STR EXAM TEACHERS OF TOMORROW
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS L LATEST VERSION 2025/2026.
01. According to findings in the Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority
Children and Youth which of the following curricular adjustments would most effectively
support the literacy development of English learners with respect to text comprehension? -
ANS integrating comprehensive oral language instruction with literacy instruction
02. Which of the following actions by elementary school teachers in the early grades would best
demonstrate understanding that decoding and encoding are reciprocal skills that develop
synchronously during the early stages of reading development? - ANS creating regular
opportunities for students to apply new syllable patterns in their daily writings that have been
explicitly taught during phonics instruction.
03. A teacher would like to help students identify their literacy skills and strengths as part of an
assets-based approach to literacy instruction. Which of the following teacher actions is
consistent with this type of approach? - ANS Providing students with explicit feedback about
what they already know and are able to do well and helping them use this information to
establish realistic yet challenging learning goals.
04. A school district in Texas has adopted the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) model of
instruction in their K-3 literacy program which includes a core reading program (Tier 1)
supplemental instruction (Tier 2) and intensive instruction (Tier 3) Instructional grouping in Tier
2 is restricted to five or fewer students. This limitation enhances the effectiveness of literacy
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,instruction for the students primarily by: - ANS Providing students with increased
opportunities to practice developing skills with teacher feedback.
05. A second-grade student has been identified with dysgraphia but does not have difficulty
with decoding or encoding. Which of the following approaches to instruction would be most
effective in promoting the student's development with respect to the identified area of need? -
ANS Providing the student with explicit instruction in letter formation and frequent, short,
guided-practice sessions to build the student's handwriting fluency and automaticity in letter
memory and formation.
06. In which line in the table below is the underlined portion of the example word accurately
matched to the phonics term that is used to describe that phonics element?
Line Phonics Term Example word
1 blend they
2 digraph factor
3 diphthong power
4 trigraph scrap - ANS Line 3
07. Use the information below to answer the two questions that follow. Students in a third-
grade class have been studying ways in which Earth's surface is always changing. As the
culminating project students choose a topic that they would like to learn more about (e.g.
volcanic eruptions earthquakes landslides floods) and establish a research group focused on
that topic. The students in each group generate questions to focus their research read a variety
of texts to gather information related to their questions and engage in focused discussions of
the texts based on their questions. The teacher's role is to support the groups by helping them
gather a range of print and digital informational texts related to their chosen topic modeling
norms for equitable discussions and monitoring each group's task progress to ensure group
members stay focused.
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, In which of the following ways can the teacher best foster the students - ANS by providing
students' with a rubric with which they can self-evaluate their text analysis
08. Several research groups include students with a diverse range of reading skills. The teacher
wants to differentiate instruction for students in a way that will also strengthen their capacity
for reading more complex text. Which of the following approaches best aligns with research-
based best practices to accomplish this purpose? - ANS providing a set of texts representing a
range of text-complexity levels and interactive formats, and allowing student to work
collaboratively to read the texts.
09. A kindergarten teacher regularly has students write and draw in their journals in response to
an open-ended prompt. During these writing sessions the teacher circulates among students
asks them to read aloud what they have written and documents their performance with
anecdotal notes in a teacher record.
This type of informal assessment strategy would be most appropriate to use for which of the
following instructional purposes? - ANS observing individual student's development in
various dimensions of literacy over time.
10. Which of the following writing samples provides evidence that the student is beginning to
develop understanding of the alphabetic principle?
KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
ABCDEF
"Those are letters"
MIA
"I write my name!"
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QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS L LATEST VERSION 2025/2026.
01. According to findings in the Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority
Children and Youth which of the following curricular adjustments would most effectively
support the literacy development of English learners with respect to text comprehension? -
ANS integrating comprehensive oral language instruction with literacy instruction
02. Which of the following actions by elementary school teachers in the early grades would best
demonstrate understanding that decoding and encoding are reciprocal skills that develop
synchronously during the early stages of reading development? - ANS creating regular
opportunities for students to apply new syllable patterns in their daily writings that have been
explicitly taught during phonics instruction.
03. A teacher would like to help students identify their literacy skills and strengths as part of an
assets-based approach to literacy instruction. Which of the following teacher actions is
consistent with this type of approach? - ANS Providing students with explicit feedback about
what they already know and are able to do well and helping them use this information to
establish realistic yet challenging learning goals.
04. A school district in Texas has adopted the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) model of
instruction in their K-3 literacy program which includes a core reading program (Tier 1)
supplemental instruction (Tier 2) and intensive instruction (Tier 3) Instructional grouping in Tier
2 is restricted to five or fewer students. This limitation enhances the effectiveness of literacy
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,instruction for the students primarily by: - ANS Providing students with increased
opportunities to practice developing skills with teacher feedback.
05. A second-grade student has been identified with dysgraphia but does not have difficulty
with decoding or encoding. Which of the following approaches to instruction would be most
effective in promoting the student's development with respect to the identified area of need? -
ANS Providing the student with explicit instruction in letter formation and frequent, short,
guided-practice sessions to build the student's handwriting fluency and automaticity in letter
memory and formation.
06. In which line in the table below is the underlined portion of the example word accurately
matched to the phonics term that is used to describe that phonics element?
Line Phonics Term Example word
1 blend they
2 digraph factor
3 diphthong power
4 trigraph scrap - ANS Line 3
07. Use the information below to answer the two questions that follow. Students in a third-
grade class have been studying ways in which Earth's surface is always changing. As the
culminating project students choose a topic that they would like to learn more about (e.g.
volcanic eruptions earthquakes landslides floods) and establish a research group focused on
that topic. The students in each group generate questions to focus their research read a variety
of texts to gather information related to their questions and engage in focused discussions of
the texts based on their questions. The teacher's role is to support the groups by helping them
gather a range of print and digital informational texts related to their chosen topic modeling
norms for equitable discussions and monitoring each group's task progress to ensure group
members stay focused.
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, In which of the following ways can the teacher best foster the students - ANS by providing
students' with a rubric with which they can self-evaluate their text analysis
08. Several research groups include students with a diverse range of reading skills. The teacher
wants to differentiate instruction for students in a way that will also strengthen their capacity
for reading more complex text. Which of the following approaches best aligns with research-
based best practices to accomplish this purpose? - ANS providing a set of texts representing a
range of text-complexity levels and interactive formats, and allowing student to work
collaboratively to read the texts.
09. A kindergarten teacher regularly has students write and draw in their journals in response to
an open-ended prompt. During these writing sessions the teacher circulates among students
asks them to read aloud what they have written and documents their performance with
anecdotal notes in a teacher record.
This type of informal assessment strategy would be most appropriate to use for which of the
following instructional purposes? - ANS observing individual student's development in
various dimensions of literacy over time.
10. Which of the following writing samples provides evidence that the student is beginning to
develop understanding of the alphabetic principle?
KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
ABCDEF
"Those are letters"
MIA
"I write my name!"
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