STR TEACHERS OF TOMORROW PRACTICE
EXAMINATION 2026 CORRECT RESPONSE
COLLECTION DETAILED LEARNING
RESOURCE GRADED A+
⩥ 02. Which of the following actions by elementary school teachers in
the early grades would best demonstrate understanding that decoding
and encoding are reciprocal skills that develop synchronously during the
early stages of reading development?
Answer: creating regular opportunities for students to apply new syllable
patterns in their daily writings that have been explicitly taught during
phonics instruction.
⩥ 03. A teacher would like to help students identify their literacy skills
and strengths as part of an assets-based approach to literacy instruction.
Which of the following teacher actions is consistent with this type of
approach?
Answer: Providing students with explicit feedback about what they
already know and are able to do well and helping them use this
information to establish realistic yet challenging learning goals.
⩥ 04. A school district in Texas has adopted the Multi-Tiered Systems of
Support (MTSS) model of instruction in their K-3 literacy program
which includes a core reading program (Tier 1) supplemental instruction
(Tier 2) and intensive instruction (Tier 3) Instructional grouping in Tier 2
,is restricted to five or fewer students. This limitation enhances the
effectiveness of literacy instruction for the students primarily by:
Answer: Providing students with increased opportunities to practice
developing skills with teacher feedback.
⩥ 05. A second-grade student has been identified with dysgraphia but
does not have difficulty with decoding or encoding. Which of the
following approaches to instruction would be most effective in
promoting the student's development with respect to the identified area
of need?
Answer: Providing the student with explicit instruction in letter
formation and frequent, short, guided-practice sessions to build the
student's handwriting fluency and automaticity in letter memory and
formation.
⩥ 06. In which line in the table below is the underlined portion of the
example word accurately matched to the phonics term that is used to
describe that phonics element?
Line Phonics Term Example word
1 blend they
2 digraph factor
3 diphthong power
4 trigraph scrap
Answer: Line 3
,⩥ 07. Use the information below to answer the two questions that
follow. Students in a third-grade class have been studying ways in which
Earth's surface is always changing. As the culminating project students
choose a topic that they would like to learn more about (e.g. volcanic
eruptions earthquakes landslides floods) and establish a research group
focused on that topic. The students in each group generate questions to
focus their research read a variety of texts to gather information related
to their questions and engage in focused discussions of the texts based
on their questions. The teacher's role is to support the groups by helping
them gather a range of print and digital informational texts related to
their chosen topic modeling norms for equitable discussions and
monitoring each group's task progress to ensure group members stay
focused.
In which of the following ways can the teacher best foster the students
Answer: by providing students' with a rubric with which they can self-
evaluate their text analysis
⩥ 08. Several research groups include students with a diverse range of
reading skills. The teacher wants to differentiate instruction for students
in a way that will also strengthen their capacity for reading more
complex text. Which of the following approaches best aligns with
research-based best practices to accomplish this purpose?
Answer: providing a set of texts representing a range of text-complexity
levels and interactive formats, and allowing student to work
collaboratively to read the texts.
, ⩥ 09. A kindergarten teacher regularly has students write and draw in
their journals in response to an open-ended prompt. During these writing
sessions the teacher circulates among students asks them to read aloud
what they have written and documents their performance with anecdotal
notes in a teacher record.
This type of informal assessment strategy would be most appropriate to
use for which of the following instructional purposes?
Answer: observing individual student's development in various
dimensions of literacy over time.
⩥ 10. Which of the following writing samples provides evidence that the
student is beginning to develop understanding of the alphabetic
principle?
KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
ABCDEF
"Those are letters"
MIA
"I write my name!"
EXAMINATION 2026 CORRECT RESPONSE
COLLECTION DETAILED LEARNING
RESOURCE GRADED A+
⩥ 02. Which of the following actions by elementary school teachers in
the early grades would best demonstrate understanding that decoding
and encoding are reciprocal skills that develop synchronously during the
early stages of reading development?
Answer: creating regular opportunities for students to apply new syllable
patterns in their daily writings that have been explicitly taught during
phonics instruction.
⩥ 03. A teacher would like to help students identify their literacy skills
and strengths as part of an assets-based approach to literacy instruction.
Which of the following teacher actions is consistent with this type of
approach?
Answer: Providing students with explicit feedback about what they
already know and are able to do well and helping them use this
information to establish realistic yet challenging learning goals.
⩥ 04. A school district in Texas has adopted the Multi-Tiered Systems of
Support (MTSS) model of instruction in their K-3 literacy program
which includes a core reading program (Tier 1) supplemental instruction
(Tier 2) and intensive instruction (Tier 3) Instructional grouping in Tier 2
,is restricted to five or fewer students. This limitation enhances the
effectiveness of literacy instruction for the students primarily by:
Answer: Providing students with increased opportunities to practice
developing skills with teacher feedback.
⩥ 05. A second-grade student has been identified with dysgraphia but
does not have difficulty with decoding or encoding. Which of the
following approaches to instruction would be most effective in
promoting the student's development with respect to the identified area
of need?
Answer: Providing the student with explicit instruction in letter
formation and frequent, short, guided-practice sessions to build the
student's handwriting fluency and automaticity in letter memory and
formation.
⩥ 06. In which line in the table below is the underlined portion of the
example word accurately matched to the phonics term that is used to
describe that phonics element?
Line Phonics Term Example word
1 blend they
2 digraph factor
3 diphthong power
4 trigraph scrap
Answer: Line 3
,⩥ 07. Use the information below to answer the two questions that
follow. Students in a third-grade class have been studying ways in which
Earth's surface is always changing. As the culminating project students
choose a topic that they would like to learn more about (e.g. volcanic
eruptions earthquakes landslides floods) and establish a research group
focused on that topic. The students in each group generate questions to
focus their research read a variety of texts to gather information related
to their questions and engage in focused discussions of the texts based
on their questions. The teacher's role is to support the groups by helping
them gather a range of print and digital informational texts related to
their chosen topic modeling norms for equitable discussions and
monitoring each group's task progress to ensure group members stay
focused.
In which of the following ways can the teacher best foster the students
Answer: by providing students' with a rubric with which they can self-
evaluate their text analysis
⩥ 08. Several research groups include students with a diverse range of
reading skills. The teacher wants to differentiate instruction for students
in a way that will also strengthen their capacity for reading more
complex text. Which of the following approaches best aligns with
research-based best practices to accomplish this purpose?
Answer: providing a set of texts representing a range of text-complexity
levels and interactive formats, and allowing student to work
collaboratively to read the texts.
, ⩥ 09. A kindergarten teacher regularly has students write and draw in
their journals in response to an open-ended prompt. During these writing
sessions the teacher circulates among students asks them to read aloud
what they have written and documents their performance with anecdotal
notes in a teacher record.
This type of informal assessment strategy would be most appropriate to
use for which of the following instructional purposes?
Answer: observing individual student's development in various
dimensions of literacy over time.
⩥ 10. Which of the following writing samples provides evidence that the
student is beginning to develop understanding of the alphabetic
principle?
KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
ABCDEF
"Those are letters"
MIA
"I write my name!"
