Practice Test Questions

Front 1

A teacher notices that some students in the class have trouble interacting with peers during group assignment. Which of the following will best help students learn more appropriate oral language skills to use in group interactions?

Back 1

Rehearsing positive group collaboration by using a script and having students analyze productive conversations.

Front 2

Most students in a kindergarten class can identify two words that rhyme. What of the following phonemic skills is most appropriate for the teacher address next.

Back 2

Naming the beginning sounds in words

Front 3

Students in a kindergarten class are learning to analyze and spell phonetically regular words. They have learned to identify individual phonemes and to blend onsets and rimes. Which of the following is the most appropriate to teach next?

Back 3

Short and long vowels

Front 4

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

Back 4

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

Front 5

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?

Back 5

Evaluative

Front 6

When selecting vocabulary from magazine or newspaper articles used in instruction, which of the following methods is most effective.

Back 6

Asking students to identify words for further study when they read an article for the first time

Front 7

Which of the following actions best represents the first step in the process students should use to interpret graphs and charts containing numerical information?

Back 7

Looking at the title , axes, headings, and legends to develop a sense of the content of the graph chart

Front 8

Which of the following stages of spelling development is primarily characterized by letter-sound correspondence?

Back 8

Phonetic

Front 9

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?

Back 9

Expository

Front 10

During a back-to -school night, an elementary teacher discusses the use of media in the classroom and at home. Which of the following suggestions is the best for the teacher to make to parents regarding students' television viewing and Internet use at home?

Back 10

Viewing media with their children and discussing what they see and hear

Front 11

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

Back 11

A personal narrative about a time that students disagreed with a friend

Front 12

A first-grader teacher has several students who lack phonological and phonemic awareness skills. To best provide opportunities for the students to develop the skills at home, the teacher should assign homework that includes which of the following activities?

Back 12

Playing word and sound games with family members

Front 13

To best assess a student's graphophonemic knowledge, a teacher should have the student

Back 13

Identify a word based on a sequence of letter-sound correspondence

Front 14

A third-grade teacher assigns homework that requires students to list ten common words that can either stand alone or be combined with another word. The assignment primarily promotes the students' understanding of which of the following concepts?

Back 14

Making compound words

Front 15

Which of the following activities is most effective in developing reading fluency skills in first-grader students?

Back 15

Rereading stories that were used during guided reading

Front 16

A second-grade teacher can best help students develop an understanding of a new text by asking students to

Back 16

use literature response journals to record mental images generated from their reading.

Front 17

A fourth-grade teacher is beginning a unit on energy and matter that contains vocabulary not regular used by students. To best draw on students' experiences in a manner that helps them develop a deeper understanding of the unit's terms, the classroom teacher should

Back 17

Build a language-rich environment.

Front 18

To best ensure active engagement for students for students working on an open-ended research question for science, a fifth-grade teacher should focus on providing which of the following?

Back 18

Inquiry-based instruction

Front 19

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?

Back 19

A concept map

Front 20

A fourth-grade teacher wants to help students become more aware of their literacy development and better monitor their progress in reading and writing. To best help students track their own development, the teacher should have students

Back 20

set specific and individual goals regarding improvements they want to make.

Front 21

A teacher works with third-grade students to teach the steps of the writing process. Currently, the students are writing sentences and paragraphs. Which THREE of the following steps of the writing process remain for the students to complete?

Back 21

*Sharing or displaying the finish product

* Taking out or adding words or sentences

* Rewriting text to correct any mechanical errors

Front 22

A teacher reviews four students' current stages of writing development and notes the following.

Back 22

Student 1: The student writes letters and words but sometimes does not add spacing between words. Student 2: The students makes an assortments of marks resembling a drawing on a paper. Student 3: The student spells many words the way they sound.

Front 23

In a meeting with a teacher, a parent asks how to encourage reading and improve reading skills for children at home. Which of the following is the most effective recommendation for the teacher to make?

Back 23

Reading books aloud with the child at home.

Front 24

Fifth-grade students are preparing to read a short story about two children's visit to a New York City zoo. Which of the following activities is the best way to introduce the text to promote reading comprehension?

Back 24

Completing a KWL chart

Front 25

A sixth-grade teacher has a number of students experiencing reading difficulties. Which of the following is the best way to assess the students' fluency skills and reading levels?

Back 25

Having students read aloud for one minute and count the number of words read correctly.

Front 26

After learning the theoretical probability of a two-sided coin landing on any one side, students work in group to flip the coin several times and get the following results: 9 heads and 6 tails. Based on the scenario, which of the following observations made by students about probability is accurate?

Back 26

The theoretical probability of a coin's landing on heads is less than the experimental probability obtained.

Front 27

Celeste is buying erasers for 8 of her friends. There are 76 erasers left at the store. Which of the following approaches can Celeste use to the determine the greatest number of erasers she can buy to give each of her friends the same number and have none remaining?

Back 27

Making an organized list of the multiples of 8 to see which one is closest to 76

Front 28

Which of the following learning goals is most appropriate for a third-grade unit on money?

Back 28

Students will be able to determine the value of a collection of coins and bills.

Front 29

Which of the following geometric solids has five faces, eight edges and five vertices?

Back 29

A rectangular pyramid

Front 30

Which of the following activities is most effective in helping kindergarten students understand measurements of the lengths of small objects, such as pencils or cups?

Back 30

Placing interlocking cubes next to the objects and counting the cubes.

Front 31

Which of the following statements best describes the counting role familial oral storytelling tradition traditions in many cultures around the world?

Back 31

Oral traditions serve as a means of transmitting knowledge of cultural practices and societal norms to others.

Front 32

Which of the following had the greatest impact on Anglo settlements in Hispanic Texas?

Back 32

Mexican land grants provided inexpensive properties in Texas.

Front 33

Which of the following events was a result of human interaction with the environment during the Spanish colonial era of Texas history?

Back 33

The building of acequias for the missions

Front 34

Which of the following is a responsibility of citizenship?

Back 34

Paying federal taxes

Front 35

Based on the economic principles of supply and demands, a decrease in the production rates of oil will most likely result in which of the following?

Back 35

Increase oil prices for consumers

Front 36

Texas rice farmers depend on water from the Colorado River to irrigate their crop. in times of severe drought, less water is released downstream, which sometimes result in inadequate irrigation and failed crops. To prevent such a loss, rice farmers sometimes plant alternative crops on their land. This action is an example of

Back 36

adapting to environmental changes

Front 37

Which of the following was the primary purpose of adding the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution?

Back 37

Creating explicit limits on the power of the federal government

Front 38

Which of the following was a major long-term effect of the westward expansion of the United States in the 1800?

Back 38

The growth of United states agricultural and mineral exports

Front 39

Which of the following is equivalent to 200 centimeters?

Back 39

2 meters

Front 40

Of the following, which best demonstrates the use of an inquiry-based activity during a unit on physical properties of matter?

Back 40

Separating a mixture, using the physical properties of its components

Front 41

Of the following, which is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States?

Back 41

Tobacco use

Front 42

When a vast amount of ash is expelled from from a volcano during a catastrophic eruption, some of this ash can remain in the atmosphere for years. Which of the following changes in Earth's system most likely results from this situation?

Back 42

Increased solar reflection leading to lower global temperatures

Front 43

Of the following activities, which best introduces to students the process skill of classification?

Back 43

Sorting a collection of objects into metals and nonmetals, then sorting the metals into magnetic and nonmagnetic

Front 44

A class has just completed a unit on the anatomy of a flower. Which of the following is the most effective way for a teacher to assess the students' understanding of the concept?

Back 44

Having the students dissect a flower and label the parts

Front 45

An object is being acted on by a force of 20 N directed to the left and a force of 30 N directed to the right. What is the net force acting on the object?

Back 45

10 N to the right

Front 46

Of the following mixtures, which can be most effectively separated into its components using a mesh screen?

Back 46

Sand and pebbles

Front 47

When wood burns, which of the following energy transformations occurs?

Back 47

Chemical energy into heat energy

Front 48

As a demonstration during a unit on weather, a teacher adds food coloring to the bottom of a beaker of water being heated on a hot plate, and the students observe the movement of color in the water. Which of the following processes is illustrated by the movement of the color?

Back 48

Convection

Front 49

Which of the following is the stage in the life cycle of a butterfly that is the major period of feeding and growth?

Back 49

Larva

Front 50

Which of the following is the best example of a learned behavior in animals?

Back 50

A chimpanzee using tools to access food

Front 51

Which of the following is the adaptation that will best aid plant survival in an arid environment?

Back 51

Waxy leaves

Front 52

Which of the following is the relationship in which organism A benefits from living on or in the body of organism B but provides no benefit to organism B?

Back 52

Parasitism

Front 53

The two most abundant gases in Earth's atmosphere are

Back 53

Oxygen and nitrogen

Front 54

Which of the following is the Coriolis effect most likely to influence?

Back 54

The circulation pattern of global wind belts

Front 55

Which of the following is most likely to occur when a warm air mass meets a cold air mass a Earth's surface?

Back 55

Clouds will form ad inclement weather will usually develop

Front 56

Which of the following are planets? Select all that apply.

Back 56

Mars, Mercury, and Neptune