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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 swing 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."
Students in first grade are practicing counting money by the amount in a collection. Students are then writing the value of a collection of coins. Which common mistake may NOT occur in the course of students learning to write the value of a collection of United States coins and bills?
$5.67
Many cultures have influenced and contributed to mathematics as we know it today. Which four cultures have had the most impacts that are still relevant today?
-Ancient Greece -Babylonia -India -Ancient Egypt
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 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.
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 words lists -Cooperative learning activities -Sentence stems
Use the diagram below to answer the question that follows. 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
Examine the sentences listed below. Drag each descriptor and drop it in the box next to the sentence it correctly describes.
1. Shut the door- imperative 2. I went to the store.- declarative 3. I made a 100 on my test!- exclamatory 4. How are you today?- interrogative
The area enclosed by the runner band can be calculated by using which of the following expressions?
1/2 bh
Find the sum of the following: 2/0 + 1/4 + 1/6
23/36
Express 4 3/8 as a decimal number.
4.375
Given that a, b, and c are whole numbers, if a/b = 4 and b/c = 2 what is the value of a/b+c?
8/3
A class of second graders is learning about the properties associated with lines in regards to measurement and length. The students are learning to define geometric terms by their proper definitions. Which of the following would define a line?
A line is a set of point that form a straight pathway extending infinitely opposite directions.
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; and, stress: the amount of emphasis a speaker places on certain words. Of the following, which would be the best strategy to us in order to emphasize the physical aspects of speech delivery?
A 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.
Kindergarten students are exploring the attributes of geometric shapes and how to apply those attributes to prove that a shape is what is. Which of the following justifications would be appropriate for a kindergarten to prove a triangle is a triangle?
A shape that only has three sides must be a triangle.
Which of the following types of studies would most likely use quantitative research methods rather than qualitative research methods?
A study of how age and religion has impacted voting behavior in the last four presidential elections.
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 the story, partners meet again to discuss the story and talk about how their predictions compare with the actual story.
A second-grade teacher has a class with several English Language Learners (ELLs). In a lesson on the roles of the president, governor, and mayor, the teacher puts students into small groups, and each group included at least one ELL. The teacher then has each student choose a card that has a picture of the president, governor, or mayor on it and the duties of each. The teacher then asks each student to read the duties of each person and show his group the picture. Which of the following is a primary rationale for using this activity with this group of students?
All students benefit from working in a heterogeneous groups where all students can practice speaking and reading aloud.
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 An anticipatory set is a brief activity that occurs at the beginning of the lesson or when students are mentally "shifting" gears from one activity to the next. The purpose of an anticipatory set is to elicit students' attending behavior, focus them on the content of the instruction to follow, and help them develop a mental readiness. It is not a prewriting activity.
The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) reflect recent social science education research that focuses on developing students' historical thinking. Students are expected to analyze historical documents to determine its reliability, bias, and perspective. Why are these skills vital to a students' overall academic and citizenship development?
As students develop historical thinking skills they can use the same analysis skills as adult to evaluate political, economic, and social arguments and perspectives and be well-informed citizens.
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
After a lesson in finding the area and the domain of the length of a side of a rectangle given the perimeter of the rectangle, the teacher finds that almost all the students have answered the following questions this way. What would be the best approach for the teacher to respond to the answers?
Congratulate the students on their efforts of critical thinking through a tough question and their ability to calculate the area correctly. Follow up with a mini lesson on multiplication property of zero. Let students work in pairs to analyze if they want to change their answer for the domain.
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
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 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 second-grade teacher plans the following activities to promote students' development of map skills. As the class creates the model in Activity 1, the teacher asks questions designed to help students develop particular map skills and understandings. Which of the following questions would best promote students' ability to apply the concept of relative location?
Is the book shelf or the piano closer to the aquarium?
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 tent to improve students' comprehension skills?
It would improve students' engagement with the text and increase their comprehension.
Which inference could a historian possibly draw from these immigration statistics?
Law and practice limited non-European immigration during this time period.
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.
Below are ways teachers can connect mathematics and other disciplines. Drag and drop the math concept to match with a related discipline of learning.
Music- Patterns & Symbols Business- Budgets Social Sciences- Changes in Population Art- Tessellations Science- Mass
Which of the following sentences contains an error in punctuation?
My mother is a terrible listener, she always interrupts when I am talking.
A fourth-grade teacher introduces the following passage from a nonfiction text as a part of a series of lessons about living healthy. After reading the passage, students will use factual information gained from reading and research to write a persuasive composition about using sunscreen. Which of the following text features is most appropriate for the classroom teacher to review prior to the writing assignment?
Organization of procedural text
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.
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.
Second graders will be introduced to fractional parts through the use of shaded regions. The teacher will introduce that the more fractional parts used to make a whole, the smaller the part, and the fewer the parts, the larger the part. The teacher will guide students to apply the concept to halves, fourths and eighths. In order for students to see the difference in the fractional parts, how might the teacher represent this with the shaded regions?
Provide students with three rectangles: one cut in halves, one in fourths and one in eighths. Then have the students shade the parts and compare the size of each part to a whole.
Mr. Brandon had his class write a story on a personal experience they had. Below is the story written by Kyle. When having students write about personal experiences such as Mr. Brandon is doing her, what would be the most effective activity to undertake first?
Put students in groups and have them share their stories with each other.
Use the conversation below, between a kindergarten teacher and a student, to answer the questions that follows. 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/... 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. Brandon had his class write a story on a personal experience they had. Below is the story written by Kyle. 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.
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.
Given the assignment of converting 215 degrees Fahrenheit to Celsius, a 6th grader comes up with an answer of 101.7 degrees Celsius. Evaluate the reasonableness of converting 215 degrees Fahrenheit to 101.7 degrees celsius.
Since the boiling point in Fahrenheit is 212 degrees and the boiling point in Celsius is 100 degrees, the answer seems reasonable.
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.
Mrs. Garcia is planning and interdisciplinary reading and social science lesson for her 3rd graders. In reading, the students will read a story about an Indian family who grows rice. Which of the following would be an appropriate student learning activity that would integrate this story with the social sciences?
Students could work with maps and globes to find India on a map and then use latitude and longitude skills to properly identify the location of India.
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.
The students in a kindergarten class will collect data about the number of children in each classmate's family. The teacher will provide the students with a chart listing each student's name and a blank for the student to write the number in each family next to each name. The teacher will then compile the information the students collected from each other, demonstrate how to sort the data and guide the students through creating a picture graph to show how many children are in each child's family. What might be the goal of this activity?
The goal is for students to take ownership of their own learning and investigate to gather information.
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.
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 the most powerful?
The student will share photos of holocaust survivors.
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.
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. 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 pre-kindergarten teacher wants to assess a student's skill in visually discriminating the shapes of letters. Which of the following assessment strategies would be most effective for this purpose?
The teacher gives the student a set of letter cards, lays down a chart with the same letters on it, and then has the student match each letter card to the letter on the chart.
Mrs. Case is arranging her kindergarten classroom to look like a small grocery store. When students arrive for the day, they will be given a job to shop for items on a list or to be a cashier in the store. After a while, students will switch roles. What might be the goal of Mrs. Case having her students role play shopping and working in a store?
The teacher is planning instruction to demonstrate how math is used in a store in a scenario her students may experience on occasion.
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.
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 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.
Mr. Sutton teaches a sheltered (English Language Learners) Grade 6 social studies class. Mr. Sutton uses a variety of assessment methods in the course including project-based learning and a portfolio assessment. Why is Mr. Sutton's approach to assessment especially appropriate in his sheltered class?
These types of assessments allow students to demonstrate their learning in multiple ways that are not limited by student's English language skills and allows for the teachers to note progress during the course.
Mr. Samuels teaches a Language Arts class in which he has several students who are English learners and a few others who have learning disabilities. Presently the class is studying a famous play, which has a number of characters and a somewhat complicated plot. Which of the following strategies could Mr. Samuels use to help his students succeed in the class?
Use a graphic organizer when lecturing and teach the students how to use one.
Study the information in the exhibit below; then answer the question that follows. Which of the following strategies is most effective in teaching students to recognize the words listed in the picture above?
Using creative ways to expose the students to the words in multiple situations and contexts.
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.
Which basic operation(s) has commutativity?
addition
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.
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." The teacher then has the students name the letter and sounds 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.
Use the excerpt of the poem "Jabberwocky" published by Lewis Carrol in 1871, to answer the question that follows. 'Twas brillig, 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.
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. 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 boy went to school yesterday. He surprised his wife and bought flowers for her birthday. The football game went into overtime. Everyone dislikes Monday mornings.
for- preposition Monday- noun football- adjective yesterday- adverb
Students normally receive either a 0 or 100 for an attendance grade each day based on whether they are present or not. This particular day the teacher decides to give the students a quiz after a lesson has been presented and all students who take the quiz receive a grade of 100 for participation that day. The teacher plans to look at the quizzes to determine the level of comprehension of the topics taught that day, mark corrections, hand back the quizzes to the students the next day, and adjust the contents taught the next day based on the results. What type of assessment techniques is the teacher utilizing?
formative
Complete the table to show the correct number of phonemes for each word listed.
fox- 4 phonemes plan- 4 phonemes sight- 3 phonemes shin- 3 phonemes bent- 4 phonemes
The teacher is introducing ways to chart and graph the measures of 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
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 accomplish this task effectively, Mrs. Swanson should select books in which students-
have 5 or less word recognition errors per 100 words of text.
A sixth-grade teacher is planning mini-lessons to help students locate information by navigating the internet. For each mini-lesson, the teacher will introduce a particular navigation strategy, show students why it is useful, and then give students an opportunity to practice. The teacher could best promote student learning during this activity by-
having students practice with a peer so they can share information about navigation strategies.
A second-grade teacher plans the following activities to promote students' development of map skills. Based on the descriptions above, these activities will promote development of map skills to second graders mainly because they-
help students learn abstract map concepts through involvement in concrete experiences related to a familiar location.
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
Complete the table to show the correct number of syllables for each word listed.
individual- 5 syllables crocodile- 3 syllables disturbances- 4 syllables correctness- 3 syllables
Students learning to solve for missing values through input/output tables which increase the output (or y value) by the same value are laying a foundation to be able to work with which kind of function as they mature in their mathematical knowledge?
linear functions
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.
Students in a middle-school class frequently use Venn Diagram to clarify their understanding of information texts. To assess a student's comprehension of a passage about comets and meteoroids, the teacher asks the students 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 textual information by analyzing similarities and differences.
The teacher is gathering data on the students from the past three assessments given in her class. In order to analyze and draw conclusions on the data in the most efficient manner, the teacher has decided it would be the best to plot the assessment scores for each student to determine the probability with which the students will pass future assessments. In working for patterns and relationships within the data, for which variables will the teacher be looking?
patterns in assessment grades over time and within similar concepts.
Brian writes "hom" for the word home. When considering the developmental stages of spelling, Brian uses-
phonetic spelling.
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 the to analyze the spelling results of each student. Which end-result will this activity most likely assist Mrs. Clarinton to measure for her students?
phonic skills
Mrs. Green is introducing subtraction to her kindergarten students. Mrs. Green will provide blocks for her students to use to indicate separating to represent subtraction. The lesson sequence will follow a whole group lesson, small group lessons, partner work and independent student work. During the initial small group lessons, which of the following will be important for Mrs. Green to link to the concrete representation of the blocks as she checks for understanding with the students?
pictorial models and blocks
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. 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 point to the words as the teacher reads it. What skill does this activity most likely nurture in the student?
print awareness
Yusef is a fourth grader who reads at grade level. Lately, when choosing a book to read, Yusef always selects books from a series that is written in a very formulaic style that does little to extend his conceptual or language development. The teacher's best response to this behavior would be to-
provide Yusef with books with similar themes or on similar topics that are more challenging for him.
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.
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.
Which factor would indicate the importance of teaching rounding and estimation within mathematical computation?
to make sense of problems and preserve in solving them.
Vickie is having her kindergarten class math each star with one moon by drawing one line from a star to a different moon. What type of matching relationship is this task?
transformations
ABC ISD is improving its curriculum needs through technology and hands-on experiences. Which of the following would provide a hands-on experience of being able to manipulate, rotate, transfer, and decompose three-dimensional shapes?
visual media
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 of 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.
