TExES English Language Arts

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TExES Core Subjects EC-6 Practice Test
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Pregunta 1

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While standing in line at the grocery store, three-year-old Megan says to her mother in a regular tone of voice, "Mom, why is that woman so fat?" What does this indicate a lack of understanding of?
Respuesta
  • Syntax
  • Semantics
  • Morphology
  • Pragmatics

Pregunta 2

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Oral language development can be enhanced by which of the following?
Respuesta
  • Meaningful conversation
  • Storytelling
  • Alphabet songs
  • All of the above

Pregunta 3

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Ms. Chomski is presenting a new story to her class of first graders. In the story, a family visits their grandparents, where they all gather around a record player and listen to music. Many students do not understand what a record player is, especially some children for whom English is not their first language. Which of the following would be best for Ms. Chomski to do?
Respuesta
  • Discuss what a record player is with her students
  • Compare a record player with a CD player and an mp3 player
  • Have students look up record player in a dictionary
  • Show the students a picture of a record player

Pregunta 4

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Reading aloud correlates with all of the following EXCEPT:
Respuesta
  • Reader self-confidence
  • Better reading comprehension
  • Literacy development
  • Overall school success

Pregunta 5

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Mr. Johns is using an activity that involves having students analyze the public speaking of others. All of the following would be included in the guidelines for this activity EXCEPT:
Respuesta
  • The speeches to be evaluated are not given by other students
  • The rubric for evaluating the speeches includes pace, pronunciation, body language, word choice and visual aids
  • The speeches to be evaluated are be presented live to give students a more engaging learning experience
  • One of Mr. Johns's goals with this activity is to help students improve their own public speaking skills

Pregunta 6

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All of the following are true about phonological awareness EXCEPT:
Respuesta
  • It may involve print
  • It is a prerequisite for spelling and phonics
  • Children can do the activities with their eyes closed
  • It starts before letter recognition is taught

Pregunta 7

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Which of the following explains a significant difference between phonics and phonemic awareness?
Respuesta
  • Phonics involves print, while phonemic awareness involves language
  • Phonics is harder than phonemic awareness
  • Phonics involves sounds, while phonemic awareness involves letters
  • Phonics is the application of sounds to print, while phonemic awareness is oral

Pregunta 8

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Theorist Marilyn Jager Adams, who researches early reading, has outlined five basic types of phonemic awareness tasks. Which of the following is NOT one of the tasks noted by Jager Adams?
Respuesta
  • Ability to do oddity tasks
  • Ability to orally blend words and split syllables
  • Ability to sound out words when reading aloud
  • Ability to do phonics manipulation tasks

Pregunta 9

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Activities that parents can practice at home to improve phonological and phonemic awareness include which of the following?
Respuesta
  • Play games with words that sound alike as you experience them in everyday home activities
  • Demonstrate how sounds blend together in familiar words
  • Play a game in which the goal is to find objects with names that begin with a certain initial sound
  • All of the above

Pregunta 10

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Which of the following statements best describes the alphabetic principle?
Respuesta
  • Most reading skills need to be acquired through a regular teaching of the alphabet
  • Written words are composed of patterns of letters that represent the sounds of spoken words
  • Written words are composed of patterns that must be memorized to read well
  • Spoken words (regular and irregular) lead to phonological reading

Pregunta 11

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Which of the following is NOT true about multisensory approaches to teaching the alphabetic principle?
Respuesta
  • Some children can only learn through multisensory techniques
  • Multisensory techniques give multiple cues to enhance memory and learning
  • Quilt book, rhyme time, letter path, and shape game are multisensory strategies
  • Multisensory techniques require direct teaching and ongoing engagement

Pregunta 12

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Activities that facilitate learning the alphabetic principle include:
Respuesta
  • Read alouds, alphabet art, concept books, and name sorts
  • Read alouds, shared reading, concept books, and picture books
  • Picture books, concept books, and alphabet books
  • Alphabet art, name sorts, shared reading, and phonics

Pregunta 13

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Which of the following is a convention of print that children learn during reading activities?
Respuesta
  • The meaning of words
  • The left-to-right motion
  • The purpose of print
  • The identification of letters

Pregunta 14

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Alphabet books are classified as...
Respuesta
  • Concept books
  • Easy-to-read books
  • Board books
  • Picture books

Pregunta 15

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To determine an author's purpose, a reader must:
Respuesta
  • Use his or her own judgement
  • Verify all the facts
  • Link the cause to the effects
  • Rely on common sense

Pregunta 16

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To decode is to:
Respuesta
  • Construct meaning
  • Sound out a printed sequence of letters
  • Use a special code to decipher a message
  • None of the above

Pregunta 17

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Contexual redefinition is a strategy that encourages children to use the context more effectively by presenting them with sufficient vocabulary _________ the reading of a text.
Respuesta
  • after
  • before
  • during
  • none of the above

Pregunta 18

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What is the best place for students to find appropriate synonyms, antonyms, and other related words to enhance their writing?
Respuesta
  • Dictionary
  • Spell Check
  • Encyclopedia
  • Thesaurus

Pregunta 19

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Which of the following indicates that a student is a fluent reader?
Respuesta
  • Reads text with expression or prosody
  • Reads word to word and haltingly
  • Must intentionally decode the majority of the words
  • Sentences in a writing assignment are poorly organized structurally

Pregunta 20

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Automaticity refers to all of the following EXCEPT:
Respuesta
  • Automatic whole-word identification
  • Automatic recognition of syllable types
  • Automatic reactions to the content of a paragraph
  • Automatic identification of graphemes as they relate to four basic word types

Pregunta 21

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Which of the following activities are likely to improve fluency?
Respuesta
  • Partner reading and a reader's theater
  • Phrased reading
  • Both A and B
  • None of the above

Pregunta 22

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A child who has had limited exposure to text is:
Respuesta
  • More likely to refuse to participate in reading
  • Likely to be at the same developmental level as his or her peers with reading readiness
  • Likely to need extra support in the reading classroom
  • Unlikely to catch up to his or her peers in reading readiness

Pregunta 23

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Students are about to read a text that contains words that students will need to understand to understand the text. When should the vocabulary be introduced to the students?
Respuesta
  • Before reading
  • During reading
  • After reading
  • It should not be introduced

Pregunta 24

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A sixth-grade science teacher has given her class a paper to read on the relationship between food and weight gain. The writing contains signal words and phrases such as "because", "consequently", "this is how", and "due to". This paper has which text structure?
Respuesta
  • Cause and effect
  • Compare and contrast
  • Description
  • Sequencing

Pregunta 25

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Which of the following is NOT a strategy of teaching reading comprehension?
Respuesta
  • Asking questions
  • Utilizing graphic organizers
  • Focusing on mental images
  • Manipulating sounds

Pregunta 26

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The children's literature genre came into its own in the:
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  • Seventeenth century
  • Eighteenth century
  • Nineteenth century
  • Twentieth century

Pregunta 27

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When evaluating reference sources, students should do all of the following EXCEPT:
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  • Look for self-published books by the author as evidence of expert status
  • Examine the level of detail provided by the source
  • Review the references at the end of the book or article
  • See if the author presents both sides of an argument or viewpoint

Pregunta 28

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Graphic organizers:
Respuesta
  • Primarily are used in grades K-3
  • Work better with poetry than other forms of writing
  • Help readers think critically by pulling out the main idea and supporting ideas
  • Generally aren't helpful to ELL students

Pregunta 29

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Which of the following helps students in a way that is similar to using a glossary?
Respuesta
  • Information in the text such as charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, captions, and photos
  • Prewriting
  • Classroom discussion of the main idea
  • Paired reading

Pregunta 30

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Which of these describes the best way to teach spelling?
Respuesta
  • At the same time that grammar and sentence structure are taught
  • Within the context of meaningful language experiences
  • Independently so that students can concentrate on spelling
  • In short lessons because students pick up spelling almost immediately

Pregunta 31

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Which of the following sentences is a compound sentence?
Respuesta
  • Elizabeth took Gracie to the dog park but forgot to bring the leash.
  • We throughly enjoyed our trip during Spring Break and will plan to return next year.
  • We were given two choices: today or tomorrow.
  • By the end of the evening, we were thoroughly exhausted; we decided to forego the moonlight walk.

Pregunta 32

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Which of the following sentences contains an error in agreement?
Respuesta
  • Jennifer is one of the women who writes for the magazine.
  • Each one of their sons plays a different sport.
  • This band has performed at the Odeum many times.
  • The data are available online at the listed website.

Pregunta 33

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Which of the following is NOT a technique of prewriting?
Respuesta
  • Clustering
  • Listing
  • Brainstorming
  • Proofreading

Pregunta 34

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A student has written a paper with the following characteristics: written in first person; characters, setting, and plot; some dialogue; events organized in chronological sequence with some flashbacks. In what genre has the student written?
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  • Expository writing
  • Narrative writing
  • Persuasive writing
  • Technical writing

Pregunta 35

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A sentence that contains one independent clause and three dependent clauses is best described as a:
Respuesta
  • Simple sentence
  • Compound sentence
  • Complex sentence
  • Compound-complex sentence

Pregunta 36

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Which of the following messages provides the most accessibility to the most learners?
Respuesta
  • Print message
  • Audiovisual message
  • Graphic message

Pregunta 37

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Which of the following advertising techniques is based on appealing to our desire to think for ourselves?
Respuesta
  • Celebrity endoresement
  • Intelligence
  • Independence
  • Lifestyle

Pregunta 38

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Which of the following is NOT useful in creating visual media for the classroom?
Respuesta
  • Limit your graph to just one idea or concept and keep the content simple
  • Balance substance and visual appeal
  • Match the information to the format that will fit it best
  • Make sure to cite all references to copyrighted material

Pregunta 39

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All of the following are examples of ongoing informal assessment techniques used to observe student progress EXCEPT:
Respuesta
  • Analysis of student work products
  • Collection of data from assessment tests
  • Effective questioning
  • Observations of students

Pregunta 40

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Which of the following is a formal reading-level assessment?
Respuesta
  • A standardized reading test
  • A teacher-made reading test
  • An interview
  • A reading diary

Pregunta 41

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Which of the following is NOT considered a reading level?
Respuesta
  • Independent
  • Instructional
  • Intentional
  • Frustrational

Pregunta 42

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Which of the following should NOT be included in the opening paragraph of an informative essay?
Respuesta
  • Thesis sentence
  • Details and examples supporting the main idea
  • A broad, general introduction to the topic
  • A style and tone that grabs the reader's attention

Pregunta 43

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Being competent in ______, a reader is able to understand what the writer is trying to convey to the audience.
Respuesta
  • Semantics
  • Pragmatics
  • Morphemes
  • Phonemes

Pregunta 44

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A second-grade teacher explains the steps of the writing process to her learners. For the first step, she demonstrates the use of a Venn diagram to compare and contrast two characters from a story that class recently read. These visual representations of content are known as:
Respuesta
  • Graphic organizers
  • Running records
  • Blogs
  • Phonemes

Pregunta 45

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By examining an author's word choice, a reader can determine the:
Respuesta
  • Author's purpose
  • Author's tone
  • Main idea
  • Inference
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