TEACHING Certification Certification Exam Practice Tests & PDFs

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The Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA) is found to be helpful for middle school ELL students. What is true of this approach?

A. It has content and language objectives, but there are none for learning strategies.

B. It includes content objectives but does not include language objectives.

C. It allows thematically based content or formats using sheltered content.

D. It includes language objectives but does not include content objectives.

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Reciprocal teaching activities focus on four main reading strategies. What is the fourth strategy, in addition to summarizing, questioning, and predicting?

A. Evaluating

B. Retelling

C. Connecting

D. Clarifying

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Students in the transitional stage of reading development would benefit most from instruction in which area?

A. Identifying the theme of abstract texts

B. Sight word practice

C. Letter/sound correspondence

D. Analyzing morphology to determine word meanings

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Of the following activities that promote building vocabulary for young children, which one is most dependent on the teacher?

A. A word wall in the classroom to illustrate words/concepts

B. Repeatedly singing the same familiar song over and over

C. Reciting the same familiar rhymes and chants repeatedly

D. Listening to repeated readings of the same favorite story

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Which of these is true regarding early signs of reading difficulties in young children?

A. A child's inability to separate words into individual phonemes can indicate a problem.

B. A child's inability to count word syllables or spell new words phonetically is immaterial.

C. A child's inability to form rhymes is not a concern, as long as s/he can identify rhymes.

D. A child's inability to blend individual phonemes to form words is not a sign of trouble.

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A student is having difficulties comprehending the content-related vocabulary words in his science textbook, even with the available context clues. Which text feature could the teacher direct the student to use to best assist with this difficulty?

A. Headings

B. Index

C. Table of contents

D. Glossary

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Of the following, which statement is true about instruction in the alphabetic principle?

A. The instruction of letter-sound correspondences should always be done in word context.

B. Letter-sound relationship practice should focus on new relationships, not go over old ones.

C. Letter-sound relationship practice times should only be assigned apart from other lessons.

D. Letter-sound relationships with the highest utility should be the earliest ones introduced.

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What is correct about evidence-based instructional strategies to use with ELL students?

A. Asking ELL students to explain and/or retell what teachers said to classmates is useful.

B. Teachers should not "talk down" to ELLs by presenting abstract ideas in concrete forms.

C. To get ELLS to concentrate on language, teachers should avoid incorporating visual aids.

D. Teachers may have ELLS signal when they don't understand, but not elaborate verbally.

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Which instructional practice would NOT be helpful for young children to understand phonics and decode words?

A. Teaching main ideas or strategic integration

B. Systematic, explicit, and direct instruction in phonics

C. Incidental exposure to implicit phonics in instruction

D. Giving reading and writing activities to apply phonics

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Which statement accurately reflects educational measurement principles relative to how teachers should design reading assessments?

A. Teachers should design tests to instruct as well as to diagnose or evaluate students.

B. Teachers should design tests to measure a small sample of their learning objectives.

C. Teachers should design tests to be either valid or reliable, as both are unnecessary.

D. Teachers should design tests to compare groups using criterion-referenced scoring.

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