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WorksheetsTEXES ESL 154 new
Total questions: 104
Worksheet time: 52mins
1868 14th ammendment
equal protection under the law
seperate by equal, justified segregation
German language instruction stopped
no subjects taught in anything but English
The 14th amendment grants ___________ to anyone who is born in the U.S. including former slaves.
Citizenship
Equal Rights
Due Process Rights
Voting Rights
Which of the following would be an example of a Due Process Right? Select 3.
Freedom of Speech
The Right to an attorney
The Right to a Jury Trial
Freedom of press
The Right from cruel and unusual Punishments.
Which amendment Promises "Due Process" to all citizens.
14th
15th
18th
20th
Equal Protections means...
All people must be allowed to vote
Slavery must be abolished
everyone must be treated equally under the law.
PART A: Which statement expresses the central idea of the text?
Plessy v. Ferguson was the first time that an African American challenged segregation and brought attention to the issue.
The decision of Plessy v. Ferguson made racial segregation more widely practiced and accepted in the United States.
While racial segregation continued after the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, it was not upheld by the law.
The decision of Plessy v. Ferguson proved that both white and black citizens were largely against racial segregation.
PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer the central idea of the text?
"By 1896 the Civil War was over, and the amendments prohibiting slavery and ensuring equal rights for all citizens had been part of the U.S. Constitution for more than 25 years." (Paragraph 1)
"His lawyers argued that the law mandating rail car segregation was unconstitutional because of the 14th Amendment, which ensured equal protection under the law for all citizens." (Paragraph 3)
"He believed it was wrong to undermine the 14th Amendment in this way, when the majority of the country had favored the new law." (Paragraph 6)
"Laws that explicitly segregated the races could not be challenged in court anymore; the Supreme Court had given segregation the legal 'okay,' and states took advantage of this to establish segregation for decades to come." (Paragraph 7)
Which of the following describes the relationship between Jim Crow and Plessy v. Ferguson?
Jim Crow segregation laws compelled Plessy to protest segregated trains.
Jim Crow segregation laws were made possible by the Plessy v. Ferguson decision
Plessy v. Ferguson hoped to end the segregation common during Jim Crow.
Plessy v. Ferguson made Jim Crow laws widely accepted, but not officially legal.
Which court Supreme Count case overturned (changed) Plessy v. Ferguson and the idea of segregation?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Tinker v. Des Moines
Roe v. Wade
Brown v. Board of Education
What was one of the results of Plessy v. Ferguson?
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Plessy saying segregation was illegal.
The Supreme Court never made a ruling.
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal.
What southern state was Plessy in?
Louisiana
Texas
Georgia
What did the Separate Car Act do?
Said that all people should own their own car
Forced blacks and whites to sit in same train car
Segregated trains in Louisiana
The following demographics were most negatively impacted by the decision reached during Brown v. Board of Education (Select all that apply):
Indigenous students
Black middle class
Black students
White middle/working class
Brown v. Board of Education is regarded (known) as which of the following?
Supreme Court cases arguing the constitutionality of segregation.
Coordinated group of lawsuits culminating in one case that argued the constitutionality of "separate but equal".
Court case that held that segregation did not violate the Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment
Case establishing principle of judicial review as the power of federal courts to declare legislative/executive acts unconstitutional
Which amendment was supported in the ruling of Brown v. Board?
13th
14th
17th
20th
One problem with the idea of "separate but equal" was that the separate facilities for black people were almost never truly _______________.
national
federal
equal
unequal
The Plessy v. Ferguson case had what impact on the U.S.?
It legalized Jim Crow Laws throughout the U.S.
It made Jim Crow Laws illegal throughout the U.S.
It created more equality
It repealed the 14th Amendment
what year was brown versus the board of education of topeka?
1958
1954
1959
1939
ruling reversed plessy versus ferguson and established that seperate but equal was not equal in education
brown versus board of education
bilingual education act
Lau versus Nicols Supreme Court
Castaneda v. Pickard
Part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that protects people from discrimination based on race, color or national origin in programs or activities that receive Federal financial assistance is called.
FAPE
IEP
Title VI
CEI
Volunteers from local churches and businesses are interested in assisting students in a school’s ESL program. Which TWO of the following tasks are the most appropriate roles for the volunteers to fulfill?
Team teaching with a general education or ESL teacher
Facilitating guided reading groups and literature circles
Mentoring students with the guidance of the classroom teacher
Assisting with the tutoring of struggling readers and writers
Administering TELPAS and other assessments to gather data
A school is planning a meeting for ESL families to focus on parental involvement. The goal is to make the families feel welcome and provide them with the most effective ways to support language development at home. Which THREE of the following are the most effective approaches to help build trust with ESL families?
Demonstrating to parents how to continue to build on foundational skills
Having bilingual support personnel in attendance during the meeting
Encouraging parents to interact with their children in their first language
Providing American snacks and drinks during the meeting
Holding the meeting during the school day
An ELL in an elementary school volunteers to read a story in the general education classroom. The ELL stumbles over the words and appears flustered. The teacher responds with positive reinforcement, praising the student for offering to participate. The teacher’s actions best demonstrate an understanding of the importance of which of the following?
Encouraging reading fluency
Lowering the affective filter
Focusing on proper pronunciation
Improving cognitive development
Which TWO of the following are federal requirements for the education of ELLs?
ELLs must have access to the core curriculum.
ELLs must be given the opportunity to learn in their native language.
ELLs must exit an ESL program in no less than three years.
ELLs must be given opportunities for English-language development.
A school district is establishing an ESL program for the first time and must do so in compliance with established criteria. The district first puts into place a mechanism that will determine the program’s effectiveness in achieving its instructional goals for ELLs. The evaluation ensures that the program will primarily fulfill requirements established by
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
Castañeda v. Pickard.
the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
Plyler v. Doe.
At the beginning of the year, an ESL teacher has each student create an “All About Me” book. Students with a higher level of English-language proficiency write and illustrate the book independently. Those students with a lower level of English-language proficiency are allowed to create the book in their native languages. Which of the following statements best explains the primary benefit of the activity?
The ESL students will gain a greater mastery of the usage of written English.
The teacher will gain an understanding of the cultural background of the students.
The ESL students will gain a greater appreciation of American culture.
The teacher will gain a better idea of the students’ organizational skills.
An elementary school with a high number of ELLs wants to increase the participation of ELL families in the school’s Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO). Which of the following will encourage the greatest involvement by families of ELLs in the PTO?
Asking the teachers to send home flyers detailing the activities led by the PTO
Having the principal call each of the ELL families to ask them to become members of the PTO
Providing translators at the PTO meetings while covering meaningful topics for ELL families
Offering English classes for the parents of ELLs so that they can fully participate in PTO meetings
A high school ESL teacher is creating a teacher training session focusing on the linguistic diversity of the school. Which of the following paradigms will most benefit the school’s ELLs?
Using the ELLs’ native languages and cultures as a basis for building new knowledge
Encouraging all students to use only English while at school
Keeping ELLs in the ESL program as long as possible
Asking administrators to allow teachers to lead the ESL program
A high school ESL teacher hosts a career day in which bilingual professionals attend and give presentations about how proficiency in more than one language has helped them succeed. Which of the following is a primary benefit of the presentations for ELLs?
Identifying with members of the community who speak their language
Understanding the advantages of being multilingual
Choosing best career paths that align with their goals
Learning which companies emphasize multilingual careers
A school is planning a meeting for ESL families to focus on parental involvement. The goal is to make the families feel welcome and provide them with the most effective ways to support language development at home. Which THREE of the following are the most effective approaches to help build trust with ESL families?
-Demonstrating to parents how to continue to build on foundational skills
-Having bilingual support personnel in attendance during the meeting
-Encouraging parents to interact with their children in their first language
-Having bilingual support personnel in attendance during the meeting
-Encouraging parents to interact with their children in their first language
-Holding the meeting during the school day
-Encouraging parents to interact with their children in their first language
-Having bilingual support personnel in attendance during the meeting
-Holding the meeting during the school day
-Providing American snacks and drinks during the meeting
-Encouraging parents to interact with their children in their first language
-Holding the meeting during the school day
-Holding the meeting during the school day
-Having bilingual support personnel in attendance during the meeting
-Providing American snacks and drinks during the meeting
Hanh, a Vietnamese student, has been in the United States for eighteen months. She is progressing in her schoolwork, but she rarely speaks to her classmates or teachers. Which of the following is the best action for the teacher to take to help increase Hanh’s oral proficiency in English?
Partnering Hanh with an English-speaking peer during oral discussions and presentations
Incorporating daily lessons on social interactions that include role-playing
Providing Hanh with a list of common phrases in English for her to memorize and practice
Providing individual social lessons for Hanh to practice speaking until she is comfortable
It is most important for a teacher who provides content instruction to ESL students to do which of the following?
Expect the ESL students to remain academically behind their peers
Discourage ESL students from using nonstandard English
Provide lower-level content instructional materials to the ESL students
Incorporate content materials that are culturally relevant to the ESL students
The grammtical error by an ELL in the sentence below suggests that the English Language Learner needs practice in: Ms. Brown don't have any white paper on her desk
negation
quantification
subject/verb agreement
order of adjectives
The grammtical error by an ELL in the sentence below suggests that the English Language Learner needs practice in: Ms. Brown don't have any white paper on her desk
negation
quantification
subject/verb agreement
order of adjectives
Which of the following describes the difference between a phoneme and a grapheme?
A grapheme is written and a phoneme is spoken
A grapheme is a vowel and a phoneme is a consonant
A grapheme is a larger unit than a phoneme
A grapheme is a group of letters and a phoneme is one letter
Click on the two truths.
Students with concept of word represent word boundaries in their writing.
A student that has learned the alphabetic principle is in the emergent stage of development.
Student who can match speech to print possess concept of word.
Click on the two truths.
Phonological Awareness is usually an auditory task.
Phonological Awareness incorporates studying beginning letter sounds and rhyming words.
Phonological Awareness incorporates phonics instruction.
Click on the two truths.
Phonemic Awareness and Phonological Awareness are interchangeable terms.
Phonological Awareness is an awareness of various speech sounds such as syllables, rhyme, and individual phonemes.
Phonemic Awareness refers to the ability to consciously manipulate individual phonemes in a spoken language.
Which stage of reading focuses on concept of word?
Emergent
Beginner
Advanced
Dyslexic
Synthetic phonics is...
An approach to the teaching of reading in which the phonemes associated with particular graphemes are not pronounced in isolation. Children identify the common phoneme in a set of words in which each word contains the phoneme under study.
Is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes-in spoken words.
A method of teaching reading, which first teaches the letter sounds and then builds up to blending these sounds together to achieve full pronunciation of whole words.
An instructional method used to build phonological awareness by segmenting words into individual sounds (e.g. the placement of tiles or letters that correspond with each phoneme).
A phoneme is...
The smallest unit of language that has meaning.
A series of letters that stands for a sound, syllable, syllable part, or series of sounds
Units (typically containing a single vowel sound) within words
Is the smallest unit of sound in a word that makes a difference in its pronunciation, as well as its meaning, from another word.
An onset is...
The beginning consonant sounds of words (e.g. sw-im)
Is the smallest unit of sound in a word that makes a difference in its pronunciation, as well as its meaning, from another word.
Units (typically containing a single vowel sound) within words
The letters that follow the onset (e.g. sw-im)
Phonemic awareness is...
Is the smallest unit of sound in a word that makes a difference in its pronunciation, as well as its meaning, from another word.
Is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes-in spoken words.
A series of letters that stands for a sound, syllable, syllable part, or series of sounds.
A morpheme is...
The smallest unit of language that has meaning.
Is the smallest unit of sound in a word that makes a difference in its pronunciation, as well as its meaning, from another word.
Units (typically containing a single vowel sound) within words
The beginning consonant sounds of words (e.g. sw-im)
A phonogram is...
The smallest unit of language that has meaning.
The letters that follow the onset (e.g. sw-im)
A series of letters that stands for a sound, syllable, syllable part, or series of sounds.
Units (typically containing a single vowel sound) within words
A rime is...
The smallest unit of language that has meaning.
The letters that follow the onset (e.g. sw-im)
The beginning consonant sounds of words (e.g. sw-im)
Is the smallest unit of sound in a word that makes a difference in its pronunciation
Synthetic phonics is...
An approach to the teaching of reading in which the phonemes associated with particular graphemes are not pronounced in isolation. Children identify the common phoneme in a set of words in which each word contains the phoneme under study.
Is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds-phonemes-in spoken words.
A method of teaching reading, which first teaches the letter sounds and then builds up to blending these sounds together to achieve full pronunciation of whole words.
An instructional method used to build phonological awareness by segmenting words into individual sounds (e.g. the placement of tiles or letters that correspond with each phoneme).
A phoneme is...
The smallest unit of language that has meaning.
A series of letters that stands for a sound, syllable, syllable part, or series of sounds
Units (typically containing a single vowel sound) within words
Is the smallest unit of sound in a word that makes a difference in its pronunciation, as well as its meaning, from another word.
The smallest language units that carry meaning. Readers contains three. Read, er, and s- meaning more that one who reads.
language
grammer
morphemes
phonemes
How many morphemes are in the word cuts?
1
2
3
4
How many Phonemes are in the word cuts?
1
2
3
4
The prefix pre in preview or the suffix ed in adapted are examples of
phonemes
morphemes
buabbling
grammar
The distinctive th sound in the or the ll sound in small.
phoneme
mopheme
semantics
syntax
Consider this sentence: The dog agreed mountains for fun. The main problem with this sentence is
Phonemes
Morphemes
Semantics
Syntax
Consider this sentence: The small child tired was. The main problem involves
Phonemes
Morphemes
Semantics
Syntax
How many phonemes are in the word dogs?
1
2
3
4
How many morphemes are in the word dogs?
1
2
3
4
A phoneme, such as the c in cows, is best described as a
unit of meaning in a language
form of syntax
unit of sound in language
stage of language development
How many phonemes do we have in the English Language?
24
34
44
54
How many phonemes are in the word sing?
1
2
3
4
How many phonemes are in the word odd?
1
2
3
4
How many phonemes are in the word speed?
1
2
3
4
How many morphemes are in the word creator?
1
2
3
4
This person believed that our brains are hardwired for language and have biologically wired milestones for language acquisition.
Noam Chomsky
Benjamin Whorf
Lisa Cady
Becky Waller
This person theorized that language determines the way we think. (Linguistic Determinism)
Noam Chomsky
Benjamin Whorf
Lisa Cady
Becky Waller
______________ are the smallest units that carry MEANING in a language.
Phonemes
Morphemes
Grammar
Semantics
______________ are the smallest SOUND units in a language.
Phonemes
Morphemes
Grammar
Semantics
How many sounds do you hear in the word?
2
3
4
5
How many sounds do you hear in the word?
2
3
4
5
The set of rules by which we derive meaning from words and sentences.
Syntax
Semantics
Phonics
Morphemes
In language, the smallest distinctive unit of sound.
Morpheme
Phoneme
Semantics
Syntax
The set of rules by which we derive meaning from words and sentences.
Syntax
Semantics
Phonics
Morphemes
The smallest unit of language that carries meaning—could be a word or a prefix/suffix.
Phoneme
Morpheme
Syntax
Semantics
The rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences.
Language Acquisition Device
Semantics
Syntax
Linguistic Determinism
separating the sounds in the word mat isolates the phonemes /m/ /a/ /t/.
Phoneme Segmentation
Phoneme Substitution
Phoneme Deletion
Phoneme Blending
Removing /m/ from mat leaves the word at.
Phoneme Deletion
Phoneme Blending
Phoneme Substituion
Phoneme Segmentation
Phonemic Awareness focuses on sounds.
True
False
How many phonemes does the word "cat" have?
1
2
3
4
The written system of spelling patterns and correspondences between speech and print.
Semantics
Orthography
Phonetics
Syntax
The articulations and perception of speech sounds
Orthography
Morphology
Phonetics
Syntax
The system of rules governing the sequencing and distribution of speech sounds in words
Phonology
Phonetics
Pragmatics
Discourse
The smallest meaningful parts from which words are created
Orthography
Syntax
Semantics
Morphology
The rule system that governs how words are combined into phrases, clauses, and sentences.
Syntax
Semantics
Discourse
Pragmatics
The aspect of language that concerns the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences and the relationships among word meanings
Syntax
Semantics
Orthography
Phonetics
The organizational conventions of connected text
Phonetics
Phonology
Pragmatics
Discourse
How language is used in social contexts; rules of social discourse
Pragmatics
Syntax
Semantics
Morphology
Perception, interpretation, recall, and production of language at the level of the speech sound system, including functions such as pronouncing words, remembering names and lists, identifying words and syllables, giving rhymes. detecting syllable stress, and segmenting and blending phonemes.
Phonological Representation
Phonological Retrieval
Phonological Processing
Phonological Awareness
Bits of linguistic sound which mark the grammatical categories of language (Tense, Number, Gender, Aspect), each of which has one or more functions (Past, Present, Future are functions of Tense; Singular and Plural are functions of Number).
Language Acquisition
Mean Length of Utterance
Grammatical Morphemes
Metalinguistic Development
The conscious awareness that words are made up of segments or our own speech that are represented with letters in alphabetic orthography
phonemic awareness
phonological awareness
phonetics
phonics
A meta-cognitive skill (i.e., an awareness/ability to think about one's own thinking) for the sound structures of language. Allows one to attend to, discriminate, remember, and manipulate sounds at the sentence, word, syllable, and phoneme (sound) level.
phonemic awareness
phonetic variation
phonological awareness
phonological processing
The study of the relationships between letters and the sounds they represent; also used to describe reading instruction that teaches sound-symbol correspondences
encoding
decoding
phonetics
phonics
Ability to translate a word from print to speech, usually by employing the knowledge of sound-symbol correspondences; also, the act of deciphering a new word by sounding it out
decoding
encoding
decodable text
phonics
The study of the structure of phrases and sentences
syntax
morphology
phonology
semantics
The branches of linguistics that focus on the sound system of a language
phonetics & semantics
phonetics & phonology
semantics & syntax
morphology & pragmatics
The branches of linguistics that focus on the meaning of a language
semantics & phonology
semantics & pragmatics
morphology & pragmatics
pragmatics & phonology
the branches of linguistics that focus on the structure of language
syntax & pragmatics
morphology & phonology
morphology & syntax
syntax & semantics
What are the 5 domains of language?
Semantics
Syntax
Pragmatics
Morphology
Phonology
Semantics
Phonetics
Pragmatics
Phonology
Syntax
Syntax
Phonology
Pragmatics
Aphasia
Semantics
What is Phonology?
A term used in Game of Thrones
Rules for organizing speech sounds and combining them into meaningful units
Rules of language
