Gace Elementary Education Questions
And Answers With Verified Solutions
(GRADED A+)
Personification - ANSWER✔✔ A figure of speech in which an object or animal is
given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
Hyperbole - ANSWER✔✔ exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be
taken literally.
Oxymoron - ANSWER✔✔ conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence')
homophone - ANSWER✔✔ words that have the same pronunciation but different
spellings and meaning. "son" and "sun"
abstract nouns - ANSWER✔✔ These have no physical existence. They refer to
ideas, emotions and concepts you cannot see, touch, hear, smell, or taste.
Example: love, time, fear, freedom
irregular nouns - ANSWER✔✔ knives,feet, aka cant just add an s on the end
concrete nouns - ANSWER✔✔ These refer to people or things that exist physically
and that at least one of the senses can detect. You can touch, smell, see, or hear
them. Examples: cat, desk, baby, bike
collective nouns - ANSWER✔✔ names a group of people, animals, or things
,metamorphic rock - ANSWER✔✔ A type of rock that forms from an existing rock
that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions.
igneous rock - ANSWER✔✔ a type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten
rock at or below the surface
expository essay - ANSWER✔✔ an essay that explains, informs, or presents
information
Reciprocal Teaching - ANSWER✔✔ Initially, the teacher models comprehension-
fostering and comprehension-monitoring strategies and then gradually turns over
the responsibilities to the students. The students take turns being the teacher and
leading small-group discussions of the text.
metamorphic clues - ANSWER✔✔
configuration clues - ANSWER✔✔
A first-grade student writes "R dg is bg n blk" and reads aloud "Our dog is big and
black." Which of the following activities will most likely improve the student's
spelling skills? - ANSWER✔✔ Providing the student with explicit instruction in
phonics
Which of the following graphic organizers would be most effective for students to
use when planning to write a persuasive essay? - ANSWER✔✔ T- Chart
, cluster diagram - ANSWER✔✔ a diagram that begins with one idea and then
branches out to other related ideas
During the early letter name-alphabetic stage in spelling development, a student
might write U for "you," BD for "bed," Y for "when," DF for "drive," and SHP for
"ship." Which of the following is characteristic of what students do correctly
during the stage? - ANSWER✔✔ A. Use consistent directionality
B. Demonstrate letter-sound correspondences
C. Spell consonant blends partially
Syntax - ANSWER✔✔ The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-
formed sentences in a language.
Ms. Anderson, a kindergarten teacher, greets the children as they enter the
classroom and encourages them to look out of the window to determine the
weather. She then writes the following "Morning Message" on a story board and
reads the message aloud as she writes.
Good morning! Today is Thursday. It is rainy today. - ANSWER✔✔ Guiding
students as they begin to develop an understanding of the writing process
Isolation - ANSWER✔✔ Phoneme isolation is the ability to identify where a sound
appears in a word or to identify what sound appears in a given position in a word.
phoneme blending - ANSWER✔✔ children listen to a sequence of separately
spoken phonemes, and then combine the phonemes to form a word. Then they
write and read the word. Teacher: What word is b/i/g? (tapping) Children: b/i/g/
is big.
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