FTCE Subject Area K-6 Language Arts | 280 Questions with 100% Correct Answers.
A teacher and class write a language experience story about their trip
... [Show More] to the zoo.
The class reads the story together as the teacher sweeps a hand along the lines of
text. This is a good practice activity to develop_______ Correct Answer: Print
Concept
Which word recognition skill would be most effective for teaching the following
words; "disagreeable, reappearance, substandard, intramural" Correct Answer:
Structural analysis
Which of the following skills should students use to decode the following words
"infiltrate, intervene, disarm, transport" Correct Answer: Structural analysis and
phonics
A teacher who provides direct word study instruction beginning with vowelconsonant and consonant-vowel-consonant words and progressing to consonantconsonant-consonant-vowel-consonant and consonant-consonant-consonantvowel-consonant-consonant words is using Correct Answer: Explicit Systematic
instruction
When reading a book to a kindergartner, a teacher changes tone of voice to show
different characters, pauses at commas, and changes pitch to show punctuation.
Which component of fluency is the teacher demonstrating Correct Answer:
Prosody
On Friday afternoons, students in a 4th grade reading class reread a story selection
with a classmate, then read in unison with each other, and finally, choose a new
book to read together. This activity is called Correct Answer: Shared Reading
In a 6th grade language arts lesson on storytelling, a teacher wants students to use
visual representations in lieu of words to tell their autobiography. Which of the
following activities would best match the learning objective? Correct Answer:
Creating a picture book
Which activity would best help students to understand the authors organization of
content-area test? Correct Answer: Preview topics and subtopics
A 1st grade teacher is reading a big book to students. While reading, the teacher
moves a pointer under the words. On which emergent literacy concept is the
teacher focusing? Correct Answer: Directionality
A teacher's class has written a paragraph about their summer vacation. The teacher
has asked that they reread their paragraphs and check carefully for mechanical
errors. This teacher is teaching the class to Correct Answer: Edit
Which mode of writing consists of the main focus as entertaining including stories,
poems, and plays? Correct Answer: Narrative writing
A teacher is concerned about a student and feels there may be difficulties that are
interfering with their academic work. The teacher does want to draw attention to
the student and feels writing about it would be most effective in opening a line of
communication between the teacher and the student in this scenario? Correct
Answer: Dialogue Journal
Which of the following words is spelled incorrectly? Correct Answer: Separate
Which of the following assessment procedures would most effectively measure
students understanding of the word meaning? Correct Answer: Sentence
generation using the words
Which of the following assessment methods is an individual, informal observation
in which a teacher indicates a students oral reading behavior using a series of
check marks and notes? Correct Answer: A fluency inventory
Shondra is a 5th grader who is struggling with a reading assignment. Her teacher
wants to give her extra help and thus accumulated the following test information:
Percentile Stanine
Vocabulary 52 4
Comprehension 38 3
Reading analysis 83 7
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Comments: Shondra has good word attack skills, but she does not seem to
remember what she reads. What strategy would be most helpful for Shondra?
Correct Answer: Teacher the student comprehension strategies such as prediction
and self questioning.
The correlation between the results of a final exam and the results of a
standardized test taken just prior to the final is -0.65. Bases on this information,
which is the most likely conclusion? Correct Answer: The standardized test and
the final exam appear to be measuring different content
A student scored at the 80th percentile on a standardized reading achievement test.
This indicated that the student Correct Answer: Scored as well as or better than
80% of the norming group
An activity in which the participants read aloud a selection as though it were a play
is a Correct Answer: Readers theatre
While reviewing beginning of the year test data, a kindergarten teacher notices that
the students were unable to consistently hear initial sounds in words. Which of the
following activities would help develop this skill? Correct Answer: Listening to
tongue twisters
Which of the following is a measure of a students emergent oral skill set? Correct
Answer: Nonsense word Fluency
Which of the following elements of legibility would a students use to analyze their
own handwriting? Correct Answer: Alignment
Which of the following best describes passive listening? Correct Answer:
Listening to a book on CD and wearing headphones for privacy
Which of the following skills are both productive? Correct Answer: Writing and
Speaking
A student write the following "I wnt to da bech" Which type of writing is this?
Correct Answer: String Letters
Which of the following activities would be most effective in stimulating the
development of oral language for primary students? Correct Answer: using
puppets to retell or create stories.
Which of the following has the strongest influence on a child's ability to
understand stories that are read or told to the child? Correct Answer: Language
Development
A teacher has a small group of 1st grade students who have very limited sight word
and few decoding skills. Select the most effective strategies the teacher can use to
develop their word recognition skills. Correct Answer: Labeling objects in the
classroom, molding books that have controlled vocabularies, and providing explicit
phonics instruction
A teacher develops a set of word cards emphasizing the -at sound. He identities the
first words as bat. Each of the next few words contain the -at sound but has a
different beginning letter. The teacher ask students to read words. If a student
cannot read the word, the teacher points out the letter differences and how the
pronunciation of each word changes when the beginning consonant letter is
changed. The teacher is teaching the students to use Correct Answer:
Graphophonemic cues
Which of the following is the best definitions of prosody? Correct Answer: A
linguistic term that describes they rhythmic patterns of speech using changes in
pitch, stress, and duration
A 4th grade teacher wants students to read with fluency and in expression. To
achieve this objective, the teacher reads aloud every day. This type of instructional
strategy is called Correct Answer: Modeling. [Show Less]