MTLE Elementary Education Subtest 1

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Which teacher practice in a kindergarten class is most effective in reinforcing students' development of phonemic awareness?

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Having students line up or join a group when they hear the teacher say the first sound in their name.

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Which method is most appropriate for assessing a kindergarten student's phonological awareness skills? Options: a. pronouncing a target phoneme and prompting the student to point to the printed letter most commonly associated with it, b. having the student listen to a sentence presented orally and try to repeat the sentence exactly, c. saying a familiar multisyllable word and asking the student to repeat the word while clapping for each syllable in the word, d. asking the student to listen to a spoken word and identify the final letter in the word

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saying a familiar multisyllable word and asking the student to repeat the word while clapping for each syllable in the word

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Which set of words is most appropriate for assessing third-grade students' structural analysis skills to decode words?

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unhappy, daytime, noiseless

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A fifth-grade teacher has students analyze short science and social studies passages, underlining key elements and paraphrasing them to construct a summary. What factor affecting reading development does this demonstrate?

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The role of academic language in supporting students' comprehension of complex texts.

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A sixth-grade English language learner has grade-level literacy skills in Spanish and grade-level fluency skills in English, but struggles to comprehend academic texts in English. What strategy should the teacher focus on first? Options: a. developing familiarity with common text structures in English academic texts, b. promoting ability to use a cognate strategy for academic vocabulary in English, c. providing systematic, explicit instruction in phonics and decoding strategies in English, d. helping relate new content in academic texts to previously read content in English.

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Promoting ability to use a cognate strategy for academic vocabulary in English.

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What is the most likely explanation for the student's errors?

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The student is confusing visually and auditorily similar letters.

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A kindergarten teacher models a multisensory activity for a student struggling with letter recognition by looking at the letter, saying its name, and tracing it. The student practices with letters like b, d, q. What ability is this intervention designed to promote?

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Distinguish between the features of visually similar letters.

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A teacher places printed labels on various objects in the classroom and frequently points to and refers to the objects by name in conversation with the students. Which early literacy skill is the teacher most directly promoting?

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concepts of print

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Kindergarten students respond to questions like "Whose name has a 't' in it?" by giving a thumbs up. What skill is being practiced?

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letter recognition.

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In a research-based, systematic program of phonics instruction, which of the following complex letter combinations should be taught last? Options: ee, au, ea, oa

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au