ELEMENTARY MTTC (103) | QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
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During world language instruction, which of the following student activities would best incorporate
opportunities for students to negotiate meaning?
• reading a text and underlining any words that are unfamiliar
• playing a game in which a word must be guessed by use of circumlocution
• filling out a worksheet of questions that require the use of a dictionary
• writing a short story based on a sequential set of illustrations from a picture book - ✔✔B
Which of the following characteristics of literacy development best illustrates the relationship
between speaking and writing?
• printing the letters of the alphabet
• overgeneralizing regular verb tense endings
• using phonetic spelling
• recognizing examples of environmental print - ✔✔C
A second-grade teacher notices that several students regularly place adjectives after nouns in
their writing and speaking. These students most likely require explicit instruction related to
which of the following English language systems?
,• phonological
• semantic
• syntactic
• pragmatic - ✔✔C
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher talks informally with students' families
about the kinds of prior experiences their children have had, especially those related to learning and
literacy. The teacher uses this information to help plan dramatic play and literacy centers that reflect
familiar settings, tasks, and experiences. These actions most clearly demonstrate the teacher's
awareness of the:
• integrated nature of reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
• interconnections between language, literacy, and culture.
• relationship between oral language development and reading achievement.
• links between vocabulary development and reading in the home. - ✔✔B
As a regular component of whole-group mathematics instruction, a fifth-grade teacher guides
students in closely reading key pages from the grade-level textbook. Afterward, in addition to
guiding students in applying the new material presented in the text to sample exercises, the teacher
also helps the students summarize the text's main ideas orally. Finally, students draft their own
written summaries of the new concepts, processes, and/or terminology in their mathematics
,journals. This approach to content-area instruction promotes students' school achievement primarily
in which of the following ways?
• by providing a print-rich environment in which students at all skill levels participate in
differentiated literacy activities
• by using nonverbal, concrete experiences to scaffold students' comprehension and
vocabulary development
• by promoting students' development of skill in using listening, speaking, reading, - ✔✔C
A kindergarten teacher wants to involve all families in helping students develop oral language skills
that support literacy development. Which of the following teacher recommendations to families is
likely to be most effective in addressing this goal?
• "Take your children to arts and cultural community events such as concerts and festivals."
• "Visit the local public library regularly with your child to borrow children's books such as picture
books and easy readers."
• "Spend time with your children playing active games such as hopscotch and jump rope."
• "Talk with your children while working together when preparing meals and doing other
daily activities." - ✔✔D
, A teacher is designing a sequence of instruction for teaching letter recognition skills to emergent
readers. Which of the following sets of letters would be most appropriate for a teacher to include in
the first lessons?
• c, o, w, x, y, z
• I, L, T, H, E, F
• a, m, t, s, f, d
• A, a, B, b, C, c - ✔✔C
An English Language Learner in a fourth-grade class can read fluently in a language that is written
using a nonalphabetic script. Which of the following concepts is likely to be most difficult for this
student to grasp when learning to read in English?
• A series of letters represents a word.
• Print symbolizes spoken language.
• A sentence is composed of a sequence of words.
• Letters correspond to phonemes. - ✔✔D
A kindergarten teacher regularly reads aloud "big books" to her students. As she reads she points to
each word, and during successive readings she encourages students to join in the reading as she
points. Which of the following emergent literacy skills is this activity most likely to promote?
• awareness of consonant and vowel phonemes
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During world language instruction, which of the following student activities would best incorporate
opportunities for students to negotiate meaning?
• reading a text and underlining any words that are unfamiliar
• playing a game in which a word must be guessed by use of circumlocution
• filling out a worksheet of questions that require the use of a dictionary
• writing a short story based on a sequential set of illustrations from a picture book - ✔✔B
Which of the following characteristics of literacy development best illustrates the relationship
between speaking and writing?
• printing the letters of the alphabet
• overgeneralizing regular verb tense endings
• using phonetic spelling
• recognizing examples of environmental print - ✔✔C
A second-grade teacher notices that several students regularly place adjectives after nouns in
their writing and speaking. These students most likely require explicit instruction related to
which of the following English language systems?
,• phonological
• semantic
• syntactic
• pragmatic - ✔✔C
At the beginning of the school year, a kindergarten teacher talks informally with students' families
about the kinds of prior experiences their children have had, especially those related to learning and
literacy. The teacher uses this information to help plan dramatic play and literacy centers that reflect
familiar settings, tasks, and experiences. These actions most clearly demonstrate the teacher's
awareness of the:
• integrated nature of reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
• interconnections between language, literacy, and culture.
• relationship between oral language development and reading achievement.
• links between vocabulary development and reading in the home. - ✔✔B
As a regular component of whole-group mathematics instruction, a fifth-grade teacher guides
students in closely reading key pages from the grade-level textbook. Afterward, in addition to
guiding students in applying the new material presented in the text to sample exercises, the teacher
also helps the students summarize the text's main ideas orally. Finally, students draft their own
written summaries of the new concepts, processes, and/or terminology in their mathematics
,journals. This approach to content-area instruction promotes students' school achievement primarily
in which of the following ways?
• by providing a print-rich environment in which students at all skill levels participate in
differentiated literacy activities
• by using nonverbal, concrete experiences to scaffold students' comprehension and
vocabulary development
• by promoting students' development of skill in using listening, speaking, reading, - ✔✔C
A kindergarten teacher wants to involve all families in helping students develop oral language skills
that support literacy development. Which of the following teacher recommendations to families is
likely to be most effective in addressing this goal?
• "Take your children to arts and cultural community events such as concerts and festivals."
• "Visit the local public library regularly with your child to borrow children's books such as picture
books and easy readers."
• "Spend time with your children playing active games such as hopscotch and jump rope."
• "Talk with your children while working together when preparing meals and doing other
daily activities." - ✔✔D
, A teacher is designing a sequence of instruction for teaching letter recognition skills to emergent
readers. Which of the following sets of letters would be most appropriate for a teacher to include in
the first lessons?
• c, o, w, x, y, z
• I, L, T, H, E, F
• a, m, t, s, f, d
• A, a, B, b, C, c - ✔✔C
An English Language Learner in a fourth-grade class can read fluently in a language that is written
using a nonalphabetic script. Which of the following concepts is likely to be most difficult for this
student to grasp when learning to read in English?
• A series of letters represents a word.
• Print symbolizes spoken language.
• A sentence is composed of a sequence of words.
• Letters correspond to phonemes. - ✔✔D
A kindergarten teacher regularly reads aloud "big books" to her students. As she reads she points to
each word, and during successive readings she encourages students to join in the reading as she
points. Which of the following emergent literacy skills is this activity most likely to promote?
• awareness of consonant and vowel phonemes
