Mttc study guide
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1. 1. A fourth-grade teacher regularly has students maintain individual learn-
ing logs of their observations and questions during science experiments.
Students then share and discuss their learning-log entry with a partner be-
fore the whole class meets to draw conclusions about what they learned.
This approach to fostering student learning best demonstrates the teacher's
recognition of the importance of:
A. helping students make connections and comparisons between different
modes of communication.
B. considering students' physical, social, and cognitive development when
planning academic instruction.
C. encouraging students to consider pragmatic elements when listening and
speaking in academic situations.
D. enhancing students' understanding of content-area concepts through read-
ing, writing, listening, and speaking.: D. enhancing students' understanding of
content-area concepts through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
2. A kindergarten teacher notices that some students are having difficulty
developing understanding of the alphabetic principle and letter-sound corre-
spondence. Which of the following strategies would be most effective to use
first in addressing the students' needs?
A. helping the students develop automaticity recognizing grade-level-appro-
priate, high-frequency words
B. having the students practice identifying all the printed words in a book that
begin with the same letter
C. assessing the students' ability to write both uppercase and lowercase
letters clearly and accurately
D. focusing the students' attention on letters whose sound-symbol relation-
ships are most consistent: D. focusing the students' attention on letters whose
sound-symbol relationships are most consistent
3. A kindergarten student has good oral language skills and enjoys looking
at, listening to, and discussing informational picture books about a range of
subjects. However, when the teacher reads aloud narrative texts, the student
often seems restless and confused and is unable to answer basic questions
about the story. Which of the following factors is most likely interfering with
this student's construction of meaning?
A. lack of ability to make text-to-text connections
B. limited experience with literary material
C. lack of understanding of question words
D. limited awareness of the alphabetic principle: B. limited experience with
literary material
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4. A student who has mastered six high-frequency letter-sound correspon-
dences and can segment and blend CVC words presented orally is most likely
ready to begin instruction in which of the following reading skills?
A. decoding other word types and phonics patterns
B. learning how to pronounce words with consonant clusters
C. sounding out printed CVC words letter by letter
D. reading short passages containing primarily CVC words: C. sounding out
printed CVC words letter by letter
5. A sixth-grade teacher observes that an advanced-level English Language
Learner's oral reading lacks fluency. Although the student can accurately
decode the words in an English text and has good comprehension of the
meaning of the text, he sometimes uses inappropriate phrasing, intonation,
and word stress. Which of the following statements provides the best expla-
nation for this student's reading behavior?
A. The student's expressive vocabulary in English is less developed than
his receptive vocabulary. B. The student is generalizing regular letter-sound
correspondences to irregular words.
C. The student's primary language is influencing his production of English.
D. The student's academic-language skills are less developed than his so-
cial-language skills.: C. The student's primary language is influencing his produc-
tion of English.
6. Which of the following options best exemplifies inferential comprehension?
A. recognizing cause-and-effect relationships in a science text about the
processes of condensation and evaporation
B. making connections between past personal experiences and information
presented in an article about nutrition
C. following a sequence of steps in a set of written instructions for creating a
pattern using stencils and paint
D. determining an author's point of view in a social studies text about the
consequences of industrialization: D. determining an author's point of view in a
social studies text about the consequences of industrialization
7. A sixth-grade teacher is planning a unit on autobiography. Several students
have expressed disinterest in reading nonfiction. Which of the following stu-
dent activities would most likely help engage students' interest in reading an
autobiography?
A. giving a multimedia presentation about the author's life to the class
B. portraying the author in appearance and personality while being inter-
viewed by students from other classes C. creating an illustrated timeline of
key events in the life of the author
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