PECT Module 2

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A teacher is planning instruction to promote four-year-olds' development of skills related to Pennsylvania's PreK–4 learning standard about reading, analyzing, and interpreting text. With children at this developmental level, which of the following approaches to a read-aloud activity would be most appropriate for the teacher to use to develop the children's conceptual understanding of fact and opinion? Options: having the children identify characters who demonstrate examples of faulty reasoning in a fable, asking the children to decide which statements related to an article in a children's nature magazine are true or false, helping the children tell one thing they learned from a nonfiction text, showing the children how to differentiate between essential and nonessential information in a nonfiction children's picture book.

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helping the children tell one thing they learned from a nonfiction text

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A fourth-grade teacher would like to promote reluctant readers' independent reading. Which teacher strategy is likely to be most effective? Options: engaging students in discussions about their interests and working with the library media specialist to locate appropriate-level books on these topics, reading aloud a variety of books from the classroom library on a regular basis and engaging students in discussions related to the read-alouds, creating attractive displays of both fiction and nonfiction books and magazines in the classroom library and regularly inviting students to browse the displays, providing opportunities for students to visit the school's library media center and to learn about the center's resources and organization.

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engaging students in discussions about their interests and working with the library media specialist to locate appropriate-level books on these topics

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A third-grade teacher regularly models for students how to paraphrase a portion of a text and how to pose and respond to questions that clarify or follow up on information presented in a text. These practices promote students' literacy development primarily by:

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promoting their development of self-monitoring skills that support reading and learning across the curriculum

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A first-grade teacher explains that he is going to read a story aloud and he wants students to consider how the story makes them feel. Afterward, he prompts the students to recall and discuss specific words and phrases the author used to evoke particular feelings. This oral language activity supports students' literacy development primarily by helping the students:

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develop an awareness of a story's tone

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In keeping with Pennsylvania's PreK–4 learning standards in language arts, which writing skill is most appropriate for first-grade instruction? Options: revising writing by adding details or missing information, focusing writing for a particular audience, revising writing by varying sentence length and structures, using transition words to clarify ideas in writing

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revising writing by adding details or missing information

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A teacher delivering standards-based literacy instruction grounded in scientific-based reading research is most likely to use the results of reading assessments for which of the following purposes? Options: using formal and informal assessments to place students into the most appropriate reading group for a given school year, using ongoing informal assessments to continually plan and modify individual students' reading goals and instruction, using formal standardized assessments to diagnose each student's reading difficulties at the beginning of the school year, using comprehensive summative reading achievement assessments on a weekly to biweekly basis to monitor students' progress

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using ongoing informal assessments to continually plan and modify individual students' reading goals and instruction

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A group of primary-grade teachers is reviewing potential core instructional materials for teaching beginning-reading skills. The most important selection criteria for the teachers to consider would be to ensure that the materials:

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are aligned with relevant state learning standards

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Which of the following words contains a diphthong? anchor, boiled, measure, truths

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boiled

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A prekindergarten teacher regularly writes students' comments on chart paper during whole-class discussions and rereads the comments to the class. This practice supports young children's emergent literacy development primarily by promoting their:

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awareness of the relationship between print and spoken language

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A kindergarten teacher reads aloud a poem that contains alliteration in each line. The teacher reads the poem twice, each time emphasizing the alliteration. On the third reading, the teacher invites the children to repeat each line exactly as the teacher recited it. This activity is most effective in promoting the children's development in which of the following areas of emergent literacy?

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phonological awareness