ELAR Texas EC-6

What would be one way of teaching phonemic awareness to a child initially learning to read?

• Teaching students what sounds letters make

• Teaching students what words in a sentence mean

• Showing students how letters make words

• Showing students how words make sentences

_____ is the ability to write or spell words based on how they sound.

• • Inducing

• Encoding

• Decoding

• 
  Deducing

A fourth-grade teacher notices several students who are shy and reluctant to speak in class. What strategy would be most effective in motivating students' participation in class while enhancing their listening and speaking skills?

• 1. Allowing students regular opportunities to read aloud in front of the class

• 1. Giving students opportunities to share and listen to stories in a small-group setting

• 1. Encouraging students to orally respond to higher-level thinking questions during class

• Have the students read aloud the Science text to the class.

A fourth-grade teacher has students write about a specific topic from the current social studies unit and discuss their written response with a group of classmates. The primary purpose for this type of activity is to develop the students'

• Short- term memory

• Writing Skills

• Oral Language Skills

• Comprehension Skills

Which of the following silent reading practices provides the best conditions for students' individual reading improvement?

• 1. Engaging in sustained silent reading for an hour once a week while the teacher reads a book to model engaged reading behaviors

• 1. Dropping everything and reading several times a week for 30 minutes while the teacher grades papers or prepares instructional materials

• 1. Reading silently any time independent work has been completed early while the teacher keeps anecdotal records of student behaviors

• 1. Participating in scaffolded silent reading for 20 minutes every day while the teacher confers with students individually about their reading

During a unit on propaganda, a sixth-grade teacher asks students to evaluate short statements made in advertising materials and to attempt to detect any faulty reasoning. Which of the following levels of reading comprehension is primarily being targeted in the lesson?

• 1. Literal

• 1. Inferential

• 1. Evaluative

• 1. Appreciative

As part of a unit in which students explore the most significant scientific discoveries in the last hundred years, a fifth-grade teacher wants to include activities that expand students' understanding of new vocabulary learned in the unit. Which of the following activities would likely be most effective for this purpose?

• 1. Writing authentic responses that include the new words

• 1. Recording definitions of unknown words in a journal

• 1. Working with a peer to memorize word meanings and spell the new words

• 1. Sorting newly learned words into labeled categories

Third-grade students are assigned to write about their city after reading various texts about it. Which of the following types of writing will best allow the students to include academic vocabulary they learned from the reading?

• 1. Rhyming poetry

• 1. Expository essay

• Personal Narrative

• Persuasive Letter

A first-grade class studies animals and categorizes them as either sea animals, pets, zoo animals, or farm animals. The teacher wants students to create a visual to display their categories. Which of the following will best display the information?

• 1. A concept map

• 1. A line graph

• 1. A flow chart

• A Summary

Which of the following assignments best assesses students' use of quotation marks in writing?

• journal entry describing the outcome of a science experiment

• 1. A compare and contrast essay about two battles reviewed in social studies class

• 1. A persuasive letter to the school board about the school dress code

• 1. A personal narrative about a time that students disagreed with a friend