TExES SPED Practice Test 2 Questions & Answers 100% Correct!!

***The LEA has the responsibility to identify, locate, and evaluate all students who reside in the state of Texas who are in need of special education or related services, including students enrolling in private schools. At what age can children begin receiving services? - ANSWERSBirth Dominic is a two year-old boy who does not yet talk or make eye contact, hates loud noises, and prefers to play by himself, usually only with jungle animals. His teacher is concerned about his overall development and feels that he is not on the same level as his peers, especially socially. The next best step for Dominic's teacher would be to: - ANSWERSDiscuss her observations and concerns with his parents and suggest next steps, such as a referral to an early intervention program. ***Which of the following statements is true of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)? - ANSWERS1% of students per state may be eligible for alternative assessment. Mrs. Spisak's goal in this lesson is to have her students use calculators to develop financial literacy. Which of the following activities best addresses this goal? - ANSWERSHave students calculate sales tax and discounts on grocery store items. A fourth-grade student with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has demonstrated the ability to accurately perform all four primary operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) up to three-digit numbers when given problems to complete on simple worksheets, but she struggles to correctly perform these same calculations when faced with word problems. Which of the following strategies is most likely to benefit the student when solving word problems? - ANSWERSEmphasize key information and trigger words to help the student determine which operation to use, and teach her to identify the integers involved and eliminate unnecessary or distracting information before performing the calculations. ***A life skills classroom with several non-verbal students and students with significant motor-control deficits is beginning a unit on reading comprehension. The teacher will provide a 2-3 sentence story and ask two simple questions about what the students have read. Which of the following would NOT be an appropriate support to include in the instructional design? - ANSWERSlarge print on white paper to make the writing as clear as possible A special education teacher is planning a lesson on the parts of speech. She will end the lesson with an activity in which students will make sentences independently by putting cards with words on them in an order specified by the teacher. For example, she will call for a noun followed by a verb and students will select one of each from their set to use in their sentence. Which of the following would be the most appropriate way to differentiate for this lesson? - ANSWERSCreate some sets of cards that are color coded (green for verbs, red for nouns, etc.) and some that are white and allow students to choose between them. A middle school student who has an orthopedic impairment, impacting his ability to walk and use one arm, will be transferring to a new classroom. In order for his teacher to best prepare the classroom environment she can: - ANSWERSprepare the classroom based on what the teacher knows about the incoming student's needs, with plans to adapt after the student joins the classroom. The teacher creates clear accessways, gathers adapted materials, learns how to use appropriate assistive technology devices, and creates an inclusive environment. A student in fifth grade attends a life skills class, is preverbal, has dysphagia, has multiple orthopedic impairments, uses a wheelchair, and she also uses a communication board. What is a potential bias that educators must be aware of when working with this student? - ANSWERSthe assumption that the student does not understand the communication around her ***Which of the following assessment methods would be the most appropriate way for a teacher to quickly gauge understanding toward the end of a mini-lesson? - ANSWERSmonitoring student participation during a review game A 4th-grade class is comparing and contrasting two articles, one about bats and one about birds. Which of the following strategies can the inclusion teacher implement to help his students compare and contrast these articles? - ANSWERScompleting a Venn Diagram Eleanor has recently been identified with a specific learning disability (SLD) in reading after struggling but receiving passing grades in a general education setting for several years. Testing reveals that she is reading three grade levels below benchmark and struggles with comprehension. Based on this recent diagnosis, how should her services for social studies, which has a heavy reading and writing component, change to better suit her needs? - ANSWERSIf possible, Eleanor should be placed in a co-taught class or attend a general education class with assignments that are modified to be appropriate for her level. Kylie is a second-grade student who is struggling with fine motor tasks such as holding a pencil, writing her name, and cutting with scissors. Her parents suspect that she may have a disability. Which of the following professionals would be most likely to evaluate Kylie? - ANSWERSoccupational therapist ***The following project would be appropriate for teaching reading at which grade level? Students select a character from their independent reading books and complete a character analysis on that character. They must select a trait possessed by the character and find three pieces of evidence from the text to support their thesis. They use sticky notes to mark each piece of evidence and later use their analysis to write an essay. - ANSWERS6th grade ***An eighth-grade special education teacher is planning a unit on argumentative writing which will require students to select a topic to study and will culminate in a podcast written and recorded by each student in which they take a stance on a controversial issue (eg. Are school sports beneficial for kids? Should uniforms be required? Are beauty pageants harmful?, etc.) and support their position with evidence from their research. Which of the following lessons would be the most appropriate start to this unit? - ANSWERSa lesson reviewing how to write a thesis statement followed by asking each student to complete a graphic organizer that provides a sentence frame for them to write their own thesis statement ***Ms. Cearing has observed that one of her students with a specific learning disability is struggling to comprehend stories read aloud in class. Which activity could she choose to support this student's comprehension during whole-class read-alouds? - ANSWERSAsk the student to visualize what is being read aloud by the teacher. Mateo uses a screen reader to complete his assignment during his social studies class. Which of the following disabilities might Mateo be diagnosed with? - ANSWERSvisual impairment An inclusion teacher is planning support for the special education students in a general education classroom for an upcoming writing assignment. During the writing process,