PECT PreK-4 Practice Test Module 2 (100% Verified)
A teacher is planning instruction to promote four-year-olds' development of skills related to
... [Show More] Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standard about reading, analyzing, and interpreting text. With children at this developmental level, which of the following approaches to a read-aloud activity would be most appropriate for the teacher to use to develop the children's conceptual understanding of fact and opinion?
A. having the children identify characters who demonstrate examples of faulty reasoning in a fable
B. asking the children to decide which statements related to an article in a children's nature magazine are true or false
C. helping the children tell one thing they learned from a nonfiction text
D. showing the children how to differentiate between essential and nonessential information in a nonfiction children's picture book - C
A fourth-grade teacher would like to promote reluctant readers' independent reading. Which of the following teacher strategies is likely to be most effective in achieving this goal?
A. engaging students in discussions about their interests and working with the library media specialist to locate appropriate-level books on these topics
B. reading aloud a variety of books from the classroom library on a regular basis and engaging students in discussions related to the read-alouds
C. creating attractive displays of both fiction and nonfiction books and magazines in the classroom library and regularly inviting students to browse the displays
D. providing opportunities for students to visit the school's library media center and to learn about the center's resources and organization - A
A third-grade teacher regularly models for students how to paraphrase a portion of a text and how to pose and respond to questions that clarify or follow up on information presented in a text. These practices promote students' literacy
development primarily by:
A. supporting their development of dispositions and attitudes that help create a purposeful, literate environment in the classroom.
B. enhancing their knowledge of the organizational structure of different types of text.
C. promoting their development of self-monitoring skills that support reading and learning across the curriculum.
D. fostering their ability to make connections between the reading curriculum and their lives. - C
A first-grade teacher explains that he is going to read a story aloud and he wants students to consider how the story makes them feel. Afterward, he prompts the students to recall and discuss specific words and phrases the author used to evoke particular feelings. This oral language activity supports students' literacy development primarily by helping the students:
A. retell a story's key events accurately.
B. make and verify predictions about a story.
C. connect key events in a story to their own lives.
D. develop an awareness of a story's tone. - D
A kindergarten teacher has placed many signs around the classroom, including
simple written directions (e.g., Please hang up coats!) and labels for objects (e.g.,
clock, Teacher's chair). During daily activities, the teacher regularly points to and
reads aloud relevant signs. The teacher has also created a classroom library filled
with age-appropriate books and has incorporated relevant signs and books into all
the learning centers. These strategies are most effective in addressing which of
the following goals related to effective instruction in emergent literacy? [Show Less]