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CORE SUBJECTS EC-6 PRACTICE TEST WITH RATIONALE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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CORE SUBJECTS EC-6 PRACTICE TESTWITH RATIONALE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
A teacher notices that some students in the class have trouble interacting with peers during group assignm
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ents. Which of the following will best help students learn more appropriate oral language skills to use in gr
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oup interactions?
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A. Assigning students to play a game in groups and then using a rubric to
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evaluate their interactions T T
B. Rehearsing positive group collaboration by using a script and having students analyze productive conver
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sations
C. Requiring students to practice effective social interactions with their parents and siblings at home
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D. Videotaping a group while the members work together and allowing the class to view the video and the
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n make suggestions for improving communication -
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TANSWER Option B is correct because giving students a script provides them with a model of appropriate in
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teraction that they can imitate and recall during future group assignments.
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Most students in a kindergarten class can identify two words that rhyme. Which of the following phonemic
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skills is most appropriate for the teacher to address next?
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A. Naming the beginning sounds in words
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B. Blending the initial consonant sounds in words
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C. Pronouncing all the sounds in words with two or three phonemes
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D. Blending the final consonant sounds in words -
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ANSWER Option A is correct because this is the next phase in phonemic awareness
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development.
Students in a kindergarten class are learning to analyze and spell phonetically regular words. They have lea
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rned to identify individual phonemes and to blend onsets and rimes. Which of the following is the most ap
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propriate to teach next? T T T
A. Vowel-consonant patterns
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B. Types of syllables
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C. Short and long vowels
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,D. Vowel diphthongs -
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ANSWER Option C is correct because once students have learned the individual sounds made by letters an
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d can blend the sounds at the beginnings and ends of words, they must be able to analyze the vowels withi
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n the word and determine whether the vowels are short or long so they can assign meaning to the word as
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a whole.
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Which of the following silent reading practices provides the best conditions for students' individual readin
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g improvement?
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A. Engaging in sustained silent reading for an hour once a week while the teacher reads a book to model en
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gaged reading behaviors T T
B. Dropping everything and reading several times a week for 30 minutes while the teacher grades papers o
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r prepares instructional materials
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C. Reading silently any time independent work has been completed early while the teacher keeps anecdot
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al records of student behaviors
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D. Participating in scaffolded silent reading for 20 minutes every day while the teacher confers with studen
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ts individually about their reading -
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TANSWER Option D is correct because students are receiving support through scaffolding.
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This could be in the form of minilessons, conferencing, dialogue journaling or other supports.
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During a unit on propaganda, a sixth-
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grade teacher asks students to evaluate short statements made in advertising materials and to attempt to
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detect any faulty reasoning. Which of the following levels of reading comprehension is primarily being targ
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eted in the lesson?
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A. Literal
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B. Inferential
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C. Evaluative
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D. Appreciative -
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ANSWER Option C is correct because evaluative comprehension includes the skill of detecting faulty reaso
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ning. Students must apply what they have read to their
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own lives and knowledge of the world to make judgments about text.
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When selecting vocabulary from magazine or newspaper articles used in instruction, which of the followin
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g methods is most effective?
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A. Selecting vocabulary based on the teacher's experience from previous years of instruction
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,B. Asking students to identify words for further study when they read an article for the first time
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C. Using newspapers and magazines specifically made for school use, with
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bolded vocabulary terms T T
D. Cross-referencing articles taught in class with district vocabulary lists to identify key words -
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ANSWER Option B is correct because student selection of words for further study is the best way to ensure
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that the class is studying words that students will find useful and memorable.
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Which of the following actions best represents the first step in the process students should use to interpret
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graphs and charts containing numerical information?
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A. Looking at the title, axes, headings, and legends to develop a sense of the content of the graph or chart
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B. Analyzing whether the type of graph or chart used is the best method of presenting the information give
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C. Determining the largest and smallest values represented on the graph or chart to get an impression of th
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e data
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D. Comparing and contrasting the various areas of the graph or chart to
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determine high and low points of the data -
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ANSWER Option A is correct because this is the previewing phase. Before analyzing any of the numerical d
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ata, students must be familiar with the content of the graph or chart.
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Which of the following stages of spelling development is primarily characterized by letter-
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A. Semiphonetic
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B. Phonetic
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C. Transitional
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D. Conventional -
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TANSWER Option B is correct because phonetic spelling, also known as invented spelling, requires students
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to use their knowledge of sounds in words and then assign corresponding letters.
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Third-
grade students are assigned to write about their city after reading various texts about it. Which of the follo
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wing types of writing will best allow the students to include academic vocabulary they learned from the re
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ading?
A. Rhyming poetry
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, B. Autobiography
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C. Expository essay
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D. Fictional story -
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TANSWER Option C is correct because the expository essay is the only writing example given that is not crea
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tive in nature. It is nonfiction that easily lends itself to the inclusion of academic vocabulary words.
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school night, an elementary teacher discusses the use of media in the classroom and at home. Which of th
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e following suggestions is best for the teacher to make to parents regarding students' television viewing an
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d Internet use at home?
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A. Viewing media with their children and discussing what they see and hear
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B. Preventing children from having any media exposure at home, since most of it will be of little academic v
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C. Trusting children to make their own choices about media but asking them to discuss these choices with t
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he parents T
D. Requiring children to watch certain educational programs recommended by the teacher before they wa
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tch any other programs -
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TANSWER Option A is correct because in this way, parents are helping their children develop their media lit
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eracy skills instead of merely dictating what children may or may not watch or listen to.
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Which of the following assignments best assesses students' use of quotation marks in writing?
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A. A journal entry describing the outcome of a science experiment
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B. A compare and contrast essay about two battles reviewed in social studies class
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C. A persuasive letter to the school board about the school dress code
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D. A personal narrative about a time that students disagreed with a friend -
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ANSWER Option D is correct because this assignment lends itself to the use of dialogue, and therefore to t
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he use of quotation marks.
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A first-
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grade teacher has several students who lack phonological and phonemic awareness skills. To best provide
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opportunities for the students to develop the skills at home, the teacher should assign homework that incl
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udes which of the following activities?
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A. Writing the alphabet on notebook paper
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B. Listening to stories on tape or on a home computer
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