STR EXAM QUESTIONS AND
DETAILED CORRECT ANSWERS;
A+ GRADE STUDY RESOURCE
^^The transcript of this teacher-student conference
shows the teacher understands the importance of: -
correct answer- pointing out the student's
successes and providing constructive feedback to
facilitate continued growth.
A first-grade class has recently attended a play at a local
concert hall. After seeing the play, the students read a
book that tells the story to the students using grade-level
appropriate vocabulary. Because students already know
the basic plot of the story, the teacher is able to pause
often and have students practice reading and saying
decodable words. Then, the teacher forms small table
groups and gives students sentence strips. She asks the
groups to write a short summary of the story by writing
one sentence per paper strip. While walking around, the
students ask the teacher how to spell several decodable
words from the text. The teacher tells the students to
sound out the words as they spell them. By asking the
,students to sound out the words, the teacher is: -
correct answer- encouraging students to use
what they know about letter/sound correspondence in
their writing.
A first-grade teacher calls each student to her desk
individually, gives them a word, such as mop, and asks
them to replace the first sound with a new sound, such
as /h/. Students are then assessed on their ability to make
the new word out of the given word and new sound, in
this case, hop. Which of the following developing reading
skills is the teacher evaluating by administering this
assessment? - correct answer- phonemic
awareness
A first-grade teacher is forming reading intervention
groups. All of the following assessments would be useful
for this teacher to utilize except: - correct answer-
a reading interest inventory.
A first-grade teacher is planning upcoming phonics
instruction to support the students' understanding of the
relationships between letters and sounds. Which of the
, following strategies would best support ELL students in
her class while working on this skill? - correct
answer- emphasizing letters that may have
different pronunciations in English than in the students'
native language
A first-grade teacher is reading aloud from an
instructional text on the life cycle of a butterfly. During
the reading, she stops to think-aloud with the goal of
teaching the class a specific reading skill. Here is an
excerpt of the think-aloud with the teacher's dialogue in
italics.
There are four parts to the life cycle of a butterfly. First, a
butterfly lays an ovum, or egg,
on a leaf. I wonder what an "ovum" is. I'm going to reread
the sentence before and look
at the phrases around the word to see if I can figure it out.
The word "egg" is right after,
and that makes sense. The butterfly chooses a plant that
can provide the larvae with
food. Once born, the tiny caterpillar starts eating and
molts its skin often. I wonder what
DETAILED CORRECT ANSWERS;
A+ GRADE STUDY RESOURCE
^^The transcript of this teacher-student conference
shows the teacher understands the importance of: -
correct answer- pointing out the student's
successes and providing constructive feedback to
facilitate continued growth.
A first-grade class has recently attended a play at a local
concert hall. After seeing the play, the students read a
book that tells the story to the students using grade-level
appropriate vocabulary. Because students already know
the basic plot of the story, the teacher is able to pause
often and have students practice reading and saying
decodable words. Then, the teacher forms small table
groups and gives students sentence strips. She asks the
groups to write a short summary of the story by writing
one sentence per paper strip. While walking around, the
students ask the teacher how to spell several decodable
words from the text. The teacher tells the students to
sound out the words as they spell them. By asking the
,students to sound out the words, the teacher is: -
correct answer- encouraging students to use
what they know about letter/sound correspondence in
their writing.
A first-grade teacher calls each student to her desk
individually, gives them a word, such as mop, and asks
them to replace the first sound with a new sound, such
as /h/. Students are then assessed on their ability to make
the new word out of the given word and new sound, in
this case, hop. Which of the following developing reading
skills is the teacher evaluating by administering this
assessment? - correct answer- phonemic
awareness
A first-grade teacher is forming reading intervention
groups. All of the following assessments would be useful
for this teacher to utilize except: - correct answer-
a reading interest inventory.
A first-grade teacher is planning upcoming phonics
instruction to support the students' understanding of the
relationships between letters and sounds. Which of the
, following strategies would best support ELL students in
her class while working on this skill? - correct
answer- emphasizing letters that may have
different pronunciations in English than in the students'
native language
A first-grade teacher is reading aloud from an
instructional text on the life cycle of a butterfly. During
the reading, she stops to think-aloud with the goal of
teaching the class a specific reading skill. Here is an
excerpt of the think-aloud with the teacher's dialogue in
italics.
There are four parts to the life cycle of a butterfly. First, a
butterfly lays an ovum, or egg,
on a leaf. I wonder what an "ovum" is. I'm going to reread
the sentence before and look
at the phrases around the word to see if I can figure it out.
The word "egg" is right after,
and that makes sense. The butterfly chooses a plant that
can provide the larvae with
food. Once born, the tiny caterpillar starts eating and
molts its skin often. I wonder what
