Subtest 1 - Language Arts 3

A teacher is helping students understand rhyme in words. She uses words like sound, found, hound, and round. She and the students are working on a lesson that focuses on:

• phonemic awareness.

• phonics.

• semantic analysis.

• syntactic analysis.

A teacher is walking around the room, reading from her book, and showing students her process for working through difficult words. The teacher is using a technique called:

• decoding.

• structural analysis.

• modeling.

• semantic mapping.

To help students increase proficiency in oral skills, a teacher should use:

• round robin reading.

• silent sustained reading.

• choral reading.

• reading response.

Which of the following activities would be considered passive listening?

• children working in groups to discuss a book

• students using headphones in centers for a read-along

• shared reading to identify difficult words

• listening to other students debate and strategize a counter argument

During a class debate, the teacher realizes her students are talking over each other and not listening to each other before presenting their counter arguments. What can she do to improve the situation?

• Write students up for interrupting during the classroom debate.

• Have students research the history of debates in the U.S.

• As a class, learn and develop rules for a classroom debate.

• Cancel the debate until students can correctly engage.

Which of the following tools is best used in classroom centers?

• manipulatives

• CD-ROM

• graphic organizers

• lined paper

How can a teacher determine if her classroom assessments are valid and reliable?

• Ask a peer teacher to review the classroom assessments.

• Conduct an item analysis on each assessment.

• Use a pre- and post-test to determine growth.

• Have students peer review the assessment.

A teacher is working with a diverse population. What should she do when planning a lesson?

• Consult the ESOL teacher to make sure classroom assessments are fair for all students.

• Prepare English-only lessons because students must speak English in U.S. public schools.

• Allow students to choose from a group of books assigned by the district.

• Provide a variety of culturally responsive texts students can choose from based on interest.

If a student is reading with automaticity, the student is:

• Reading effortlessly through the text, only stopping at words he or she needs to decode.

• Reading with inflection and expression.

• Reading effortlessly through the text at >95% accuracy.

• Reading very quickly through the text.

At what percent accuracy is a student reading if the student is at the independent reading level?

• 80-85

• 85-90

• 90-95

• 95-100