PECT PREK-4; MODULE 2 EXAM

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PECT PREK-4; MODULE 2 EXAM

WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS

Question :A teacher is planning instruction to promote

four-year-olds' development of skills related to Pennsylvania's PreK-4 learning standard about reading, analyzing, and interpreting text. With children at this developmental level, which of the following approaches to a read-aloud activity would be most appropriate for the teacher to use to develop the children's conceptual understanding of fact and opinion?

• having the children identify characters who

demonstrate examples of faulty reasoning in a fable

• asking the children to decide which statements related

to an article in a children's nature magazine are true or false

• helping the children tell one thing they learned from a

nonfiction text

• showing the children how to differentiate between

essential and nonessential information in a nonfiction children's picture book

CORRECT ANSWER :C

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Question :A fourth-grade teacher would like to promote

reluctant readers' independent reading. Which of the following teacher strategies is likely to be most effective in achieving this goal?

• engaging students in discussions about their interests

and working with the library media specialist to locate appropriate-level books on these topics

• reading aloud a variety of books from the classroom

library on a regular basis and engaging students in discussions related to the read-alouds

• creating attractive displays of both fiction and

nonfiction books and magazines in the classroom library and regularly inviting students to browse the displays

• providing opportunities for students to visit the

school's library media center and to learn about the center's resources and organization

CORRECT ANSWER :A

Question :A third-grade teacher regularly models for

students how to paraphrase a portion of a text and how to

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pose and respond to questions that clarify or follow up on information presented in a text. These practices promote students' literacy

development primarily by:

• supporting their development of dispositions and

attitudes that help create a purposeful, literate environment in the classroom.

• enhancing their knowledge of the organizational

structure of different types of text.

• promoting their development of self-monitoring skills

that support reading and learning across the curriculum.

• fostering their ability to make connections between the

reading curriculum and their lives.

CORRECT ANSWER :C

Question :A first-grade teacher explains that he is going

to read a story aloud and he wants students to consider how the story makes them feel. Afterward, he prompts the students to recall and discuss specific words and phrases the author used to evoke particular feelings. This oral

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language activity supports students' literacy development

primarily by helping the students:

• retell a story's key events accurately.
• make and verify predictions about a story.
• connect key events in a story to their own lives.
• develop an awareness of a story's tone.

CORRECT ANSWER :D

Question :A kindergarten teacher has placed many signs

around the classroom, including simple written directions (e.g., Please hang up coats!) and labels for objects (e.g., clock, Teacher's chair). During daily activities, the teacher regularly points to and reads aloud relevant signs. The teacher has also created a classroom library filled with age-appropriate books and has incorporated relevant signs and books into all the learning centers. These strategies are most effective in addressing which of