances - 4 correctness - 3

Mrs. Clarinton is working with her first-grade students on recognizing phonemes. She is presenting them with various words and asking them to count the phonemes in them. Of the following words, which one has FOUR phonemes?

little

A first-grade student is reading a story aloud. The student attempts to read the sentence, "Jill likes to play on a swing." Printed below is an excerpt from the student's comments as he attempts to read the sentence. Student: Jill likes to play on a [makes a /s/ sound]...I don't know that word. Sing? Swim? No, that's not it. Swing? Maybe that word is swing. After identifying the word swing, the student turns to the teacher and asks, "Is that right? Is it swing?" The teacher wants to encourage the student to use semantic and syntactic cues to verify the word. Which of the following teacher responses to the student's question would best address this goal?

"Now try reading the sentence again and see whether wing makes sense."

A first-grade student is reading a story aloud. The student attempts to read the sentence, "Jill likes to play on a swing." Printed below is an excerpt from the student's comments as he attempts to read the sentence. Student: Jill likes to play on a [makes a /s/ sound]...I don't know that word. Sing? Swim? No, that's not it. Swing? Maybe that word is swing. After identifying the word swing, the student turns to the teacher and asks, "Is that right? Is it swing?" Which of the following teacher prompts would most likely be effective in eliciting helpful information about the student's use of word-identification strategies?

"Tell me how you figured out that the word was swing."

Ms. Granato would like to introduce her students to careers and professions which use math in the workplace. She has made arrangements for a banker to come in and discuss with her class the many roles a banker has within a bank. Which of the following TEKS might Mrs. Granato be able to apply to this lesson? Click each TEK below which could apply to this lesson.

-Develop a system for keeping and using financial records -Balance a simple budget -Identify the advantages and disadvantages of different methods of payment -Describe actions that might be taken to balance a budget when expenses exceed income

A fifth-grade teacher plans to supplement studies in the content areas with a research project. Which of the following answers might the teacher consider? Select ALL that apply.

-Have students use multiple resources while researching -Encourage students to research and collaborate outside of the classroom. -Review web literacy skills with students

A third-grade teacher works with a struggling reader. The child reads grade-level material at 35 words per minute and has trouble with sight words. Which of the following answers best describes the child? Select all that apply.

-The student lacks reading fluency -The student has weak decoding skills

A teacher works with English learners at various levels of language proficiency. Which of the following strategies provides language support for ELs during classroom instruction? Select all that apply

-Visuals which illustrate complex concepts -Access to content word lists -Cooperative learning activities -Sentence stems

What is the solution, if any, to the expression: 1^n =?

1

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /|. . . . . . . . . /. |. . . . . . . . /______|. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The area enclosed by the rubber band can be calculated by using which of the following expressions?

1/2 bh

Express 0.7083(3 has an infinite line above it) as a fraction.

17/24 Move the decimal 3 units to the right and then multi. by 1,000. n= 0.7083(3 has an infinite line above it) 1,000n = 708.3 (3 has an infinite line above it) Since only one digit repeats, multiply this equation by 10 more to move the decimal place one place to the right. 10,000n = 7083.3 (3 has an infinite line above it) Now, subtract the two equations to eliminate the repeating number. 10,000n = 7083.3 (3 has an infinite line above it) - 1,000n = 708.3 (3 has an infinite line above it) ------------------- 9,000n = 6,375 n = 6375/9000 = 17/24

^ 3/5 / \ 2/5 / \ Santa Snowman ^ ^ 2/4 / \ 2/4 3/4/ \ 1/4 / \ / \ Santa Snowman Santa Snowman A couple has five grandchildren about the same age. The couple found a large box and put 13 packages in this box. All of the packages were wrapped in either Santa or Snowman paper. At Christmas, each grandchild was allowed to draw two packages from the large box in succession without replacement. When the box came to the 5th grandchild, it had 3 packages wrapped in Santa paper and 2 packages wrapped in Snowman paper. What is the probability that this 5th grandchild will draw a package wrapped in snow paper on the second draw?

2/5 * 1/4 + 3/5 * 2/4

Find the sum of the following: 2/9 + 1/4 + 1/6

23/36 Find the lowest common denominator first (LCD) of all three bottom numbers (lowest multiple of all three, in this case =36) You will then multi. the top number (numerator) with the number that can make 36 with bottom number (the denominator). Finally, add all fractions together to get the total (bottom number does not change). If fraction looks like you can reduce the number, reduce to its lowest term. To do this divide the numerator and the denominator by their greatest Common Factor (GCF).

What is the missing number? 4, 12, 36, 108, ____, 972

324 This is a geometric shape with a ratio of 3: 108 * 3 = 324

A teacher wants to take advantage of students' oral language strengths to promote their reading proficiency. She begins planning a variety of activities for this purpose. In one activity, students will choose a partner and select a storybook from the class library. Before they begin reading the book, the partners will read the title and look at the illustrations. Based on this preview, the partners will discuss their predictions about the story (e.g.., what may happen, who the main characters are). Which of the following additions to the activity described in the previous page would most effectively use oral language interactions to promote the students' reading comprehension?

After reading their story, partners meet again to discuss the story and talk about how their predictions compare with the actual story

Examine the underlined words (capitalized) in the sentences listed below. The boy felt neglected, INDEED. ALTHOUGH they lost the game, they demonstrated the great skill. She is INTELLIGENT and generous. The brilliant student would do ANYTHING to make a good grade. The words underlined (capitalized) in the sentences above are shown boxed below. Click and drag each boxed word and drop it in the area of the diagram that correctly identifies the part of speech the word represents. Subordinating Conjunction - Predicate Adjective - Conjunctive Adverb - Indefinite Pronoun -

Although - Subordinating Conjunction Intelligent - Predicate Adjective Indeed - Conjunctive Adverb Anything - Indefinite Pronoun

A first-grade teacher has several students who are having difficulty applying the alphabetic principle. When assessed on letter knowledge, the students know the letter sounds; however, they still seem to have difficulty with blending the sounds together to pronounce words. What further assessment would you suggest the teacher give to pinpoint the nature of the students' difficulties?

An informal assessment of the students' phonemic awareness

Students in a fourth-grade class are working with geoboards. Each geoboard has a grid drawn on it and a peg at each intersection of the grid. Students stretch rubber bands around the pegs to create shapes. One student's shape is shown below. (4 1/2 squares inside the triangle) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /|. . . . . . . . . /. |. . . . . . . . /______|. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The teacher shows the student how to add the squares and fractions of squares enclosed by the rubber band to count the total number of squares within the triangle. This activity would best promote the student's understanding of which of the following geometry concepts?

Area

A first-grade teacher is delivering explicit instruction in letter sounds. The teacher begins the lesson by writing the letter 'n' on the board and says, "This is the letter 'n'. It makes the /n/ sound". n The teacher then has the students name the letter and sound three times. Students say, "This is the letter 'n', it makes the /n/ sound". The students then stand up and write the letter with their finger as onto an invisible board in the air while saying the letter's name and sound. The students then sit at their desk and write the letter 3 more times while stating the name and sound. The purpose of the writing step of the lesson described above is to--

Associate the letter name, sound and shape.

A first-grade teacher has several students who are having difficulty applying the alphabetic principle. When assessed on letter knowledge, the students know the letter sounds; however, they still seem to have difficulty with blending the sounds together to pronounce words. Based on the scenario above, in which of the following areas would the students most likely benefit from explicit instruction?

Blending strategies

A fourth-grade social studies teacher is designing a lesson to help his students critically evaluate magazine articles on various topics. Which of the following activities would most likely accomplish that purpose?

Determine which parts of the article are fact and which are opinion

Mr. Batista's sixth-grade class has been studying volcanoes. He designs the following activity for the class, which includes a number of English learners. Paragraph-Building Activity 1. The teacher leads a whole-class discussion on a topic related to the science unit on volcanoes. 2. Students form heterogeneous cooperative learning groups with three or four students in each group. The students in each group continue discussing the topic. 3. Each student writes one or two sentences about the topic on sentence strips. 4. The members of the group then decide how to put the various sentences together, editing the sentences as necessary to form a comprehensible paragraph about the topic and correcting any errors in grammar spelling. After participating in this activity, all of the students review the chapter in their science text about volcanoes. Which of the following best describes one important way in which this activity is likely to benefit English learners?

Discussing and writing about a content-area topic supports English learners' reading of related texts by reinforcing key vocabulary, language structures, and schemata.

Mrs. Firebaugh is teaching her students how to analyze several visual images she put on display in her classroom. The images include photographs, political cartoons, and propaganda posters. She wants her students to understand and interpret the visual images. She wants to enhance their observation and interpretive skills. Which of the following questions should Mrs. Firebaugh pose to students that will most likely guide the students' interpretation of the visual images?

Given what you see and what you know about the image, what is the creator trying to express?

A first-grade teacher is trying to get her students to recognize the sound made by the letter /b/. Which of the following activities is most likely to accomplish that?

Have students clap once every time they hear the sound of the letter "b" in a story the teacher reads to them.

Mrs. Dothan's fourth-grade class is reading the book, The Best School Year Ever, by Barbara Anderson. Mrs. Dothan wants to make sure that her students keep with their reading assignments and understand the character and plot developments as they read. Which of the following activities would be most appropriate for accomplishing this?

Have students keep a book journal and make an entry relating to character and plot development for each reading assignment

Which of the following sentences contains an error?

He knows that each of the students need a book, pencil and paper.

During math work stations, the students are to use the Math Talks poster to guide their thinking in solving the given problems. As the teacher walks around the room helping different students, the teacher hears Johnny ask Joe how he solved the problem of five times nine. Which response from Joe may have appeared on the Math Talks poster as a way to explain his thinking?

I multiplied five times nine by counting by fives nine times.

Jordan is writing a composition for a class assignment. Read Jordan's composition and the questions that follow. Mix the blueberries into your muffin batter be sure not to drip the blueberries onto the counter they stain. After the berries are mixed the batter is ready to pour into the pan. Choose the correct way to edit the paragraph for punctuation. Select one answer.

Mix the blueberries into your muffin batter. Be sure not to drip the blueberries onto the counter they stain. After the berries are mixed, the batter is ready to pour into the pan.

A teacher wants to take advantage of students' oral language strengths to promote their reading proficiency. She begins planning a variety of activities for this purpose. In one activity, students will choose a partner and select a storybook from the class library. Before they begin reading the book, the partners will read the title and look at the illustrations. Based on this preview, the partners will discuss their predictions about the story (e.g., what may happen, who the main characters are). Which of the following steps would be most important for the teacher to take when introducing the activity described above?

Model for the class how to make predictions about a story based on its title and illustrations

Mr. Stinson is helping students in his Content Mastery class with their science assignment. They are required to read a chapter in their fourth-grade science book and answer questions about it. All of these students have difficulty with reading. Which of the following approaches would be most effective in helping them with their assignment?

Mr. Stinson goes over vocabulary words they will encounter in their reading and they discuss the meaning of those words

Is the graph of a circle a function? Describe why or why not.

No. It does not pass the vertical line test. There are multiple vertical lines that can be drawn over the graph that will touch the graph in more than one place (two places to be exact), so the graph is not a function. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvGsIo1TmsM

Mr. Lathan's fourth-grade social studies students are engaged in the following activity: -Each student is assigned a reading buddy -Each buddy reads a section from the social studies text aloud while the other listens -After the reader finishes, the listener asks questions focused on the reading which both then discuss -After the discussion, the listener briefly summarizes, out loud, what the section was about In order to best improve his students' speaking ability, Mr. Lathan should implement which additional activity?

Partners take turns describing to each other what they have learned from their reading and their discussion of the text

Phonemic awareness is a predictor for success in reading. Which of the following is NOT a true statement about phonemic awareness skills?

Phonemic awareness involves the relationship between phonemes and graphemes in words.

Mr. Brogna knows that it is important for his students to work on their delivery skills while rehearsing their speeches. During rehearsal, he tells the students to work on the physical aspects of their delivery which support communication including- Volume: how loud or soft the speaker is speaking Pitch: the high or low sounds of the voice; Speaking rate: how fast or slow the person is speaking; Stress: the amount of emphasis a speaker places on certain words Of the following, which would be the best strategy to use in order to emphasize the physical aspects of speech delivery?

Place students with a partner and then have each student record his/her speech into a tape recorder. Students then work together with a partner to provide feedback on each other's delivery skills.

The students in Mrs. Young's fourth grade class were asked to investigate the amount of milk the cafeteria needed to order for one week based on data collected on current orders, student preferences and predictions for future use. What standard are the students exploring through their investigation?

Probability and statistics to investigate real-world problems

After reading Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, a fifth-grade student writes the following summary. Number the Stars is sets during World War II and is about Annemarie Johansen and her Jewish family. The family had to escape from Copenhangen to Sweden to avoid being deported by the Nazis. Based on the summary, the student will benefit most from instruction in which of the following skills?

Providing a beginning, middle, and end

Students in Ms. Clay's class often attempt to read independently, sometimes relying on their memories, the illustrations, and their background experiences to reread the story, Which of the following is typically not learned during the emergent literacy stage?

Recognition of an increasing number of sight words

Teacher: What is this a picture of? [The teacher displays a picture of a boat.] Student: A boat? Teacher: A boat, that's right. Now, let's say the word boat together very slowly: /b/.../o/.../t/. [The student pronounces the word with the teacher.] Teacher: How many sounds do you hear? /b/.../o/.../t/...[The teacher slowly repeats the words.] Student: Three? Teacher: That's right, three. Now, I'd like for you to do this for some more words. This assessment would be an appropriate way to test the student's ability to perform which of the following phonemic awareness tasks?

Recognizing how many phonemes are contained in a word

Mr. WIlliams teaches a 3rd grade math class specifically for English Language Learners. His students are representative for four different cultural and country backgrounds. Some of the students do not currently speak English fluently. While this does present a challenge for Mr. Williams when communicating with the class as a whole, he designs his instruction in such a way that each student feels valued and understood. Which approach may be most beneficial for Mr. Williams' students as he assesses them over a current concept?

Scaffold the assessment to the level of conceptual comprehension- concrete, semi-abstract, abstract- to assess each student's ability and knowledge of the concept.

Ms. Senath teaches math to a diverse group of students in her fourth-grade class, some of them with learning disabilities. It is important for her to remember when presenting math instruction to her students that ---

She should teach math concepts from the concrete to the representational to the abstract

In planning an order of introduction of letter-sound correspondences, which of the following would a kindergarten teacher most likely introduce first?

Single consonants and short vowels

A classroom teacher conducted a running record with Micah. Micah's reading rate was very slow. He would come to an unknown word and stop to try to decode it. Micah would try to sound out the word phonetically, but miscue analysis showed the miscues often contained irregular word patterns. What might the classroom teacher have Micah do next?

The classroom teacher should have Micah practice using context to decode unknown words

Second graders are learning how bar-type graphs apply to real-world situations. The students were presented with the following T-chart and asked to graph the data on a bar-type graph. Which graph would support the data in the T-chart? Number of Cars| Number of Tires -------------------------------------- 1 | 4 2 | 8 3 | 12 4 | 16

The graph where the number of cars goes up in order from (1-4) and the Number of Tires (0-18)

A kindergarten teacher designs an activity in which a student uses the Alphabet Arc illustrated below. Each arc has the alphabet written or placed in an arc shape to help students gain knowledge of the alphabet with hands-on activities. Magnetic letters are used as manipulatives for phonics activities with the arc. Students participate in phonics activities with the arc on a regular basis, studying letters and their sounds, and using letters to form simple words and practice word patterns (e.g., tan/fan or mat/sat). l m n o k p j q i r h s g t f u e v d w c x b y a z After the initial step of having a student place the alphabet on the arc in the correct order, the teacher wanted to determine whether the student is prepared to spell simple words. Which of the following informal assessment strategies would be most effective for this purpose?

The student attempts to make words with the same rimes but different onsets (tap, cap, rap).

A sixth-grade student wants to present research on World War II to the class. If the student wants to demonstrate the sorrow of the holocaust, which media might be most powerful?

The student will share photos of holocaust survivors

A teacher introduces new social studies vocabulary words to her student. The new words describe various landforms. First, the class reviewed "kid-friendly" definitions of each word. Which of the following activities requires students to select, organize, and produce visuals to complement and extend the meanings of the words?

The students use safe internet sites to find and draw visuals for each landform

A sixth-grade teacher uses a knowledge rating chart to informally assess vocabulary knowledge. Students self- assess their knowledge of the words before and after the vocabulary study. If students know the word, they should be able to use it correctly. If they have heard of it, they may or may not understand the word well. If they don't know it, this is a word absent from their vocabulary. Illustrated below is one student's recorded assessment. Know it | Heard of it | Don't Know it inept | | X | Colossal | X | | originate | | | X indignant | | | X immature | | X | Uncooperative | | | The teacher deliberately incorporates structural analysis into vocabulary lessons. Which of the following strategies would best promote students' understanding of the meanings of the vocabulary words on the list?

The teacher analyzes the prefixed words and word derivations

A kindergarten class is learning about the letter m. The teacher plans homework around this focus. Which of the following activities best reinforces student knowledge of the alphabetic principle?

The teacher has students cut out and label objects which begin with the letter m.

A teacher plans to increase reading fluency among a group of struggling readers. Which of the following would be least effective in improving fluency?

The teacher might have the students race each other to see who can read a passage the quickest.

Which of the following is most likely to foster print awareness among preschoolers?

The teacher models one-to-one match by pointing words in the lyrics while singing a popular song that the entire class knows.

A teacher has arranged the classroom into stations so that students can work in groups of three or four to apply measuring with rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks and measuring tapes to the nearest marked unit. Students will be given an expectation of what to measure and a length of time to spend in each station. Students are to estimate each object prior to finding its actual measurement then compare the estimation and actual measurement. What should the teacher be doing while students are working in groups?

The teacher should be assessing each group, observing students as they problem solve together, and ask probing questions to the groups to guide them to think deeper.

A teacher made several graphic novels available to the students in class. The students loved to look at the novels, which are like comic strips in novel forms, but the teacher noticed that many of they students had trouble comprehending the stories and could not critically evaluate them. Which step might the teacher consider to help the students understand the meanings of the stories?

The teacher should teach students how to use visual cues used in graphic novels to understand the text features and stories

A kindergarten teacher reads a book aloud to her class. She begins by introducing the author and the illustrator. What might she do next in order to evaluate the role of these persons?

The teacher will ask the class what the author and illustrator do in the book

A first grade teacher is teaching algebraic reasoning through problems which present to the students as if they are puzzles. One way the teacher could do this is to introduce students to a card game in which they must find the missing addend. What could be the teacher's goal with this method?

The teacher's goals is to use the concept of learning through play in order to strengthen the students' number sense and introduce algebraic reasoning

Mrs. Williams' kindergarten students are collecting data about the first graders' favorite color of chocolate3 coated candies. What conclusions can be drawn from the graph below? 40 [R] 35 [R] 30 [R] [G] [O] 25 [R] [G] [B] [O] 20 [R] [B] [G] [Y] [B] [O] 15 [R] [B] [G] [Y] [B] [O] 10 [R] [B] [G] [Y] [B] [O] 5 [R] [B] [G] [Y] [B] [O] [red][blue][green][yellow][brown][orange] Click below to highlight the correct conclusion phrase or phrases.

There are 40 first graders who like red chocolate coated candies. There are 50 first graders who like orange and yellow chocolate coated candies.

A first-grade student is reading a story aloud. The student attempts to read the sentence, "Jill likes to play on a swing." Printed below is an excerpt from the student's comments as he attempts to read the sentence. Student: Jill likes to play on a [makes a /s/ sound]...I don't know that word. Sing? Swim? No, that's not it. Swing? Maybe that word is swing. In the comments above, the student most clearly demonstrates which of the following reading skills?

Using graphophonic cues to help analyze and decode an unfamiliar word

Bob and Lucas keep track of how many home runs are hit in the major leagues during the previous several days. The bar graph below shows the number of home runs hit during one week. 16--------------------------------------- 14--------------------------------------- 12--------------------------------------- & 10------------------&------------------- & & 8-------------------&------&---&------ & & & & 6--&----&----------&------&---&------ & & & & & & 4--&----&-----&---&---&--&---&------ 2--&----&-----&---&---&--&---&------ 0--&----&-----&---&---&--&---&------ Sun Mon Tue Wed Th Fr Sat On which day were the most home runs hit?

Wednesday

Jodi is writing a story about her experiences playing basketball for a book about sports. She wants to revise the draft to create a better flow. Read the draft of the composition below and select the best transition word from the drop-down menu to complete the blank. College basketball was very different from high school ball. [_______] the coach was strict, college life included far more independence. It was too easy to overeat or to neglect my studies. The rigor of basketball practice often left me too tired to concentrate on my studies. It was all I could do [______], in order to make it class on time.

[while] [however]

Mr. Brown's kindergarten students are classifying geometric figures by their attributes to determine which figures may be classified together as three-dimensional figures. Which attributes would be helpful for Mr. Brown to introduce to his class before the proceeding with the activity?

ability to roll, number of corners, number of sides, number of flat surfaces

Mrs. Swanson is attempting to help students select books they can read on their own. As part of this process, she must determine each student's independent reading level. In order to determine her students' independent reading level, Mrs. Swanson's best approach would be to ---

administer an informal reading inventory to each student

Use the excerpt of the poem "Jabberwocky" published by Lewis Carrol in 1871, to answer the question that follows: 'Twas brilig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Pointing to the poem on the board, a teacher asks his students if they can tell which of the nonsense words in the poem are nouns. One student says that toves is a noun. Another says that wabe and borogoves are nouns and adds that gyre and gimble are verbs. The class then discusses how students were able to draw these conclusions. This exercise would be especially useful for helping students understand that -

being familiar with common language structures can help a reader interpret a text

During guided reading groups, a teacher points out the use of apostrophes in possessive nouns to a group of students. The teacher was--

building an understanding of writing conventions through the use of literature

Determine the choice that illustrates the commutative property for (a + b) + c =

c + (a + b)

Mrs. Swanson is attempting to help students select books they can read on their own. As part of this process, she must determine each student's independent reading level. In order to accomplish this task effectively, Mrs. Swanson should select books in which students --

have 5 or less word recognition errors per 100 words of text

Mrs. Graton's sixth-grade language arts class is studying modern British novels. There are a number of English learns in the class. Which of the following strategies will best facilitate these students involvement in class discussions and promote their comprehension of the texts?

distributing the ELL students in mixed grouping of other students for discussion of cultural references

a fourth-grade teacher expects students to use a dictionary to complete part of the week's spelling homework. Which of the following answers would be the most appropriate assignment for learning the spelling words?

divide the words into syllables

A teacher uses the "pie" analogy to teach her students about author's purpose. The acronym stands for the most common purposes - the P stands for persuade, the I stands for inform, and the E stands for -

entertain

A sixth-grade teacher uses a knowledge rating chart to informally assess vocabulary knowledge. Students self- assess their knowledge of the words before and after the vocabulary study. If students know the word, they should be able to use it correctly. If they have heard of it, they may or may not understand the word well. If they don't know it, this is a word absent from their vocabulary. Illustrated below is one student's recorded assessment. Know it | Heard of it | Don't Know it inept | | X | Colossal | X | | originate | | | X indignant | | | X immature | | X | Uncooperative | | | The knowledge rating chart described above is likely to increase vocabulary primarily by helping students -

evaluate one's understanding of words and to monitor their vocabulary growth

The teacher is introducing ways to chart and graph the measures of a central tendency. Which of the following are the most comprehensive options for the students to apply the central measures of tendency to creating charts and graphs?

frequency tables, dot plots, stem-and leaf plots

A sixth-grade teacher uses a knowledge rating chart to informally assess vocabulary knowledge. Students self- assess their knowledge of the words before and after the vocabulary study. If students know the word, they should be able to use it correctly. If they have heard of it, they may or may not understand the word well. If they don't know it, this is a word absent from their vocabulary. Illustrated below is one student's recorded assessment. Know it | Heard of it | Don't Know it inept | | X | Colossal | X | | originate | | | X indignant | | | X immature | | X | Uncooperative | | | Using the vocabulary words above, the teacher might next have the students --

predict meanings of the words prior to reading

A kindergarten teacher hands a book with predictable and patterned text, closed and faced down, to a child and asks her to open it and to point to the words as the teacher reads it. What skill does this activity most likely nurture in the student?

print awareness

The greatest benefit of providing elementary students with mathematical tools such as geoboards is that these tools --

provide students with visual representations that promote their conceptual understanding.

Which number system is a repeating decimal a member of?

rational

A first-grade teacher plans to collaborate with parents to develop student literacy development and monitor student progress in reading. To best promote literacy development at home, the teacher should encourage parents to--

read leveled books daily until the student reads them fluently

A sixth-grade teacher, with students at the beginning and intermediate level of English language proficiency in listening and speaking, plans a unit on poetry. In order to provide targeted instruction for all students, the teacher chooses content concepts appropriate for the age and educational background level of students, the teacher adapts content for all students, and the teacher plans meaningful activities to integrate lesson concepts. As the teacher shares new terminology related to types of poetry, which of the following strategies will best support the English learners' understanding of the new words?

share examples of the types of poetry

Which of the following phrases contains a mistake in capitalization?

the north pole

Which factor would indicate the importance of teaching rounding and estimation within mathematical computation?

to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them

Mr. Batista's sixth-grade class has been studying volcanoes. He designs the following activity for the class, which includes a number of English learners. Paragraph-Building Activity 1. The teacher leads a whole-class discussion on a topic related to the science unit on volcanoes. 2. Students form heterogeneous cooperative learning groups with three or four students in each group. The students in each group continue discussing the topic. 3. Each student writes one or two sentences about the topic on sentence strips. 4. The members of the group then decide how to put the various sentences together, editing the sentences as necessary to form a comprehensible paragraph about the topic and correcting any errors in grammar spelling. After participating in this activity, all of the students review the chapter in their science text about volcanoes. The paragraph-building activity designed by Mr. Batista is likely to promote English learners' reading development primarily by helping them--

transfer skills from oral language to written language

Vickie is having her kindergarten class match each star with one moon by drawing one line from a star to a different moon. ☆☆☆☆☆ ☾☾☾☾☾☾☾ (some of the crescent moons were rotated in this question) What type of matching relationship is this task?

transformations Transformations are the process of forming a new function by performing an operation on an initial function. These are referenced to as reflections, stretches', shrinks, and translating or sliding. This exercise is one-to-one matching; so it builds the foundation for transformations. In a one-to-one relationship, every x-value connects to only one y-value, and the same for the y-value. Each y-value connects to only one x-value. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W84lObmOp8M&t=2s

A third-grade teacher has arranged for students to interview several popular children-book authors through online "author chats." Students will type in their questions, and the authors will answer as many as possible during the interview period. This activity is most likely to promote students' research skills by helping the students--

understand the value of using electronic resources to contact experts who can supply relevant information

A middle-school teacher designs the following instructional activity. Using the board, the teacher writes and pronounces dict. She explains that dict derives from the Latin word for "speak." She then asks students if they can think of English words that start with or include dict. The teacher uses students' suggestions to create the diagram shown here. benediction | | predict-----------------dict (speak) -------------dictionary / \ / \ dictator contradict This activity is likely to promote students' vocabulary development primarily by helping the students ---

use word roots to determine the meaning of related words

Mrs. Jones' first graders are learning how to write equations. The students have previously learned to write equations with addends and minuends, but today, they are learning to write an equation when an addend is missing. For missing values, Mrs. Jones has introduced that a symbol can be put in the place of a missing addend. What is the proper mathematical term for the symbol in this equation? 13 + ____ = 18

variable

A third-grade student is struggling in reading. The teacher notices the child devotes too much attention to decoding and not enough attention to the meaning of the text. The teacher could best help the student by --

working on fluency skills

A second-grade teacher is planning writing activities for her class. Which of the following activities would be least appropriate?

writing a persuasive essay

When reading a coordinate plane, students will need to learn that the x-axis is the horizontal axis and the y-axis is the vertical axis. Applying knowledge of coordinate planes can and will extend beyond the mathematical classroom. Which of the following is NOT an extension of a coordinate plane?

x + y = z missing coordinate plane in order to graph

Mrs. Lugo will be using a number line to teach comparing fractions with unlike denominators. Students will be expected to use mathematical language of greater than zero and less than or equal to one with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8. Which of these number lines correctly compares the fractions: 3/4, 3/8, and 5/6?

|-----------------------------------------------------------| 0 3/8 3/4 5/6 1 This answer choice indicates the fractions have been correctly compared and placed on the number line with reference to 0 to 1. When comparing fractions on a number line, it will be important for students to find 1/2 on the line and compare fractions what they know about 1/2 and its equivalencies such as 2/4, 3/6, 4/8, etc.