EXPLORE LEARNING CELL DIVISION
BIOLOGY LAB SIMULATION FINAL PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
●● A first-grade student who demonstrates mastery of phonemic
blending is having difficulty sounding out and blending VC and CVC
words in printed word lists and connected text. Based on this
information, the student would probably benefit most from an
intervention designed to improve the student's:
A. development of oral reading fluency.
B. awareness of key concepts of print.
C. letter-sound correspondence skills.
D. knowledge of high-frequency sight words
Answer: C. letter-sound correspondence skills.
This question requires the candidate to apply knowledge of interventions
in phonics. Knowledge of letter-sound correspondences and phonemic
blending skills is key for developing the early phonics skill of sounding
out and blending simple, phonically regular VC and CVC words.
Knowledge of letter-sound correspondences is required to decode the
,component sounds from the sequence of letters, and skill in phonemic
blending is needed to combine the sounds into a single word. The
student described has mastered phonemic blending, so the likely source
of the student's difficulty with this task is in correctly identifying the
sounds represented by the letters in the printed words.
●● In a fourth-grade class, providing explicit instruction focused on
which of the following reading skills would most directly promote
students' evaluative reading comprehension skills?
A. summarizing the main idea of an extended text
B. retrieving information from a text to answer comprehension questions
C. applying background knowledge to visualize processes described in a
text
D. distinguishing between fact and opinion in a text
Answer: D. distinguishing between fact and opinion in a text
This question requires the candidate to recognize different levels of
comprehension. Readers exercise evaluative reading comprehension
when they apply criteria external to a text to analyze the text or its
content (e.g., evaluating the accuracy of the facts presented, evaluating
the effectiveness of stylistic choices). Authors of informational texts
,may occasionally identify personal opinions in the text explicitly. In
general, however, readers must consider what they know about the word
meanings (e.g., best, good, disappointing) or what they know about the
world (e.g., whether a particular statement could be verified objectively)
in order to distinguish statements of fact from statements of opinion in
these texts
●● A kindergarten student writes "tdirdmibk" in her journal and tells the
teacher she wrote "Today I rode my bike." The student's writing sample
most clearly demonstrates which of the following milestones essential to
spelling development in English?
A. awareness of the alphabetic principle
B. knowledge of print conventions for representing words
C. awareness of morphological structure within words
D. knowledge of syllable juncture
Answer: A. awareness of the alphabetic principle
This question requires the candidate to apply knowledge of assessment
in writing skills, including interpreting the results of assessments. The
sequence of letters tdirdmibk in the student's writing sample corresponds
, to prominent sounds in the spoken sentence the writing represents. The
letters td correspond to the first sounds in each syllable of the word
today; the letter i represents the word I; the letters rd correspond to the
consonant sounds in the word rode; the letters mi correspond to all the
sounds in the word my; and the letters bk represent the consonant sounds
in the word bike. The student's spelling is typical of emergent writers in
an early stage of spelling development, and reflects an awareness of the
alphabetic principle—the understanding that the writing system in
English is alphabetic, i.e., that the letters used in written English
represent the component sounds in spoken words
●● After an extended classroom discussion of the pros and cons of
adopting a civic initiative, students are divided into two relatively equal
groups, one of which supports the initiative while the other has
reservations about it. The teacher could best use this situation to
demonstrate the value of which of the following practices?
A. assessing the costs and benefits in group decision making
B. using compromise to resolve conflicts
C. dividing problems into more manageable parts in group decision
making
D. using majority rule to resolve conflicts
Answer: B. using compromise to resolve conflicts
BIOLOGY LAB SIMULATION FINAL PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
●● A first-grade student who demonstrates mastery of phonemic
blending is having difficulty sounding out and blending VC and CVC
words in printed word lists and connected text. Based on this
information, the student would probably benefit most from an
intervention designed to improve the student's:
A. development of oral reading fluency.
B. awareness of key concepts of print.
C. letter-sound correspondence skills.
D. knowledge of high-frequency sight words
Answer: C. letter-sound correspondence skills.
This question requires the candidate to apply knowledge of interventions
in phonics. Knowledge of letter-sound correspondences and phonemic
blending skills is key for developing the early phonics skill of sounding
out and blending simple, phonically regular VC and CVC words.
Knowledge of letter-sound correspondences is required to decode the
,component sounds from the sequence of letters, and skill in phonemic
blending is needed to combine the sounds into a single word. The
student described has mastered phonemic blending, so the likely source
of the student's difficulty with this task is in correctly identifying the
sounds represented by the letters in the printed words.
●● In a fourth-grade class, providing explicit instruction focused on
which of the following reading skills would most directly promote
students' evaluative reading comprehension skills?
A. summarizing the main idea of an extended text
B. retrieving information from a text to answer comprehension questions
C. applying background knowledge to visualize processes described in a
text
D. distinguishing between fact and opinion in a text
Answer: D. distinguishing between fact and opinion in a text
This question requires the candidate to recognize different levels of
comprehension. Readers exercise evaluative reading comprehension
when they apply criteria external to a text to analyze the text or its
content (e.g., evaluating the accuracy of the facts presented, evaluating
the effectiveness of stylistic choices). Authors of informational texts
,may occasionally identify personal opinions in the text explicitly. In
general, however, readers must consider what they know about the word
meanings (e.g., best, good, disappointing) or what they know about the
world (e.g., whether a particular statement could be verified objectively)
in order to distinguish statements of fact from statements of opinion in
these texts
●● A kindergarten student writes "tdirdmibk" in her journal and tells the
teacher she wrote "Today I rode my bike." The student's writing sample
most clearly demonstrates which of the following milestones essential to
spelling development in English?
A. awareness of the alphabetic principle
B. knowledge of print conventions for representing words
C. awareness of morphological structure within words
D. knowledge of syllable juncture
Answer: A. awareness of the alphabetic principle
This question requires the candidate to apply knowledge of assessment
in writing skills, including interpreting the results of assessments. The
sequence of letters tdirdmibk in the student's writing sample corresponds
, to prominent sounds in the spoken sentence the writing represents. The
letters td correspond to the first sounds in each syllable of the word
today; the letter i represents the word I; the letters rd correspond to the
consonant sounds in the word rode; the letters mi correspond to all the
sounds in the word my; and the letters bk represent the consonant sounds
in the word bike. The student's spelling is typical of emergent writers in
an early stage of spelling development, and reflects an awareness of the
alphabetic principle—the understanding that the writing system in
English is alphabetic, i.e., that the letters used in written English
represent the component sounds in spoken words
●● After an extended classroom discussion of the pros and cons of
adopting a civic initiative, students are divided into two relatively equal
groups, one of which supports the initiative while the other has
reservations about it. The teacher could best use this situation to
demonstrate the value of which of the following practices?
A. assessing the costs and benefits in group decision making
B. using compromise to resolve conflicts
C. dividing problems into more manageable parts in group decision
making
D. using majority rule to resolve conflicts
Answer: B. using compromise to resolve conflicts
