MTTC Elementary education Questions And
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by promoting students' development of skill in using listening, speaking, reading, and writing for
academic purposes As a regular component of whole-group mathematics instruction, a
fifth-grade teacher guides students in closely reading key pag...
by promoting students' development of skill in using listening, speaking, reading, and writing for
academic purposes As a regular component of whole-group mathematics instruction, a
fifth-grade teacher guides students in closely reading key pages from the grade-level textbook.
Afterward, in addition to guiding students in applying the new material presented in the text to
sample exercises, the teacher also helps the students summarize the text's main ideas orally.
Finally, students draft their own written summaries of the new concepts, processes, and/or
terminology in their mathematics journals. This approach to content-area instruction promotes
students' school achievement primarily in which of the following ways?
"Talk with your children while working together when preparing meals and doing other daily
activities." A kindergarten teacher wants to involve all families in helping students
develop oral language skills that support literacy development. Which of the following teacher
recommendations to families is likely to be most effective in addressing this goal?
a, m, t, s, f, d A teacher is designing a sequence of instruction for teaching letter
recognition skills to emergent readers. Which of the following sets of letters would be most
appropriate for a teacher to include in the first lessons?
,MTTC Elementary education Questions And
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Letters correspond to phonemes. An English Language Learner in a fourth-grade class can
read fluently in a language that is written using a nonalphabetic script. Which of the following
concepts is likely to be most difficult for this student to grasp when learning to read in English?
understanding of the relationship of speech to print A kindergarten teacher regularly reads
aloud "big books" to her students. As she reads she points to each word, and during successive
readings she encourages students to join in the reading as she points. Which of the following
emergent literacy skills is this activity most likely to promote?
the role of activating background knowledge related to a text A kindergarten teacher
regularly leads classroom discussions before beginning a new read-aloud of informational texts.
For example, he may conduct a book walk of the pictures, point out some key vocabulary, and
then ask students to share what they already know about the subject of the book. This practice
most clearly demonstrates the teacher's understanding of which of the following factors that
influence emergent readers' construction of meaning?
make Which of the following words would be most appropriate to include in phonics
instruction designed to promote beginning readers' ability to decode regular CVCe words?
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structural analysis A fifth-grade student who is having difficulty reading the word
instinctively in a science text would be best advised to apply which of the following skills?
leading students in an echo reading of a short story A second-grade teacher would like to
improve students' ability to read narrative texts with appropriate expression. Which of the
following strategies is likely to be most effective in addressing this goal?
word recognition As part of an informal reading assessment, a teacher asks a first-grade
student to read a grade-level passage aloud. As the student reads, the teacher marks the student's
errors on a copy of the passage, indicating errors of substitution, insertion, omission, and
reversal. The teacher also notes any repetitions or self-corrections. This assessment is likely to
provide the most useful information about the student's skills in which of the following areas of
reading development?
At the beginning of the school year, the student told a different story each time he reread his
writings, but now he follows the letters with his finger and uses similar words when rereading.
Which of the following scenarios would provide the best evidence that a kindergarten
student is progressing according to typical stages of literacy development?
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scientist Which of the following words would be most appropriate to teach as a sight word
to fifth-grade students?
pausing regularly to elaborate on the content of a passage and to question students about key
words in the text Which of the following teacher actions during a read-aloud of a "big
book" is likely to be most effective in supporting kindergartners' vocabulary development?
mystery novel Developing a timeline of events would likely be the most appropriate
strategy for upper-elementary students to use independently to promote their comprehension of
which of the following types of text?
guiding students in creating a graphic organizer to visually represent relationships between the
key words in a given text A fourth-grade teacher wants to help students build their
knowledge of content-specific vocabulary words to support their comprehension of grade-level
science and social studies texts. Which of the following strategies would be most effective for
this purpose?
literal A sixth-grade teacher asks the following question during a class discussion of an
informational text the class is reading together: "According to the author, why are kelp forests
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