240 last wrong answers test

Which of the following is the main purpose of instructing students with significant cognitive disabilities using a functional curriculum?

• help students to prepare for college or technical schools

• Functional curriculums focus on daily living skills which may include self care, independent living, behavior management, and functional academics in preparation for exit from high school.

• help students to complete state assessment requirements for graduation

• help students to participate in adaptive physical education

All of the following are ways to determine a student's reading level except:

• asking comprehension questions like, "What are the four stages of the water cycle?"

• asking students to separate multisyllabic words into individual syllables or word parts.

• conducting a miscue analysis and oral reading assessment.

• using district-provided reading level assessment software.

In a middle-school language arts classroom, a successful reading program should:

• allow for student-selected texts.

• focus on teacher-selected texts.

• use leveled readers exclusively.

• use classic literature selected by students or teachers.

A special education teacher is working with a group of upper elementary students to help them with a lesson on adding and subtracting with decimals. Which of the following activities would be most helpful to teach this lesson to students with disabilities?

• using bear-shaped counters to help illustrate the concept of subtraction and addition

• creating a worksheet of funny word problems for them to complete with a partner

• role-playing working in a store and making change for items using play money

• using place value blocks to illustrate the value of each decimal place

Which of the following best describes the primary role of mentor texts in writing instruction?

Demonstrate the pro

• Demonstrate the process of turning an idea into a complete piece of writing.

• Provide a clear example of a genre that students can use to guide stylistic and/or structural choices.

• Outline the teacher's expectations and requirements for a student's own writing assignment.

• Provide a comparison by which students can evaluate the quality of their own writing.

Answer explanation

Provide a clear example of a genre that students can use to guide stylistic and/or structural choices.

In a co-taught, seventh-grade math class, the special education teacher notices that two of her students with mild intellectual disabilities are struggling to multiply fractions. She sees them counting on their fingers as they try to do math in their heads and writing additional problems in which they are adding the same number multiple times. Which of the following would be an appropriate aid to provide to these students to help them complete the assignment?

• a multiplication chart

• a calculator

• fraction manipulatives

• a hundreds chart

Answer explanation

Based on the behavior seen by the teacher, the problem appears to be that these students do not have their multiplication facts memorized. They are working to count up or add for each step of the multiplication. Providing a multiplication chart will help them work faster and reinforce their memory of these basic facts, without removing them from what they are actually doing as a calculator might.

dont get this confused with fraction manipulatives

Which of the following prohibits discrimination of individuals based on their disabilities?

• Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)

• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

• Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act

Answer explanation

Section 504 is a anti-discrimination statute which prohibits discrimination due to disabilities.

A first-grade teacher takes three small square tiles and sits across from one of her students. She says, "I'm going to say a word and then its sounds: mat ... /m/ … /a/ … /t/." Then she passes the tiles across the desk to the student and says, "Can you think of another one-syllable word with three sounds?" This activity furthers the student's reading abilities by helping them:

• realize the basic building blocks of phonics instruction.

• understand that words are made up of separate sounds.

• recognize the most common sounds in English.

• learn how to blend individual sounds together.

Answer explanation

This activity helps the student learn how to segment individual sounds in a word by creating a visual representation of each separate sound. Segmenting and blending are the two most important aspects of phonemic awareness for students to master as they are learning to read.

Caroline is a student in first grade who was homeschooled for preschool and kindergarten. Caroline experienced a traumatic brain injury when she was four years old. When she attends recess with her class outside in the first three months of school, Caroline has a difficult time keeping her eyes open. She also struggled to see pictures in a book during small group time in the classroom.

What condition might Caroline have?

• astigmatism

• pink eye

• glaucoma

• photophobia

Answer explanation

Photophobia is an extreme sensitivity to light and can be a symptom of a traumatic brain injury.

Before the school year starts, an elementary teacher plans activities to increase phonological awareness. Which of the skills below will likely be more prevalent earlier in the year as students are beginning to explore phonological awareness?

• phoneme blending

• syllable awareness

• onset and rime

• listening and rhyming

Answer explanation

Listening and rhyming comes before syllable awareness, onset and rime, and phoneme blending.