EC-6 CERTIFICATION TEST CERTIFY TEACHER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Mr. Batista's sixth-grade class has been studying volcanoes. He designs the following activity for the
class, which includes a number of English Language learners. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Transfer skills
from oral language to written language.
Mr. Batista's sixth-grade class has been studying volcanoes. He designs the following activity for the
class, which includes a number of English Language learners. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Discussion and
writing about a content-area topic supports English language learners reading of related texts by
reinforcing key vocabulary, language structures, and schemata.
A middle school teacher wants to increase students reading comprehension skills through oral language
activities. which of the following activities is best suited for this purpose? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Students watch a variety of television commercials then discuss in groups the commercials
use of selling, convincing, and propaganda.
Complete the table to show the correct number of syllables for each word listed. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Individual - 5 Syllables
Crocodile - 3 Syllables
Disturbances - 4 Syllabus
Correctness - 3 Syllabus
A sixth-grade teacher plays a short report from a credible and safe news channel and has students orally
provide the main idea of the news report. Which of the following answers best reflect why this strategy
is effective for supporting oral language skills. Select ALL that apply. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The
students evaluate spoken language of others and rephrase using their own language.
The students practice getting the gist of a story in a quick and engaging way.
Mrs. Clarinton is working with her first-grade students on recognizing phonemes. She is presenting them
with various words and asking them to count the phonemes in them. Of the following words, which one
has four phonemes? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Little
,Mrs. Clarinton is working with her first-grade students on recognizing phonemes. She is presenting them
with various words and asking them to count the phonemes in them. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Phonic
Skills
A kindergarten teacher has several students who need to improve basic phonemic awareness skills. The
teacher conferences with parents on ways to help these student at home. Which one of the following
activities would the teacher most likely recommend? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Play rhyming and sound
games.
Phonemic awareness is a predictor for success in reading. Which of the following is NOT a true
statement about phonemic awareness skills? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Phonemic awareness involves the
relationship between phonemes and graphemes in words.
Teacher: What is this a picture of? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Recognizing how many phonemes are
contained in a word
A first-grade teacher has several students who are having difficulty applying the alphabetic principle. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An informal assessment of the students phonemic awareness
A first-grade teacher has several students who are having difficulty applying the alphabetic principle. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Blending strategies
In planning an order of instruction of letter-sound correspondences, which of the following would a
kindergarten teacher most likely introduce first? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Single consonants and short
vowels
A first-grade teacher is delivering explicit instruction in letter sounds. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Associate
the letter name, sound, and shape
Which of the following is an example of consent digraph? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅st as in stomp and
last
,A first-grade student is reading a story aloud. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Using graphophonic cues to help
analyze and decode an unfamiliar word
A first-grade student is reading aloud. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅"Now Try reading the sentence again and
see whether swing makes sense."
A first-grade student is reading a story aloud. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅"Tell me how you figured out that
the word was swing."
A fourth-grade teacher introduces the following passage from a nonfiction text as a part of a series of
lessons about living healthy. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Organization of procedural text
A kindergarten teacher hands a book with predictable and patterned text, closed and faced down, to a
child and asl her to open it and point to the words as the teacher reads it. What skill does this activity
mist likely nurture in the student? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Print awareness
A teacher uses the "pie" analogy to teach her students about authors purpose. The acronym for the
most common purposes -- the P stands for persuade, the I stands for inform, and the E stands for -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Entertain
Students in Ms. Clays class often attempt to read independently, sometimes relying their memories, the
illustration, and their background experiences to reread the story. Which of the following is typically not
learned during the emergent literacy stage? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Recognition of an increasing
number of sight words
A second-grade student reads slowly and has trouble decoding words like also and over. The student
most likely - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Needs practice on sight words
A middle-school teacher designs the following instructional activity. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Use word
roots to determine the meaning of related words.
, Pointing to the poem on the board, a teacher asks his students if they can tell which of the nonsense
words in the poem are nouns. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Being familiar with common language structures
can help a reader interpret a text
Mrs. Swanson is attempting to help students select books they can read on their own. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Have 5 or less word recognition errors per 100 words of text
Mrs. Swanson is attempting to help students select books that can read on their own. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Administer an informal reading inventory to each student
A second-grade teacher plans to increase reading fluency among a group of struggling readers. Which of
the following would be least effective in improving fluency? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The teacher might
have the students race each other to see who could read a passage the quickest.
A third-grade student is struggling in reading. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅working on fluency skills
A teacher plans to increase reading fluency among a group of struggling readers. Which of the following
would be least effective in improving fluency? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The teacher might have the
students race each other to see who can read a passage the quickest
Ms. Hollister's fourth-grade class is beginning a unit on deserts. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Helping student
learn to use categories to organize their thinking about the topic
Ms. Hollister's fourth-grade class is beginning a unit on deserts. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Add
continuously to the web as they encounter and organize new information in their reading
Ms. Habib is teaching a unit on fiction to her fourth-grade class. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Helping
students identify and understand the theme of a literary text
Mrs. Graton's sixth-grade language arts class is studying modern Bristish novels. There area number of
English language learners in the class. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅distributing the ELL students in mixed
grouping of other students for discussion of cultural references
ANSWERS
Mr. Batista's sixth-grade class has been studying volcanoes. He designs the following activity for the
class, which includes a number of English Language learners. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Transfer skills
from oral language to written language.
Mr. Batista's sixth-grade class has been studying volcanoes. He designs the following activity for the
class, which includes a number of English Language learners. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Discussion and
writing about a content-area topic supports English language learners reading of related texts by
reinforcing key vocabulary, language structures, and schemata.
A middle school teacher wants to increase students reading comprehension skills through oral language
activities. which of the following activities is best suited for this purpose? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Students watch a variety of television commercials then discuss in groups the commercials
use of selling, convincing, and propaganda.
Complete the table to show the correct number of syllables for each word listed. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Individual - 5 Syllables
Crocodile - 3 Syllables
Disturbances - 4 Syllabus
Correctness - 3 Syllabus
A sixth-grade teacher plays a short report from a credible and safe news channel and has students orally
provide the main idea of the news report. Which of the following answers best reflect why this strategy
is effective for supporting oral language skills. Select ALL that apply. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The
students evaluate spoken language of others and rephrase using their own language.
The students practice getting the gist of a story in a quick and engaging way.
Mrs. Clarinton is working with her first-grade students on recognizing phonemes. She is presenting them
with various words and asking them to count the phonemes in them. Of the following words, which one
has four phonemes? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Little
,Mrs. Clarinton is working with her first-grade students on recognizing phonemes. She is presenting them
with various words and asking them to count the phonemes in them. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Phonic
Skills
A kindergarten teacher has several students who need to improve basic phonemic awareness skills. The
teacher conferences with parents on ways to help these student at home. Which one of the following
activities would the teacher most likely recommend? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Play rhyming and sound
games.
Phonemic awareness is a predictor for success in reading. Which of the following is NOT a true
statement about phonemic awareness skills? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Phonemic awareness involves the
relationship between phonemes and graphemes in words.
Teacher: What is this a picture of? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Recognizing how many phonemes are
contained in a word
A first-grade teacher has several students who are having difficulty applying the alphabetic principle. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An informal assessment of the students phonemic awareness
A first-grade teacher has several students who are having difficulty applying the alphabetic principle. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Blending strategies
In planning an order of instruction of letter-sound correspondences, which of the following would a
kindergarten teacher most likely introduce first? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Single consonants and short
vowels
A first-grade teacher is delivering explicit instruction in letter sounds. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Associate
the letter name, sound, and shape
Which of the following is an example of consent digraph? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅st as in stomp and
last
,A first-grade student is reading a story aloud. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Using graphophonic cues to help
analyze and decode an unfamiliar word
A first-grade student is reading aloud. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅"Now Try reading the sentence again and
see whether swing makes sense."
A first-grade student is reading a story aloud. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅"Tell me how you figured out that
the word was swing."
A fourth-grade teacher introduces the following passage from a nonfiction text as a part of a series of
lessons about living healthy. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Organization of procedural text
A kindergarten teacher hands a book with predictable and patterned text, closed and faced down, to a
child and asl her to open it and point to the words as the teacher reads it. What skill does this activity
mist likely nurture in the student? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Print awareness
A teacher uses the "pie" analogy to teach her students about authors purpose. The acronym for the
most common purposes -- the P stands for persuade, the I stands for inform, and the E stands for -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Entertain
Students in Ms. Clays class often attempt to read independently, sometimes relying their memories, the
illustration, and their background experiences to reread the story. Which of the following is typically not
learned during the emergent literacy stage? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Recognition of an increasing
number of sight words
A second-grade student reads slowly and has trouble decoding words like also and over. The student
most likely - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Needs practice on sight words
A middle-school teacher designs the following instructional activity. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Use word
roots to determine the meaning of related words.
, Pointing to the poem on the board, a teacher asks his students if they can tell which of the nonsense
words in the poem are nouns. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Being familiar with common language structures
can help a reader interpret a text
Mrs. Swanson is attempting to help students select books they can read on their own. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Have 5 or less word recognition errors per 100 words of text
Mrs. Swanson is attempting to help students select books that can read on their own. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Administer an informal reading inventory to each student
A second-grade teacher plans to increase reading fluency among a group of struggling readers. Which of
the following would be least effective in improving fluency? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The teacher might
have the students race each other to see who could read a passage the quickest.
A third-grade student is struggling in reading. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅working on fluency skills
A teacher plans to increase reading fluency among a group of struggling readers. Which of the following
would be least effective in improving fluency? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The teacher might have the
students race each other to see who can read a passage the quickest
Ms. Hollister's fourth-grade class is beginning a unit on deserts. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Helping student
learn to use categories to organize their thinking about the topic
Ms. Hollister's fourth-grade class is beginning a unit on deserts. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Add
continuously to the web as they encounter and organize new information in their reading
Ms. Habib is teaching a unit on fiction to her fourth-grade class. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Helping
students identify and understand the theme of a literary text
Mrs. Graton's sixth-grade language arts class is studying modern Bristish novels. There area number of
English language learners in the class. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅distributing the ELL students in mixed
grouping of other students for discussion of cultural references
