ILTS 305 Elementary Education Content Test

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Question : The Illinois Learning Standards for English

Language Arts and Literacy include teaching students at the fourth-grade level how to use context, Greek and Latin roots, and reference materials to promote vocabulary acquisition.Which of the following statements best explains how these strategies contribute to students' overall reading development and will help them develop college and career readiness in vocabulary?

• Students need to develop a variety of independent word-

learning strategies to deal with the volume of new words they will encounter in wide reading.

• Students need to develop an awareness of new words they

may encounter in their reading so that they will be able to retain them effectively in the future.

• Students need to develop an ability to spell and properly

pronounce words that they may need to apply in their future speaking and writing endeavors.

• Students need to develop knowledge of a range of discipline-

specific words so that they are prepared to study a variety of fields or to pursue different careers.

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CORRECT ANSWER : A. Students need to develop a variety

of independent word-learning strategies to deal with the volume of new words they will encounter in wide reading.

Question : A first-grade teacher is working with a small group of

emergent readers and would like to promote their ability to identify the final consonant sound in spoken words. Which of the following student activities would best promote achievement of this goal?

• writing all the words they know that end in the same final

sound and reading the words aloud

• circling the last letter of each word on a list of grade-level

words and saying the letter's name aloud

• saying aloud the words depicted on picture cards and sorting

the cards by the last sound in each word

• reading a simple grade-level poem aloud and segmenting the

onsets and rimes of the final word in each line

CORRECT ANSWER : C. saying aloud the words depicted on

picture cards and sorting the cards by the last sound in each word

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Question : 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?

• closed, living, held
• contestant, logically, correlation
• bunnies, cities, animals
• unhappy, daytime, noiseless

CORRECT ANSWER : D. Unhappy, daytime, noiseless

Question : A fifth-grade teacher periodically has students

analyze short science and social studies passages that are written at or slightly above grade level. First, the teacher underlines key words, phrases, and sentences on copies of the text. The teacher then has pairs of students read the passage and ask each other clarifying questions about the underlined elements. Finally, the students paraphrase each of the underlined elements in their own words and use these to construct a written summary of the passage. These activities best demonstrate the teacher's awareness of which of the following factors affecting reading development?

• the benefits of guided practice in reinforcing students' word-

learning strategies

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• the role of academic language in supporting students'

comprehension of complex texts

• the influence of prior language experiences on students'

reading comprehension

• the importance of selecting texts for students according to

multiple dimensions of text complexity

CORRECT ANSWER : B. the role of academic language in

supporting students' comprehension of complex texts

Question : 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 of the following strategies would be most important for the teacher to focus on first?

• developing the student's familiarity with common text

structures used in English academic texts

• promoting the student's ability to use a cognate strategy to

understand academic vocabulary in English

• providing the student with systematic, explicit instruction in

phonics and other decoding strategies in English