GACE Elementary Education Exam Practice
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A teacher assesses a child using a running record. She notes that the student's prosody
need to improve. What is prosody? - ✔️✔️Cadence and expression
What refers to how a student reads in phrases or whole thoughts? - ✔️✔️cadence
A typical child will have narrowed his or her utterances from the range of all possible
sounds to those relevant in his or her language at which of the following ages? - ✔️✔️1
year
According to Ehri, which of the following is true during the partial alphabetic stage of
literacy development? - ✔️✔️Children are incapable of segmenting sounds
Your students love to sit in the "Author's Chair" in your language arts center. Which
stage of writing would your children be in when using the "Author's Chair?" -
✔️✔️publishing
What is the final step of the writing process? - ✔️✔️publishing
According to Gentry,what is true of a child's written communication in the transitional
stage? - ✔️✔️Vowels will appear in every word
The typical abilities of children of a given age in a given cultural group are known as
what? - ✔️✔️Normative development
What type of assessment occurs at the end of a specific period of time and represent a
student's mastery? - ✔️✔️summative assessment
What type of assessment occurs during learning and guide instruction and monitors a
student's progress? - ✔️✔️formative assessment
An assessment is considered to be a running record if it does what? - ✔️✔️It reflects the
student's instructional reading level
At what age would you expect a typical child to be reliably using sentences of more than
5 words? - ✔️✔️5 years
Language which does not refer to any immediate experience or information is known as
what? - ✔️✔️Decontextualized speech
What is another name for Decontextualized speech? - ✔️✔️disembedded speech
Children develop the ability to understand decontextualized speech around what age? -
✔️✔️3 years
The tendency of a young child to repeat another's statement as if it were his or her own
is known as what? - ✔️✔️repeitition
A reading strategy that asks the reader not only to activate her prior knowledge, but to
make connection between the text she is reading and other texts, and with her personal
life, is known as what? - ✔️✔️connecting
A person who has no mentalistic explanations to help them understand another person's
actions would be described as what? - ✔️✔️mindblind
At what age does the typical child begin to refer to him or herself by name? - ✔️✔️24
months
How many inches per year would you expect the typical preschool aged child to grow? -
✔️✔️3 inches
Language activity made up of repetition, monologue, and collective monologue is known
as what? - ✔️✔️Noncommunicative language
A situation where two or more culture groups abide in the same territory or region but
maintain their separate cultural identities is called what? - ✔️✔️a plural society
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