PECT Module 2 PreK-4 EXAM With 100%
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Which is most likely to interrupt a student's reading fluency?
a. Text is too much to read in one sitting
b. Student doesn't understand 15% of vowels
c. Student doesn't know sight words or phonetic sounds
d. None of the above ANSWERS- C
You ask a student to look at a book without words and orally tell a story just by looking
at pictures. Which ability are you assessing?
a. Concept of print
b. Story Structure
c. Phonics
d. None of the above ANSWERS- B
A boy reads slowly but accurately. What is an appropriate intervention?
a. Repeated reading on a text that is at his independent level
b. Echo read of a text at his instructional level
c. Group reading
d. None of the above ANSWERS- A
If a child struggles with fluency, what can you expect?
a. The student will struggle with comprehension
b. The student will struggle with phonics
c. The student will struggle with vocabulary
d. The student will never learn to read ANSWERS- A
A teacher has her students crouch when the music is low and stand on their tiptoes
when the music is high. What musical concept is she reinforcing?
a. Tempo
b. Pitch
c. Timbre
d. Dynamics ANSWERS- B
A class goes on a field trip to a supermarket. The produce manager explains to the
class that fruits are grown in other areas and then transported to the store. Which
activity would further the student's knowledge of spatial interaction?
a. Research the climates of the areas the fruits come from
b. Chart the different modes of transportation used to move the fruit
c. Study the food traditions in the different areas
d. Find the location of where different fruits are grown and map how they get to the
store ANSWERS- D
, A first grade class visits a pet store. Once returning back to the classroom the students
are broken up into various groups for different jobs. After this, the teacher holds a
discussion on their activities. What topic is the teacher laying the foundation for in future
years?
a. Opportunity cost
b. Universal needs
c. Economic interdependence
d. Disposable income ANSWERS- C
A teacher wants to connect a science unit with social studies. The students are charting
a plant's growth. Which concept is the teacher targeting?
a. Time
b. Continuity
c. Location
d. Environment ANSWERS- A
Ms. Duke is teaching a small group of first grade students. She is giving them the
sounds /b/ /i/ /g/ and then sweeping them together to say "big." Her group is practicing
this skill with several short vowel words. What skill is Ms. Duke working on with this
group?
a. Alphabetic knowledge
b. Print awareness
c. Fluency
d. Phonemic awareness ANSWERS- D
A kindergarten teacher includes poetry in her daily read-alouds. She asks her students
to listen to the rhymes of familiar poems and sometimes to provide a new rhyming word.
Which reading skill is she practicing with her class?
a. Sight or concrete words
b. Print awareness
c. Phonemic awareness
d. Connecting print to letter sounds ANSWERS- C
Sometimes parents are not up-to-date on current instructional practices. Which would
be a good way to explain invented spelling to a parent of a kindergarten student?
a. A system invented by teachers to help students learn to spell words correctly
b. The ability to recognize and read words by translating the letters into speech sounds
c. Vocabulary words which students should know by the end of the year
d. The use of letter-sound relationship to attempt to write words ANSWERS- D
There are yellow balloons that your students make into a sculpture. What concept is
being taught?
a. Line
b. Form
c. Shape
d. None of the above ANSWERS- B
Answers
Which is most likely to interrupt a student's reading fluency?
a. Text is too much to read in one sitting
b. Student doesn't understand 15% of vowels
c. Student doesn't know sight words or phonetic sounds
d. None of the above ANSWERS- C
You ask a student to look at a book without words and orally tell a story just by looking
at pictures. Which ability are you assessing?
a. Concept of print
b. Story Structure
c. Phonics
d. None of the above ANSWERS- B
A boy reads slowly but accurately. What is an appropriate intervention?
a. Repeated reading on a text that is at his independent level
b. Echo read of a text at his instructional level
c. Group reading
d. None of the above ANSWERS- A
If a child struggles with fluency, what can you expect?
a. The student will struggle with comprehension
b. The student will struggle with phonics
c. The student will struggle with vocabulary
d. The student will never learn to read ANSWERS- A
A teacher has her students crouch when the music is low and stand on their tiptoes
when the music is high. What musical concept is she reinforcing?
a. Tempo
b. Pitch
c. Timbre
d. Dynamics ANSWERS- B
A class goes on a field trip to a supermarket. The produce manager explains to the
class that fruits are grown in other areas and then transported to the store. Which
activity would further the student's knowledge of spatial interaction?
a. Research the climates of the areas the fruits come from
b. Chart the different modes of transportation used to move the fruit
c. Study the food traditions in the different areas
d. Find the location of where different fruits are grown and map how they get to the
store ANSWERS- D
, A first grade class visits a pet store. Once returning back to the classroom the students
are broken up into various groups for different jobs. After this, the teacher holds a
discussion on their activities. What topic is the teacher laying the foundation for in future
years?
a. Opportunity cost
b. Universal needs
c. Economic interdependence
d. Disposable income ANSWERS- C
A teacher wants to connect a science unit with social studies. The students are charting
a plant's growth. Which concept is the teacher targeting?
a. Time
b. Continuity
c. Location
d. Environment ANSWERS- A
Ms. Duke is teaching a small group of first grade students. She is giving them the
sounds /b/ /i/ /g/ and then sweeping them together to say "big." Her group is practicing
this skill with several short vowel words. What skill is Ms. Duke working on with this
group?
a. Alphabetic knowledge
b. Print awareness
c. Fluency
d. Phonemic awareness ANSWERS- D
A kindergarten teacher includes poetry in her daily read-alouds. She asks her students
to listen to the rhymes of familiar poems and sometimes to provide a new rhyming word.
Which reading skill is she practicing with her class?
a. Sight or concrete words
b. Print awareness
c. Phonemic awareness
d. Connecting print to letter sounds ANSWERS- C
Sometimes parents are not up-to-date on current instructional practices. Which would
be a good way to explain invented spelling to a parent of a kindergarten student?
a. A system invented by teachers to help students learn to spell words correctly
b. The ability to recognize and read words by translating the letters into speech sounds
c. Vocabulary words which students should know by the end of the year
d. The use of letter-sound relationship to attempt to write words ANSWERS- D
There are yellow balloons that your students make into a sculpture. What concept is
being taught?
a. Line
b. Form
c. Shape
d. None of the above ANSWERS- B
