Texas Teachers Content Test 1 Questions and
Answers
A teacher gives her students an event in history and has them research how different news outlets
portrayed the event. The class then compares and contrasts the representations. Which of the
following skills was the teacher trying to teach?
How the media can be used to persuade the public's view on a topic.
A teacher has just finished reading a The Story of Ruby Bridges and has the students read The
Watson's Go to Birmingham. Which of the following would promote highter-level comprehension
skills?
The students compare themes and related ideas across texts.
Which of the following best promotes oral language development?
Having a debate over a topic that corresponds with the book the student is currently reading.
Which of the following would best help a student develop comprehension through different genres of
writing?
Read excerpts of each genre with the students and compare and contrast the features of each genre,
and how those features help develop meaning in the writing.
A student provides the following sentence in their writing: Mi techr sed tu go tu de stor. I wint tu the
stor and got a book. The book wuz abowt a hors.
What level of spelling development is the student at?
Phonetic
Which of the following is a good strategy to promote oral language development with reluctant
speakers?
Allowing students to discuss with a partner, before calling on them to answer in class.
Which of the following is not an example of analyzing a student's fluency?
The student got confused about which characters were good and which were bad.
A teacher has student read a blog, watch a comedy news show clip, and read a magazine article about
the same topic and analyze the author's purpose, theme, and persuasive techniques used. Which of
these would be a primary focus of this lesson.
To develop
A teacher noticed hat her students are struggling with using descriptive language in their writing.
Which of the following would be a useful lesson in this area?
The teacherleads a discussion based on several mentor sentences. Identify the adjectives and
adverbs, discuss their purpose, and have the students practice writting sentences of their own that
include a similar format
A teacher wants her class to complete a content frame based on a historical fiction novel that the
class had read. She wants the content frame to help the students compare and contrast the events in
, the historical fiction novel with the events in the actual historical event that the novel was about.
Which content frame would be the most useful?
Venn Diagram
Which of these would best improve students' oral language skills with the use of technology?
Have the students create video blogs explaining the character development in their latest novel.
What strategies would best help a student understand the word 'palpable'?
Using semantic clues in the remainder of the sentence to give context to the word.
Which study strategy would be most beneficial if you are teaching your students how to take notes on
a video presentation?
Have the students complete a graphic organizer with the information provided in the video.
A teacher used the following graphic organizer for her students to analyze an article. What should go
in the empty bubble?
Who wrote the article?
A teacher is working with students who are beginning to make the transition form 'learning to read' to
'reading to learn'. What type of books would support this skill?
Short and simple realistic fiction books.
Maxwell is reading high-frequency words well and can decode most words. He reads well and fast,
but does not add any intonation to his reading. What strategy would be most beneficial to Maxwell?
A small group lesson on how intonation can add to oral reading, with practice by reading orally as a
group.
What type of assessment would not be used to assess a student's ability to read orally?
A formal state assessment such as STAAR
A 5th grade classroom practices a weekly word study. They analyze the meaning of different prefixes
and suffixes and apply this to words that they know. What is the benefit of this?
By understanding the meaning of different roots and affixes, they will be able to analyze, decode, and
spell a broad set of words in the English language.
A teacher is teaching Author's purpose through media messages. Which of the following is the
purpose they will be focusing on mostly?
Persuasion
Which of the following is an example of a student using metacognitive strategies?
"I connected the situation in the book to a situation that I have experienced, so that I can understand
how the character feels."
Which of the following study skills will help a student comprehend a reading assignment about a
science concept?
Filling out a graphic organizer with the information provided in the passage.
Answers
A teacher gives her students an event in history and has them research how different news outlets
portrayed the event. The class then compares and contrasts the representations. Which of the
following skills was the teacher trying to teach?
How the media can be used to persuade the public's view on a topic.
A teacher has just finished reading a The Story of Ruby Bridges and has the students read The
Watson's Go to Birmingham. Which of the following would promote highter-level comprehension
skills?
The students compare themes and related ideas across texts.
Which of the following best promotes oral language development?
Having a debate over a topic that corresponds with the book the student is currently reading.
Which of the following would best help a student develop comprehension through different genres of
writing?
Read excerpts of each genre with the students and compare and contrast the features of each genre,
and how those features help develop meaning in the writing.
A student provides the following sentence in their writing: Mi techr sed tu go tu de stor. I wint tu the
stor and got a book. The book wuz abowt a hors.
What level of spelling development is the student at?
Phonetic
Which of the following is a good strategy to promote oral language development with reluctant
speakers?
Allowing students to discuss with a partner, before calling on them to answer in class.
Which of the following is not an example of analyzing a student's fluency?
The student got confused about which characters were good and which were bad.
A teacher has student read a blog, watch a comedy news show clip, and read a magazine article about
the same topic and analyze the author's purpose, theme, and persuasive techniques used. Which of
these would be a primary focus of this lesson.
To develop
A teacher noticed hat her students are struggling with using descriptive language in their writing.
Which of the following would be a useful lesson in this area?
The teacherleads a discussion based on several mentor sentences. Identify the adjectives and
adverbs, discuss their purpose, and have the students practice writting sentences of their own that
include a similar format
A teacher wants her class to complete a content frame based on a historical fiction novel that the
class had read. She wants the content frame to help the students compare and contrast the events in
, the historical fiction novel with the events in the actual historical event that the novel was about.
Which content frame would be the most useful?
Venn Diagram
Which of these would best improve students' oral language skills with the use of technology?
Have the students create video blogs explaining the character development in their latest novel.
What strategies would best help a student understand the word 'palpable'?
Using semantic clues in the remainder of the sentence to give context to the word.
Which study strategy would be most beneficial if you are teaching your students how to take notes on
a video presentation?
Have the students complete a graphic organizer with the information provided in the video.
A teacher used the following graphic organizer for her students to analyze an article. What should go
in the empty bubble?
Who wrote the article?
A teacher is working with students who are beginning to make the transition form 'learning to read' to
'reading to learn'. What type of books would support this skill?
Short and simple realistic fiction books.
Maxwell is reading high-frequency words well and can decode most words. He reads well and fast,
but does not add any intonation to his reading. What strategy would be most beneficial to Maxwell?
A small group lesson on how intonation can add to oral reading, with practice by reading orally as a
group.
What type of assessment would not be used to assess a student's ability to read orally?
A formal state assessment such as STAAR
A 5th grade classroom practices a weekly word study. They analyze the meaning of different prefixes
and suffixes and apply this to words that they know. What is the benefit of this?
By understanding the meaning of different roots and affixes, they will be able to analyze, decode, and
spell a broad set of words in the English language.
A teacher is teaching Author's purpose through media messages. Which of the following is the
purpose they will be focusing on mostly?
Persuasion
Which of the following is an example of a student using metacognitive strategies?
"I connected the situation in the book to a situation that I have experienced, so that I can understand
how the character feels."
Which of the following study skills will help a student comprehend a reading assignment about a
science concept?
Filling out a graphic organizer with the information provided in the passage.
