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NES Test Questions and Answers with complete solution Graded A+ A 6th grade teacher at Sinagua Middle School reads an informational text and asks the students to think of a good title to the excerp... t. After reading she asks for some volunteers and then writes their responses on the board. They then talk about the different possible titles and eventually agree upon one that best reflects the information in the passage. What does this activity promote with regard to the students' development of listening skills? a. Listen to the author's primary purpose for the text and figure out the main idea(s) b. Use listening skills in order to evaluate supporting evidence c. Predicting to support listening comprehension d. Use the information to create mental images that support listening comprehension -ANS>> a. Listen to the author's primary purpose for the text and figure out the main idea(s) Emma is a beginning reader. She is reading a book and comes across a new word. Once she decodes the word how is she able to succeed in understanding the meaning of the word she just decoded? a. The new word is easy to spell b. The new word rhymes with some site words c. The new word is inside a passage of text that is interesting to Emma d. The new word is already a part of Emma's oral vocabulary -ANS>> d. The new word is already a part of Emma's oral vocabulary Jamison, a kindergartner, says that there are eight words in the spoken sentence "My kite is blue and flies really high." What skill is this student demonstrating? a. Phonological awareness b. Oral language fluency c. Letter-sound correspondence d. Print awareness -ANS>> a. Phonological awareness For English Language Learners, early literacy skills that transfer from the child's first language to his or her second language include: a. Knowing the sounds of the alphabet b. Knowing the functions of and purpose of printed words and writing c. Being able to rhyme words d. Being able to decode digraphs and sound blends -ANS>> b. Knowing the functions of and purpose of printed words and writing A first grade teacher is teaching her students a new song and asks one student to identify any words that have similar sounds. This teacher is demonstrating the best practice of promoting the students' awareness of : a. phonemic patterns b. decoding strategies c. letter-sound correspondence d. word identification strategy -ANS>> a. phonemic patterns At Humphrey Elementary School, many of the second graders are struggling with grade level sights words and are limited in their abilities to recognize words. Choose the best strategy that would assist them in overcoming this challenge. a. Give them explicit directions for spelling their sight words as well as many opportunities to use the words during journal responses or any other type of writing exercise. b. Give the students multiple activities that allow them to sort the words in order to learn various spelling patterns. c. Teach them the roots that are often used and also the prefixes that are often used in the English language. This will help them understand their sight words and/or spelling words better with automatic recognition. d. Provide the students with experiential learning so that they learn to independently find opportunities to use and learn sight words. -ANS>> a. Give them explicit directions for spelling their sight words as well as many opportunities to use the words during journal responses or any other type of writing exercise. When working with English Language Learners (ELL), which teaching strategy is NOT likely to be utilized? a. The teacher works with the students using context clues to understand words that they do not recognize. b. The instructional aide working with a small group adjusts her reading rate of a particular passage. c. The students are instructed to look up words in the dictionary and record them in a journal. d. The teacher stops after every few sentences in a passage she is reading allowed to check for comprehension. -ANS>> c. The students are instructed to look up words in the dictionary and record them in a journal. [Show More]

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