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STR Exam Teachers Of Tomorrow Practice Exam With Actual Answers
Question 1: According to findings in the Report of the National
Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth which of the following curricular adjustments would most effectively support the literacy development of English learners with respect to text comprehension?
CORRECT ANSWER : integrating comprehensive oral language
instruction with literacy instruction
Question 2: Which of the following actions by elementary
school teachers in the early grades would best demonstrate understanding that decoding and encoding are reciprocal skills that develop synchronously during the early stages of reading development?
CORRECT ANSWER : creating regular opportunities for
students to apply new syllable patterns in their daily writings that have been explicitly taught during phonics instruction.
Question 3: A teacher would like to help students identify their
literacy skills and strengths as part of an assets-based approach to literacy instruction. Which of the following teacher actions is consistent with this type of approach?
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CORRECT ANSWER : Providing students with explicit
feedback about what they already know and are able to do well and helping them use this information to establish realistic yet challenging learning goals.
Question 4: A school district in Texas has adopted the Multi-
Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) model of instruction in their K-3 literacy program which includes a core reading program (Tier 1) supplemental instruction (Tier 2) and intensive instruction (Tier 3) Instructional grouping in Tier 2 is restricted to five or fewer students. This limitation enhances the effectiveness of literacy instruction for the students primarily
by:
CORRECT ANSWER: Providing students with increased
opportunities to practice developing skills with teacher feedback.
Question 5: A second-grade student has been identified with
dysgraphia but does not have difficulty with decoding or encoding. Which of the following approaches to instruction would be most effective in promoting the student's development with respect to the identified area of need?
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CORRECT ANSWER : Providing the student with explicit
instruction in letter formation and frequent, short, guided- practice sessions to build the student's handwriting fluency and automaticity in letter memory and formation.
Question 6: In which line in the table below is the underlined
portion of the example word accurately matched to the phonics term that is used to describe that phonics element?
Line Phonics Term Example word
- blend they
- digraph factor
- diphthong power
- trigraph scrap
CORRECT ANSWER : Line 3
Question 7: Use the information below to answer the two
questions that follow. Students in a third-grade class have been studying ways in which Earth's surface is always changing. As the culminating project students choose a topic that they would like to learn more about (e.g. volcanic eruptions earthquakes landslides floods) and establish a research group focused on that
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topic. The students in each group generate questions to focus their research read a variety of texts to gather information related to their questions and engage in focused discussions of the texts based on their questions. The teacher's role is to support the groups by helping them gather a range of print and digital informational texts related to their chosen topic modeling norms for equitable discussions and monitoring each group's task progress to ensure group members stay focused.
In which of the following ways can the teacher best foster the students feelings of self-efficacy as readers in the context of the research projects?
CORRECT ANSWER : by providing students' with a rubric with
which they can self-evaluate their text analysis
Question 8: Several research groups include students with a
diverse range of reading skills. The teacher wants to differentiate instruction for students in a way that will also strengthen their capacity for reading more complex text. Which of the following approaches best aligns with research-based best practices to accomplish this purpose?