GACE Elementary Education Questions with Correct Answers

A teacher assesses a child using a running record. She notes that the student's prosody need to improve. What is prosody? Correct Answer Cadence and expression What refers to how a student reads in phrases or whole thoughts? Correct Answer cadence A typical child will have narrowed his or her utterances from the range of all possible sounds to those relevant in his or her language at which of the following ages? Correct Answer 1 year According to Ehri, which of the following is true during the partial alphabetic stage of literacy development? Correct Answer Children are incapable of segmenting sounds Your students love to sit in the "Author's Chair" in your language arts center. Which stage of writing would your children be in when using the "Author's Chair?" Correct Answer publishing What is the final step of the writing process? Correct Answer publishing According to Gentry,what is true of a child's written communication in the transitional stage? Correct Answer Vowels will appear in every word The typical abilities of children of a given age in a given cultural group are known as what? Correct Answer Normative development What type of assessment occurs at the end of a specific period of time and represent a student's mastery? Correct Answer summative assessment What type of assessment occurs during learning and guide instruction and monitors a student's progress? Correct Answer formative assessment An assessment is considered to be a running record if it does what? Correct Answer It reflects the student's instructional reading level At what age would you expect a typical child to be reliably using sentences of more than 5 words? Correct Answer 5 years Language which does not refer to any immediate experience or information is known as what? Correct Answer Decontextualized speech What is another name for Decontextualized speech? Correct Answer disembedded speech