FTCE ENGLISH 5-9 STUDY GUIDE
Questions & Answers
1.For a unit on the novel Touching Spirit Bear, the teacher prepared an
activity that required his 8th-grade students to work in pairs to generate and
discuss pros and cons of the judge's decision regarding the main character.
This was an effective activity because young adolescents are likely to be in
the process of...
ANS developing formal reasoning.
2.Middle school language arts teachers use semantic mapping and webbing
to help develop students' cognitive abilities primarily because these
methods-
ANS encourage the integration, interaction, and understanding of ideas
from various content areas.
3.Which of the following instructional goals for a 7th-grade language arts
class is aligned with the emotional development of students at that grade
level?
ANS encouraging students to express their perceptions, ideas, and
feelings in personal narratives.
,4.To improve students' writing and motivate them to continue striving
for mastery, a teacher would employ which of the following strategies
most often?
ANS individual conferencing with specific feedback.
5.Which of the following language arts activities is facilitated by a
word processing program?
ANS free writing.
6.Identify the best interdisciplinary project to incorporate history,
mathemat- ics, and language arts.
ANS writing a story about a time-traveler who visits famous
mathematicians and helps them solve mathematical problems.
7.A team of 7th-grade teachers would like to incorporate technology into a
unit that includes science and language arts. Which of the following
technol- ogy-based activities provides the most opportunities for
interdisciplinary ex- periences?
ANS creating an interactive website about ecosystems found in the
Florida Everglades.
8.Prior to taking her 6th-grade class on an excursion to an amusement
park, which language arts activity should the teacher use to help the
English language learners in her class communicate with the vendors at the
park?-
, ANS role-playing.
9.The most appropriate technique for teaching students the concept of an
au- thor's purpose is to have the students...
ANS identify several pieces of work designed to inform, to persuade, or
to entertain.
10.A middle school language arts teacher would like to help students
under- stand how a narrative point of view affects the message conveyed in
a literary text. Given this purpose, the teacher should have his students do
which of the following activities?
ANS selecting a part of a text to rewrite from the perspective of a
particular character.
11.Which of the following critical approaches to literature focuses on
every- day life in various cultures (e.g., traditions, rituals, celebrations)?
ANS anthropo- logical.
12. Which of the following is a characteristic of emergent literacy?
ANS understand- ing that print in English is read from left to right.
13.Students are preparing to write a newspaper article about the life cycle
of the alligator. Which of the following would be the most likely type of
Questions & Answers
1.For a unit on the novel Touching Spirit Bear, the teacher prepared an
activity that required his 8th-grade students to work in pairs to generate and
discuss pros and cons of the judge's decision regarding the main character.
This was an effective activity because young adolescents are likely to be in
the process of...
ANS developing formal reasoning.
2.Middle school language arts teachers use semantic mapping and webbing
to help develop students' cognitive abilities primarily because these
methods-
ANS encourage the integration, interaction, and understanding of ideas
from various content areas.
3.Which of the following instructional goals for a 7th-grade language arts
class is aligned with the emotional development of students at that grade
level?
ANS encouraging students to express their perceptions, ideas, and
feelings in personal narratives.
,4.To improve students' writing and motivate them to continue striving
for mastery, a teacher would employ which of the following strategies
most often?
ANS individual conferencing with specific feedback.
5.Which of the following language arts activities is facilitated by a
word processing program?
ANS free writing.
6.Identify the best interdisciplinary project to incorporate history,
mathemat- ics, and language arts.
ANS writing a story about a time-traveler who visits famous
mathematicians and helps them solve mathematical problems.
7.A team of 7th-grade teachers would like to incorporate technology into a
unit that includes science and language arts. Which of the following
technol- ogy-based activities provides the most opportunities for
interdisciplinary ex- periences?
ANS creating an interactive website about ecosystems found in the
Florida Everglades.
8.Prior to taking her 6th-grade class on an excursion to an amusement
park, which language arts activity should the teacher use to help the
English language learners in her class communicate with the vendors at the
park?-
, ANS role-playing.
9.The most appropriate technique for teaching students the concept of an
au- thor's purpose is to have the students...
ANS identify several pieces of work designed to inform, to persuade, or
to entertain.
10.A middle school language arts teacher would like to help students
under- stand how a narrative point of view affects the message conveyed in
a literary text. Given this purpose, the teacher should have his students do
which of the following activities?
ANS selecting a part of a text to rewrite from the perspective of a
particular character.
11.Which of the following critical approaches to literature focuses on
every- day life in various cultures (e.g., traditions, rituals, celebrations)?
ANS anthropo- logical.
12. Which of the following is a characteristic of emergent literacy?
ANS understand- ing that print in English is read from left to right.
13.Students are preparing to write a newspaper article about the life cycle
of the alligator. Which of the following would be the most likely type of
