GACE Elementary Education Test with Verified Answers
A teacher assesses a child using a running record. - ANSWER -formative assessment
She notes that the student's prosody need to
improve. What is prosody? - ANSWER -
Cadence and expression An assessment is considered to be a running record
if it does what? - ANSWER -It reflects the
student's instructional reading level
What refers to how a student reads in phrases or
whole thoughts? - ANSWER -cadence
At what age would you expect a typical child to be
reliably using sentences of more than 5 words? -
A typical child will have narrowed his or her ANSWER -5 years
utterances from the range of all possible sounds to
those relevant in his or her language at which of the
following ages? - ANSWER -1 year Language which does not refer to any immediate
experience or information is known as what? -
ANSWER -Decontextualized speech
According to Ehri, which of the following is true
during the partial alphabetic stage of literacy
development? - ANSWER -Children are What is another name for Decontextualized speech?
incapable of segmenting sounds - ANSWER -disembedded speech
Your students love to sit in the "Author's Chair" in Children develop the ability to understand
your language arts center. Which stage of writing decontextualized speech around what age? -
would your children be in when using the "Author's ANSWER -3 years
Chair?" - ANSWER -publishing
The tendency of a young child to repeat another's
What is the final step of the writing process? - statement as if it were his or her own is known as
ANSWER -publishing what? - ANSWER -repeitition
According to Gentry,what is true of a child's written A reading strategy that asks the reader not only to
communication in the transitional stage? - activate her prior knowledge, but to make connection
ANSWER -Vowels will appear in every word between the text she is reading and other texts, and
with her personal life, is known as what? -
ANSWER -connecting
The typical abilities of children of a given age in a
given cultural group are known as what? -
ANSWER -Normative development A person who has no mentalistic explanations to help
them understand another person's actions would be
described as what? - ANSWER -mindblind
What type of assessment occurs at the end of a
specific period of time and represent a student's
mastery? - ANSWER -summative assessment At what age does the typical child begin to refer to
him or herself by name? - ANSWER -24 months
What type of assessment occurs during learning and
guide instruction and monitors a student's progress? How many inches per year would you expect the
1/6
, GACE Elementary Education Test with Verified Answers
typical preschool aged child to grow? - migration. Which might this be? - ANSWER -
ANSWER -3 inches physical reasons
Language activity made up of repetition, monologue, Mr. Belt is conducting an activity where students will
and collective monologue is known as what? - select a name of a historical figure from a hat and
ANSWER -Noncommunicative language then act out gestures and signs to have the other
children guess who they are. How does this activity
enhance a child's social skills? - ANSWER -It
A situation where two or more culture groups abide in builds their confidence when in front of a group of
the same territory or region but maintain their people
separate cultural identities is called what? -
ANSWER -a plural society
Anna's two-year-old brother wants to put her dress
on. Anna thinks that if he wears her dress, that he will
Permeating the curriculum to alter or affect the way become a girl. Anna's theory is an example of what? -
in which young children and teachers think about ANSWER -Irreversible thinking
diversity issues is known as what? - ANSWER -
Multicultural infusion
The imaginary line at Greenwich, England, that is
used to measure longitude is known as what? -
Monologue, collective monologue, and repetition are ANSWER -Prime Meridian
major components are what type of language? -
ANSWER -noncommunicative language
The Prime Meridian is a how many degrees
longitude? - ANSWER -zero
You are attempting to teach your sixth grade class
the differences between different types of
governments in the ancient world. You choose the Mrs. Chan is using current events to teach her
Roman period preceding the reign of Julius Caesar students about the reasons people move in the world.
to represent one type of government. Which type of She tells them about refugees from Libya crossing
government would this be? - ANSWER -a into Kenya looking for safety. Which reason is she
republic attempting to illustrate with this example? -
ANSWER -political reasons
The fan-shaped area at the mouth of a river is known
as what? - ANSWER -delta Who was the philosopher who advocated education
as a natural process without restrictions, he believed
that children should be educated through natural
The Nile or Mississippi are examples of what types of approaches? - ANSWER -Jean-Jacques
bodies of water? - ANSWER -deltas Rousseau
Mrs. Giacomo is teaching her social studies class What philosopher created the idea of unfolding, in
about the Dust Bowl of the 1930's. She tells them which a child develops based on his or her natural,
that the drought caused the farms to fail and that internal clock? - ANSWER -Jean-Jacques
people were starving. She tells them of the Rousseau
movement of farmers from Oklahoma to California.
She is using this event to discuss a reason for
2/6
A teacher assesses a child using a running record. - ANSWER -formative assessment
She notes that the student's prosody need to
improve. What is prosody? - ANSWER -
Cadence and expression An assessment is considered to be a running record
if it does what? - ANSWER -It reflects the
student's instructional reading level
What refers to how a student reads in phrases or
whole thoughts? - ANSWER -cadence
At what age would you expect a typical child to be
reliably using sentences of more than 5 words? -
A typical child will have narrowed his or her ANSWER -5 years
utterances from the range of all possible sounds to
those relevant in his or her language at which of the
following ages? - ANSWER -1 year Language which does not refer to any immediate
experience or information is known as what? -
ANSWER -Decontextualized speech
According to Ehri, which of the following is true
during the partial alphabetic stage of literacy
development? - ANSWER -Children are What is another name for Decontextualized speech?
incapable of segmenting sounds - ANSWER -disembedded speech
Your students love to sit in the "Author's Chair" in Children develop the ability to understand
your language arts center. Which stage of writing decontextualized speech around what age? -
would your children be in when using the "Author's ANSWER -3 years
Chair?" - ANSWER -publishing
The tendency of a young child to repeat another's
What is the final step of the writing process? - statement as if it were his or her own is known as
ANSWER -publishing what? - ANSWER -repeitition
According to Gentry,what is true of a child's written A reading strategy that asks the reader not only to
communication in the transitional stage? - activate her prior knowledge, but to make connection
ANSWER -Vowels will appear in every word between the text she is reading and other texts, and
with her personal life, is known as what? -
ANSWER -connecting
The typical abilities of children of a given age in a
given cultural group are known as what? -
ANSWER -Normative development A person who has no mentalistic explanations to help
them understand another person's actions would be
described as what? - ANSWER -mindblind
What type of assessment occurs at the end of a
specific period of time and represent a student's
mastery? - ANSWER -summative assessment At what age does the typical child begin to refer to
him or herself by name? - ANSWER -24 months
What type of assessment occurs during learning and
guide instruction and monitors a student's progress? How many inches per year would you expect the
1/6
, GACE Elementary Education Test with Verified Answers
typical preschool aged child to grow? - migration. Which might this be? - ANSWER -
ANSWER -3 inches physical reasons
Language activity made up of repetition, monologue, Mr. Belt is conducting an activity where students will
and collective monologue is known as what? - select a name of a historical figure from a hat and
ANSWER -Noncommunicative language then act out gestures and signs to have the other
children guess who they are. How does this activity
enhance a child's social skills? - ANSWER -It
A situation where two or more culture groups abide in builds their confidence when in front of a group of
the same territory or region but maintain their people
separate cultural identities is called what? -
ANSWER -a plural society
Anna's two-year-old brother wants to put her dress
on. Anna thinks that if he wears her dress, that he will
Permeating the curriculum to alter or affect the way become a girl. Anna's theory is an example of what? -
in which young children and teachers think about ANSWER -Irreversible thinking
diversity issues is known as what? - ANSWER -
Multicultural infusion
The imaginary line at Greenwich, England, that is
used to measure longitude is known as what? -
Monologue, collective monologue, and repetition are ANSWER -Prime Meridian
major components are what type of language? -
ANSWER -noncommunicative language
The Prime Meridian is a how many degrees
longitude? - ANSWER -zero
You are attempting to teach your sixth grade class
the differences between different types of
governments in the ancient world. You choose the Mrs. Chan is using current events to teach her
Roman period preceding the reign of Julius Caesar students about the reasons people move in the world.
to represent one type of government. Which type of She tells them about refugees from Libya crossing
government would this be? - ANSWER -a into Kenya looking for safety. Which reason is she
republic attempting to illustrate with this example? -
ANSWER -political reasons
The fan-shaped area at the mouth of a river is known
as what? - ANSWER -delta Who was the philosopher who advocated education
as a natural process without restrictions, he believed
that children should be educated through natural
The Nile or Mississippi are examples of what types of approaches? - ANSWER -Jean-Jacques
bodies of water? - ANSWER -deltas Rousseau
Mrs. Giacomo is teaching her social studies class What philosopher created the idea of unfolding, in
about the Dust Bowl of the 1930's. She tells them which a child develops based on his or her natural,
that the drought caused the farms to fail and that internal clock? - ANSWER -Jean-Jacques
people were starving. She tells them of the Rousseau
movement of farmers from Oklahoma to California.
She is using this event to discuss a reason for
2/6
