TExES English Language Arts

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?

Oral language development can be enhanced by which of the following?

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?

Reading aloud correlates with all of the following EXCEPT:

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:

All of the following are true about phonological awareness EXCEPT:

Which of the following explains a significant difference between phonics and phonemic awareness?

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?

Activities that parents can practice at home to improve phonological and phonemic awareness include which of the following?

Which of the following statements best describes the alphabetic principle?

Which of the following is NOT true about multisensory approaches to teaching the alphabetic principle?

Activities that facilitate learning the alphabetic principle include:

Which of the following is a convention of print that children learn during reading activities?

Alphabet books are classified as...

To determine an author's purpose, a reader must:

To decode is to:

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.

What is the best place for students to find appropriate synonyms, antonyms, and other related words to enhance their writing?

Which of the following indicates that a student is a fluent reader?

Automaticity refers to all of the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following activities are likely to improve fluency?

A child who has had limited exposure to text is:

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?

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?

Which of the following is NOT a strategy of teaching reading comprehension?

The children's literature genre came into its own in the:

When evaluating reference sources, students should do all of the following EXCEPT:

Graphic organizers:

Which of the following helps students in a way that is similar to using a glossary?

Which of these describes the best way to teach spelling?

Which of the following sentences is a compound sentence?

Which of the following sentences contains an error in agreement?

Which of the following is NOT a technique of prewriting?

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?

A sentence that contains one independent clause and three dependent clauses is best described as a:

Which of the following messages provides the most accessibility to the most learners?

Which of the following advertising techniques is based on appealing to our desire to think for ourselves?

Which of the following is NOT useful in creating visual media for the classroom?

All of the following are examples of ongoing informal assessment techniques used to observe student progress EXCEPT:

Which of the following is a formal reading-level assessment?

Which of the following is NOT considered a reading level?

Which of the following should NOT be included in the opening paragraph of an informative essay?

Being competent in ______, a reader is able to understand what the writer is trying to convey to the audience.

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:

By examining an author's word choice, a reader can determine the: