MTLE Elementary Education Subtest 1

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Which teacher practice in a kindergarten class is likely to be most effective in reinforcing students' development of phonemic awareness? Options: a. leading students in daily recitation of simple chants related to basic classroom procedures, b. having students line up or join a group when they hear the teacher say the first sound in their name, c. labeling key objects around the classroom with the first letter of the object's name, d. reading aloud each day's schedule and asking students questions about the planned activities

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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 of the following sets of words would be most appropriate to use for assessing third-grade students' ability to use structural analysis skills to decode words? a. closed, living, held b. contestant, logically, correlation c. bunnies, cities, animals d. unhappy, daytime, noiseless

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unhappy, daytime, noiseless

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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 the student struggles to comprehend academic texts in English. In an intervention designed to address the student's reading-comprehension difficulties in English, which strategy would be most important for the teacher to focus on first? Options: a. developing the student's familiarity with common text structures used in English academic texts, b. promoting the student's ability to use a cognate strategy to understand academic vocabulary in English, c. providing the student with systematic, explicit instruction in phonics and other decoding strategies in English, d. helping the student relate new content encountered in academic texts to the content of texts previously read in English.

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promoting the student's ability to use a cognate strategy to understand academic vocabulary in English.

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Which of the following statements provides the most likely explanation for the student's errors? a. The student mispronounces the vowel sounds of some words., b. The student has not yet fully grasped the alphabetic principle., c. The student has not yet developed phonemic-awareness skills., d. The student is confusing visually and auditorily similar letters.

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The student is confusing visually and auditorily 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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By engaging kindergarten students in activities like asking "Whose name has a t in it?" and "Who has a capital K at the beginning of their name?", the teacher is providing practice in:

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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: a. ee, c. ea, d. oa

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au

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A third-grade student can read grade-level literary texts at an appropriate rate with strong accuracy and good prosody. When reading grade-level, self-selected informational texts, however, the student reads in a slow, halting manner. Which of the following statements best explains the most likely reason for this discrepancy in the student's reading styles?

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The informational texts contain vocabulary and/or syntactic structures that are unfamiliar to the student.

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In order to accurately read and spell words such as sight, treat, and mock, students would benefit most from instruction focused on which phonics principle? Options: a. silent letters, b. word families, c. long vowel sounds, d. letter-sound correspondences

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word families