Content Test: English Language Arts Test
*Question 34 _______ is a phrase or expression that means something different from what the words actually say. a) idiom b) imagery c) homonym d) homophone
Answer: A
Question 41 Ray Bradbury's literature "There Will Come Soft Rains" is a____ a) science fiction b) action and adventure c) drama d) horror
Answer: A
Question 45 Which of the following describes the primary difference between fables and folktales? a) Fables usually contain animals as characters and convey a moral lesson while folktales typically stay within a specific culture and make attempts to make sense of human existence. b) Fables usually contain magic or the supernatural, while folktales typically pertain to the act of Gods. c) Fables usually originate in a specific culture and attempt to make sense of the human existence while folktales typically contain animals as characters and contain a moral. d) Fables are usually traditional stories that concern the early history of a people, while folktales typically contain magic or the supernatural.
Answer: A
Question 52 What is the purpose of using digital document sharing in the classroom? a) peer sharing b) editing c) researching d) assessing
Answer: A
Question 54 A lift in Britain is an elevator in America and that is an example of what? a) dialect b) antonyms c) close words d) translation
Answer: A
*Question 20 If a father constantly gave his son a lunch of Lay's chips and a Coca Cola, he would be considered a bad father especially if the child suffered health complication. Which of the following modification is necessary? a) comma after father b) change Lay's to Lays c) change bad to horrible d) change complication to complications
Answer: A A comma is needed after the word father as the statement "especially if the child suffered health complication" is extra information that needs to be separated with a comma.
*Question 55 James thinks that he does not fully understand "who" and "whom" in his essays. He wants support in this area to make necessary corrections. Which of the following resources is best to help him? a) grammar guide b) dictionary c) reference guide d) thesaurus
Answer: A Grammar guide is going to include information to construct proper sentences and use proper words.
Question 15 In evaluating a distribution of students' test scores, the mode is determined by identifying the score that: a) is earned by the greatest number of times by the students who took the test b) represents the average of all scores c) is midway between the highest and the lowest scores d) represents the 30th percentile of all scores in the set of test scores
Answer: A Mode is the number which appears most often in a set of numbers.
*Question 46 Which of the following is the best approach for helping an elementary education class who struggles with adverbs and adjectives? a) diagramming b) mini-lesson c) underlining d) circling
Answer: A Sentence diagramming is a tool that enables a person to accurately understand the structure; adverbs and adjectives are part of sentences.
Question 19 Which of the following instructional strategies best completes the chart? __________ Reading comprehension: think pair share, direct reading thinking, inquiry chart. Reading fluency: readers' theater, ?, partner reading. Writing: revision, sentence combining, paragraph hamburger. Vocabulary: word walls, word hunts, possible sentence.
Answer: A The best answer is shared reading. The other options do not connect with direct reading-thinking.
Question 3 A group of children are working to make an eagle with Styrofoam, balls, eggs, toothpicks, beads, ribbons, glue and scissors. Which of the following types of plays are the students engaged in? a) constructive b) exploratory c) archetype d) parallel
Answer: A Constructive play encourages children's creativity and stimulates the development of skills and positive relationships. The students have various materials and asked to make an eagle, which requires creativity.
*Question 58 Who wrote "when in the course of human events"? a) Thomas Jefferson b) Patrick Henry c) John Hancock d) Abraham Lincoln
Answer: A From the Declaration of Independence
*Question 56 In the publishing process, students will a) use a computer program b) peer review c) mail a letter to a newspaper d) turn paper in to the teacher
Answer: A the publishing process involves students to use computer programs to publish the work.
*Question 50 _______ is the repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases. a) rhyme b) rhyming words c) rhetoric d) pun
Answer: B
Question 35 A suggestion of events prior to their occurrence is related to the technique of a) idiom b) foreshadowing c) plot d) abstracting
Answer: B
Question 40 _________ is used to describe the way sounds can be combined in order to pronounce a word. a) fluency b) blending c) phonics d) phonology
Answer: B
Question 42 Which of the following can best incorporate subheadings? a) personal essay b) comparative essay c) persuasive essay d) narrative essay
Answer: B
Question 51 James enjoys writing books, playing soccer, and burgers. Which of the following changes can improve the sentence above? a) remove the words "writing" and "playing" b) add the word "eating" before burgers c) delete the word "playing" d) replace "enjoys" with "likes"
Answer: B
Question 59 Marty is having difficulty in comprehending a chapter in a content-area. Which of the following is the best pre-reading activity to support Marty? a) summarizing the text b) discussing the meaning of vocabulary words c) having the teacher read the first page d) scanning the chapter to get feeling of what it is about
Answer: B A and C are not pre-reading activities. Option D does not help in comprehending the text.
Question 12 BLOWING bubbles on a hot day is a great activity for kids. The bold word in the sentence above is an example of a) conjunction b) gerund c) an adverb d) a participle
Answer: B A gerund is a noun formed with a verb ending in "ing." Int he sentence, blowing is used as a gerund.
*Question 57 A 55% percentile rank means what? a) 55% of the questions correct b) below 55% c) above 55% d) 55% better than the rest of the kids
Answer: B A percentile rank is the percentage of scores that fall at or below a given score.
Question 2 A student writes the sentence "I am going to eat ice cream" as: I am going to eat is crem. When going over with the student, which of the following print concepts should the teacher focus on? a) comma b) text direction c) return sweep d) punctuation
Answer: B An important concept of print is being aware where to continue reading once a reader has come to the end of a line. Based on the student's writing, this is one area that the student needs help with.
*Question 32 A sixth-grade teacher desires to ensure active engagement for students working on an open-ended research question for an English writing paper. The best approach is to use ______ a) formal assessments b) inquiry-based instruction c) indirect instruction d) explicit teaching
Answer: B Inquiry-based learning is dealing with posing questions, problems, or scenarios instead of just presenting established facts or portraying a smooth path to knowledge. Inquiry-based instruction involves active engagement and is a good approach when working with open-ended research questions.
*Question 47 Which of the following will best support the teacher to collect information to personalize instruction for students? a) grade book b) KWL chart c) survey d) reciprocal teaching
Answer: B KWL is a tool to collect data about what the students know, what they want to learn, and what they learned. This is the best tool to personalize instruction.
Question 6 The following is an Iroquois poem entitled "Darkness Song." We wait in the darkness! Come, all ye who listen, Line Help in our night journey: Now no sun is shining; Now no star is glowing; (5) Come show us the pathway: The night is not friendly; She closes her eyelids; The moon has for got us, We wait in the darkness! (10) Line 8 most likely refers to the a) unwillingness of the speaker's companion to continue walking. b) night sky darkness. c) moon and stars. d) setting of the sun behind the wild forest.
Answer: B Line 8 refers back to the night mentioned in line 7. The sky is dark and the night can be said to have closed its eyelids. The other options do not relate to Line 8.
*Question 7 _______ are assessments that provide information on where an individual student's performance is in relation to his/her peers. a) formative assessments b) norm-referenced assessments c) criterion-referenced assessments d) subjective assessments
Answer: B Norm-referenced assessments are assessments that provide information on where an individual student's performance is in relation to his or her peers.
Question 21 An elementary teacher asks her students, "Which two words rhyme: cat, fat, sad?" Which area of emergent literacy does this demonstrate? a) vocabulary knowledge b) phonological awareness c) decoding d) alphabetic principle
Answer: B Phonological awareness includes identifying and manipulating units of oral language along with the ability to attend to the sound structure of a language. Aspect of sounds includes rhyming and alliteration.
*Question 25 Which of the following statements provides an example of an agreement between a pronoun and its antecedent? a) Each of the students has to do their own work int he group activity. b) Most of the students had their class schedules given out the first week of school. c) One of the students decided that they were going to stop eating meat. d) Neither of the students are willing to give their homework to the teacher.
Answer: B The antecedent of a pronoun is a word to which the pronoun refers. The pronoun must agree with its antecedent in number and person. The correct answer to B as "most" and "their" are properly used. Antecedent- word for which a pronoun stands
Question 29 Mrs. Felicia teaches first grade students, and the teacher is having the students identify any words that sound the same. This approach best display the students' awareness of a) decoding strategies b) phonemic patterns c) alphabetic principals d) vocabulary knowledge
Answer: B The students are identifying words with the same sound, sot he students are identifying a pattern related to sounds, which is connected to the word "phonemic."
Question 43 James stated: "There are 100 people setting outside of the office." This is an example of which of the following? a) interrogative sentence b) declarative sentence c) exclamatory sentence d) imperative sentence
Answer: B States a fact or an argument and ends with a full stop.
Question 24 Mr. Martin, an elementary English teacher, is having the students read a short informational text. Once the students are done reading, Mr.Martin asks the students to write a 15-word sentence about the informational text. Which of the following comprehensive skills is being developed in the activity? a) inferring b) generalizing c) summarizing d) paraphrasing
Answer: C
Question 38 Martha is a fourth-grade teacher looking to develop students' critical thinking skills. Which of the following is the best approach to take? a) develop a list of unknown vocabulary words b) develop a KWL chart c) develop a cause and effect chart d) develop a graph organizer
Answer: C
Question 44 Which of the following sentences contains an error in capitalization? a) His sisters name is Kate Morning. b) Martha took her son to the country inn. c) Canada in a country in north America. d) The school took a field trip to the White House.
Answer: C
Question 39 Which of the following indicates that lessons are taught through animals' conversations and actions? a) parable b) legend c) fable d) myth
Answer: C A fable is a short, simple story that teaches a lesson. A fable usually includes animals that talk and act like people.
Question 18 The word "rerecorded" has how many morphemes? a) one b) two c) three d) four
Answer: C A morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit in the grammar of a language. In the word rerecorded, "re" is a prefix while "record" is the base that gives the word its meaning. The word "ed" indicates past tense.
Question 14 Which of the following is a type of test score that indicates a student's relative position among a group of students in the same grade who are tested at the same time? a) raw score b) average score c) percentile rank d) composite score
Answer: C A student's percentile rank indicates the percent of students in a particular group that received raw scores lower than the raw score of the student. It shows the student's relative position among a group of students.
Question 30 What is the difference between complex sentence and compound sentence? a) complex sentence includes two independent clauses b) compound sentence includes an independent clause and a dependent clause c) compound sentence includes two independent clauses d) complex sentences includes two independent clauses
Answer: C Compound sentence includes two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction
Question 22 _____ instruction is unambiguous and direct approach to teaching that includes both instructional design and delivery procedures, which includes series of supports or scaffolds, whereby students are guided through the learning process. a) intensive instruction b) indirect instruction c) explicit instruction d) individualized instruction
Answer: C Explicit instruction is unambiguous and direct approach to teaching that includes both instructional design and delivery procedures, which includes series of supports or scaffolds, whereby students are guided through the learning process.
Question 8 An elementary English education teacher is looking to use an informal assessment to capture overall learning. Which of the following is the best option? a) authentic assessment b) graded homework c) exit card d) performance assessment
Answer: C Of the answer choices, an exit card is informal assessment.
*Question 26 Which of the following is the best activity to develop students' concept of print? a) Taking an assessment b) Looking at a book c) Teacher reading aloud d) reading a novel
Answer: C Option C involves direct instruction, which support the students best out of all the activities, and the activity relates to the concept of print.
*Question 5 More than 70% of a 3rd grade class scored at high risk on the oral reading fluency. Which instructional practice would be best for improving the students' oral reading fluency? a) having the students independently read b) having students participate in round-robin reading c) having students repeat readings of familiar text with corrective feedback d) having students do a paired-reading activity
Answer: C Oral reading fluency is the ability to translate letters to sounds and sounds to words. Majority of the students need support in oral reading fluency, so the best approach is to have students read and reread along with providing feedback. The feedback will allow the student to improve the skill.
Question 11 An angel, robed in spotless white, bent down and kissed the sleeping Night, Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone, Men saw the blush and called it Dawn.--Paul Laurence Dunbar Which of the following literacy devices is used with the word "Night" in Paul Laurence Dunbar's statement? a) allusion b) analogy c) personification d) oxymoron
Answer: C Personification is assigning human characteristics or qualities to animals, objects, or abstract concepts.
Question 10 An elementary English teacher is looking to evaluate student learning at the conclusion of an instructional period (ex: at the end of a unit). Which is the best assessment to use? a) formative b) interim c) summative d) placement
Answer: C Summative assessment is used to evaluate student learning at the conclusion of an instructional period.Formative assessment is an in-process evaluation of learning that is normally administered multiple times during a unit or course. Placement assessment is used to place students in courses. Interim assessment is used to see if students are in the right track for learning.
Question 13 1) Others indicate that the new teacher certification examinations are the cause of teachers being swayed from perusing teaching careers. 2) Some potential teachers have taken the exam multiple times and have changed career paths due to having difficulty passing the certification exams. 3) Only time will tell if the proposed solution will solve the problem of teacher shortage in Indiana. 4) Many also blame the implementation of the Common Core state Standards in 2014, which made it harder to deliver quality education. 5) As a result, the teaching profession has obtained a negative perception. Which sentences are in the wrong place? a) sentence 1 and sentence 2 b) sentence 2 and sentence 3 c) sentence 3 and sentence 5 d) sentence 4 and sentence 5
Answer: C Switching the position of sentence 3 and sentence 5 will make the paragraph read smoothly. Also, sentence 3 is a concluding sentence to a paragraph.
Question 49 What is the best way to analyze mass media? a) local TV station news report b) radio station news report c) newspaper news report d) magazine article
Answer: C The distribution of newspapers is wide and is available longer. Newspaper reports are easily accessible.
*Question 31 I. flashcard II. indirect instruction III. paired activity IV. repetition An elementary reading teacher is having the students read a short story. The teacher starts by having the students develop vocabulary words related to the short story with flashcards. Then, the teacher reads the book out loud while the students listen. After that, the teacher pairs the students, and the teacher has the students read the short story again. Which of the following planned supports did the teacher use in this activity? a) I and III b) III and IV c) I, III and IV d) I, II, III, and IV
Answer: C The planned supports include the flashcards, paired activity, and repetition.
*Question 36 I. a portfolio II. an essay test III. an criterion-referenced post Of the above, which of the following is/are formal assessment(s) an elementary English teacher can use to test students on English grammar? a) I and II b) I and III c) II and III d) I, II, and III
Answer: C A portfolio is an informal assessment. An essay test and criteron-referenced test are formal assessments.
Question 9 I. Diagnostic assessment allows teachers to map out a route, using existing knowledge to build upon. II. Response to Intervention is an approach for the early identification and support of students with learning and behavior needs. III. Screening assessments are used to determine whether students are ready to end a course. Of the above, which of the following is/are correctly stated? a) I only b) II only c) I and II d) I, II, and III
Answer: C Screening assessments are used to determine whether students are ready to enter a course.
*Question 16 He did not steal from the store, for it was not the right thing to do. The sentence is an example of which of the following sentence types? a) simple b) compound c) complex d) compound-complex
Answer: D A compound sentence consists of two independent clauses or sentences
*Question 33 When reading an excerpt from a historical text, James is having trouble distinguishing the main idea from supportive points and details. Which of the following activities will help James in distinguishing the main idea from supportive points and details? a) read aloud the text to the class b) become familiar with new vocabulary c) use highlighter to identify details d) quickly skim an entire reading selection
Answer: D A quick skim of a reading selection will allow the reader to see what statements are possible supporting details. To know the main idea, the reader must read the entire selection.
Question 60 In 1870, Chicago contained twice as many Canadians as Dublin, the same number of Arab in Berlin, half as many Italians as Naples, and two and one-half times the Jewish population of Istanbul. Which of the following is the best to graphically express the sentence above? a) map b) line graph c) pie graph d) bar graph
Answer: D Bar graphs visually represent relative sizes of different groups
Question 23 Mr. James is an elementary education teacher, and he has his students working in groups around the classroom. Some students are listening to books on CD, some are reading informational text, and some are writing stories on the computer. Which of the following organization format did the teacher select as part of the instructional approach? a) choral reading b) literature circles c) shared reading d) literary centers
Answer: D Literature circles are small groups of students gathered together to discuss a piece of literature in depth. Writing stories on the computer is not connected to literature circles. Choral reading is an instructional technique for incorporating fluency training into the general educational setting. Literacy centers are physical areas designated for specific learning purposes.
*Question 28 Mr. James is a kindergarten teacher who has confirmed that the students can identify individual phonemes and blend onsets and rimes. Which of the following is the best to teach next? a) short vowel b) long vowel c) vowel-consonant patterns d) A and B
Answer: D Once the students know how to identify individual phonemes and blend onsets and rimes, they must be able to analyze the vowels within the words and find whether the vowels are short or long. This will allow the students to assign meaning to the word as a whole.
Question 4 Which of the following is the primary purpose of scaffolding? a) to support the students in doing homework b) to give all students the opportunity to learn c) to encourage learning in general education classes d) to support the students in activities until they can independently perform
Answer: D Scaffolding is an instructional technique used to move students progressively toward stronger understanding, and to a greater independence of the activity.
Question 1 I. angry II. bridge III. bird IV. silver A teacher is looking to do a lesson on the different phonemes created y r-controlled vowels. Which two words are most appropriate to use? a) I and II b) II and III c) II and IV d) III and IV
Answer: D The /ir/ sound in "bird and "silver" are r-controlled sounds. The words "angry" and "Bridge" have vowels following the r sound, not before it, which indicates the words are not r-controlled sounds.
*Question 27 In kindergarten, most students can identify two words that rhyme. To continue developing phonemic skills, the next best skill for the teacher to instruct is what? a) pronounce all sounds in three phonemes b) blend the final vowel sounds in words c) identify three words that rhyme d) name the beginning sounds in words
Answer: D The next phase in phonemic awareness development is naming the beginning sounds in words.
Question 53 For English class, which of the following is the best way to save a project? a) store on a CD b) power point slide c) send in an email d) store on a USB
Answer: D Option A not used widely today, Option B is not a good way to save a project, Option C is not always accessible since not all schools ave email communications
*Question 37 Which of the following is not one of the five essential components of reading? a) phonics b) reading comprehension strategies c) vocabulary development d) alphabet principle
Answer: D The five essential components of reading are phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, reading fluency, and reading comprehension strategies.
*Question 17 In America, majority of children attend elementary and secondary public institutions in which they spend APPROXIMATELY seven hours, on average, of their day in school. The bold word is best characterized as: a) an adverb b) an adjective c) a noun d) a pronoun
B. Adjective is a word or phrase naming an attribute related to a noun to modify or describe it. In the sentence, the word approximately is used as an adjective to describe seven.
Question 48 Understand poem structures like couplet, black verse, ballard meter, and terza rima
Couplet (two lines together rhyme)
