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WorksheetsCTEL 2: Assessment and Instruction Subtest Structure
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 24mins
A second-grade teacher plans to include the following activities in a lesson addressing the California English Language Arts standard related to writing brief narratives that describes an experience.
* Read aloud a picture book about a family celebration
* Lead a class discussion, in which students talk about the story and relate a personal experience about a special family celebration or event
* Using the writing process, have students compose a short narrative about their own family celebration or event
Which of the following would be the most appropriate strategy for differentiating this lesson for early advanced level English learners in the class?
Provide the English learners with guiding questions to help them construct their narratives
Ask the English learners to draw pictures illustrating their experience instead of writing about it
Have the English learners practice recounting a personal experience to a partner, and then retell the story to the whole class
Have the English learners reread the picture book independently and allow them to copy the text for their narratives
Which of the following describes the primary role of classroom assessment in instructional planning for students in English Language Development (ELD) programs?
To determine which ELD standards correspond to particular grade levels and ELD proficiency levels
To determine the cost-benefit ratio of a particular ELD program design
To determine how well a particular school has addressed its ELD program goals
To determine student achievement and needs with respect to particular ELD standards
A high school English teacher plans to use the following holistic-scoring method to assess students’ compositions.
* The teacher selects four criteria (i.e. organization, clarity, grammar, and mechanics)
* With one point representing the lowest score on the scale and five points representing the highest, the teacher writes a description of each point with regard to the four criteria
* The teacher assigns a compositions a score of 1 to 5, based on which point description it matches best
Several students in the teacher’s classes are advanced level English learners. And important limitation of using this method on a regular basis with English learners is that it:
Does not provide explicit feedback on specific areas of writing performance
Is not based on generally accepted, objective performance criteria
Does not provide students with an overall sense of whether their written work is improving
Does not produce results that are straightforward and easy to understand
In California, requires program components for English learners at all grade levels include which of the following?
Providing ELD and primary-language support
Providing content-based ELD and SDAIE
Providing ELD and access to the core curriculum
Providing content-based ELD and primary-language development
A high school biology teacher teaches advanced level English learners using SDAIE. Which of the following activities in a SDAIE lesson about vascular and nonvascular plants would be most appropriate and effective to use with students at this proficiency level in order to promote their English language and literacy development?
Have students examine a moss specimen and a leaf with a hand lens, and then draw and label their observations
Have students dissect several representative species of vascular and nonvascular plants, and then make a chart listing each plant’s features
Have students observe and discuss similarities and differences between vascular and nonvascular plants and then write an essay summarizing their findings
Have students collect a variety of vascular and nonvascular plants and then compile a data table listing their characteristics
A middle school mathematics teacher is planning SDAIE for a group of intermediate level English learners. Which of the following guidelines would be most appropriate for the teacher to follow when planning lessons for this class?
Include language objectives in each lesson specifically related to the technical vocabulary and content specific language structures used in the lesson
Take advantage of the fact that mathematics is not dependent on language as other content areas and focus lessons on mathematical skills that require minimal use of language
Make lessons more accessible to English learners by having them work on mathematical concepts and skills that are below their developmental level
Postpone lessons related to higher level mathematical concepts until the English learners have attained an advanced level of receptive language proficiency in English
A high school teacher uses SDAIE. In addition to providing English learners with content and language instruction, the teacher also provides them with explicit instruction in how to group or classify vocabulary and terminology according to semantic and syntactic attributes. This practice is likely to be most effective in promoting English learners’ content and language development in which of the following ways?
By enabling English learners to plan and organize their writing more effectively
By promoting English learners’ comprehension and retention of new language
By helping English learners to identify main ideas and supporting ideas more effectively
By reducing English learners’ anxiety with respect to performing specific language tasks
A kindergarten ELD teacher includes clothing and other realia from English learners’ home cultures in the dress-up corner and in other learning centers throughout the classroom. The teacher also ensures that all students learn the names and functions of the various objects. Which of the following describes the most likely outcome of this practice?
Using realia from cultures outside of the United States will tend to delay the English learners’ assimilation into U.S. mainstream culture
Interacting with familiar objects will tend to promote English learners’ language development by providing meaningful stimuli for classroom conversations
Teaching vocabulary from English learners’ home languages will tend to delay English learners’ vocabulary development in English
Learning about realia from other cultures will tend to promote English learners’ understanding of the challenges faced by different immigrant groups in U.S. society
An upper-elementary teacher is choosing materials for a group of early intermediate level English learners for a content-based ELD lesson on volcanoes. Which of the following guidelines would be most appropriate for the teacher to follow when deciding which written materials to use in this lesson?
Emphasize illustrations and hands-on materials and avoid use of written texts with students who have low levels of English proficiency
Provide the students with a brief outline of key facts about the topic, instead of having them read a text
Select a grade-appropriate text and adapt it by modifying vocabulary and sentence structures
Choose a text written for a lower grade level so that the text’s level of language matches the students’ English proficiency level
A middle school earth science class that includes several English learners is about to begin studying a new topic. Which of the following introductory activities would be most effective in promoting the English learners’ listening comprehension during the lesson?
The teacher uses guided discussion and contextualization to clarify the meaning of key vocabulary
The teacher constructs sets of minimal pairs and conducts a warm-up listening exercise with students
The students write what they know about the topic
The students read a grade-level appropriate text about the topic
A middle school teacher helps a group of intermediate-level English learners analyze new words in a reading passage by focusing on the words' roots and derivational suffixes. How is this activity most likely to promote the students’ English language development?
The activity will improve their ability to identify main ideas and details in informational texts
The activity will help them use and understand compound and complex sentences in a variety of contexts
The activity will facilitate their use of standard dictionaries to determine meanings of unknown words
The activity will expand their vocabularies by increasing their awareness of semantically related morphemes
Which of the following is the first step in planning a lesson using SDAIE?
Planning an activity to access English learners’ prior knowledge
Identifying explicit content and language development objectives
Identifying multiple strategies for accessing English learners’ progress
Planning ways to contextualize new concepts and vocabulary
