NBPTS MIDDLE CHILDHOOD GENERALIST-ELA
TEST 1,TEST 2 AND PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS 2023-2024
A teacher is working with a group of third graders at the same reading
level. Her goal is to improve reading fluency. She asks each child in turn
to read a page from a book about mammal young. She asks the children
to read with expression. She also reminds them they don’t need to stop
between each word; they should read as quickly as they comfortably
can. She cautions them, however, not to read so quickly that hey leave
out or misread a word. The teacher know the components of reading
fluency are: – ANSWER- rate, accuracy, and prosody
Caret, carrot, to, two and too share something in common. They: –
ANSWER- are homophones
Which staement adheres to Information Literacy standards? –
ANSWER- Students accessing information must critically evaluate it
and its sources before using it
Third-grade students typically recieve their spelling word lists each
Monday so that they can practice them at home before the test on Friday.
While their teacher is pleased that the students usually receive high
grades on spelling tests, she observes that they misspell those same
words when writing in journals or doing classwork. How should this
teacher modify her instruction? – ANSWER- Integrate spelling words
into writing, reading, grammar, phonics, and other activities to help
students learn the words in a variety of contexts.
Of the three tiers of words, the most important words for direct
instruction are: – ANSWER- two-tier words
Which student is most likely to need referral to a reading specialist for
assessment, special instruction, or intervention? – ANSWER- Barrett: a
3rd grader who often confuses the sounds of certain letters, such as /b/
and /d/ or /v/ and /u/
Research has found which outcome occurs for students via revision and
rewriting? – ANSWER- Students often incorporate new ideas when they
rewrite.
With a teacher’s guidance, a class brainstorms main ideas, topics, or
concepts from a text. Students choose a select number of these ideas and
copy them onto separate index cards. The students then individually
review the text, recording any supporting evidence on the notecard with
the applicable main idea. This activity would be an excellent pre-lesson
for teaching which skill set? – ANSWER- Organizing ideas for writing a
cohesive and persuasive essay or research paper that asserts supported
arguments with valid supporting evidence.
The MLA guidelines for citing multiple authors of the same source in
the in-text citations of a research paper are to use the first author’s name
and “et al” for the others in the case of… – ANSWER- 4 or more authors
A child in kindergarten is most likely to be referred to a speech-language
pathologist if s/he does not correctly produce which phoneme? –
ANSWER- /p/ as in pepper or poppies
Which best explains the importance prior knowledge brings to the act of
reading? – ANSWER- knowledge the student brings from previous life
or learning experiences to the act of reading.
A 4th grade teacher had her students write haiku in order to promote the
students’… – ANSWER- vocabulary
Mnemonic device – ANSWER- a saying or image used to help
remember a complex concept
the instruction of the alphabetic principle – ANSWER- letter-sound
relationships with the highest utility should be the earliest ones
introduced.
All members of a group of kindergarten students early in the year are
able to chant the alphabet. The teacher is now teaching the students what
the alphabet looks like in written form. The teacher points to a letter and
the students vocalize the correspondent sound. Alternatively, the teacher
vocalizes a phoneme and a student points to it on the alphabet chart. The
teacher is using… – ANSWER- letter-sound correspondence
Components of “explicit instruction” – ANSWER- clarifying the goal,
modeling strategies, and offering explanations geared to a student’s level
of understanding
diction – ANSWER- the overall choice of language you make for your
writing
vocabulary – ANSWER- the specific words from a given discipline that
you use when writing within or about that discipline
elements of print awareness in literacy development – ANSWER- to
identify initial and final letters in words, students must identify words
vs. spaces
It is the beginning of the school year. To determine which second-grade
students might need support, the reading teacher wants to identify those
who are reading below grade level. She works with students one at a
time. She gives each child a book at a second-grade reading level and
asks the child to read out loud for two minutes. Children who will need
reading support are those who read: – ANSWER- fewer than 50 words in
the time given