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TExES Science of Teaching Reading
(STR) (293) Exam Questions and Answers
A second-grade class is halfway through a class novel. The teacher is designing a formative assessment to
determine each student's ability to make a prediction. Which of the following approaches should the
teacher take when designing the assessment? - Ans:✔✔-have students guess what happens next in the
text and provide support with text evidence
A kindergarten teacher is planning to read the book Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins, by James Dean, to
the class and ask some text-dependent questions. The teacher has several English Language Learners in
the classroom and wants to ask developmentally appropriate questions. In the book, five pumpkins sit
on a gate, fly in the air, and trick or treat, among other fall activities. The book talks about each pumpkin,
from number one to number five, and each one's unique characteristics. At the end of the story, the
pumpkins are shown walking away from the reader, ready to have fun.
On one page of the text, the pumpkins are scared because the wind has blown out the candles. The
picture in the book shows just the pumpkins' scared eyes and the lights out all around them. The teacher
says, "All we can see are the pumpkins' eyes. How do you think they are feeling right now?" A student
answers, "Sad. It dark." This respons - Ans:✔✔-intermediate
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A kindergarten teacher is planning to read the book Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins, by James Dean, to
the class and ask some text-dependent questions. The teacher has several English Language Learners in
the classroom and wants to ask developmentally appropriate questions. In the book, five pumpkins sit
on a gate, fly in the air, and trick or treat, among other fall activities. The book talks about each pumpkin,
from number one to number five, and each one's unique characteristics. At the end of the story, the
pumpkins are shown walking away from the reader, ready to have fun.
The teacher turns to the page in the book where the pumpkins are flying and says, "What are the
pumpkins doing?" When calling on students, the teacher should expect a student with a beginning level
of oral language proficiency to respond by: - Ans:✔✔-Pointing to the flying pumpkin in the book while
the teacher holds it open
A third-grade class contains students at various levels of English language proficiency. Some have been
learning English for less than a year. This week, the teacher has been conducting read alouds featuring
biographies as part of a unit on book genres. So far, the teacher has read from the following biographies:
Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and Harriet Tubman. However, next week, the teacher plans to
incorporate excerpts from biographies on Caesar Chavez and Frida Kahlo. Then, the students will pick
another person of interest, conduct research, and complete the organizer below:
After the organizers are complete, the teacher tells students to take the information they have learned
and form a paragraph summarizing the most important aspects of their research. At a later date,
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students will revise and edit their paragraphs with a peer and then read them aloud individually to the
class.
The teacher notices some - Ans:✔✔-Provide the students with sentence stems to guide their writing
A third-grade class contains students at various levels of English language proficiency. Some have been
learning English for less than a year. This week, the teacher has been conducting read alouds featuring
biographies as part of a unit on book genres. So far, the teacher has read from the following biographies:
Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and Harriet Tubman. However, next week, the teacher plans to
incorporate excerpts from biographies on Caesar Chavez and Frida Kahlo. Then, the students will pick
another person of interest, conduct research, and complete the organizer below:
After the organizers are complete, the teacher tells students to take the information they have learned
and form a paragraph summarizing the most important aspects of their research. At a later date,
students will revise and edit their paragraphs with a peer and then read them aloud individually to the
class.
By including biographies - Ans:✔✔-Including culturally relevant texts in the curriculum
A first-grade teacher would like to model metacognitive reading strategies with her students. Which of
the following activities would be best for the teacher to implement to accomplish this goal? - Ans:✔✔-
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