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TExES English Language Arts

Pregunta 1 de 45

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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?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Syntax

  • Semantics

  • Morphology

  • Pragmatics

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Meaningful conversation

  • Storytelling

  • Alphabet songs

  • All of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 45

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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?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 45

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Reading aloud correlates with all of the following EXCEPT:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Reader self-confidence

  • Better reading comprehension

  • Literacy development

  • Overall school success

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 45

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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:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 45

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All of the following are true about phonological awareness EXCEPT:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 45

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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?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 45

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Which of the following statements best describes the alphabetic principle?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 45

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Activities that facilitate learning the alphabetic principle include:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The meaning of words

  • The left-to-right motion

  • The purpose of print

  • The identification of letters

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 45

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Alphabet books are classified as...

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Concept books

  • Easy-to-read books

  • Board books

  • Picture books

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Use his or her own judgement

  • Verify all the facts

  • Link the cause to the effects

  • Rely on common sense

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 45

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To decode is to:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Construct meaning

  • Sound out a printed sequence of letters

  • Use a special code to decipher a message

  • None of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 45

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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.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • after

  • before

  • during

  • none of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Dictionary

  • Spell Check

  • Encyclopedia

  • Thesaurus

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 45

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Automaticity refers to all of the following EXCEPT:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 45

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Which of the following activities are likely to improve fluency?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Partner reading and a reader's theater

  • Phrased reading

  • Both A and B

  • None of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 45

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A child who has had limited exposure to text is:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 45

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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?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Before reading

  • During reading

  • After reading

  • It should not be introduced

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 45

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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?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Cause and effect

  • Compare and contrast

  • Description

  • Sequencing

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Asking questions

  • Utilizing graphic organizers

  • Focusing on mental images

  • Manipulating sounds

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Seventeenth century

  • Eighteenth century

  • Nineteenth century

  • Twentieth century

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 45

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Graphic organizers:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Information in the text such as charts, graphs, maps, diagrams, captions, and photos

  • Prewriting

  • Classroom discussion of the main idea

  • Paired reading

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 45

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Which of these describes the best way to teach spelling?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 31 de 45

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Which of the following sentences is a compound sentence?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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.

Explicación

Pregunta 32 de 45

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Which of the following sentences contains an error in agreement?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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.

Explicación

Pregunta 33 de 45

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Which of the following is NOT a technique of prewriting?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Clustering

  • Listing

  • Brainstorming

  • Proofreading

Explicación

Pregunta 34 de 45

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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?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Expository writing

  • Narrative writing

  • Persuasive writing

  • Technical writing

Explicación

Pregunta 35 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Simple sentence

  • Compound sentence

  • Complex sentence

  • Compound-complex sentence

Explicación

Pregunta 36 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Print message

  • Audiovisual message

  • Graphic message

Explicación

Pregunta 37 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Celebrity endoresement

  • Intelligence

  • Independence

  • Lifestyle

Explicación

Pregunta 38 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 39 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Analysis of student work products

  • Collection of data from assessment tests

  • Effective questioning

  • Observations of students

Explicación

Pregunta 40 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A standardized reading test

  • A teacher-made reading test

  • An interview

  • A reading diary

Explicación

Pregunta 41 de 45

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Which of the following is NOT considered a reading level?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Independent

  • Instructional

  • Intentional

  • Frustrational

Explicación

Pregunta 42 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 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

Explicación

Pregunta 43 de 45

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Semantics

  • Pragmatics

  • Morphemes

  • Phonemes

Explicación

Pregunta 44 de 45

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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:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Graphic organizers

  • Running records

  • Blogs

  • Phonemes

Explicación

Pregunta 45 de 45

1

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

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Author's purpose

  • Author's tone

  • Main idea

  • Inference

Explicación

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