NBPTS MIDDLE CHILDHOOD GENERALIST-ELA TEST 1,TEST 2 AND PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2025-2026
Which staement adheres to Information Literacy standards? - ANSWER Students
accessing information must critically evaluate it and its sources prior to using it
Third-grade students typically recieve their spelling word lists each Monday so that they
can practice them at home before the test on Friday. While their teacher is pleased that
the students usually receive high grades on spelling tests, she observes that they
misspell those same words when writing in journals or doing classwork. How should this
teacher modify her instruction? - ANSWER Incorporate spelling words into writing,
reading, grammar, phonics, and other activities in order to help students learn the
words in a variety of contexts.
Of the three tiers of words, the most important words for direct instruction are: -
ANSWER two-tier words
Research has found what outcome occurs for students through revision and rewriting? -
ANSWER Students often include new ideas when they rewrite.
Using a teacher's guidance, a class brainstorms main ideas, topics, or concepts from a
text. Students select a limited number of these ideas and write them on separate index
cards. The students then go back to the text individually, noting any supporting
evidence on the notecard that pertains to the appropriate main idea. This activity would
be a great pre-lesson for teaching which skill set? - ANSWER Organizing ideas for
writing a cohesive and persuasive essay or research paper that asserts supported
arguments with valid supporting evidence.
A teacher is working with a group of third graders at the same reading level. Her
objective is to enhance reading fluency. She requests that each child, in turn, read one
page from a book on mammal young. She requests that children read with expression.
She also reminds them that they do not need to stop between each word; they should
read as quickly as they comfortably can. She cautions them, however, not to read so
quickly that hey leave out or misread a word. The teacher know the components of
reading fluency are: - ANSWER rate, accuracy and prosody
, Caret, carrot, to, two and too share something in common. They: - ANSWER are
homophones
Which student is most likely to need referral to a reading specialist for assessment,
special instruction or intervention? - ANSWER Barrett: a 3rd grader who frequently
confuses the sounds of specific letters such as /b/ and /d/ or /v/ and /u/
The MLA rules for citing multiple authors of one source in the in-text citations of a
research paper, include listing the first author's last name and "et al" for the rest in the
case of. - ANSWER 4 or more authors
A child in kindergarten is most likely to be referred to a speech-language pathologist if
s/he does not correctly produce which phoneme? - ANSWER /p/ as in pepper or poppies
Which best explains the importance prior knowledge brings to the act of reading? -
ANSWER knowledge the student brings from previous life or learning experiences to the
act of reading.
A 4th grade teacher had her students write haiku in order to promote the students'. -
ANSWER vocabulary
Mnemonic device - ANSWER a saying or image used to help remember a complex
concept
the instruction of the alphabetic principle - ANSWER letter-sound relationships with the
highest utility should be the earliest ones introduced.
All members of a group of kindergarten students early in the year are able to chant the
alphabet. The teacher is now teaching the students what the alphabet looks like in
written form. The teacher points to a letter and the students vocalize the correspondent
sound. Alternatively, the teacher vocalizes a phoneme and a student points to it on the
alphabet chart. The teacher is using. - ANSWER letter-sound correspondence
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