Teacher Certification-English
Questions and Answers Solved
A kindergarten teacher notices that Junie has not developed the ability to use or understand complex
sentences in speech. The teacher should — - Answer initiate interventions to promote oral language
development.
A kindergarten student told her teacher, "I goed there before." The teacher responded with "I went
there, too. In her corrected sentence, the teacher was reinforcing the ___________________
component of oral language. - Answer syntactic
Which of the following activities would a beginning teacher most likely use to build on students' oral
language skills? - Answer Show and tell time
Mrs. Klements plans phonemic awareness activities for a small group of students who need additional
practice with segmenting phonemes. Which of the following activities promotes phoneme
segmentation? - Answer Mrs. Klements has students tell her how many sounds they hear in each word
she says aloud.
Most students in a kindergarten class can isolate initial consonant sounds in a word. Which of the
following phonemic skills is most appropriate for the teacher to work on next? - Answer Isolating the
final consonant sounds in words
Maggie, a first grader, struggles with phonemic awareness skills such as blending and rhyming words
and isolating and segmenting phonemes. Maggie's teacher has implemented small group interventions
with no success. Maggie's teacher would most likely - Answer recommend a hearing screening to ensure
there are no other barriers to learning.
Several first graders in Mr. Hornsby's first grade class are having a particular difficulty with sight words.
Students struggle with sight word recognition because - Answer these words are irregular, meaning they
do not reflect the typical rules students apply to the graphophonemic pronunciation of words.
, A kindergarten class is learning about the letter m. The teacher plans multisensory activities around this
focus. Which of the following activities provides multisensory practice? - Answer The teacher has
students look at the letter m, while at the same time, say it, hear, and trace it.
During an informal assessment, a first grade teacher notes that a student pronounces the letter a with a
long a sound. Which of the following responses should the teacher provide? - Answer The teacher
should ask the student what other sound the a might make.
A third-grade teacher uses the "pie" analogy to teach her students about the author's purpose. The
acronym stands for the most common purposes -- the P stands for persuade, the I stands for inform, and
the E stands for - Answer entertain
In a meeting with a teacher, a parent expresses concern that his child does not like to read. He asks the
teacher about ways he could encourage reading and improve reading skills for his child at home. Which
of the following is the most effective recommendation for the teacher to make? - Answer The teacher
recommended the parent and child read books aloud together for pleasure.
The third-grade reading teachers want students to select books from the library that are at the students'
independent reading level. This means: - Answer students can read the books with 95-100% accuracy.
A fourth grader was able to decode a word in a sentence using meaning-based supports within the
sentence (context clues). Which cueing system is relied upon when children use this strategy? - Answer
semantic cuing system
Students in a first-grade class have been learning to analyze and spell phonetically regular words. They
recently learned VC patterns. Which of the following rules of decoding align with VC patterns? - Answer
The vowel in VC words makes a short vowel sound.
In a meeting with a teacher, a parent expresses concern that her child does not like to practice sight
words that are sent home to learn. She asks the teacher about ways she could encourage sight word
practice at home. Which of the following is the most effective recommendation for the teacher to
make? - Answer The parent can create a memory game with the sight words.
A fourth-grade student is instructed to take a poem selected for her and to read it to various teachers
around the school. Each time the poem is read, the teacher signs it to show that it was read. The child
Questions and Answers Solved
A kindergarten teacher notices that Junie has not developed the ability to use or understand complex
sentences in speech. The teacher should — - Answer initiate interventions to promote oral language
development.
A kindergarten student told her teacher, "I goed there before." The teacher responded with "I went
there, too. In her corrected sentence, the teacher was reinforcing the ___________________
component of oral language. - Answer syntactic
Which of the following activities would a beginning teacher most likely use to build on students' oral
language skills? - Answer Show and tell time
Mrs. Klements plans phonemic awareness activities for a small group of students who need additional
practice with segmenting phonemes. Which of the following activities promotes phoneme
segmentation? - Answer Mrs. Klements has students tell her how many sounds they hear in each word
she says aloud.
Most students in a kindergarten class can isolate initial consonant sounds in a word. Which of the
following phonemic skills is most appropriate for the teacher to work on next? - Answer Isolating the
final consonant sounds in words
Maggie, a first grader, struggles with phonemic awareness skills such as blending and rhyming words
and isolating and segmenting phonemes. Maggie's teacher has implemented small group interventions
with no success. Maggie's teacher would most likely - Answer recommend a hearing screening to ensure
there are no other barriers to learning.
Several first graders in Mr. Hornsby's first grade class are having a particular difficulty with sight words.
Students struggle with sight word recognition because - Answer these words are irregular, meaning they
do not reflect the typical rules students apply to the graphophonemic pronunciation of words.
, A kindergarten class is learning about the letter m. The teacher plans multisensory activities around this
focus. Which of the following activities provides multisensory practice? - Answer The teacher has
students look at the letter m, while at the same time, say it, hear, and trace it.
During an informal assessment, a first grade teacher notes that a student pronounces the letter a with a
long a sound. Which of the following responses should the teacher provide? - Answer The teacher
should ask the student what other sound the a might make.
A third-grade teacher uses the "pie" analogy to teach her students about the author's purpose. The
acronym stands for the most common purposes -- the P stands for persuade, the I stands for inform, and
the E stands for - Answer entertain
In a meeting with a teacher, a parent expresses concern that his child does not like to read. He asks the
teacher about ways he could encourage reading and improve reading skills for his child at home. Which
of the following is the most effective recommendation for the teacher to make? - Answer The teacher
recommended the parent and child read books aloud together for pleasure.
The third-grade reading teachers want students to select books from the library that are at the students'
independent reading level. This means: - Answer students can read the books with 95-100% accuracy.
A fourth grader was able to decode a word in a sentence using meaning-based supports within the
sentence (context clues). Which cueing system is relied upon when children use this strategy? - Answer
semantic cuing system
Students in a first-grade class have been learning to analyze and spell phonetically regular words. They
recently learned VC patterns. Which of the following rules of decoding align with VC patterns? - Answer
The vowel in VC words makes a short vowel sound.
In a meeting with a teacher, a parent expresses concern that her child does not like to practice sight
words that are sent home to learn. She asks the teacher about ways she could encourage sight word
practice at home. Which of the following is the most effective recommendation for the teacher to
make? - Answer The parent can create a memory game with the sight words.
A fourth-grade student is instructed to take a poem selected for her and to read it to various teachers
around the school. Each time the poem is read, the teacher signs it to show that it was read. The child
