FTCE Reading K-12 practice test

A kindergarten teacher asks students to clap once for each syllable in the word elephant. This activity primarily develops:

A teacher explicitly teaches students that the letters sh together represent a single sound. The letter combination sh is best described as a:

Reading fluency is best defined as the ability to read text:

Which instructional practice is most effective for improving the reading fluency of a struggling reader?

A teacher selects high-utility academic words that appear across many texts and subjects, such as analyze, evidence, and contrast, for direct instruction. These words are best classified as:

A teacher pauses during a read-aloud and thinks out loud about what might happen next based on text clues. This explicit modeling helps students learn to:

A teacher listens to a student read aloud and records each error, including substitutions, omissions, and self-corrections, to analyze the student's reading behaviors. This assessment is a:

The alphabetic principle refers to the understanding that:

An informational passage explains a problem with declining bee populations and then describes several solutions scientists propose. The text structure used is:

A teacher groups students for guided reading based on current instructional reading levels and adjusts the groups as students progress. This practice is an example of:

A student reads a passage about coral reefs and comprehends it well partly because the student recently visited an aquarium. This illustrates the importance of:

A teacher teaches students that an open syllable ends in a vowel and usually has a long vowel sound, as in the first syllable of the word tiger. This instruction focuses on:

A teacher asks students, "Why do you think the character chose to leave home, even though the text does not state it directly?" This question requires students to:

A preschool child pretends to read a familiar storybook by turning pages and reciting remembered phrases. This behavior is a sign of:

When teaching reading to an English language learner, a teacher front-loads key vocabulary and uses pictures before reading a text. The main purpose is to:

According to the Simple View of Reading, reading comprehension is the product of decoding and:

A teacher administers brief reading probes every two weeks and graphs the results to determine whether a student is responding to an intervention. The primary purpose is to:

A first-grade teacher checks whether a student knows where to begin reading on a page, which way to move across a line, and what to do at the end of a line. The teacher is assessing:

A teacher helps older students understand that the root port means to carry, so it appears in transport, export, and portable. This word study practice develops: