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To successfully complete the assignment, which of the following is important for the
students to know in addition to knowing how to create a political cartoon?
A. Specific examples of when presidential pardons were granted or denied
B. How each branch of government limits the powers of other branches
C. How other countries restrict the powers of government
D. Names of current leaders of the three branches of government - Answer-B. How
each branch of government limits the powers of other branches
Option (B) is correct. Students cannot visualize the checks-and-balances system
without knowing ways that each branch of government can limit the powers of other
branches of government.
A fifth-grade teacher develops a lesson around the communitarian idea that societies
must balance the rights and responsibilities of individuals with the common good.
Which of the following instructional tools is the best source to support the objective?
A. A video featuring the six essential elements of democracy
B. A time line showing important events from 1750 to 1800
C. A map of the thirteen original colonies with the dates when they were formed
D. A Venn diagram comparing clothing of indigenous peoples and European settlers -
Answer-A. A video featuring the six essential elements of democracy
Option (A) is correct. In order to understand that societies must balance the rights and
responsibilities of individuals with the common good, students must understand the
essential elements of democracy. Showing the students a video of the six elements of
democracy will help them learn the concepts.
In an introductory lesson on the United States federal government, a second-grade
teacher asks the students to compare the jobs of the school's principal and vice
principal to the jobs of the president and vice president of the United States.
,The lesson best introduces which of the following concepts about the United States
government?
A. The three branches of the federal government
B. The role of the executive branch of government
C. The process by which elected representatives create laws
D. The system of checks and balances - Answer-B. The role of the executive branch of
government
Option (B) is correct. The teacher is asking students to relate the jobs of the school
principals to the jobs of the president and vice president of the United States in order to
help them develop a basic understanding of the roles and responsibilities of executive
offices.
A kindergarten teacher provides students with a family tree diagram containing large
leaves to represent various family members. The teacher asks students to draw a
picture of a family member in each leaf. The students then present their trees in class.
Which TWO of the following best identify the purpose of the activity?
A. Learning to play and share cooperatively
B. Understanding family structures
C. Understanding the roles of individuals in the community
D. Learning to identify their family's ethnic backgrounds
E. Understanding that everyone is part of a family - Answer-B. Understanding family
structures
E. Understanding that everyone is part of a family
Options (B) and (E) are correct. Drawing pictures of family members on a family tree
helps to give students an idea of where each member fits into the overall family
structure. By presenting the family trees to the class, the students will see that all of
their classmates are part of a family, even though the family structures may be different.
The following is a student's first draft of a paragraph.
(1) My dog, Bandito, is always making my family laugh. (2) He jumps on the couch. (3)
He falls asleep on the couch and starts snoring. (4) Bandito even likes to swim in our
pool. (5) Once while we were out he tore up a pillow and got stuffing everywhere. (6)
We couldn't find him when we got home because he was hiding. (7) Bandito is a pretty
funny dog
Which of the following revisions would most strengthen the structure of the paragraph?
(A) Omit sentence 1.
(B) Combine sentences 2 and 3.
(C) Break sentence 6 into two sentences.
,(D) Omit sentence 7. - Answer-(B). Combine sentences 2 and 3.
Sentences 2 and 3 from the student's paragraph are choppy as written, but they can be
easily combined by introducing a compound predicate
These days, eyeglasses can look pretty cool. Still, the day may come when your son or
daughter asks you for contact lenses. There are pros to consider—and cons. The U.S.
Food and Drug Administration regulates contact lenses and certain contact lens care
products as medical devices. Contact lenses have benefits, says Bernard P. Lepri,
O.D., M.S., M.Ed., an FDA optometrist in the agency's Contact Lens and Retinal
Devices Branch. "They can be better for sports activities, because they don't break as
frames and the lenses of glasses can. And they provide better peripheral vision for
sports, or driving, if your teen is of driving age," Lepri explains. Moreover, in some
cases, contact lenses improve the quality of vision in comparison to eyeglasses,
especially when a child is very nearsighted, says Lepri. "On the other hand, you have to
remember that contact lenses are medical devices, not cosmetics," Lepri says. "Like
any - Answer-(B) Older children may be better suited to wearing contact lenses than
younger children.
The passage offers supporting evidence that responsibility plays a key role for those
wearing contacts, and thus older children would generally be better suited to wearing
contacts than younger ones would be.
These days, eyeglasses can look pretty cool. Still, the day may come when your son or
daughter asks you for contact lenses. There are pros to consider—and cons. The U.S.
Food and Drug Administration regulates contact lenses and certain contact lens care
products as medical devices. Contact lenses have benefits, says Bernard P. Lepri,
O.D., M.S., M.Ed., an FDA optometrist in the agency's Contact Lens and Retinal
Devices Branch. "They can be better for sports activities, because they don't break as
frames and the lenses of glasses can. And they provide better peripheral vision for
sports, or driving, if your teen is of driving age," Lepri explains. Moreover, in some
cases, contact lenses improve the quality of vision in comparison to eyeglasses,
especially when a child is very nearsighted, says Lepri. "On the other hand, you have to
remember that contact lenses are medical devices, not cosmetics," Lepri says. "Like
any - Answer-(C) "'They can be better for sports activities, because they don't break as
frames and the lenses of glasses can.'"
(D) "Moreover, in some cases, contact lenses improve the quality of vision in
comparison to eyeglasses, especially when a child is very nearsighted, says Lepri."
In choice (C) the sentence clues the reader that the passage is organized in a compare
and contrast structure through the direct compare and contrast of contact lenses and
eyeglasses.
In choice (D) the sentence uses the phrases "Moreover" and "in comparison," making
an obvious suggestion about the compare and contrast text structure.
, Which of the following words would a student working on short vowel sounds most likely
decode easily?
(A) Farm
(B) Was
(C) Pig
(D) The - Answer-(C) Pig
The short vowel sounds match 1 to 1 (p-i-g), so the word is easily decodable.
A teacher shows the word "chip" along with a picture of a potato chip.
Teacher: If we want to sound out the word "chip," we would say /k/ /h/ /i/ /p/.
Student: No, that doesn't sound right.
Teacher: You are correct. Instead of saying the /k/ and /h/ sounds, we say the special
sound /ch/ at the beginning of the word.
Which of the following skills is the teacher introducing?
(A) Consonant diagraph
(B) Consonant blend
(C) Vowel diagraph
(D) Vowel diphthong - Answer-(A) Consonant diagraph
A diagraph contains two consonants and only one sound such as /ch/.
A teacher gives students a set of cards, which are represented in the following table.
C----AT
P----OT
R----AT
P----IG
B----UG
TW--IG
Which TWO of the following activities will the cards best help students complete?
(A) Identifying rimes
(B) Identifying onsets
(C) Forming rhyming words
(D) Forming multisyllabic words
(E) Breaking words into individual phonemes - Answer-(A) Identifying rimes
(B) Identifying onsets
(A) is correct because the cards divide the words into onsets and rimes, and the second
column contains the rimes.
(B) is correct because the first column contains the onsets.
