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Mr. Louis, an eleventh-grade English/language arts teacher, is planning to have his students read The Illiad, , the classical work written by Homer in 700 B.C.
Mr. Louis wants to enhance his students' understanding of the characters' motivations and actions by relating classroom assignments to th...
Certify Teacher ELAR Test Questions
With Complete Correct Solutions.
Mr. Louis, an eleventh-grade English/language arts teacher, is planning to have his students read The
Illiad, , the classical work written by Homer in 700 B.C.
Mr. Louis wants to enhance his students' understanding of the characters' motivations and actions by
relating classroom assignments to their own personal understanding and learning. Which of the
following activities would most effectively integrate writing and reading to their own personal
understanding?
A. Students choose a favorite character in the story who has traits and characteristics they feel important
for success in life (courage, leadership, truthfulness); then write a personal response describing the
character and why that character's trait is important to the story's outcome.
B. Students note the descriptive words of the major characters found within the story and work in
groups to create a rubric of words describing the main characters.
C. Stude - Answer A. Students choose a favorite character in the story who has traits and characteristics
they feel important for success in life (courage, leadership, truthfulness); then write a personal response
describing the character and why that character's trait is important to the story's outcome.
Many students in Mr. Louis' English/Language Arts class have below-grade-level reading and
comprehension abilities. Which of the following classroom activities would be most effective in helping
these students make connections among the language arts ( reading, writing, speaking, and listening ) in
order to improve reading comprehension and understanding of The Illiad ?
A. Have students view the film, O'Brother Where Art Thou, a modern version of The Illiad. Then create a
chart which lists the main characters of the film.
B. Have students read a simple version of the The Illiad and then base the student's grade on activities
completed with the easy-to-read version of the text.
C. Have the students investigate The Illiad's origin, significance and meaning through additional print and
technological resources and then work together to share their findings with the class through oral and
written presentations.
D. Place - Answer C. Have the students investigate The Illiad's origin, significance and meaning through
additional print and technological resources and then work together to share their findings with the class
through oral and written presentations.
,Two current views of reading correspond to the distinction between learning and acquisition. From the
list below, select the following principles or activities that are consistent with a teacher who believes that
reading must be learned.
A. The main task in reading is to identify words.
B. Readers are taught a set of skills that allows them to make a connection between the black marks on
the page and words in their oral vocabulary.
C. Readers use their background knowledge and cues from three linguistic systems to make sense of
texts.
D. Students are taught to combine the meaning of individual words to make sense of what they read.
E. Teachers break language into its component parts and teach them directly. - Answer Answers are A.,
B., D., E.
Mr. Batista's eighth-grade class, which includes a number of English language learners, has been reading
a nonfiction science essay. He designs the following activity for the class.
Paragraph-Building Activity
1. The teacher leads a whole-class discussion on a topic related to the subject in the essay.
2. Students form heterogeneous cooperative learning groups with three or four students in each group.
Students in each group continue discussing the topic.
3. Each student writes five to eight sentences about the topic on sentence strips.
4. The members of the group then decide how to put the various sentences together, editing the
sentences as necessary to form a comprehensible paragraph about the topic and correcting any errors in
grammar or spelling.
After participating in this activity, all of the students review the chapter in their science text about the
topic. The paragraph-building activity designed by Mr. Bat - Answer B.transfer skills from oral language
to written language.
Which of the following best describes one important way in which this activity is likely to benefit English
language learners? - Answer C. Discussing and writing about a content-area topic supports English
language learners' reading of related texts by reinforcing key vocabulary, language structures, and
schemata.
In Spanish, the simple present tense is often used for a future action. Which of the following represents
L1 interference in this area (verb tense)?
A.John sent to Robert a gift.
, B.Every child should assist to school.
C.I will read my book and the yours also.
D.We see each other tomorrow. - Answer D.We see each other tomorrow.
In how many countries is English either the official or primary language?
A.more than 32
B.less than 43
C.more than 50
D.less than 19 - Answer C.more than 50
From the list below, select which of the following is NOT an effective strategy teachers can use to help
students develop academic language.
A. Use techniques designed to make academic language comprehensible.
B. Activate or build background knowledge, preview texts, and teach ways to use graphic organizers to
represent key ideas.
C. Assign fictional books from genres that the students can relate to (e.g., Young Adult Literature).
D. Focus the students' learning on content-specific vocabulary, rather than general academic vocabulary.
E. Teach students cognates. - Answer C. Assign fictional books from genres that the students can relate
to (e.g., Young Adult Literature).
How would you correct sentence 7?
A.No change needed.
B.and extends
C.and; extends
D.And extends - Answer B.and extends
How would you correct sentence 8?
A.No change is needed.
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