Gace Ela

A teacher uses the terms “choppy,” “disconnected,” and “lacks flow” to indicate the errors in a student’s paper. The student would most benefit from additional instruction in which of the following?

• Noun-verb agreement

• • Transitions

• • Pronoun-antecedent agreement

• • Parallelism

Ms. Dunn is having her eighth-grade students participate in whole-class discussions focused on current events. At the beginning of the class, she has the students read a short article, and then she initiates the discussion. She notices that the students are having difficulty referring back to the article during their conversation. Which of the following should Ms. Dunn instruct her students to do while reading in order to promote active participation?

• • Annotate the article with questions and comments

• • Read the article aloud instead of reading it silently

• • Memorize facts about the article’s author

• • Rewrite the article in their own words

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

He was a contumacious child; he became more likely to leave his toys on the floor the more often he was told to pick them up. Which definition best describes the meaning of “contumacious”?

• Stubbornly disobedient

• Deeply independent

• Consistently cruel

• Indecisive and contrary

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

is a narrative that takes abstract ideas of behavior — good or bad, wise or foolish — and attempts to make them concrete and striking. The chief actor in these stories is usually an animal or inanimate object that behaves like a human and engages in a single significant act intended to teach a moral lesson. Which of the following will correctly complete the passage above?

• A myth

• A fable

• An epic

• A legend

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which of the following statements best describes how the structure of “Spellbound” contributes to its meaning?

• the use of rhyming quatrains contrasts with the chaos of the storm.

• The use of blank verse strengthens the effect of the “tyrant spell.”

• The breaks between stanzas symbolize moments of regret.

• the lack of internal punctuation reflects a sense of anticipation.

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

A teacher is working with an eighth-grade student who reads at the fifth-grade level. When

the student encounters an unknown word, “cohabit,” the teacher breaks the word into parts

and has the student determine the meaning of “co” and the meaning of “habit,” using words

with the same prefix or root, such as “coworker” and “habitat.”

The activity described above relies most directly on knowledge of which of the following

language concepts?

• Morphemes

• Synonyms

• Phonemes

• Orthography

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CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

A teacher asks students to predict the outcome of a story. After students consider their predictions silently for one minute, they tell them to a partner. Then some students volunteer to describe their predictions to the class. During the activity, the students are using which of the following reading comprehension strategies?

• Anticipation guide

• Reciprocal teaching

• Shared reading

• Think-pair-share

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

An article describes a method of writing instruction in which “children are in different

stages of the writing process, working on self-selected topics. Simultaneously, teachers are

meeting with individual or small groups of students to confer and help move them along

with their writing. Other components include peer conferences and/or response groups.”

The article best describes which of the following teaching models?

• Writer’s workshop

• Direct instruction

• Literature circles

• Shared writing

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

A seventh-grade class is learning how to respond to literary analysis prompts. The following is a student response to the prompt “Describe the significance of the White Rabbit in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.” (1) The White Rabbit represents an adult who worries about schedules; he says, “Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting!” (2) Alice wanders after the rabbit down the hole because, unknown to her, she wishes to not be a child anymore, she wants to be an adult. (3) When she follows the rabbit down the hole, she makes the choice to transform into an adult and leave her childish ways behind. (4) She begins her journey to Wonderland confused about all of her choices. (5) The author uses The White Rabbit as a metaphor to contrast with the childish ways Alice is leaving behind. (6) Her choices are like the choices she will have to make as she gets older. 14. Which of the following revisions will best improve the clarity of the response?

• Switch sentence 1 and sentence 5

• Switch sentence 2 and sentence 3

• Switch sentence 4 and sentence 6

• Switch sentence 5 and sentence 6

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of the following sentences uses the correct form of the verb?

• She go to the store every Saturday.

• She goes to the store every Saturday.

• She going to the store every Saturday.

• She gone to the store every Saturday.

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CCSS.L.3.1E

CCSS.L.4.1B

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D