MTCC test questions & answers 2024/2025
1. A fourth-grade teacher regularly has students maintain individual learning logs of their observations and questions during science experiments. Students then share and discuss their learning-log entry with a partner before the whole class meets to dra...
1. A fourth-grade teacher regularly has students maintain individual learning logs of their observations
and questions during science experiments. Students then share and discuss their learning-log entry with
a partner before 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 reading, writing, listening and
speaking. - ANSWERSd.) 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 an understanding
of the alphabetic principle and letter-sound correspondence. 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-appropriate, high-frequency words
b.) having the students practice identifying all the printed words in a book that begins 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 relationships are most consistent -
ANSWERSd.) 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 - ANSWERSb.) limited experience with literary material
4. A student who has mastered six high-frequency letter-sound correspondences 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 - ANSWERSc.) 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 explanation 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 social-language skills. -
ANSWERSc.) The student's primary language is influencing his production 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
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