K-6 Subject Area Exam Practice Questions

The use of carved and painted wooden masks in religious rituals is most commonly associated with which of the following cultures?

African

Mrs. Thomas recently taught her 5th grade a new math concept that they seemed to understand. However, more than half the students failed the unit test. Her first reaction should be to:

Analyze the test and the results to determine whether the assessment was well-designed and fairly administered

Which of the following structures would most likely be used by a nomadic society?

Animal-skin tent

Students need a collection of maps to complete an assignment. The best resource for students to use would be a(an)

Atlas

Which of the following structures is present in plant cells but not in animal cells?

Chloroplast

The Latin phrase caveat emptor encourages consumers to

Examine products carefully before purchasing

Which of the following modes of writing is intended to provide information and includes fats and data?

Expository

When examining the color and clarity of 20 milliliters of liquid, which of the following would be the most appropriate substitute for a test tube?

Graduated Cylinder

Middle School Considering Team Teaching Model - Teachers decide it would be great to have a theme throughout. What is the best way for them to create a theme?

Have each teacher create a curriculum map for the year, and compare these maps to find themes, content and skills that are similar

To create a sense of excitement and urgency within a given portion of a musical work, a composer typically would make which of the following changes?

Increasing the tempo

A 3rd grade teacher asks students to partner-read a literary selection. The teacher walks around the room and stops to question each pair of students about the story. Which type of assessment is the teacher using?

Informal

A student is experiencing difficulty throwing a ball accurately. Identify the domain in which the student needs practice.

Motor

Mr. Ferris has asked his 8th grade to submit their 500-word book reports in Microsoft Word format via email. In terms of assessment, the main advantage of that method is that:

Mr. Ferris can use the change-tracking device in Microsoft to show the students how to improve their papers

Which literary device is being used when inanimate objects or abstract concepts are seemingly endowed with human characteristics?

Personification

Which of the following tools would be the most appropriate to use for evaluating a student's progress in a studio art class?

Portfolio

A strawberry appears to be red because the color red is

Reflected by the skin of the strawberry

Mr. Aaron wants his 8th grade students to read a short story and discuss their reactions among each other. What would be the best way to structure the discussion portion of the class?

Remind the students about rules for respectful discussion, and then provide the students with a list of questions that they discuss in small groups

The most effective way to develop students' reading fluency is through

Repeated reading

Which of the following is an example of a mixture?

Sand

A 4th grade teacher is assigning an oral report. The teacher should begin the activity by:

Setting a purpose

Middle School Considering Team Teaching Model - Vice principal needs to determine how to divide the students into teams. The principal suggests dividing them by academic ability, but Mrs. Ling disagrees. How should she persuade the administrators to her point of view?

She should affirm the principal's concerns, but explain why she feels that avoiding the stigmatizing effect of ability grouping is more important than providing enrichment opportunities for high-achieving students

When developing appropriate signing techniques in elementary students, teachers should encourage students to

Sit up straight and breath properly

Which scientific device would be most appropriate to map the ocean floor?

Sonar

4. In order to communicate in writing, penmanship must be legible. Which of the following contributes to legible handwriting?

Spacing, letter formation and alignment - all the above

The Sons of Liberty organized a demonstration primarily in response to the

Tea Act

Middle School Considering Team Teaching Model - One of the teachers favors the proposal but wants to convince her colleagues. Which argument should she use to describe the advantage of team teaching 6th graders?

Team teaching provides an effective "bridge" between the single-teacher model of elementary school and the multiple-teacher model of high school

Which US document states that the purposes of government include establishing justice and securing the blessings of liberty?

The Constitution

When riding a bicycle in traffic, the biker should ride

The same direction as the traffic

Mr. Aaron notices some of students enjoy discussions and take a natural leadership role. How could Mr. Aaron use this fact to enhance discussion if he chose to use a small-group format?

The students are "natural leaders" because they have a great deal of interpersonal intelligence, and Mr. Aaron should spread these students throughout groups so that they can help facilitate discussion.

A 5th grade class is viewing and discussing Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Can. What is the first thing that attracts students to the paintings?

The subject matter and colors

Middle School Considering Team Teaching Model - At the end of the year, the teachers want to evaluate the effectiveness of the team-teaching model. What is the best way to assess it?

The teachers should compare their 6th graders performance this year with previous years' 6th graders when team teaching was not used; they should also consider the performance history of this particular group of 6th graders relative to previous groups

18. In what grade are student typically taught to write in cursive?

Third

Which of the following is the most important rationale for the scientific study of Mars?

Understanding the evolution of the solar system

To counteract the negative effects of modern media and technology options on children, a health and wellness unit should include

Ways to incorporate more physical activity into daily life

To assess a student's ability to analyze the draining of the Everglades and development of South Florida, it would be most effective to ask the student to

Write a cause-and-effect essay about the region

17. An authentic arrow head found on a Native American reservation is

a valuable teaching tool, a primary source, and artifact - all of the above

Ellen, a 7th grader, has been diagnosed with a serious illness and will be out of school for months. Her parents asked her teachers to send her work to home in electronic form. All but which of the following could be used?

a. Copy Machine** b. Scanner c. Flash drive d. Email

45. Which of the following statements best describes how an educator should use the internet in her primary (K-2) classroom?

a. Students should be provided preselected sites to choose from in order to avoid exposure to inappropriate web content

A middle school teacher has taken his class to the media center. If students bookmark websites that they find useful, which of the following statements is true?

a. The students can use those bookmarks on their home computers b. The students can return to those websites only in the media center c. The students can return to those websites if they enable pop-up blocker d. The students can return to those websites if they've selected that particular computer**

21. Literature circles usually consist of four to six children

a. all reading the same book they each chose based upon interest

23. Which of the following is an example of onset-rime segments?

a. c-at

43. What is not a basic concept of print?

a. captions

46. To summarize orally or in written form is to

a. concisely paraphrase what has been read

36. During what stage of the reading have students mastered basic concepts of print and are beginning to use various strategies for problem solving in reading?

a. early

38. An example of visual media is

a. online article

12. Literary Device - The teenager stole some soup from the grocery store. The police said he made a clean getaway.

a. pun

33. Where can you easily access a wide array of literature for free in the classroom?

a. school library

48. A word that is recalled by memory only is known as

a. sight word

6. Jade is experiencing reading difficulties as noted on her recent time, fluency check. It takes her an extended amount of time to say the words presented on the page. This shows a weaknes in which area of fluency?

autmaticity

According to the definition of multiplication, if ab = c and a, bc, and c, are all greater than 0, then

b = c/a

49. Which of the following words contains a vowel digraph?

b. boast

2. When an author attempts to explain something to the reader, they are using what mode of writing?

b. expository**

24. Accuracy, rate, prosody, and automaticity are all components of reading

b. fluency

8. Knowledge of individual words in sentences, syllables, onset-time segments, and awareness of individual phonemes is known as

b. phonological awareness

37. What cueing system focuses on meaning that is associated with language before knowledge and experience?

b. semantic

34. The purpose of anecdotal notes is to

b. to observe students while they work and records observations for later study

26. A kindergarten student made approximations while reading at the beginning and middle of the school year. However, by the end of the year, he was pointing to each word on the page as he read guide reading book. Which concept of print his the student experiencing?

b. voice to print match

40. Which of the following is a web-based activity that could take place in the classroom?

blog, online paper, wiki page - all the above

13. All of the following should be included in a classroom library except

c. books that promote stereotypes of various races and ethnicities

28. During a read aloud, a K student comments that the teacher is reading the pictures and not the words in the book. The child is demonstrating a lack of understanding in the

c. concepts of print

11. Which of the following is NOT a critical element of narrative writing?

c. fluency

47. What are the three cuing systems?

c. graphophonemic, semantic, and syntactic

20. The workshop approach to organizing your classroom provides time to

c. meet with small groups of students to meet individual and small group needs

9. Test explicit questions are also known as

c. right there questions

41. Which of the following teaching methods does NOT enhance oral language development in students?

c. silent reading

3. FCAT is a

criterion referenced test

1. Which of the following would not be considered a biography?

d. Graham's Best Baseball Game Ever**

32. Which of the following is a hyperbole?

d. She must've weighed 1000 pounds!

27. Some 3rd graders are finishing narrative biographies about a historical figure of their choosing. To encourage them to revise their work and include appropriate content, the teacher provides a rubric. What rubric would help the students revise their content?

d. a rubric focusing on the traits of writing like organization, word choice, and use of supporting details

29. Which of the following is considered a consonant blend?

d. bl

31. Making predictions about what a particular text is going to be about aids students

d. comprehension

39. Questioning and retelling enhance communication skills among students in the classroom. What critical reading skill is most enhanced by these strategies?

d. comprehension

42. Before reading aloud, setting a purpose aids what specific language art that is often neglected?

d. listening

35. The National Reading Panel identified five critical areas for success in reading. Which of the following is not one of the five critical areas?

d. motivation

19. The local school board has announced that they plan to do away with art classes. The students and teachers are mad. What would be the best form of written communication to share their thoughts to the board?

d. persuasive

14. A teacher asks her students, "Which two words rhyme: hat, black, cat?" Which area of emergent literacy does this illustrate?

d. phonological awareness

22. A teacher encourages her students to brainstorm ideas about a topic of interest that they want to write about. Brainstorming takes places during which phase of the writing process?

d. prewriting

30. John is experiencing reading difficulties as noted on his recent time fluency check. It is slow and halted. This shows a weakness in which area of fluency?

d. rate

25. Which of the following choices are essential elements of reading comprehension?

inferring and questioning, understanding authors's purpose and POV, visualizing the text - all the above

7. When an author presents his thoughts in his writing in the form of a story, what mode of writing is he using?

narrative

44. Info and media literacy would be enhanced by which of the following aides?

primary sources, printed material, the internet - all of the above

16. The teacher organized her class for small groups. Students are listening to books on cd, reading poetry, and responding to quality literature in writing. This is an example of what organizational format?

reading centers/stations

10. Which of the following instructional methods aid fluency?

repetitive or repeated reading, echo reading, and choral reading - all the above

5. Which of the following is considered a consonant blend?

str

15. During a group lesson, a 1st grade teacher asks her students to do the following task: "I am going to segment a word into parts and pause between each sound. I want you to say the whole word together." Which monitoring assessment is the teacher using?

test of phonological awareness