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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 swing makes sense."
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 ."
Samantha works at a clothing store where she receives an employee discount of 20% on all clothing items. She wants to buy a sweater that usually sells for $100, but is on sale for 25% off. How much will the sweater cost Samantha if she applies both the 25% off sale price and her 20% employee discount?
$60
Given the pattern shown above continues in the last two layers, use inductive reasoning to predict the pattern in the bottom layer of the triangle.
1 + 6 + 15 + 20 + 15 + 6 + 1
Which set(s) does the number 3 belong to? 1. whole numbers 2. integers 3. rational numbers 4. irrational numbers
1, 2 and 3
The area enclosed by the rubber band can be calculated by using which of the following expressions?
1/2bh
Arrange the following from smallest to largest. 14 inches, 1 foot, 0.4 yard, 15 cm
15 cm, 1 foot, 14 inches, 0.4 yard
The teacher is introducing relationships amongst fractions, decimals and percentages to a fifth grade class with a three column table to model the reasoning. What must go in the table to complete it?
20%
Find the sum of the following: 2/9 + 1/4 + 1/6
23/36
The teacher asks the students to investigate the following pattern and write a mathematical fact about the pattern. line graph
24 ÷ 4 = 6
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?
3/4ths closest to 5/6
Students are using pattern blocks shaped as congruent equilateral triangles to construct fraction problems. Which of the following fractions does the parallelogram represent?
4/7
How many home runs were hit during the entire week?
50
5 in3 is equal to ________ cm3? [Use the conversion factor: 1 in3 = 16.387 cm3]
81.935
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
Which of the following is not a technique used during prewriting?
Anticipatory set
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 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
Mr. Williams is preparing to introduce multiplication to his second grade class. He knows that best practice is to introduce more than one method of multiplying numbers in order to promote number sense and encourage mathematical reasoning in his students. Which of the following would be the weakest method to introduce?
Counting on a hundreds chart
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.
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.
There are times when an exact amount is needed and times when an estimation is acceptable. What are two acceptable forms of rounding numbers which teachers are required to teach as dictated in the TEKS?
Estimating numbers and finding compatible numbers
A teaching strategy used in the classroom to encourage students to write without interruption of the flow of thoughts is called
Freewriting
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 her 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 up 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.
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,Encorage students to research and collaborate outside of the classroom and Review web literacy skills with students
Which of the following sentences contains an error?
He knows that each of the students need a book, pencil and paper.
Which of the following is most likely the genre of Number the stars?
Historical Fiction
Mrs. Jones' students are using principles of inductive reasoning to solve for missing numbers in patterns. Mrs. Jones gave her students the pattern below and asked them to complete the pattern. What might a student reason in order to apply deductive reasoning to complete the pattern?2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, ____
I can see the pattern increases, so I must need to add or multiply. If I add 2+2, it equals 4, but if I add 4+2, it equals 6. So, I can multiply 2x2=4 and 4x2=8. The pattern is to multiply by 2.
While reading Number the Stars, the teacher asked students to predict what might happen to Annemarie's family if they are caught by the Nazis. Which of the following levels of reading comprehension is primarily being targeted in the lesson?
Inferential
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.
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.
Which of the following sentences contains an error in punctuation?
My mother is a terrible listener, she always interrupts when I am talking.
s the graph of a circle a function? Describe why or why not.
No. It does not pass the vertical line test.
In order to teach the relationship of number of dimes to the value of the dimes, the teacher introduces the following input-output table to the class. 2-20 3-30 4-40 5-50 Which algebraic expression would show the relationship between the input and the output?
Number x 10 = Value
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.
Which method below does not define a function?
Passes the horizontal line test.
QUESTION - 9 of 230 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.
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 then 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
A kindergarten teacher has several students who need to improve basic phonemic awareness skills. The teacher conferences with parents on ways to help these students at home. Which one of the following activities would the teacher most likely recommend
Play rhyming and sound games.
Sarah, a kindergartener who has mastered concepts of print, is beginning to instantly recognize the letters of the alphabet, and is working toward acquiring phonemic awareness, yet she does not have any letter-sound knowledge. According to Ehri's stages of word recognition, Sarah is in the _______________________ stage.
Pre alphabetic
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
When having students write about personal experiences such as Mr. Brandon is doing here, what would be the most effective activity to undertake first?
Put students in groups and have them share their stories with each other.
Based on this writing sample, what suggestion would Mr. Brandon want to make to Kyle in revising it in order to obtain the most immediate improvement?
Reorganize the sequence of events into a more logical order.
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 middle school teacher wants to increase students' reading comprehension skills through oral language activities. Which of the following activities is best suited for this purpose?
Students watch a variety of television commercials, then discuss the commercials' use of selling, convincing, and propaganda in groups.
Examine the underlined words in the sentences listed below.The boy felt neglected,( indeed). (Although) they lost the game, they demonstrated great skill. She is (intelligent) and generous. The brilliant student would do (anything) to make a good grade. The words underlined 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 Conjuction, although. Predicate Adjective, intellegent. Conjunctive Adverb, anything. Indefinite Pronoun, indeed.
Mrs. Cassey encourages her students to make connections during the daily read aloud. While reading No, David, No! a student commented that the main character reminds her of her brother. Which of the following text connections did the student make?
Text-to-self connection
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.
Which of the following responses support this statement?"As our need for mathematically literate workers and citizens increases, our economic security will depend on how well we have educated other individuals and incorporated them into full participation in the economy of the twenty-first century." (Herzig 2005)
The need for trained workers will continue to rise in mathematically based careers in the twenty-first century.
Third grade students at ABC School are asked to classify and sort three-dimensional figures according to their attributes and characteristics. Students are given nets to fold and explore the shapes composing each three-dimensional figure. How would using a net as a manipulative help students classify three-dimensional figures?
The nets would allow the students to see the figure decomposed and be able to label the faces, edges and vertices.
The teacher is introducing comparing whole numbers in terms of greater than and less than. The teacher brings to class ads from two different grocery stores. The teacher instructs the students to find three items that appear in each ad and compare their prices. What mathematical comparative language should the students use to compare prices?
The oranges at store A are less expensive than the oranges at store B.
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 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 and the student has weak decoding skills
A sixth grade student wants to present research on World War II to the class. If the student wants to demonstrate the sorrows of the holocaust, which media might be most powerful?
The student will share photos of holocaust survivors.
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, and The students practice getting the gist of a story in a quick and engaging way.
A teacher introduces new social studies vocabulary words to her students. 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.
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.
First grade students are exploring probability in the context of marbles in a bag. The teacher selects three red marbles and six blue marbles to place in the bag. The teacher shows the marbles to the students and asks them to consider if she places all the marbles in the bag, what the probability, or likelihood, is she will pull out a blue marble. The class will make a chart of the number of times she pulls out a blue marble or red marble and record their findings on a class T-chart.Why is modeling the data collection and experiment important for the development and comprehension of the concept of probability?
The teacher knows to model and demonstrate a concept in terms that students can see and feel, and makes the concept more tangible and real for the students, and, to model with correct vocabulary (of the concept) introduces the student to mathematical language needed as they continue to explore concepts throughout mathematics.
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.
In a fifth grade math class, the teacher will be introducing representing real numbers as percentages. What prior knowledge of the students could the teacher draw on to relate percentages to real life situations?
The teacher should implement an activity relating fractions and decimals to percentages.
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 form, but the teacher noticed that many of the 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.
Fifth graders learning about coordinate planes and graphing ordered pairs were put into teams of two to design a board game in which their fellow classmates would be able to play to practice graphing and finding the x-axis and y-axis. Which of the following would NOT be a characteristic the students would have explored when being introduced to coordinate planes?
There are four quadrants in a coordinate plane, and quadrant 2 and quadrant 3 are positive.
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.
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, Cooperative learning activities, Sentence stems
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.On which day were the most home runs hit?
Wednesday
Mrs. Swanson is attempting to help students select books that 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.
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.
In early grades, probability is described as a likelihood of something occurring, or a chance that it will occur. Second grade students were placed into groups to determine the probability of rolling certain numbers or types of numbers on die. What probability vocabulary would the students need to be exposed to prior to the lesson activity?
certain, likely, unlikely, impossible
Mrs. Graton's sixth-grade language arts class is studying modern British novels. There are a number of English learners 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 groupings of other students for discussion of cultural references
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.
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.
In preparing students to be successful in problem solving with word problems and given tasks, the TEKS state five parts which should be included in a problem solving model. These parts are best implemented in conjunction with one another but may stand alone as each part is taught and introduced. Four of these parts are: analyzing given info, determining a solution, justifying the solution and evaluating the problem-solving process and the reasonableness of the solution. Which of the following would be the fifth part of this process model?
formulating a plan or strategy
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. 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 words with irregular spellings
An elementary teacher uses an I-Chart to help students examine a topic by integrating prior knowledge on the topic with information found from a variety of sources. Which of the following tasks should the students do first when conducting research?
identify the topic
Structural analysis would be an especially appropriate strategy for a student to use to determine the meaning of which of the following words?
impassable
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 second-grade student reads slowly and has trouble decoding words like also and over. The student most likely —
needs practice on sight words.
Mr. Brown introduced his class to solving for missing angles within triangles. He provided his students with graphic representations of triangles and asked them to solve for the missing angle. For which representation of the triangles is Mr. Brown asking his students to solve?
numeric
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.
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
Fifth graders are learning about linear functions and how to best model a set of data. What kind of graph could best be used to model a set of data representing years and average income in those years?
scatterplot
Which of the following phrases contains a mistake in capitalization?
the north pole
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.
An elementary teacher uses synonyms as a strategy to define general vocabulary. The teacher's goal is to
use student background knowledge to learn new words.
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.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
Mr. Simmons has used the graphic organizer pictured above in his physical education class in the unit on baseball. Mr. Simmons also teaches English Language Arts and Reading. In ELAR, Mr. Simmons' graphic organizer would be particularly useful for helping students
write a summary describing the game of baseball.
A second-grade teacher is planning writing activities for her class. Which of the following activities would be least appropriate?
writing a persuasive essay
If the price of selling a pair of shoes is represented by the expression (300 - x) where x is the number of shoes sold, the revenue function is R(x) =
x(300-x)
