GACE Elementary Education: Practice Test
1(Language Arts and Social Studies) Solved 2024
"Can't hardly" is an example of a ____________ _____________. - ANS-double
negative
*Can't hardly wait* means the opposite of what you are trying to say
abstract nouns - ANS-names ideas, qualities, and feelings that can't be seen or touched
*example:* love
active listening - ANS-Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and
clarifies
Alphabetic principle - ANS-an understanding that letters and letter patterns represent
the sounds of spoken words
Alps - ANS-largest mountain system in Europe
Appalachian Mountains - ANS-A mountain range in the eastern United States extending
from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico
Articles of Confederation - ANS-A weak constitution that governed America during the
Revolutionary War.
*emphasized state's rights*
Cascade Mountains - ANS-A mountain range in the northwestern United States
extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California.
Cluster diagram/bubble map - ANS-a diagram that begins with one idea and then
branches out to other related ideas
concrete nouns - ANS-These refer to people or things that exist physically and that at
least one of the senses can detect. You can touch, smell, see, or hear them.
*Examples:* cat, desk, baby, bike
, Consistent directionality - ANS-use of letters to match with similar sounding words
Consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) word - ANS-*a*: bad, cat
*u*: bud, cut
Constitutional Convention - ANS-Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the
thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States
Decoding - ANS-ability to apply your knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including
knowledge of letter patterns, to correctly pronounce written words
diagraph - ANS-combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (graph= ph/
swing=ng/chance=ch/head=ea; ch=cheese)
Dipthong - ANS-2 vowels in which the sound begins at the first vowel and moves toward
the sound of the second vowel
*Examples:*
oy=boy, toy
au=author, haul
ou=snout, found
Emancipation Proclamation (1863) - ANS-Declared all slaves in rebelling states to be
free, but did not affect slavery in non-rebelling Border States
*encouraged slaves in Southern states to flee to the Union*
Georgia General Assembly - ANS-Georgia's legislative branch; made up of a bicameral
legislature consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
*Protection of civil liberties were included in 1799-89*
holistic rubric - ANS-A grading instrument that uses one scale for an entire project.
homograph - ANS-a word written the same way as another word but having a different
meaning
irregular word - ANS-words that do not adhere to the common rules of phonics
*example:* fight
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