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How to help first graders learn about community? a. Invite a guest speaker to come in and speak about their roles shared in the community b. Create a list of responsibilities shared with adults at home c. Discuss the community roles within the school between upper grades - ANSWERSA You ask a student to look at a book without words and orally tell a story just by looking at pictures. Which ability are you assessing? a. Concept of print b. Story Structure c. Phonics d. None of the above - ANSWERSB A boy reads slowly but accurately. What is an appropriate intervention? a. Repeated reading on a text that is at his independent level b. Echo read of a text at his instructional level c. Group reading d. None of the above - ANSWERSA If a child struggles with fluency, what can you expect? a. The student will struggle with comprehension b. The student will struggle with phonics c. The student will struggle with vocabulary d. The student will never learn to read - ANSWERSA
A teacher has her students crouch when the music is low and stand on their tiptoes when the music is high. What musical concept is she reinforcing? a. Tempo b. Pitch c. Timbre d. Dynamics - ANSWERSB A class goes on a field trip to a supermarket. The produce manager explains to the class that fruits are grown in other areas and then transported to the store. Which activity would further the student's knowledge of spatial interaction? a. Research the climates of the areas the fruits come from b. Chart the different modes of transportation used to move the fruit c. Study the food traditions in the different areas d. Find the location of where different fruits are grown and map how they get to the store - ANSWERSD A first grade class visits a pet store. Once returning back to the classroom the students are broken up into various groups for different jobs. After this, the teacher holds a discussion on their activities. What topic is the teacher laying the foundation for in future years? a. Opportunity cost b. Universal needs c. Economic interdependence d. Disposable income - ANSWERSC A teacher wants to connect a science unit with social studies. The students are charting a plant's growth. Which concept is the teacher targeting? a. Time b. Continuity c. Location d. Environment - ANSWERSA
a. Make a poster with a timeline of your birth to your kindergarten years b. Have a discussion about the presidents of the U.S. c. Watch a video and answer questions about timelines d. None of the above - ANSWERSA Young children often begin to recognize words that they see like names of restaurants and toy stores or names of cereal on the boxes. This type of familiar print is referred to as: a. Visual literacy b. Frequency literacy c. Environmental print d. Morphemes - ANSWERSC Which of the following design elements would you teach in correlation with a math unit? a. Harmony b. Variety c. Rhythm d. Pattern - ANSWERSD A kindergarten teacher wants her students to understand that words are made up of smaller sound units or syllables. Which of the following questions should the teacher use to work on phonological awareness? a. Which of the following words rhymes with sunny? b. Can you give me another word that starts with the same sound as seven? c. First say older, now add sh. What is the new word? d. Say tiger. Now say "ti" and then say "ger." - ANSWERSD Which phonics unit should be taught last? a. Silent e combinations b. Silent consonants c. Consonant digraphs
d. Consonant blends - ANSWERSB What is an appropriate art activity for kindergarten? a. Silk screening b. Woodworking c. Stamping d. Etching - ANSWERSC How is a student demonstrating civic responsibility/being a good citizen? a. Raising his hand in class b. Clean up for recycling c. Behaving while walking down the hallway d. Voting to pick the class field trip - ANSWERSB What is it called when a student speaks alone on stage during a play? a. Monologue b. Recitation c. Commentary d. Exhortation - ANSWERSA During a first grade social studies lesson, a child mentions that she lives near the city library. The teacher could take this time to reinforce which social studies concept? a. Location b. Region c. Community d. Habitat – ANSWERSC Which is most likely to interrupt a student's reading fluency? a. Text is too much to read in one sitting
d. Talk about dancers in history - ANSWERSA What is the purpose in teaching students civic education? a. To show students that laws are created by members of society and are constantly changing b. To show that laws are a specific set of rules by which a society operates c. To review important historical events - ANSWERSA Which activity boosts child's vocabulary development? a. Flipping through a picture book and making up a story b. Playing and interacting with other students--social stories/play c. Talking with adults - ANSWERSB What marked the change from 18th century farm workers in Western PA to 19th century steel workers? a. Technological advances b. Cultural infusion c. Loss of resources - ANSWERSA A fourth grade teacher is moving her students from learning to read to reading to learn. She wants them to read a passage independently to themselves. What should she do to scaffold this activity? a. Have students raise their hand when they need help b. Provide an outline that details the main ideas of each section c. Review the headings and subheadings with students before they begin reading d. Have students read it on their own and then answer comprehension questions - ANSWERSC Which would be an appropriate initial assessment of word recognition? a. Picking a book from a class library and reading it b. Graded word lists c. Giving a word bank and asking children to fill in the blanks - ANSWERSB
A student is able to read quickly and above grade level. However, they make careless mistakes such as saying "car" for "care" or replacing "me" with "my." What reading strategy does this child need help with? a. Phonics and word attack skills b. Sight words c. Fluency d. Checking for understanding - ANSWERSD A student can spell vocabulary words, understand their usage, and put the words into his own story, but when given a quiz, they cannot match the words to the correct definition. Why? a. They understand the denotative, but not connotative meaning b. They can use the words contextually, but do not understand the exact wording of definitions c. They have receptive language skills, but not expressive - ANSWERSB How does recognizing words with the same ending sounds help a child? a. Helps gain concept of print b. Strengthens vocabulary c. Builds automaticity and fluency d. Helps comprehension - ANSWERSC A teacher gives her students cards with modes of transportation on them. She wants the students to categorize them. What should she do first? a. Give a worksheet to explain transportation b. Use dictionaries to look up transportation words c. Go over the criteria for sorting - ANSWERSC When is it appropriate to use decodable books with students? a. When the students are fluent readers b. When the students are good at phonics and sight words, but still working on automaticity and decoding words