ABCTE ELA Test 120 Questions with Verified Answers
Regular Present Participle - CORRECT ANSWER The verb "greasing" is an example of which of the
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Irregular past
Regular present participle
Irregular past participle
Regular past participle
Inferences - CORRECT ANSWER Just as we analyze other types of fiction, we can analyze poetry. We can find explicit and implicit evidence in the poem. We can draw ______________________________from the writer's word choice and the form the writer uses.
fiction
biographies
inferences
similar characters
Stephen Crane - CORRECT ANSWER All of the following are considered Transcendentalists EXCEPT:
Stephen Crane
Ralph waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Margaret Fuller
Cento - CORRECT ANSWER Which of the following poetry forms is put together from lines of other poems?
limerick
sonnet
villanelle
cento
Planning Information for the Knowledge rating Chart - CORRECT ANSWER As a teacher, you know that using only a few tests offers a limited view of students' achievement and progress. You can create a list of choices and consider designing assessments that test what you teach such as narrative literary elements, nonfiction features, poetic forms, vocabulary and so on. Which of the following is NOT an appropriate assessment method?
planning information for the knowledge rating chart
journal entries
tests on narrative literary elements: relate these to examples from a text
vocabulary tests
Person vs. Society - CORRECT ANSWER Story plots contain opposing elements. In Star Wars, the conflict between the Rebels and The Empire presents an example of which type of conflict?
Person vs. person
Person vs society
person vs. self
person vs. nature
Activities that stress relationships between and among concepts - CORRECT ANSWER Drill work does work as a means of enhancing the retention of information. A crucial question for teachers is whether it is possible to derive the benefits of drill without incurring its negative side effects. The answer is yes. By designing activities in which the recall of information is integrated with its application at higher levels, teachers can ensure the repetition needed for retention while deepening understanding through higher-level thought. By higher level, we mean which of the following?
activities that stress relationships between and among concepts
activities that do not require students to make inferences
activities that do not require students to reach critical judgments
activities that involve K-W-L
All of the Above - CORRECT ANSWER Which of the following is true of transitions?
Transitions can be a carefully chosen sentence at the end of a scene and another at the beginning of the next
It can be a lead-in paragraph to a new section
It can be several pages of narrative summary
All of the above
Common Element - CORRECT ANSWER Literature discussion groups bring students together to discuss fiction they have read. Using nonfiction as the basis of these discussions can be highly motivating as well. Best of all, students need not have to read the same selection. Rather, the ________________________________________is the topic
.picture
teacher's lesson
common element
technology used
The cat deftly leaped over the wall between the two yards. - CORRECT ANSWER The denotation of a word is its precise meaning. Which is an example of denotation?
The unspoken words were a wall between us.
The cat deftly leaped over the wall between the two yards.
She put up a wall of indifference while the criticisms rained down on her head.
The wildly wavering wall wiggled in the wind.
Always provide a vocabular list - CORRECT ANSWER Mature writers often draw from several content areas regardless of the mode in which they write. The same will be true for much of the writing that students are asked to do. It is important for you, as the teacher, to use effective writing questions and prompts. Which of the following would NOT be considered an effective writing question and/or prompt?
ask students to use prior knowledge and new content knowledge
suggest or specify an audience of readers, real or imaginary
encourage creativity
always provide a vocabulary list
Students focus on meaning in reading and meaning in writing. They are immersed in many language experiences. - CORRECT ANSWER Which of the following is an example of whole language instruction?
Students analyze text to find patterns and syntactic clues
Students learn individual letter sounds, then combinations of letter sounds and the rules for putting these sounds together to make words.
Students focus on meaning in reading and meaning in writing. They are immersed in many language experiences.
Students memorize lists of high-frequency words in order to increase fluency.
Historical Fiction - CORRECT ANSWER Gore Vidal's "Lincoln" makes use of which of the following literary elements?
Frame tale
Historical fiction
Horror
Legend
Avoid posing questions in each reading segment - CORRECT ANSWER The most effective read-alouds are interactive. They encourage discussion at strategic points. It is important to plan carefully, and it is a mistake to assume that all one needs to do is open the book and begin reading. Which of the following is NOT a good suggestion for planning and conducting a read-aloud tied to a content subject?
Read the material carefully beforehand
Avoid posing questions in each reading segment
Make a plan for building and activating background knowledge prior to the read-aloud
Mentally segment the book by thinking ahead about points where you will pause
Periodic Review - CORRECT ANSWER Parents of school-age students can do a great deal to help with developing and maintaining an effective time management plan for the home, and teachers must make every effort to mobilize parents. One of the most important aspects of time management is the need for ________________________.
regular study time
periodic review
administering tests
note taking
Lexiles - CORRECT ANSWER You, as a teacher, can use the Lexile Analyzer to judge the match between a book and a student's reading level. Most tests of reading comprehension, including group achievement measures, now report student scores as __________________.
leptons
lexicon
lexiles
linear text
Latin and Greek - CORRECT ANSWER Mrs. Collins is teaching her 7th grade students about prefixes and suffixes. Prefixes and suffixes may seem like some crazy code. In a way, they are - they are a "code" based on the original______________and _______________.
English and Scottish
Latin and Greek
Italian and Greek
French and English
Tactile, visual and auditory images produced by the words of a literary work - CORRECT ANSWER Which of the following defines imagery?
The method used to express language
Sentence structure
Tactile, visual and auditory images produced by the words of a literary work
Character's feeling towards a certain thing
Relevant Evidence - CORRECT ANSWER Your 7th grade students are about to begin creating an argument for a writing assignment in your Language Arts class. Sound reasoning relies on strong evidence. Evidence is strong if it supports the argument and closely relates to the central idea of an argument - we call that ___________________.
argumentative
complex evidence
relevant evidence
irrelevant evidence
Tone - CORRECT ANSWER In written literature, the reader must understand by the selection and sequence of words the way in which they are meant to be heard (e.g., playfully, angrily or confidently). This attitude of the speaker or author is called:
tone
diction
point of view
voice
A setting which is integral to the plot - CORRECT ANSWER What is a backdrop setting?
A setting which is integral to the plot
A setting that is not essential to the plot
A setting which is used as an illustration
A setting which is literal
trial-and-error strategy - CORRECT ANSWER Pointing out word elements that convey meaning is useful to all students, but it is especially important for English Language Learners (ELLs) to grasp how these elements can give clues to the meaning of content vocabulary. Teachers should not aim for the ELLs to apply strict rules but instead to use which of the following in attempting to infer word meanings?
labeled pictures
a Tree diagram
a Venn diagram
trial-and-error strategy
Menippean satires - CORRECT ANSWER Both Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels can be considered which of the following?
Menippean satires
confessions
romances
legends
Reader-Response - CORRECT ANSWER There are several critical approaches to interpreting text. The approach suggesting that readers respond to the text personally is called which of the following?
literary criticism
shared inquiry
reader-response
biographical criticism
What do you want to write on that sticky note? - CORRECT ANSWER At the end of the week when it is time to put your independent reading books back, Mrs Holt points out to her students, "You may find that you have amassed a collection of sticky notes. The question is, what's worth keeping?" Which of the following would NOT be an appropriate question or prompt to ask your students as they decide what to keep and what to discard when it comes to sticky notes?
Reread what you have.
What seems worth keeping?
What is going to help you?
What do you want to write on that sticky note?
explain the similarities in the piece - CORRECT ANSWER You are a teacher who is planning to choose a reading selection to use with your students at some point in the future. You would select an article or work of literature you might be likely to assign and analyze the selection in terms of all of the following except:
references to other materials
explain the similarities in the piece
new terms introduced
references not fully explained
first half of the 20th century - CORRECT ANSWER In which of the following periods was All Quiet on the Western Front written and first published as a book?
second half of the 20th century
first half of the 20th century
second half of the 19th century
first half of the 19th century
Elegy - CORRECT ANSWER Alfred Lord Tennyson's "In Memoriam" is an example of what type of poetry?
Ballad
Canto
Elegy
Epic
A Checklist of Details - CORRECT ANSWER Comprehension is sometimes assessed by asking a student to retell orally the content of the reading selection. The degree of detail provided and the general coherence of the retelling are used to gauge comprehension. Which of the following is used to record which points the students includes in the retelling?
A checklist of details
A graphic organizer
A maze
A cloze method
He's a very honest man. - CORRECT ANSWER Which of the following sentences best avoids bias?
He's a very honest African-American man.
He's very honest for an African-American man.
He's African-American and very honest.
He's a very honest man.
Classification - CORRECT ANSWER Writing can be organized in multiple ways. Writing that explains relationships between terms or concepts indicates the use of which passage organization format?
Chronological order
Classification
Illustration
Climax
build students' mental models of what goes on in readers' heads and hearts as they read - CORRECT ANSWER Instructional read-alouds presented three or four times per week introduce students to a variety of genres, improve listening and recall skills, and enable you think aloud and model the application reading strategies and issues to different texts. In addition to enlarging students' background knowledge about strategy, topic, and genre, read-alouds do which of the following?
build students' mental models of what goes on in readers' heads and hearts as they read
require large groups or for the one student who needs more explanation
students absorb a specific structure
additional information can alter students' initial opinion
Lexile Framework - CORRECT ANSWER In order to predict serious difficulty in reading, it is necessary to identify a large difference between our estimate of 1) a student's reading level and 2) the readability of assigned materials. A convenient way to apply a readability formula is the __________________________.
Lexile Framework
Digital settings
Reciprocal teaching
Reinforcement
Narratives - CORRECT ANSWER Reserving time to build students' prior knowledge when it is lacking is an instructional practice that can remove comprehension obstacles and enable students to construct meaning while reading materials at their instructional levels. Sometimes you will work with the whole class; other times you will support a small group or an individual. In reading and language arts classes, building prior knowledge and vocabulary often revolves around a genre and its structure, terminology that relates to _________________________.
fiction
fairy tales
fables
narratives
inner conceptualization of the content - CORRECT ANSWER Let's compare the writing process with that of reading. While reading each new sentence, we alter slightly the overall reconstruction of meaning that is mentally forming. While writing, we also alter, with each new sentence, our __________________________.
determination of errors.
benefits of writing.
inner conceptualization of the content.
general reading.
A Homograph - CORRECT ANSWER After his amazing performance with his bow and arrow, William Tell doffed his cap and took a bow.The word "bow" in the sentence above is an example of which?
A homonym
A homograph
A homophone
An antonym
Watch a student for a few minutes during guided practice provides you with information about the level of a student's understanding - CORRECT ANSWER You, as a teacher, want to use prompts that support making connections. You can post these prompts on chart paper or give a typed copy to each student and have them paste it in their literature response journals. Whether discussing books' connections with a partner or reading independently, students can refer to these prompts to foster making connections. Which of the following is NOT an example of a good prompt?
Describe the feelings and thoughts you have that are similar to one or more characters in this book
Watch a student for a few minutes during guided practice provides you with information about the level of a student's understanding
Explain how the setting, plot, conflicts, problems, or characters link you to other books, movies or videos
Show how you and the character have lived through similar situations
the introduction of an analogy - CORRECT ANSWER Abstract ideas are often so far removed from the experiences of students that they prove difficult to grasp. This may even be so when the writing itself is competent and considerate. Which of the following would be an effective strategy to enable students to compare a new abstract idea with one that is familiar and concrete?
the introduction of an analogy
an anecdote
specific facts
marginal notes
Transmission Model - CORRECT ANSWER The theory of learning reading that holds that teachers transmit ideas and information from their heads into the heads of the students is called the:
schema theory
making-meaning model
information- learning model
transmission model
links a dependent clause to an independent clause - CORRECT ANSWER Your 7th grade writing class is learning about complex and compound sentences. You explain to your students that sometimes the clauses in a complex sentence are connected by a subordinating conjunction. A subordinating conjunction (also known as a subordinate conjunction) does which of the following?
links a dangling modifier
links an independent clause to a dependent clause
links a dependent clause to an independent clause
links a subordinating conjunction
the Newberry Medal - CORRECT ANSWER The award given each year for the most distinguished contribution to children's literature published in America is
The Booker Prize.
The Edgar Award.
The Rowling Award.
The Newbery Medal.
does not allow the ESL reader to devote processing resources to comprehension - CORRECT ANSWER Cloze testing involves deleting words from a prose selection and asking students to replace them on the basis of the remaining content. Cloze testing has several important advantages. Which of the following is NOT one of those advantages?
It can be administered in a group setting
it does not require comprehension questions
scores correlate highly with more conventional methods of assessing comprehension
does not allow the ESL reader to devote processing
resources to comprehension
the Gothic Novel - CORRECT ANSWER The literary genre that typically features ghosts, castles, and curses is
Lyric poetry.
The Gothic novel.
The dramatic monologue.
The ode.
Poetry - CORRECT ANSWER In what type of writing is chronological order unnecessary?
Biography
Non-fiction
Newspaper article
Poetry
A Fishbone Organizer - CORRECT ANSWER Which type of graphic organizer would be most effective for illustrating cause and effect?
A story map
A Venn Diagram
A Cluster
A fishbone organizer
We have narrowed our list to the following applicants: Mr. Jones, Ms. Hernandez, and Mr. Baker. - CORRECT ANSWER In which of the following sentences is a colon used correctly?
We have narrowed our list to the following applicants: Mr. Jones, Ms. Hernandez, and Mr. Baker.
The applicants remaining on our list are: Mr. Jones, Ms. Hernandez, and Mr. Baker.
Our list of applicants consists of: Mr. Jones, Ms. Hernandez, and Mr. Baker.
The remaining applicants are: Mr. Jones, Ms. Hernandez, and Mr. Baker.
Summary Writing - CORRECT ANSWER Three relatively teacher-centered approaches have been used successfully in recent years. Providing students with problems to be solved in a traditional mainstay of math and science instruction but can be extended to many disciplines with a little creativity. Which of the following encourages students to integrate content and identify its most important components?
Design and deliver lessons
Purposeful reading
Language Arts
Summary writing
Zeus - CORRECT ANSWER In Greek mythology, who is the god of the sky and thunder that rules Mount Olympus?
Zeus
Apollo
Demeter
Poseidon
Revising - CORRECT ANSWER Jimmy complained, "It sounds to me that you're asking me to rewrite the whole paper!" "No, Jimmy," responded the teacher, "we're only looking to re-organize your thoughts, throw out words that are not necessary, double check the accuracy of your supporting ideas, and add some concrete details, it's no big deal! Good writers do it all the time!" This process is called which of the following?
Prewriting
Drafting
Revising
Peer reviewing
The dog is walking - CORRECT ANSWER Which of the following is NOT an example of personification?
The walls have ears
Money talks
The dog is walking
The trees are screaming
Telegraphic - CORRECT ANSWER According to Noam Chomsky, which of the following is the fourth stage of language development?
Holophrastic
Two-word
Prelinguistic
Telegraphic
T-Charts - CORRECT ANSWER Many kinds of charts are possible, as long as it has rows and columns. You needn't be concerned about whether you are using a particular type of chart. The only important consideration is whether the chart makes sense to your students - whether it helps them think through the content of a reading selection. Which of the following is the simplest of charts?
Multiple-column charts
Flow charts
Tables
T-chart
Aside - CORRECT ANSWER When an actor speaks directly to an audience out of the hearing of the other actors in a play it is called a(n):
soliloquy
aside
parenthesis
monologue
Grandma and I. - CORRECT ANSWER Which of the following is NOT a complete sentence?
Grandma and I.
Grandpa is going to the circus.
Mom will be out of town.
My sister will visit her friend.
helping students switch from e-speak to standard usage - CORRECT ANSWER When students have problems code-switching, one approach is direct instruction, whether the dialects of English have regional or electronic roots. The challenge for teachers has always been to help students switch codes when writing, to move from vernacular to standard usage. Now that challenge also includes which of the following?
helping students blog
helping students become a part of a network
helping students switch from standard usage to e-speak
helping students switch from e-speak to standard usage
How do you know who is speaking here? - CORRECT ANSWER A short-text or whole-book comprehension assessment can help you determine your students' abilities when it comes to determining importance in nonfiction texts. After students read a portion of a text or a whole text, you can ask them to respond to questions in writing or aloud. Some of the questions or prompts you may consider using are all of the following except:
What is this text (or chapter or book) mostly about?What is the main idea?
Please summarize what you have read so far.
How do you know who is speaking here?
Go into critical mode - CORRECT ANSWER After developing their argumentative essays, you have asked your students to share them with the class. You have decided to have your students work in small groups of three or four and read one another's essays. Sharing and discussion should be shaped by a few ground rules, however, that are simple. Which of the following would NOT be a good ground rule to emphasize to your students for this process?
read without preconceptions
go into critical mode
read from a neutral viewpoint
use positive rather than negative criticism
William Shakespeare - CORRECT ANSWER Which of the following authors is NOT considered an existentialist?
Franz Kafka
Fyodor Dostoevsky
William Shakespeare
Jean-Paul Sartre
the author's birth date - CORRECT ANSWER There are several different styles of citation, and different teachers like different styles. However, most teachers ask for a page at the end of a report with citations of all the research resources used. Each citation must include all of the following except:
the author's birth date
the author
the title of the work
the publisher
science fiction - CORRECT ANSWER The type of fiction that deals with current or future technology and its advances or threats is which of the following?
myth
horror
fantasy
science fiction
nonlinear - CORRECT ANSWER Imagine a computerized textbook, one in which all the material, complete with graphics, appears onscreen. Readers could scroll through it in a linear way, exactly as they might read a conventional text, but a computer format offers much more. It enables the reader to branch to other text and resources on demand, making one's progress through the material_________________as alternative pathways are explored.
nonremote
nonconformed
nonlinear
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