Praxis 5025

A kindergarten teacher begins a lesson on the properties of triangles by displaying several different shapes to students. Then, the students sort the shapes into triangles and nontriangles. After sorting the shapes, the class then discusses the characteristics of a triangle. Which of the following students most completely and correctly identifies the characteristics of a triangle? Jacob, who said, "All triangles have three sides and three angles." Kayla, who said, "All straight-edge shapes with three sides are triangles." Mark, who said, "All triangles have two short sides and a long side." Sally, who said, "All closed shapes with angles are triangles."

A

A person comparing the volume of 1 kilogram of feathers with the volume of 1 kilogram of gold would observe that the 1 kilogram of gold has a smaller volume 1 kilogram of feathers has a smaller volume feather and the gold have equal volumes volume of the gold varies with pressure

A

A prekindergarten teacher sends home with students reading adventure bags filled with theme-based fiction and nonfiction picture books as well as interactive activities. The students are encouraged to read and discuss one book daily with a family member and record their activities in a reading log. The strategy best promotes oral language development phonemic awareness phonological awareness word recognition

A

A second-grade teacher uses the models of two circles of the same size shown during a lesson on fractions. The figure presents two circles divided into equal parts. The first circle is divided into 8 equal parts. 4 of the 8 parts are shaded. The second circle is divided into 4 equal parts. 2 of the 4 parts are shaded. A student comments that four of the eight equal parts in one circle fill the same amount of space as two of the four equal parts in the other circle. Which of the following statements best describes what the student has observed? Shaded regions of the same size in wholes of the same size represent equivalent fractions. Even though the shaded regions are the same, the fractions are not equal since the number of parts is different. Unit fractions can be subdivided into equal parts. A unit of 1 can be subdivided into equal parts.

A

I enjoyed the trip to the museum. We rode there in the school bus. We also saw many displays and ate lunch. Which of the following instructional strategies will be most useful in helping the student improve the writing piece shown? Asking the student questions about the trip Providing the student with an informational text to find more ideas Asking the student to write a list of descriptive words Showing the student how to construct simple sentences

A

In order to develop phonemic awareness, students with special needs must first understand the utility and function of oral and written language have a formal diagnosis of a developmental delay receive explicit instruction in oral and written language receive individualized instruction in a general education setting

A

Learning to differentiate among words that have common roots by looking at the modifications that result when prefixes or suffixes (such as "pre-," "un-," "dis-," "-tive," "-tion," and "-ment") are added to known roots is accomplished through the use of morphological analysis configuration cues contextual clues phonemic analysis

A

Marco, a second-grade student, is asked to sort a stack of picture cards into three groups of his choosing. Marco's completed sort is shown below. The figure presents 3 groups of picture cards. Each group contains 4 picture cards as follows. Group 1: A shark, a pair of shoes, a sheep, and a shovel. Group 2: A boy swimming, a boy sweeping, a child on a swing, and a swan. Group 3: A spaceship, a spider, spaghetti, and a spoon. Marco's picture sort best demonstrates an understanding of onset rime basic syllabication initial phoneme identification

A

Research on the conflicts that children frequently deal with supports which of the following observations? Children model their actions on those of adults. Young girls have more conflicts than boys. Children pay more attention to peers than to parents. Young boys attend to conflicts among other boys only.

A

Since the snow was falling fast, the teacher asked the students to quickly finish the quiz. The passage above contains which of the following grammatical errors? Split infinitive Lack of parallel structure Misplaced modifier Sentence fragment

A

The figure presents a blank multiplication table. An oval is drawn at a diagonal from the upper left to the lower right of the table. A blank multiplication table is shown. If the table is completed, which of the following patterns will be shared by each of the numbers along the main diagonal from upper left to lower right in the table? The numbers are each perfect squares. The numbers are all even. The numbers are all odd. The numbers can all be written as the product of three distinct factors.

A

The figure presents a diagram of the water cycle. At the upper right is the Sun. At the upper left is a cloud producing rain, which is labeled B. At the bottom is the ocean, which is labeled D. An arrow, which is labeled A, extends from the ocean, pointing toward the cloud. A second arrow, which is labeled C, extends from the cloud pointing toward the ocean. The diagram illustrates the water cycle. Which lettered part of the diagram best represents evaporation? A B C D

A

Which of the following best identifies the purpose of the explanatory genre of writing? Giving information about a topic or describing something accurately Describing an account of an imaginary event or experience Presenting a claim and providing a convincing set of reasons to support the claim Retelling the story of an important moment and clarifying its significance to the author

A

Which of the following is most effective in helping young children develop phonological awareness? Singing songs with simple rhymes Singing the alphabet song Using large markers to print letters Looking for environmental print

A

Which of the following is the best example of a group working together to address the group members' needs? A family starts a vegetable garden as a way to earn income and eat healthy food. Every Friday, first-grade students exchange books with each other to read over the weekend. A teacher provides students with additional recess time as a reward. Business leaders sell stocks to fund the construction of a new manufacturing plant.

A

Which of the following is the most appropriate time to encourage young children to start writing? As soon as they can hold a crayon or marker When they first recognize the speech-print relationship After they have learned left-to-right orientation When they show they can follow instructions

A

Which of the following is the music played when the president of the United States arrives to deliver the State of the Union address to the United States Congress? Hail to the Chief The Star-Spangled Banner America the Beautiful My Country, 'Tis of Thee

A

Which of the following teaching strategies most effectively supports emergent writers in a preschool classroom? Providing students with functional writing opportunities connected to class activities Teaching students how to use guided visualization to create mental pictures when writing Using model texts to teach students how to identify text structures prior to writing Assigning students a prewriting activity of identifying the audience and purpose for writing

A

Which of the following words is an example of a homonym? Fair Cold Elaborate Demoralize

A

A first-grade student, Kyle, has drawn an elaborate picture of a garden in his journal and has written: "I LK RD FLRS." Kyle's sentence suggests that an appropriate next step in his development as a writer would be learning to print lowercase letters use medial vowel sounds blend consonant sounds recognize common sight words

B

A teacher provides students with a list of words that include "precede," "project," "illegal," and "disappear." The students are most likely learning about which of the following concepts? Onsets Prefixes Consonant blends Diphthongs

B

At a certain school, the ratio of the number of female teachers to male teachers is 5 to 2. Which of the following could be the total number of female and male teachers at the school? 20 35 37 52

B

Building phonological awareness is critical to helping young students learn to read because without it, the students will primarily struggle to develop appropriate pacing and intonation when reading aloud use alphabetic principles, which are necessary to develop the ability to decode words identify when what is read does not make sense and a fix-up strategy is needed recognize that text is read from left to right, top to bottom

B

During a reading lesson, a third-grade teacher writes the lines of a poem on separate strips of paper. The teacher then holds up the strips one at a time and has students read the phrases aloud together. Which of the following is most likely the goal of the activity? Fostering students' understanding of the structure of poems Reinforcing students' use of proper phrasing to promote fluency Helping students identify rhyme schemes accurately Improving students' spelling and sight word vocabulary

B

During writers' workshop, a first-grade teacher notices that Joanna is sitting and watching other students write but is not writing her own story. When the teacher asks why she isn't writing, Joanna says that she can't write because she doesn't know how to spell any words. Which of the following instructional strategies is most beneficial for the teacher to use with Joanna? Working one-on-one with Joanna to teach her new spelling words Encouraging Joanna to use inventive spelling when she writes Adding Joanna's commonly misspelled words to the spelling test Helping Joanna find challenging words in a picture dictionary

B

Graphic novels are effective for third-grade students because they provide interesting plots for advanced readers allow development of visual and verbal literacy demonstrate the use of similes and metaphors display charts and graphs in a variety of ways

B

Second-grade students are using a calculator to total the number of books in their classroom library. At one point, they mistakenly subtract 12 instead of adding 12. What one change can they make to the total of 57 on the calculator display to correct the mistake? Add 12 Add 24 Subtract 12 Subtract 24

B

Shown is a triangle centered above a rectangle but not touching the rectangle. The rectangle is longer than it is wide. The length of the base of the triangle appears to be less than the length of the rectangle. A kindergarten teacher puts the shapes above on a whiteboard and asks the students to use their math words to describe what they see. Which of the following student comments contains an error? The triangle is outside and above the rectangle. The triangle is on the top and has one more side than the rectangle has. The rectangle is bigger and on the bottom of the triangle. The rectangle has the same number of corners as it has sides.

B

To an observer on Earth, it appears as if the Sun orbits Earth once each day. Which of the following is responsible for the misconception? Earth's smaller size Earth's rotation Earth's tilt on its axis Earth's orbit

B

Which of the following activities best helps students understand the interdependent relationships in an ecosystem? Listing the similarities and differences between plants and animals Creating posters of different food chains in a pond ecosystem Identifying the functions of different parts of a flowering plant Watching a video about the life cycles of a butterfly and a chicken

B

Which of the following activities is designed to encourage dramatic play in 3 year olds? Reading aloud from a picture storybook while students are seated on a story rug Creating a dress-up area where students put on costumes and act out scenarios Using poetry to demonstrate rhyming words for the students Asking the students to arrange picture cards in a storyboard format

B

Which of the following components of an effective oral presentation describes the highness or lowness of a speaker's voice? Volume Pitch Articulation Pace

B

Which of the following organisms has a body consisting of a head, a thorax, and an abdomen? Starfish Fly Centipede Shark

B

Which of the following strategies is most effective in developing preschool children's understanding of print concepts? Giving children opportunities to retell or act out stories Placing children's names on their desks and other appropriate places Creating a class library with books from different genres for the children Providing opportunities for children to respond to open-ended questions

B

Which of the following students composes both sentences as simple sentences? Mario: At school. Everyone does work. Jackson: He played at the park. Mom went to the house. Anna: She's smiling because the dog came back. After he came back, he wanted food. Jacquelyn: Drive fast! We'll be late if we don't hurry

B

Which of the following terms best describes the ability to read with expression and appropriate phrasing? Accuracy Prosody Rate Schema

B

Which part of the ear contains the vestibular system, which is responsible for balance? The outer ear The inner ear The eardrum The ear canal

B

pan, pig, bug, pack During a small-group literacy activity, a kindergarten teacher asks students to identify the word that does not belong in the list of words shown. The activity best addresses which of the following phonemic awareness skills? Segmentation Categorization Substitution Blending

B

To engage in the scientific process, students must follow a series of steps: 1. Make an observation; 2. Ask a question that would explain the observation; 3. Propose (i) that is an educated guess to answer the question; 4. Then (ii) to support the educated guess; and 5. Carry out the procedure to support the educated guess. Blank (i) a comparison a hypothesis a report Blank (ii) find a similar answer prepare a report design an experiment

B AND F

1, 4, 7, 10, _____ A first-grade teacher presents the class with the arithmetic pattern shown. To complete the pattern, it is most important for students to be familiar with which of the following concepts? Identifying place value Ordering whole numbers Adding two numbers Creating AB patterns

C

19+17+15+13+7+5+3+1 Which of the following is another way of writing the sum of the numbers shown? 4×18 4×19 4×20 4×21

C

A first-grade teacher is selecting texts for a science unit on butterflies. Which of the following is most important for the teacher to consider when creating the text set? The texts should include textbook passages about butterflies. The texts should use more illustrations and diagrams than words. The texts should have a meaningful connection to the anchor text. The texts should be from the same genre.

C

A kindergarten teacher engages students in a lesson with color blocks by asking them to stack a blue block on a green block, a red block next to a yellow block, and two orange blocks on top of a blue block. The activity will best help students understand which of the following? Using one-to-one correspondence Classifying objects based on attributes Following directions related to position Creating repeating patterns with blocks

C

A kindergarten teacher opens a book to the middle of the story and asks a student, "Where on this page should I begin reading?" It is most likely that the teacher is attempting to evaluate the student's ability to draw inferences from text phonological knowledge concepts about print understanding of syntax

C

A preschool teacher provides a water table and various containers for children to use to investigate ways water can be stored and transferred. After a few weeks, the teacher introduces funnels and colanders to the center. Which of the following is the most appropriate focus question for the teacher to pose as children explore these new items? Why does the water always run down the funnel? Which of the containers will hold more water? What do you think will happen when the water is put into the colander? How does the shape of the container affect the shape of the water?

C

A school displays a bulletin board with portraits of Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan in observance of Women's History Month. Which of the following titles is most appropriate for the bulletin board? Hidden Talents First Ladies Supreme Women Inventors All

C

A second-grade teacher is using a globe and a world map while explaining time zones as they relate to direction. The most accurate statement the teacher could make about time zones is that each time zone becomes earlier than the previous one as an individual travels north across lines of latitude south across lines of latitude west across lines of longitude east across lines of longitude

C

A teacher asks preschoolers Dominic and Keira to make sure that each child at their table has an apple. They take several apples from a basket and place an apple in front of each child seated at their table. Dominic then says, "We need more apples for our table, an apple for Keira and an apple for me." Which of the following mathematical understandings is Dominic demonstrating? Rote counting Cardinality of a set One-to-one correspondence Estimating a quantity less than 10

C

A young student draws pictures and writes accompanying labels. The labels indicate attempts to apply letter-sound correspondences in spelling words and demonstrate comprehension of directionality in written expression. Which of the following stages of writing development best identifies the student's current level of performance? Exploration Preconventional Emergent Developing

C

By completing a picture walk of a story before students begin reading it independently, a first-grade teacher best demonstrates an understanding of how to help students comprehend how the setting affects the plot of the story decide if they will like the story they are about to read anticipate vocabulary that will help them read the story use mentor texts to assist them in writing their own stories

C

Does each paragraph have a clear topic sentence? Does each sentence in a paragraph relate to the topic sentence? Is there anything that needs to be added or removed? Is the vocabulary strong and precise? When writing an informational piece on a nonfiction topic, a student considers the questions shown. At which of the following steps in the writing process is the student most likely to improve the writing piece effectively? Prewriting Publishing Revising Editing

C

During a trip to the art museum, Ms. Lott and her pre-K students look at abstract paintings by Piet Mondrian, whose work was characterized by black lines intersecting at right angles and planes in primary colors. When they return to class, the students each make a construction-paper collage using red, yellow, and blue rectangles of various sizes and thin black strips. The teacher asks the students to think carefully about where to place the paper shapes before gluing them onto a white paper base. Which of the following skills is Ms. Lott encouraging the students to use with this activity? Tactile sensation Guided practice Spatial perception Artistic diversity

C

Each student in a math class is given a shoe box containing 20 pennies. The teacher has the student shake the box and then write a number sentence relating the number of heads showing, the number of tails showing, and the total number of coins. Which of the following concepts is most closely aligned to the purpose of the activity? Exploring the intuitive meaning of chance Recognizing that addition and subtraction are inverse operations Recognizing a part-part-whole structure for addition Identifying a one-to-one correspondence

C

First graders are beginning to learn how to look for ways to improve their writing after rereading a rough draft. The teacher provides the following piece of writing. Every month we make cookies. We make a lot! We give them to other people. They are yummy! After the short story is read aloud, the students ask questions based on what they want to know more about. The class then begins to revise the story one sentence at a time. Which of the following sentences is the best revision for the first sentence? My mom helps me make cookies every month. My favorite part of the month is when we make cookies. Every month my mom and I make chocolate chip cookies. Every month we make chocolate chip cookies in our kitchen.

C

Hedy delivers 1 letter to Harry on Monday, 3 letters on Tuesday, and 5 letters on Wednesday. For the rest of the week, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the number of letters Harry receives increases by the the same quantity established on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Which of the following is the total number of letters that Harry receives that week? 13 18 36 49

C

Mr. Thompson, a first-grade teacher, tells his students that he has a total of 17 cubes. He shows the students exactly 3 of the cubes and tells them the remaining cubes are in a bowl. He then asks the students to work in groups to find how many cubes are in the bowl. He instructs them to discuss the problem, draw a picture, and write a number sentence. The figure presents a bowl and three cubes. Which of the following student expectations is Mr. Thompson primarily reinforcing with the activity? Students will analyze figures. Students will draw conclusions from data. Students will write equations to solve mathematical problems. Students will find patterns in computations.

C

Reading simple stories with improving fluency by automatically saying two or more words in a phrase Gaining control during the reading process by using less "sounding out" Reading words that represent various long vowel sounds The list of characteristics indicates that a student is performing at which of the following stages of reading development? Prealphabetic Partial alphabetic Full alphabetic Automatic

C

The ability of the heart to pump oxygen-rich blood to the rest of the body during a whole-body workout involving the large muscles is most closed associated with flexibility resistance aerobics stamina

C

The figure presents a polygon in the shape of an L. 4 of the 6 sides are labeled. The top side is horizontal, with a length of 4 feet. The left side is vertical, and its length is not labeled. The bottom side extends 8 feet, to the right, from the left corner. The shape then extends upward 6 feet. Next, it extends an unlabeled length to the right. Finally, it extends upward 4 feet, where it meets the top right corner of the shape. In the figure shown, all angles are right angles. Which of the following is the area of the figure? 36 ft2 48 ft2 64 ft2 80 ft2

C

Which of the following activities will best help students understand that sound involves a series of vibrations? Listening to various instruments and comparing the sounds they produce Covering speakers with cardboard and listening to how the volume of music changes Placing grains of rice on top of a drum and observing the result when striking the drum with a mallet Listening to the sounds that wooden blocks make when dropped from different heights

C

Which of the following appropriately uses the distributive property of multiplication over addition to find the value of 3 × 69 ? 69 + 69 + 69 23 × 9 ( 3 × 60 ) + ( 3 × 9 ) 69 × 3

C

Which of the following best describes energy that is produced by vibrations and travels only through a medium? Gravitational potential Light Sound Heat

C

Which of the following best reflects an inquiry-based science activity for a unit about the life cycle of insects? Visiting a live-butterfly exhibit online Reading books about types of worms Raising caterpillars in the classroom Drawing pictures of insects

C

Which of the following educational goals best states why first graders should receive instruction designed to develop their media literacy? Students will understand the United States monetary system and how to spend money wisely. Students will learn that all sources of information can be trusted as nonbiased and accurate. Students will develop the essential skills of inquiry to become informed, responsible citizens. Students will learn to compare products and make good choices when shopping.

C

Which of the following spelling patterns is found in the word "bone"? VC CVC CVCe CVVC

C

While planning a science unit, a teacher decides to include several activities that will have children handle, examine, and experiment with soil samples. Which of the following terms best describes the activities? Reasoning activities Classification activities Multisensory activities Problem-posing activities

C

A third-grade teacher read the following excerpt from The Best of Times by Greg Tang. Two is very fast and fun, quickly double and you're done. What's that you say, be more precise? Okay then, just add it twice! Which TWO of the following number sentences best exemplify the same pattern as the one described? 3 × 3 = 2 × 4.5 6 ÷ 2 = 6 × 1 2 7 × 2 = 7 + 7 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 4 × 5 8 + 8 = 2 × 8

C and E

Which TWO of the following books are most appropriate to use to teach third graders about comparing and contrasting two cultures? The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas, a collection of poems celebrating the varieties of African American ethnic heritages Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley Naidoo, a book about siblings traveling through South Africa to find their mother in Johannesburg Two Mrs. Gibsons by Toyomi Igus, a book about a girl's relationship with her Japanese mother and African American grandmother Under the Moon and Over the Sea, edited by John Agard and Grace Nichols, a compilation of poems about Caribbean traditions The Color of Home by Mary Hoffman, a book about a boy and his family who were forced by war to move from Somalia to the United States

C and E

Which of the following words contains an open syllable? Combat Basic Insect Velvet

Correct Answer: B Option (B) is correct. In an open syllable, nothing comes after the vowel and the vowel sound is pronounced with its long sound. Ba-sic has two syllables and nothing comes at the end of the first syllable after "a."

Put the following United States historical events in chronological order. 1. End of the Am. Rev. War 2. Boston Tea Party 3. Ratification of the US Constitution 4. Signing of the Dec. of Indep. 5. Election of George Washington

Correct Answer: B, D, A, C, E The correct sequence of events is: 1) Occurence of the Boston Tea Party (1773); 2) Signing the Declaration of Independence (1776); 3) End of the American Revolutionary War (1783); 4) Ratification of the United States Constitution (1787); and 5) Election of George Washington as the first president of the United States (1789).

Which of the following instructional activities best develops a preschool student's understanding of how the physical characteristics of a location affect human behavior? Creating a graph with local area activities students enjoy doing with their families Reading stories aloud that depict activities students enjoy throughout the world Role-playing daily activities that students participate in throughout the world Researching professional occupations found in various locations throughout the world

Correct Answer: C Option (C) is correct. Participating in role-playing of daily activities found in various locations will provide students with opportunities to understand that areas differ in activities because of location and weather.

A teacher of young children hopes to convey the idea of scarcity by conducting an activity in the classroom. Which of the following activities is most appropriate for helping the students understand the concept and how it affects them? Handing out a different candy to each student in the classroom Drawing a picture that illustrates 20 students and only 25 cookies Placing students in a line and giving a sticker to every third student Discussing the meaning with students and explaining real-life situations

Correct Answer: C Option (C) is correct. The scenario illustrates the concept of scarcity since not all the students receive a sticker.

Carlos has 3 boxes of marbles with the same number of marbles in each box. If he has a total of 12 marbles, how many marbles are in each box? A teacher uses the problem shown while teaching a lesson about division. The teacher illustrates how to solve the problem by first drawing three boxes and then filling them with marbles as shown. The figure presents three boxes. Each box contains 4 marbles. Which of the following best characterizes the strategy for dividing that the teacher illustrated for the students? Repeated subtraction Skip counting Measurement division Partitive division

Correct Answer: D Option (D) is correct. A partitive division problem is one in which the total number of groups is known and the number of items in each group will be determined.

A first-grade teacher reads an informational text about baby animals aloud to students. The following vocabulary words are in the text. Vocabulary Word Definition *Baby A young animal *Marsupial An animal whose baby lives in a pouch inside the mother's body *Fur Hair covering the body of some animals *Scales Thin protective covering found on fish and reptiles The teacher wants to focus instruction on Tier-II vocabulary words. Which of the following words best represents a Tier-II vocabulary word for most first-grade students? Baby Marsupial Fur Scales

Correct Answer: D Option (D) is correct. Tier-II words are important for students to learn and can be used in a variety of ways so that students have opportunities to build connections to other words and concepts. "Scales" is a word not all first graders would know in this context. It also has multiple meanings and is a word students will encounter fairly regularly during science class.

+25−25=0 −10+10=0 Which of the following is the property of integers illustrated by the equations shown? Associative property of addition Commutative property of addition Additive identity property Additive inverse property

D

A class is reading a story in which the main character is facing a dilemma. Which of the following activities is most likely to encourage the students to think ahead and collaboratively generate solutions to the character's dilemma? Categorizing the characters in the book into groups of major and minor importance Having students independently make a list of five possible solutions Showing the students a video version of the story Having students work in small groups to role-play possible solutions

D

A preschool teacher of 2-year-old children provides them with opportunities to sing songs that contain repeated rhymes and word patterns. The activity will best help students by providing them with multiple exposures to new words reinforcing words they already know expanding their vocabulary through context clues developing their phonemic awareness

D

A second-grade teacher begins a read-aloud of a fictional chapter book. Which of the following instructional strategies best develops students' ability to engage in character analysis to improve their comprehension of the text? Using a plot diagram to identify the main characters, setting, and plot events Asking students to illustrate what they think the characters look like Guiding a discussion in which each student explains his or her favorite character Helping students relate to the characters through targeted questioning

D

A teacher gives each student in a class a list containing the words "whale," "three," "ship," and "chew." Then the teacher says, "Circle the two letters in each word that go together to make the new sounds we have been learning about." The exercise can most appropriately be used to assess the students' ability to recognize which of the following? Consonant blends Double vowel sounds Short vowel sounds Consonant digraphs

D

A teacher notices that a student has written the words "goed" and "breaked" in a story. Which of the following best describes the error the student is making? Applying a wrong verb tense Using a compound predicate Using suffixes in a novel way Overapplying a recently learned rule

D

After a shared reading of a story, a teacher demonstrates a retelling strategy for the class with a think-aloud. On which of the following elements is it best for the teacher to focus? Determining the traits of the main characters Using strategies to decode words Making connections to similar stories Sequencing the events in the story

D

At the beginning of the school year, a teacher organizes a variety of icebreaker activities for students to help them build trust and become comfortable taking academic risks. Which of the following civics concepts is best taught through these activities? Justice Power Freedom Citizenship

D

At the end of a second-grade reading unit, a teacher reads the following sentences in a child's response journal. This is a long tail. Their onced was a sun. He worked in a coal mind. He was sooty. Then he found a garland. That is a red gem. The child needs help with which of the following? Synonyms Antonyms Phonics Homophones

D

Bobby and Jasmine are kindergarten students who are playing at the water station. Jasmine fills a cup with water, lifts it up, and turns it over. She says, "Look, Bobby, I'm making rain!" Bobby replies, "I can make rain too." He then picks up the plastic watering can and pours the water into the water station. Which of the following instructional activities will best support the students' development of inquiry skills? Reading a story about rain and discussing the characters in the story with the students Providing a picture of a rainy day and asking the students to tell a story based on the picture Showing a video about rainy, snowy, and sunny days and telling students to describe different activities they can do on each day Performing an experiment to illustrate evaporation and condensation of water and asking how it applies to rain

D

For a formative assessment, a second-grade teacher gives each group of students a box of pattern blocks and a task to work on collaboratively. The teacher can best assess the students' understanding of composing two-dimensional shapes by having the students perform which of the following tasks? Naming the shape and color of each block in the set and ordering the blocks by size Making a table and listing the number of sides and the number of angles in each shape Using the pattern blocks to copy given pictures of boats, animals, flowers, and cars Using only the triangular blocks in the set to build each of the other shapes in the set

D

Mary wants to invite a friend over to play. She knows her mother will grant permission for the friend to come over only after Mary finishes her chores. Mary completes her chores and then asks if she can have her friend come over. Which of the following concepts is best described in the scenario? Supply and demand Conflict resolution Risk management Self-regulation

D

Preschoolers are presented with two plates of cookies. The red plate has seven cookies, and the blue plate has ten cookies. When asked which plate has more cookies, most children say the blue plate. The children who answer the question correctly show evidence of which of the following understandings? Using mental strategies to add small quantities Using numerals to describe quantities Counting on to find the difference between numbers Comparing sets of objects visually

D

The "ake" in the words "bake" and "snake" is an example of which of the following? A phoneme-grapheme relationship A long-vowel /a/ digraph A morpheme A rime

D

The most direct path between one location and another on a globe is always along one of the tropics the equator the prime meridian a great circle

D

Which of the following activities is best for a first-grade teacher to use when introducing basic geographic literacy skills? Using a legend on a map to identify landmarks and familiar buildings near the school Drawing a scaled map of familiar objects and locations to show relative distance Using a compass rose and cardinal directions to describe relationships between cities and states Describing how objects in the classroom would look if viewed from a hot-air balloon

D

Which of the following activities would best help 3 year olds develop a respect for differences among people in the classroom? Watching a video about community groups showing compassion Taking a field trip to a local business to see different job responsibilities Writing a story about a time that they couldn't do something Reading a book about a child with a disability and relating it to their lives

D

Which of the following art activities for first graders would help them learn about the different textures of materials used in buildings? Matting and framing photographs of famous buildings Creating a collage using magazine photos of buildings Making scale drawings of famous buildings Making crayon rubbings of building surfaces

D

Which of the following best describes a student at the semiphonetic stage of spelling development? Places vowels in syllables Imitates writing by copying random strings of letters Understands word structure Recognizes that sounds in words are represented by letters

D

Which of the following best explains why it is necessary to teach unfamiliar, academic vocabulary to students who are English-language learners before they are asked to read a passage in a nonfiction text? Such vocabulary is likely to be concrete and easy to illustrate. Such vocabulary is appealing to visual and kinesthetic learners. Such vocabulary is likely to be similar to words in the students' first languages. Such vocabulary is not often used during informal conversations.

D

Which of the following instructional strategies is most appropriate when teaching preschool students conflict resolution skills? Telling students who are arguing to hug each other and to use kind words Placing arguing students in separate chairs to think about their words Notifying students' parents about what happened and asking the parents to talk with their children Having students take turns explaining what happened and helping them resolve the issue together

D

The first four triangular numbers, 1, 3, 6, and 10, are shown in the table below. What is the seventh triangular number? 21 25 28 26

Option (C) is correct. The seventh triangular number is equal to the sum of the first seven positive integers, that is, 1+2+3+4+5+6+7=28.

Put the organisms listed below in the order that best represents a food chain, starting on the left with the organism that is most directly dependent on the Sun. Frog Grass Water snake Grasshopper

The correct order is grass, grasshopper, frog, and water snake.

Which of the following will best help students understand how to write three-digit numbers in expanded form? Learning how to write three-digit numbers in words Comparing and ordering three-digit numbers on a number line Decomposing three-digit numbers into hundreds, tens, and ones Practicing how to add two or more three-digit numbers

c

Third-grade students are placed in four groups, and each group collaborates to write a summary of the informational text below. The figure presents informational text. The text is as follows. The sixteenth president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, loved to play with cats. One time, President Lincoln and his family went to visit the soldiers during the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln saw three tiny kittens on the ground. He picked up the kittens and petted them. The kittens' mother had died, and they had nowhere to live. President Lincoln found the kittens food and made sure they had a good home. President Lincoln loved other kinds of animals, too. He had a dog, goats, a horse, a turkey, and rabbits. They all lived at the White House. Of course, he also had a cat named Tabby. Tabby was the first cat to live in the White House. Group 1. Abraham Lincoln had a cat named Tabby who lived in the White House. Group 2. President Lincoln liked to save cats who lost their mother. He took home animals to the White House. He had a cat, a dog, goats, a horse, a turkey, and rabbits. He liked cats the most. Group 3. President Lincoln loved cats and other animals. He let many animals live at the White House. Group 4. President Lincoln saved three kittens who lost their mother. The kittens got a home. Which small group best summarized the text? Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4

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The figure presents a box with 6 shapes labeled Circle all the rectangles. The 6 shapes from left to right are as follows: a rectangle with the length horizontal, a triangle, an oval, a rectangle with the width horizontal, a square inclined at an angle, and a rectangle inclined at an angle. The rectangle with the length horizontal, the triangle, and the rectangle with the width horizontal are circled. A kindergarten student was asked to circle all the rectangles in the box, as shown above. Which of the following can the teacher reasonably conclude about the student's understanding of rectangles? The student recognizes rectangles as having four sides and four 90 degree angles. The student thinks all four-sided shapes or quadrilaterals are rectangles. The student recognizes that a square is a quadrilateral and a special rectangle. The student thinks a rectangle must have a horizontal side.

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