FTCE NAVAED MIDDLE G RADES

FTCE NAVAED MIDDLE G RADES

ENGLISH 5-9 EXAM LATEST ACTUAL

EXAM 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT

DETAILED ANSWERS WIT H

RATIONALES|ALREADY G RADED A+

Question (1): What are heroes and villains examples of?

• archetypal elements
• allusion
• personification
• proverbs

Correct answer: A

Question (2): Students are analyzing two proverbs from two

different cultures. The American proverb is, "The early bird gets the worm." The Mexican proverb is, "Those who get to the well early have better crops." What is an appropriate higher-order continuation of this activity?

• Interview family members about other proverbs, and then

compare and contrast the proverbs from different families and cultures.

• Watch a movie about proverbs in different cultures.

• Copy proverbs and their meanings from both cultures, and

then compare and contrast the cultures' main tenets.

• In cooperative learning groups, identify proverbs in

different stories from different cultures.

Correct answer: A

Question (3): Phonemic awareness includes the ability to:

• form compound words and combine word parts.
• spell accurately and decode unfamiliar words.
• pronounce individual sounds in words.
• differentiate between homonyms and spell accurately.

Correct answer: C

Question (4): When a student is comparing and contrasting

literature from other cultures and relating the literature to her

own life, a student is in the:

• sensorimotor phase.
• preoperational phase.
• concrete operational phase.
• formal operational phase.

Correct answer: D

Question (5): A cloze reading activity does not assess:

• spelling.
• higher-order thinking.
• fluency.
• comprehension.

Correct answer: B

Question (6): The following sentence has what type of error?

The man was waving to the rescuers, stuck in the mud.

• dangling particle or modifier
• parallelism
• spelling
• punctuation

Correct answer: A

Question (7): Students are writing about the Florida panther.

The teacher projects a picture of the Florida panther and shows the students a short video about the Florida panther.The students are in what stage of writing?

• editing
• revising
• peer review
• pre-writing

Correct answer: D

Question (8): The American flag, a dove, and a blindfolded

woman holding a scale are all examples of:

• personification.
• hyperbole.
• symbolism.
• symmetry.

Correct answer: C

Question (9): Which is an example of a project-based

assessment involving the play Romeo and Juliet?

• Have students engage in readers theater to read parts of

the text.

• Have students analyze the play, write an alternate ending,

and then act that ending out in a presentation of the play.

• Have students read the play in its entirety and then answer

comprehension questions at the end of the play.

• Have students perform a multiple choice exam to show

mastery of skills.

Correct answer: B

Question (10): What is the best way for English teachers to

use portfolios with their students?