LATEST 2024 GACE Elementary Education

A teacher assesses a child using a running record. She notes that the student's prosody need to improve. What is prosody? - ANSWER Cadence and expression What refers to how a student reads in phrases or whole thoughts? - ANSWER cadence A typical child will have narrowed his or her utterances from the range of all possible sounds to those relevant in his or her language at which of the following ages? - ANSWER 1 year According to Ehri, which of the following is true during the partial alphabetic stage of literacy development? - ANSWER Children are incapable of segmenting sounds Your students love to sit in the "Author's Chair" in your language arts center. Which stage of writing would your children be in when using the "Author's Chair?" - ANSWER publishing What is the final step of the writing process? - ANSWER publishing According to Gentry,what is true of a child's written communication in the transitional stage? - ANSWER Vowels will appear in every word The typical abilities of children of a given age in a given cultural group are known as what? - ANSWER Normative development What type of assessment occurs at the end of a specific period of time and represent a student's mastery? - ANSWER summative assessment What type of assessment occurs during learning and guide instruction and monitors a student's progress? - ANSWER formative assessment An assessment is considered to be a running record if it does what? - ANSWER It reflects the student's instructional reading level At what age would you expect a typical child to be reliably using sentences of more than 5 words? - ANSWER 5 years Language which does not refer to any immediate experience or information is known as what? - ANSWER Decontextualized speech What is another name for Decontextualized speech? - ANSWER disembedded speech Children develop the ability to understand decontextualized speech around what age? - ANSWER 3 years The tendency of a young child to repeat another's statement as if it were his or her own is known as what? - ANSWER repeitition A reading strategy that asks the reader not only to activate her prior knowledge, but to make connection between the text she is reading and other texts, and with her personal life, is known as what? - ANSWER connecting A person who has no mentalistic explanations to help them understand another person's actions would be described as what? - ANSWER mindblind At what age does the typical child begin to refer to him or herself by name? - ANSWER 24 months How many inches per year would you expect the typical preschool aged child to grow? - ANSWER 3 inches Language activity made up of repetition, monologue, and collective monologue is known as what? - ANSWER Noncommunicative language A situation where two or more culture groups abide in the same territory or region but maintain their separate cultural identities is called what? - ANSWER a plural society Permeating the curriculum to alter or affect the way in which young children and teachers think about diversity issues is known as what? - ANSWER Multicultural infusion Monologue, collective monologue, and repetition are major components are what type of language? - ANSWER noncommunicative language You are attempting to teach your sixth grade class the differences between different types of governments in the ancient world. You choose the Roman period preceding the reign of Julius Caesar to represent one type of government. Which type of government would this be? - ANSWER a republic The fan-shaped area at the mouth of a river is known as what? - ANSWER delta The Nile or Mississippi are examples of what types of bodies of water? - ANSWER deltas Mrs. Giacomo is teaching her social studies class about the Dust Bowl of the 1930's. She tells them that the drought caused the farms to fail and that people were starving. She tells them of the movement of farmers from Oklahoma to California. She is using this event to discuss a reason for migration. Which might this be? - ANSWER physical reasons Mr. Belt is conducting an activity where students will select a name of a historical figure from a hat and then act out gestures and signs to have the other children guess who they are. How does this activity enhance a child's social skills? - ANSWER It builds their confidence when in front of a group of people Anna's two-year-old brother wants to put her dress on. Anna thinks that if he wears her dress, that he will become a girl. Anna's theory is an example of what? - ANSWER Irreversible thinking The imaginary line at Greenwich, England, that is used to measure longitude is known as what? - ANSWER Prime Meridian The Prime Meridian is a how many degrees longitude? - ANSWER zero Mrs. Chan is using current events to teach her students about the reasons people move in the world. She tells them about refugees from Libya crossing into Kenya looking for safety. Which reason is she attempting to illustrate with this example? - ANSWER political reasons Who was the philosopher who advocated education as a natural process without restrictions, he believed that children should be educated through natural approaches? - ANSWER Jean-Jacques Rousseau What philosopher created the idea of unfolding, in which a child develops based on his or her natural, internal clock? - ANSWER Jean-Jacques Rousseau What court case established the separate but equal doctrine? - ANSWER Plessy vs Ferguson From what nation did the United States buy Alaska? - ANSWER Russia What event helped incite rebellion against the monarchy rather than loyalty toward it? - ANSWER The Boston Massacre