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FTCE: Elementary Education (Florida

Teacher Certification Examination)

The reading process is made up of these five components: - CORRECT ANSWER Phonemic Awareness, Fluency, Phonics, Comprehension, and Vocabulary. LAR Skill 1. Components of Emergent Literacy are: - CORRECT ANSWER Print Awareness, Print Motivation, Oral Language, Letter Knowledge, Phonological awareness, Narrative skills. LAR Skill 1. Emergent Literacy - CORRECT ANSWER Consists of reading-related knowldge and skills that children develop prior to formal instruction in reading. LAR Skill 1. Print Motivation - CORRECT ANSWER Interest in and enjoyment of printed materials. LAR Skill 1. Print Awareness - CORRECT ANSWER Interest and interaction with print; pretending to read. LAR Skill 1. Listening and Oral Vocabularies - CORRECT ANSWER Words understood when heard; words used in speech. LAR Skill 1. Narrative Skills - CORRECT ANSWER Ability to retell storeis or describe events. LAR Skill 1. Letter Knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER Understand letter names and sahpes. LAR Skill 1.

LAR Skill 1. Marie M. Clay developed a formal procedure for what? - CORRECT ANSWER For observing a child's behavior with bookjs to determine the extent of a child's print-related concepts. LAR Skill 1. Marie M. Clay's formal procedures include assessment cheks such as? - CORRECT ANSWER If the child can: Find the title of a book, show where to start reading and locate the last page or end of the book. LAR Skill 1. A critical pre-reading skill is being able to indicate the directionality of what? - CORRECT ANSWER Print LAR Skill 1. Readers in the U.S. must start where on the page and read to where? - CORRECT ANSWER The left side of the page and read to the right. LAR Skill 1. How can teachers or parents model directionality in reading? - CORRECT ANSWER By passing hteir hadns or fingers under the words or sentences as they read aloud. LAR Skill 1. What four dimensions does language have? - CORRECT ANSWER Speaking, listening, reading, and writing LAR Skill 1. Oral language is the subset of what? - CORRECT ANSWER Language

LAR Skill 1. Oral language has two dimensions, which are: - CORRECT ANSWER Speaking and listening LAR Skill 1. Listening is the precursor to what? - CORRECT ANSWER Speaking LAR Skill 1. Children have to _____________ language before they can speak it. - CORRECT ANSWER Hear LAR Skill 1. Why is oral language important? - CORRECT ANSWER It provides the mental framework for what words mean and how language works. LAR Skill 1. Oral language starts where? - CORRECT ANSWER At home LAR Skill 1. What did Hart and Risley investigate in the way of socialeconmic status level? - CORRECT ANSWER The number and kind of words children heard in terms of their SES. LAR Skill 1. What are the components of oral language? - CORRECT ANSWER Phonological awareness, semantic understanding, syntactic understanding, and pragmatics. LAR Skill 1. Phonological Awareness - CORRECT ANSWER A broad understanding of the sound of language and occurs as children begin to hear speech sounds and play with them.

(What sound is the same in these words? top, ten, tall) LAR Skill 1. Phonemic Categorization - CORRECT ANSWER Recognition of similar sounds and choosing he different sound. (Which word doesn't beleong? dip, dime, sun) LAR Skill 1. Phonemic Addition / Subtraction - CORRECT ANSWER Making a new word by adding or subtracting a phoneme. (What word is "stop" without /s/? What word do you get if you add /s/ to the beginning of "top"?) LAR Skill 1. Phonemic Blending - CORRECT ANSWER Combining phonemes into a word. (What word is /c/ /a/ /t/? ) LAR Skill 1. Phonemic Segmentation - CORRECT ANSWER Breaking words into separte phonems. (how many sounds are in stop?) LAR Skill 1. Phonemic Substitution - CORRECT ANSWER Replacing one phoneme with another to make a new word. (What word is formed if the /t/ in tap is replaced with /m/?) LAR Skill 1. When children understand how oral language works, what do they begin to connect? - CORRECT ANSWER They begin to connect that knowledge to print.

LAR Skill 1. Shared reading can help children gain what? - CORRECT ANSWER It can help children gain an understanding that printed words represent speech. LAR Skill 1. Alphabet knowledge involves understanding what? - CORRECT ANSWER The relationship between letters and sounds. LAR Skill 1. Alphabetic Principle - CORRECT ANSWER The understanding that written words are composed of letters and that groups of letters represenet the sounds of spoken words. LAR Skill 1. How many phonemes are in the English Language? - CORRECT ANSWER 44 LAR Skill 1. The English alphabet has how many letters? - CORRECT ANSWER 26 LAR Skill 1. There is an exact one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds. True or False? - CORRECT ANSWER False. LAR Skill 1. Alphabet knowledge is a precursor to what? - CORRECT ANSWER Decoding. LAR Skill 1. Decoding is the application of the alphabetic principle to correctly say or read written words with understanding. True or False? - CORRECT ANSWER True

LAR Skill 1. Books read aloud to young children are more likely to be what? - CORRECT ANSWER Fictional narrrative stories rather than nonfiction informational text. LAR Skill 1. Knowledge of narrative story structure includes what? - CORRECT ANSWER Understanding that a story has a beginning and an end, setting, plot, chartactetrs, theme, and style. LAR Skill 1. Understanding text structures provide a framework for what? - CORRECT ANSWER Comprehension. LAR Skill 1. Children begin to see that they can express their own ideas by writing letters once they make a connection between what? - CORRECT ANSWER Letters and reading. LAR Skill 1. Children need to gain hand-eye coordination to begin to what? - CORRECT ANSWER Write, usually in crude letter formaitons. LAR Skill 1. Children learn to copy words to prepare for what? - CORRECT ANSWER For copying patterned sentences. LAR Skill 1. What are the correct components of emerging literacy? - CORRECT ANSWER Print motivation, print awareness, listening and oral vocabularies, narrative skills, letter knowledge, phonological awareness. LAR RQ 1

Mrs. Jackson's second grade class is working on the following skills: accuracy, automaticcity, rate, and procsody. What aspect of language arts are they learning? - CORRECT ANSWER Fluency LAR RQ 2 Which type and example of figurative langauge are correctly matched? (A)Alliteration: BRRRR! It's cold. (B)Onomatopoeia: The sun smiled on the sleepy village. (C)Similie: She was like a bull in a china shop. (D)Personification: He was the pciture of health. - CORRECT ANSWER (C) Simile: She was like a bull in a china shop. LAR RQ 3 Lucy selected a book to read. The book uses animals as characters and ends with a moral. What type of book did Lucy read? - CORRECT ANSWER Fable LAR RQ 4 Caroline's teacher told her that she needed to work on the convensions of writing. What does her teacher want her to do? - CORRECT ANSWER Improve spelling, grammar or punctuation. LAR RQ 5 First-grade student Luis wrote the following sentence: He runned up the hill. The use of the word runned is an error of _______________? - CORRECT ANSWER Syntax LAR RQ 6 Mr. Thompson is using a formative assessment with his 3rd-grade class. What is Mr. Thompson most likely to be using? - CORRECT ANSWER A feedback prompt.

Ms. Brown is looking for some materials for her geography class. She finds several types of something to use. The types are conic, cylindrical, interrupted, and plane. What is Ms. Brown examining? - CORRECT ANSWER Map projections SS RQ 5 What legal decision laid the groundwork for school desegregation? - CORRECT ANSWER Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka SS RQ 6 Mr. Jackson's class is learning about different kinds of goernment. Today they are learning about a weak central government that delegates principal authority to smaller units such as states. What is the focus of the lesson? - CORRECT ANSWER Confederation Government SS RQ 7 Who was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court? - CORRECT ANSWER Sandra Day O'Conner SS RQ 8 a country's economy slowed and then continued with increased unemployment. This exemplifies - CORRECT ANSWER recession. SS RQ 9 What best describes the study of economic issues specific to a household, firm, or industry?

• CORRECT ANSWER Macroeconomics SS RQ 10 Which of the following best exemplifies research-based teaching strategies in science? (A) Mr. Smith has divided his third-grade class into groups. Each group has been given an egg and some simple building materials. Each group needs to research, create, and test

structures to protect the egg to see which egg can survive the greatest drop. After completing all the drops, students will explain which structure worked best and why. (B) Ms. Van Allen's fifth-grade class is going on a field trip to the local zoo. Each student is told to sketch one animal while she or he is at the zoo. In addition, each student should write a three-page research report describing the animal. (C) Ms. Toll's second-grade class is learning about magnets. Ms. Toll has found three books about magnets. She has assigned groups of students to read one of the books about magnets based on their reading levels. After the students read the books, - CORRECT ANSWER (A) Mr. Smith has divided his third-grade class into groups. Each group has been given an egg and some simple building materials. Each group needs to research, create, and test structures to protect the egg to see which egg can survive the greatest drop. After completing all the drops, students will explain which structure worked best and why. S RQ 1 Ms. Colson is reviewing policies for safety in teaching her students fifth-grade science. Which policy needs to be changed? (A) Replace glass beakers with polyethylene containers. (B) Replace mercury thermometers with alcohol thermometers. (C) Include the use of human cells for microscopic observation. (D) Prevent students from tasting mineral samples. - CORRECT ANSWER Include the use of human cells for microscopic observation. S RQ 2 Mr. Light's fifth-grade class is doing an experiment with plant growth. he divided students into groups. Each group got two daisy seeds from the same package of seeds. The groups all had the same kind of soil and planted them at the same time on the same day. The plants were in the same classroom. each plant got the same amount of liquids each day. However, each plant got a different type of liquid. The students measured the plants each week for six weeks. What was the independent variable? - CORRECT ANSWER The type of liquid.

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Ms. Caprio's class is learning about the integumentary system. What does Ms. Caprio most likely teach? - CORRECT ANSWER Biology. S RQ 9 What is an example of an autotroph? - CORRECT ANSWER An apple tree. S RQ 10 Ms. Ramirez shows a student the a picture of five suns scattered and asks, "Without counting, what do you think is the best CORRECT ANSWER er for the number of items? Two, Five, or Ten?" What is the focus of the question? - CORRECT ANSWER Subitizing M RQ 1 Mr. Hilton will be using Cuisenaire rods with his class today. The content of the lesson is most likely to be - CORRECT ANSWER basic mathematical operations. M RQ 2 Which of the following key phrases is correctly matched with the operation it signals? (A) decreased by; division (B) decreased by a factor of; subtraction (C) how many to each; addition (D) product; division - CORRECT ANSWER decreased by a factor of; subtraction M RQ 3 In terms of number theory concepts and properties, which of the following is true?

(A) The multiplicative identity property of 0 and the additive identity property of 1 are key properties of whole numbers. (B) A number is divisible by 6 if it is divisible by both 2 and 3. (C) The only factors of a composite number are the number itself and 1. (D) The factors of any whole number are the results of multiplying that whole number by the counting numbers. - CORRECT ANSWER A number is divisible by 6 if it is divisible by both 2 and 3. M RQ 4 Mr. Foret has written the following on the board: 3.6 x 10^5. Mr. Foret's lesson is most likely on the subject of - CORRECT ANSWER scientific notation M RQ 5 What is true of systems and units of measurement? - CORRECT ANSWER Capacity is another name for volume. M RQ 6 What is true of measures of central tendency? - CORRECT ANSWER To determine the range, subtract the smallest number in the set from the highest number. M RQ 7 A team of 3 students is working on a science project. They need to compare the distrance from the sun to the earth and the heart to the moon in metric units. What unit would be best for them to use? - CORRECT ANSWER Kilometer M RQ 8 What is true of ordered pairs in the four quadrants fo a rectangular coordinate system? - CORRECT ANSWER The center of he coordinate platne is caalled the orgin. M RQ 9

A. productivity B. administrative C. instructional D. mobile - CORRECT ANSWER A. productivity Productivity software allows teachers to use tools to increase efficiency and time management. Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test Which of the following is most similar in meaning to the word "genre"? A. theme of a story B. setting of a story C. type of story D. response to story - CORRECT ANSWER C. type of story A genre is a particular type of written work. Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test What is the literary device used to compare things directly, without use of words such as "like" or "as"? A. simile

B. metaphor C. personification D. alliteration - CORRECT ANSWER B. metaphor A metaphor is used to compare things without using the words "like" or "as." Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test Which of the following is a major component of syntax? A. rules for associating graphemes with phonemes B. rules for describing the meaning of individual words C. rules for determining the correct order of words in sentences D. rules for analyzing the sounds of a language - CORRECT ANSWER C. rules for determining the correct order of words in sentences Syntax includes rules governing the correct order of words in sentences. Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test Mary, a second grader, reads with very little expression or variability in pitch, and she often introduces pauses at inappropriate places. In what aspect of language does she most clearly need improvement? A. syntax