ELAR Certification Exam
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Which of the following is the most appropriate way for a teacher to
help young students develop an understanding of print elements?
a. Send a letter home to remind parents to read to their children every
night.
b. Provide direct and indirect instruction on concepts like
punctuation, the progression of text, and the difference between
letters, words, and sentences.
c. Provide time for students to practice reading to each other.
d. Encourage greater access to preschool in their community. - ANS
✓Provide direct and indirect instruction on concepts like punctuation, the
progression of text, and the difference between letters, words, and
sentences.
Which TWO strategies can be used to assess a student's reading
comprehension skills?
Select all answers that apply.
a. making note of any mispronunciations when a student reads a
grade level text
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b. assigning a short essay question which requires students to include
three details from the text
c. asking a student to identify the main idea of a story that the teacher
read aloud
d. introducing new vocabulary words and having students draw
pictures to remember the words
e. having students make predictions about a book based on the book's
title - ANS ✓assigning a short essay question which requires students to
include three details from the text
asking a student to identify the main idea of a story that the teacher
read aloud
Which of the following skills is not part of phonological awareness?
a. letter awareness
b. rhyme awareness
c. syllable awareness
d. sound awareness - ANS ✓letter awareness
By the end of first grade, a student should be able to:
a. keep eye contact while speaking.
b. make planned speeches for a specific audience.
c. use complete sentences.
d. use figurative language. - ANS ✓use complete sentences.
Which is the first phonological awareness skill that students will most
likely be able to do?
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a. showing awareness that the word "ball" sounds like "fall" and "tall"
b. breaking down the word "ball" into three separate phonemes
c. replacing the "b" sound in "ball" to a "t" sound to make "tall"
d. taking away the initial phoneme in "ball" to make "all" - ANS
✓showing awareness that the word "ball" sounds like "fall" and "tall"
Which of the following is not a component of print concepts?
a. identifying basic punctuation
b. awareness of the left-to-right, top-to-bottom progression of text
c. phonemic awareness
d. understanding the difference between letters, words, spaces, and
sentences - ANS ✓phonemic awareness
A first-grade teacher can formally and informally assess the
development of his/her students' phonemic awareness in all of the
following ways except:
a. having the student give rhymes to short words that the teacher
gives orally.
b. repeating the words back after the teacher says them aloud.
c. having the student blend together sounds into words that the
teacher gives orally.
d. having the student read silently and write down certain syllables. -
ANS ✓having the student read silently and write down certain syllables.
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