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FTCE: Elementary Education (Florida
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The reading process is made up of these five components: - ANS-Phonemic Awareness, Fluency, Phonics, Comprehension, and Vocabulary. LAR Skill 1. Components of Emergent Literacy are: - ANS-Print Awareness, Print Motivation, Oral Language, Letter Knowledge, Phonological awareness, Narrative skills. LAR Skill 1. Emergent Literacy - ANS-Consists of reading-related knowldge and skills that children develop prior to formal instruction in reading. LAR Skill 1. Print Motivation - ANS-Interest in and enjoyment of printed materials. LAR Skill 1. Print Awareness - ANS-Interest and interaction with print; pretending to read. LAR Skill 1. Listening and Oral Vocabularies - ANS-Words understood when heard; words used in speech. LAR Skill 1. Narrative Skills - ANS-Ability to retell storeis or describe events. LAR Skill 1. Letter Knowledge - ANS-Understand letter names and sahpes. LAR Skill 1. Phonological Awareness - ANS-Ability to understand the sound of language and manipulate or play with speech sounds.
LAR Skill 1. Up to age 5, children are exposed to reading and learn about it without reading. What are some examples of this? - ANS-Print differs from other visual patterns. Books contain print. Readers glean infomration from print. Print can be translated into speech. Reading follows certain conventions. LAR Skill 1. Emergent literacy forms the foundation of future reading and writing development. True or False? - ANS-True LAR Skill 1. Emergent literacy is understood to develop at individual rates. True or False? - ANS- True LAR Skill 1. Certain criteria that could determine whether or not a child is ready for reading include: - ANS-Concepts of print, oral language development, and understanding of the alphabetic principle; the relationship between letters (graphemes) and the sounds they represent (phonemes) LAR Skill 1. Grapheme - ANS-The relationship between letters. LAR Skill 1. Phoneme - ANS-The sounds that letters represent. LAR Skill 1. Marie M. Clay developed a formal procedure for what? - ANS-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? - ANS-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.
What did Hart and Risley investigate in the way of socialeconmic status level? - ANS- The number and kind of words children heard in terms of their SES. LAR Skill 1. What are the components of oral language? - ANS-Phonological awareness, semantic understanding, syntactic understanding, and pragmatics. LAR Skill 1. Phonological Awareness - ANS-A broad understanding of the sound of language and occurs as children begin to hear speech sounds and play with them. LAR Skill 1. Semantic Understanding - ANS-Understanding the morphology or meanings of words: vocabulary. LAR Skill 1. Syntactic Understanding - ANS-Understanding the rules for using words in sentences: grammar. LAR Skill 1. Pragmatics - ANS-Understanding the social and cultural use of langauge. LAR Skill 1. Phonological awareness sub-skills include: - ANS-Children should be able to distinguish between spoken language from other environmental sounds and focusing on the structure of syllables in words and onset/rime tasks. LAR Skill 1. What happens next when children increase their phonological awareness? - ANS-They begin to develop their phonemic awareness. LAR Skill 1. How is a phoneme represented? - ANS-As a letter within slashes (i.e. /b/) LAR Skill 1. Phonemic Isolation - ANS-Recognition of individual sounds.
(What is the first sound in top?) LAR Skill 1. Phonemic Identification - ANS-Recognition of the same sounds. (What sound is the same in these words? top, ten, tall) LAR Skill 1. Phonemic Categorization - ANS-Recognition of similar sounds and choosing he different sound. (Which word doesn't beleong? dip, dime, sun) LAR Skill 1. Phonemic Addition / Subtraction - ANS-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 - ANS-Combining phonemes into a word. (What word is /c/ /a/ /t/? ) LAR Skill 1. Phonemic Segmentation - ANS-Breaking words into separte phonems. (how many sounds are in stop?) LAR Skill 1. Phonemic Substitution - ANS-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? - ANS-They begin to connect that knowledge to print. LAR Skill 1. Shared reading can help children gain what? - ANS-It can help children gain an understanding that printed words represent speech.
LAR Skill 1. Morphemic Awareness - ANS-Dividing words into units of meaning. LAR Skill 1. Ease of decoding contripbutes to comprehension. True or False? - ANS-True. LAR Skill 1. Motivation is defined as? - ANS-Enthusiasm or the reason for behavior. LAR Skill 1. Motivation in emergent literacy is demonstrated when? - ANS-Children show interest in print materials and enjoy them. LAR Skill 1. Motivators for emergent literacy include: - ANS-Family or other adults, a sense of community and rewards. LAR Skill 1. Books read aloud to young children are more likely to be what? - ANS-Fictional narrrative stories rather than nonfiction informational text. LAR Skill 1. Knowledge of narrative story structure includes what? - ANS-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? - ANS-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? - ANS-Letters and reading. LAR Skill 1. Children need to gain hand-eye coordination to begin to what? - ANS-Write, usually in crude letter formaitons.
LAR Skill 1. Children learn to copy words to prepare for what? - ANS-For copying patterned sentences. LAR Skill 1. What are the correct components of emerging literacy? - ANS-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? - ANS-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. - ANS-(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? - ANS-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? - ANS-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 _______________? - ANS-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? - ANS-A feedback prompt.
What legal decision laid the groundwork for school desegregation? - ANS-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? - ANS-Confederation Government SS RQ 7 Who was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court? - ANS-Sandra Day O'Conner SS RQ 8 a country's economy slowed and then continued with increased unemployment. This exemplifies - ANS-recession. SS RQ 9 What best describes the study of economic issues specific to a household, firm, or industry? - ANS-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, - ANS- (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. - ANS-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? - ANS-The type of liquid. S RQ 3 Mr. Hirumi is using a STEM-based approach with his third-grade class. What would you expect to see students doing in his classroom? - ANS-Researching and identifying. S RQ 4 Which physical science property term is correctly defined? (A) Mass is defined as the space occupied by an object. (B) Weight is defined as how much there is of an object. (C) Density is defined as the ratio of mass to volume. (D) Viscosity is defined as a measure of density. - ANS-Density is defined as the ratio of mass to volume. S RQ 5 Which phase of change of matter is incorrectly matched to its definition? (A) Sublimation occurs when a solid changes to gas through addition of heat. (B) Melting occurs when a gas changes to liquid through subtraction of heat. (C) Evaporation occurs when a liquid becomes a gas through addition of heat. (D) Freezing occurs when a liquid changes to a solid through subtraction of heat. - ANS- Melting occurs when a gas changes to liquid through subtraction of heat. S RQ 6
(D) The factors of any whole number are the results of multiplying that whole number by the counting numbers. - ANS-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 - ANS-scientific notation M RQ 5 What is true of systems and units of measurement? - ANS-Capacity is another name for volume. M RQ 6 What is true of measures of central tendency? - ANS-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? - ANS-Kilometer M RQ 8 What is true of ordered pairs in the four quadrants fo a rectangular coordinate system? - ANS-The center of he coordinate platne is caalled the orgin. M RQ 9 Which of the following statements are true regarding the ability to interpret tables, graphs, equations, and verbal descriptions of real world situations? I. A bar graph is used to rack one or more subjects, usually over time. II. Aline graph depicts percentages of a particular subject. III. All of the slices within a circle graph show the totality of a quantity. IV. A table organizes large amounts of information. - ANS-All of the slices within a circle graph show the totality of a quantity. A table organizes large amounts of information. M RQ 10 Mrs. Hilton is teaching her fifth-grade class a strategy for listening. Which of the following is she teaching?
A. SQ3R
B. SLANT
C. i before e, except after c D. Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally - ANS-B. SLANT SLANT is an acronym for "Sit up, Lean forward, Ask Questions, Nod yes and no, and Talk with Teachers." It is a strategy used for improving listening skills. Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test Mr. Sangalli is preparing a lesson for his class using a word processing program and PowerPoint. This saves him time and effort. What kind of software is he using? A. productivity B. administrative C. instructional D. mobile - ANS-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 - ANS-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"?
B. Students will thereby have more shared experiences to discuss with each other. C. Students already know everything they need to know when encountering most texts. D. Students engage a text more readily when they have a personal connection to it. - ANS-D. Students engage a text more readily when they have a personal connection to it. Students more readily connect with texts that reflect their own experiences. Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test Which of the following levels is higher than the others in Bloom's Revised Taxonomy? A. understanding B. evaluating C. analyzing D. remembering - ANS-B. evaluating Evaluating is the second highest level in Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test For a unit on Ancient Greece, the Social Studies and Language Arts teachers plan to collaborate. Which of the following literature would be most suitable for the unit? A. translated poetry by Greek authors B. biographies of famous Greeks C. timelines of Greek history D. maps of ancient Greece - ANS-B. biographies of famous Greeks Timelines and maps should be eliminated because they reflect dates, rather than people. While poetry may be important, biographies would be most relevant and engaging. Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test Susan is a second-grade student learning to write a paragraph. Which of the following is not involved in this process?
A. semantic knowledge B. syntactic knowledge C. large motor skills D. memory - ANS-C. large motor skills Writing involves small motor skills, not large motor skills. Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test Ms. Kingston is giving her students an assessment to determine if they are developing at the correct pace with the instruction she is currently using. What kind of assessment is Ms. Kingston using? A. screening B. diagnostic C. progress monitoring D. outcome measure - ANS-C. progress monitoring Progress monitoring is used to assess students' academic progress within the current instructional environment. Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test Mr. Perkins teaches third grade. In teaching today's reading lesson, he begins with brief direct instruction on a "teaching point." Students practice the skill and Mr. Perkins conferences with individual students to coach skills and provide feedback on practice. What strategy is Mr. Perkins using? A. reading workshop B. reading centers C. immediate intensive intervention D. project-based learning - ANS-A. reading workshop Reading workshops involve a "teaching point," practice, and conferencing with students. Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test
Third-grade student Lisa has a writing assignment for homework. She is supposed to write a story about her adventures in an imaginary place. The focus of this assignment is which kind of writing? A. expository B. creative narrative C. personal narrative D. descriptive - ANS-B. creative narrative Creative narrative writing is writing from the imagination. Skill: Knowledge of Language and the Writing Process Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test Mr. Caldwell's class is learning about intellectual property. What concept is most closely related to that topic? A. figurative language B. copyright C. phonemic awareness D. literary genre - ANS-B. copyright Copyright is related to intellectual property. Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test Which of these would yield information about percentiles or stanine scores? A. teacher-designed test B. standardized test C. performance-based measure D. informal assessment - ANS-B. standardized test Standardized tests by definition are based on normative data and can be used to identify percentile rankings of individual students. Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test
What does it mean to say that a student scored in the 72nd percentile on a test? A. The student scored better than 72% of the comparison group. B. The student scored worse than 72% of the comparison group. C. The student scored 72% correct items on the test. D. The student scored an average 72% across test items. - ANS-A. The student scored better than 72% of the comparison group. The percentile ranking refers to the percentage on one's peers that one has outperformed. Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test The ability to hear and identify individual sounds in words is known as A. fluency. B. comprehension. C. phonemic awareness. D. screening. - ANS-C. phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and identify individual sounds. Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test Worksheets, writings, and projects could all be included in A. a screening. B. a portfolio. C. a running record. D. norm-referenced. - ANS-B. a portfolio. Portfolios are collections of students' best work. Like a portfolio created by an artist, model, or performer, a student portfolio provides a succinct picture of the child's achievements over a certain period. Language Arts and Reading, Diagnostic Test
