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FTCE PREK-3 PRACTICE TEST
QUESTIONS AND ANSWER S
Question : Which of the following is NOT a stage of
Erikson's stages? (young childhood, middle adulthood, adolescence, late childhood
Correct answer: late childhood
Question : Which of the following is NOT a characteristic
of child with emotional disturbance? (lower academic performance, social skills deficits, aggressive behaviors, exaggerated efforts to make friends)
Correct answer: exaggerated efforts to make friends
Question : Which of the follow is NOT a reason for
having a parent conference? (the teacher wants to share information about the child's behavior and progress with the parents, the teacher wants to receive information about the child from the parents, the teacher wants to ask for parent support or involvement in specific activities, the child's behavior is so difficult that the teacher wants the parents to withdraw the child from school)
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Correct answer: the child's behavior is so difficult that the
teacher wants the parents to withdraw the child from school
Question : Which of the following is NOT a goal of
children's literature? (focus on choices, morals and values, instruct students through entertaining stories, promote an interest in reading itself, instruct students in the sciences, such as math and biology)
Correct answer: instruct students in the sciences, such as
math and biology
Question : Which of the following is NOT a prewriting
strategy? (brainstorming; visual mapping of ideas; asking questions; organizing writing into paragraphs)
Correct answer: organizing writing into paragraphs
Question : Which of the following is not a method of peer
editing? (pairs of students analyze each others' sentences for variety; groups of students ask questions of the author to make the writing more clear; students work together to
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perform a final edit; students decide whether another student's essay is good writing or poor writing)
Correct answer: students decide whether another student's
essay is good writing or poor writing
Question : Which of the following should NOT be
capitalized? (state names, small works like "of" in titles, proper names, main words in titles of written works)
Correct answer: small works like "of" in titles
Question : The basics of writing to a particular audience
do NOT include.. (precise vocabulary, correct spelling, figurative language, illustrations or examples)
Correct answer: correct spelling
Question : Which of the following is NOT a model that
helps students understand subtraction? (take away, missing addend, number line, adding zero)
Correct answer: adding zero
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Question : Which of the following is NOT a way to teach
young children to recognize patterns? (count by twos beginning with 5, comparing geometric shapes, solving for x in an equation, analyzing the results of a class survey)
Correct answer: solving for x in a equation
Question : Which of the following events did NOT occur
in Massachusetts close to the time of the American Revolution? (The Declaration of Independence, the first battle of the Revolutionary War, The Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's ride)
Correct answer: The Declaration of Independence
Question : A teacher asks her students to compare and
contrast two animals they saw at the zoo. This is an example of what level of Bloom's taxonomy?
Correct answer: analysis
Question : Students studying fractions manipulate fraction
blocks, blocks cut to represent fractional parts to learn the