STR Exam Teachers Of Tomorrow
Practice Exam With Actual Answers
2024.
01. According to findings in the Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and
Youth which of the following curricular adjustments would most effectively support the literacy
development of English learners with respect to text comprehension? - Answer integrating
comprehensive oral language instruction with literacy instruction
02. Which of the following actions by elementary school teachers in the early grades would best
demonstrate understanding that decoding and encoding are reciprocal skills that develop synchronously
during the early stages of reading development? - Answer creating regular opportunities for students to
apply new syllable patterns in their daily writings that have been explicitly taught during phonics
instruction.
03. A teacher would like to help students identify their literacy skills and strengths as part of an assets-
based approach to literacy instruction. Which of the following teacher actions is consistent with this type
of approach? - Answer Providing students with explicit feedback about what they already know and are
able to do well and helping them use this information to establish realistic yet challenging learning goals.
04. A school district in Texas has adopted the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) model of
instruction in their K-3 literacy program which includes a core reading program (Tier 1) supplemental
instruction (Tier 2) and intensive instruction (Tier 3) Instructional grouping in Tier 2 is restricted to five or
fewer students. This limitation enhances the effectiveness of literacy instruction for the students
primarily by: - Answer Providing students with increased opportunities to practice developing skills with
teacher feedback.
05. A second-grade student has been identified with dysgraphia but does not have difficulty with
decoding or encoding. Which of the following approaches to instruction would be most effective in
promoting the student's development with respect to the identified area of need? - Answer Providing
the student with explicit instruction in letter formation and frequent, short, guided-practice sessions to
build the student's handwriting fluency and automaticity in letter memory and formation.
06. In which line in the table below is the underlined portion of the example word accurately matched to
the phonics term that is used to describe that phonics element?
,Line Phonics Term Example word
1 blend they
2 digraph factor
3 diphthong power
4 trigraph scrap - Answer Line 3
07. Use the information below to answer the two questions that follow. Students in a third-grade class
have been studying ways in which Earth's surface is always changing. As the culminating project students
choose a topic that they would like to learn more about (e.g. volcanic eruptions earthquakes landslides
floods) and establish a research group focused on that topic. The students in each group generate
questions to focus their research read a variety of texts to gather information related to their questions
and engage in focused discussions of the texts based on their questions. The teacher's role is to support
the groups by helping them gather a range of print and digital informational texts related to their chosen
topic modeling norms for equitable discussions and monitoring each group's task progress to ensure
group members stay focused.
In which of the following ways can the teacher best foster the students - Answer by providing students'
with a rubric with which they can self-evaluate their text analysis
08. Several research groups include students with a diverse range of reading skills. The teacher wants to
differentiate instruction for students in a way that will also strengthen their capacity for reading more
complex text. Which of the following approaches best aligns with research-based best practices to
accomplish this purpose? - Answer providing a set of texts representing a range of text-complexity
levels and interactive formats, and allowing student to work collaboratively to read the texts.
09. A kindergarten teacher regularly has students write and draw in their journals in response to an
open-ended prompt. During these writing sessions the teacher circulates among students asks them to
read aloud what they have written and documents their performance with anecdotal notes in a teacher
record.
This type of informal assessment strategy would be most appropriate to use for which of the following
instructional purposes? - Answer observing individual student's development in various dimensions of
literacy over time.
, 10. Which of the following writing samples provides evidence that the student is beginning to develop
understanding of the alphabetic principle?
KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
ABCDEF
"Those are letters"
MIA
"I write my name!"
T Lo LE O
"The dog went home" - Answer KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
11. When planning assessments to measure students' comprehension of literary texts an elementary
school teacher selects a variety of passages from a range of cultures including those that reflect the
diverse cultural experiences of the students. The teacher also considers students' familiarity with cultural
content when evaluating students' responses to texts. The teacher's actions best demonstrate the
importance of taking which of the following factors into consideration when selecting texts for
assessments? - Answer A reader's cultural background knowledge can be an important factor affecting
their comprehension of a literary text.
12. Which of the following statements identifies a characteristic of criterion-referenced tests that in
general makes them unsuitable for use as a formative assessment of foundational reading skills? -
Answer While criterion referenced assessment can measure students mastery of target skills, they
provide little information about the extent of students skill development toward mastery.
13. A second-grade student demonstrates grade-level oral reading fluency but is reluctant to participate
in post-reading discussions and frequently exhibits comprehension difficulty when answering questions
about assigned literary texts. The teacher would like to better understand the student's process of
constructing meaning from text.
Practice Exam With Actual Answers
2024.
01. According to findings in the Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and
Youth which of the following curricular adjustments would most effectively support the literacy
development of English learners with respect to text comprehension? - Answer integrating
comprehensive oral language instruction with literacy instruction
02. Which of the following actions by elementary school teachers in the early grades would best
demonstrate understanding that decoding and encoding are reciprocal skills that develop synchronously
during the early stages of reading development? - Answer creating regular opportunities for students to
apply new syllable patterns in their daily writings that have been explicitly taught during phonics
instruction.
03. A teacher would like to help students identify their literacy skills and strengths as part of an assets-
based approach to literacy instruction. Which of the following teacher actions is consistent with this type
of approach? - Answer Providing students with explicit feedback about what they already know and are
able to do well and helping them use this information to establish realistic yet challenging learning goals.
04. A school district in Texas has adopted the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) model of
instruction in their K-3 literacy program which includes a core reading program (Tier 1) supplemental
instruction (Tier 2) and intensive instruction (Tier 3) Instructional grouping in Tier 2 is restricted to five or
fewer students. This limitation enhances the effectiveness of literacy instruction for the students
primarily by: - Answer Providing students with increased opportunities to practice developing skills with
teacher feedback.
05. A second-grade student has been identified with dysgraphia but does not have difficulty with
decoding or encoding. Which of the following approaches to instruction would be most effective in
promoting the student's development with respect to the identified area of need? - Answer Providing
the student with explicit instruction in letter formation and frequent, short, guided-practice sessions to
build the student's handwriting fluency and automaticity in letter memory and formation.
06. In which line in the table below is the underlined portion of the example word accurately matched to
the phonics term that is used to describe that phonics element?
,Line Phonics Term Example word
1 blend they
2 digraph factor
3 diphthong power
4 trigraph scrap - Answer Line 3
07. Use the information below to answer the two questions that follow. Students in a third-grade class
have been studying ways in which Earth's surface is always changing. As the culminating project students
choose a topic that they would like to learn more about (e.g. volcanic eruptions earthquakes landslides
floods) and establish a research group focused on that topic. The students in each group generate
questions to focus their research read a variety of texts to gather information related to their questions
and engage in focused discussions of the texts based on their questions. The teacher's role is to support
the groups by helping them gather a range of print and digital informational texts related to their chosen
topic modeling norms for equitable discussions and monitoring each group's task progress to ensure
group members stay focused.
In which of the following ways can the teacher best foster the students - Answer by providing students'
with a rubric with which they can self-evaluate their text analysis
08. Several research groups include students with a diverse range of reading skills. The teacher wants to
differentiate instruction for students in a way that will also strengthen their capacity for reading more
complex text. Which of the following approaches best aligns with research-based best practices to
accomplish this purpose? - Answer providing a set of texts representing a range of text-complexity
levels and interactive formats, and allowing student to work collaboratively to read the texts.
09. A kindergarten teacher regularly has students write and draw in their journals in response to an
open-ended prompt. During these writing sessions the teacher circulates among students asks them to
read aloud what they have written and documents their performance with anecdotal notes in a teacher
record.
This type of informal assessment strategy would be most appropriate to use for which of the following
instructional purposes? - Answer observing individual student's development in various dimensions of
literacy over time.
, 10. Which of the following writing samples provides evidence that the student is beginning to develop
understanding of the alphabetic principle?
KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
ABCDEF
"Those are letters"
MIA
"I write my name!"
T Lo LE O
"The dog went home" - Answer KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
11. When planning assessments to measure students' comprehension of literary texts an elementary
school teacher selects a variety of passages from a range of cultures including those that reflect the
diverse cultural experiences of the students. The teacher also considers students' familiarity with cultural
content when evaluating students' responses to texts. The teacher's actions best demonstrate the
importance of taking which of the following factors into consideration when selecting texts for
assessments? - Answer A reader's cultural background knowledge can be an important factor affecting
their comprehension of a literary text.
12. Which of the following statements identifies a characteristic of criterion-referenced tests that in
general makes them unsuitable for use as a formative assessment of foundational reading skills? -
Answer While criterion referenced assessment can measure students mastery of target skills, they
provide little information about the extent of students skill development toward mastery.
13. A second-grade student demonstrates grade-level oral reading fluency but is reluctant to participate
in post-reading discussions and frequently exhibits comprehension difficulty when answering questions
about assigned literary texts. The teacher would like to better understand the student's process of
constructing meaning from text.
