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PECT MODULE 2 PREK- 4 EXAM (ACTUAL 2025 /2026)
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- What is the purpose in teaching students civic education? A. To show students that laws are created by members of society and are constantly changing. B. To show that laws are a specific set of rules by which a society operates C. To review important historical events. - <<,Answers>>>A
- Which activity boosts child's vocabulary development? A. Flipping through a picture book and making up a story B. Playing and interacting with other students - social stories/play C. Talking with adults - <<,Answers>>>B
- What marked the change from 18th century farm workers in Western PA to 19th century steel workers? A. Technological advances B. Cultural infusion C. Loss of resources - <<,Answers>>>A
- A fourth grade teacher is moving her students from learning to read to reading to learn. She wants them to read a
passage independently to themselves. What should she do to scaffold this activity? A. Have students raise their hand when they need help. B. Provide an outline that details the main ideas of each section C. Review the headings and subheadings with students before they begin reading. D. Have students read it on their own and then answer comprehension questions. - <<,Answers>>>C Why would a teacher ask students to look at various websites and books before they write a research paper? - <<,Answers>>>It helps them develop a thesis statement and gather background information. As a teacher in first grade, you talk with students about what is close to their house (like a library or gas station). What concept are you teaching? - <<,Answers>>>community A teacher in first grade is talking about police officers, mailmen, firefighters, and their roles in our community. What is she emphasizing? - <<,Answers>>>How community works together to achieve common goals.
for "care" or replacing "me" with "my." What reading strategy does this child need help with? A. Phonics and word attack stills B. Sight words C. Fluency D. Checking for understanding - <<,Answers>>>D
- A student can spell vocabulary words, understand their usage, and put the words into his or her own story, but when given a quiz, they cannot match the words to the correct definition. Why? A. They understand the denotative, but not connotative meaning. B. They can use the words contextually, but do not understand the exact wording of definitions. C. They have receptive language skills, but not expressive. - <<,Answers>>>B
- How does recognizing words with the same ending sounds help a child? A. Helps gain concept of print B. Strengthens vocabulary C. Builds automaticity and fluency D. Helps comprehension - <<,Answers>>>C
- A teacher gives her students cards with modes of transportation on them. She wants the students to categorize them. What should she do first? A. Give a worksheet to explain transportation B. Use dictionaries to look up transportation words C. Go over the criteria for sorting - <<,Answers>>>C
- Which is most likely to disrupt a student's reading fluency? A. Text is too much to read in one sitting B. Student doesn't understand 15% of vowels C. Student doesn't know sight words or phonetic sounds D. Book that aren't on skill level. - <<,Answers>>>C
- You ask a student to look at a book without words and verbally tell a story just by looking at the pictures. Which ability are you assessing? A. Concept of print B. Story structure C. Phonics D. Phonemic awareness - <<,Answers>>>B
- A boy reads slowly but accurately. What is the appropriate intervention? A. Repeated reading on a text that is at his independent level B. Echo read of a text that is at his instructional level
C. Study the food traditions in the different areas. D. Find the location of where different fruits are grown and map how they get to the store. - <<,Answers>>>D
- A first grade class visits a pet store. Upon returning back to the classroom the students are broken up into various groups for different jobs (i.e., designing the pet cages and arranging desks, determining name and setting up the shop, what type of animals, etc.) After this the teacher holds a discussion on their activities, what topic is the teacher laying the foundation for in future years? A. Opportunity cost B. Universal needs C. Economic interdependence D. Disposable income - <<,Answers>>>C
- A teacher wants to connect a Science unit with Social Studies. The students are charting a plant's growth. Which concept is the teacher targeting? A. Time B. Continuity C. Location D. Environment - <<,Answers>>>A
- Ms. Duke is teaching a small group of first grade students. She is giving them the sounds /b/, /i/, /g/ and then sweeping them together to say "big". Her group is practicing this skill with several short vowel words. What skill is Ms. Duke working on with this group? A. Alphabetic knowledge B. Print awareness C. Fluency D. Phonemic awareness - <<,Answers>>>D
- A kindergarten teacher includes poetry in her daily read- alouds. She asks her students to listen to the rhymes of familiar poems and sometimes to provide a new rhyming word. Which reading skill is she practicing with her class? A. Sight or concrete words B. Print awareness C. Phonemic awareness D. Connecting print to letter sounds - <<,Answers>>>C
- Sometimes parents are not up-to-date on current instructional practices. Which would be a good way to explain invented spelling to a parent of a kindergarten student? A. A system invented by teachers to help students learn to spell words correctly B. The ability to recognize and read words by translating the letters into speech sounds
C. Environmental print D. Morphemes - <<,Answers>>>C
- Which of the following design elements would you teach in correlation with a math unit? A. Harmony B. Variety C. Rhythm D. Pattern - <<,Answers>>>D
- A kindergarten teacher wants her students to understand that words are made up of smaller sound units or syllables. Which of the following questions should the teacher use to work on phonological awareness? A. Which of the following words rhymes with sunny? B. Can you give me another word that starts with the same sound as seven? C. First say older, now add sh. What is the new word? D. Say tiger. Now say "ti" and then say "ger." - <<,Answers>>>D
- Which phonics unit should be taught last? A. Silent e combinations B. Silent consonants
C. Consonant Digraphs D. Consonant Blends - <<,Answers>>>B
- What is an appropriate art activity for kindergarten? A. Silk screening B. Woodworking C. Stamping D. Etching - <<,Answers>>>C
- How is a student demonstrating civic responsibility/being a good citizen? A. Raising his hand in class B. Clean up for recycling C. Behaving while walking down the hallway D. Voting to pick the class field trip - <<,Answers>>>B
- What is it called when a student speaks alone on stage during a play? A. Monologue B. Recitation C. Commentary D. Exhortation - <<,Answers>>>A
- In a 4th grade class you are learning about making a hypothesis for which candidate will win an election. Which activity would best support this learning goal? A. Watch a debate between the candidates B. Read candidate's websites C. Read through surveys of voters' opinions on candidates D. Read about past elections - <<,Answers>>>C
- A music teacher wants to show young students how dance relates to feelings and ideas. What would be a good activity? A. Reenact a favorite story through dance. B. Move with different levels and rhythms C. Watch videos of other cultures dancing D. Talk about dancers in history - <<,Answers>>>A
- When is it appropriate to use decodable books with students? A. When the students are fluent readers B. When the students are good at phonics and sight words, but still working on automaticity and decoding words C. When the students are learning about story elements - <<,Answers>>>B
- Which word has a consonant blend?
A. frog B. can C. boil D. the - <<,Answers>>>A
- A student is having trouble reading words that contain silent consonants combinations, what would be a good approach to help the student? a. Provide students with graded wordlist that contains silent consonant combinations words. b. Compare and contrast between words that do and do not have silent consonant combinations, like no and know. c. Take out the silent consonant combination in the word and let the student read it. d. Read silent consonant combination letter in chunks. - <<,Answers>>>B
- How do you teach 2nd graders to positively perceive and reflect on their environment? a. Proving ink activity. b. Use imaginary image c. Walk around the school and draw a favorite thing they see. d. Draw the format of their classroom. - <<,Answers>>>C
- Which is an example of active listening?
A teacher points to words in a book as she reads. What concept is she reinforcing? - <<,Answers>>>Text to print connection A teacher reads a big book and then uses notecards with words from the story on them. As a class, they sort the words into words that rhyme. What is the teacher instructing? - <<,Answers>>>Phonics Talking with your students about an assembly they saw yesterday reinforces what skill? - <<,Answers>>>Reflection - causes them to reflect on what they learned Students are exploring an evasive species that is targeting the wilderness in Pennsylvania. Where could they check for more information? - <<,Answers>>>The Environment Protection Website What teaching plan can help students find out what they already know about a topic and what they would like to know? - <<,Answers>>>A KWL Chart - have students fill out a KWL chart To get a child interested in reading, what could you do? - <<,Answers>>>Take them to the library and let them choose a book that they are interested in and is on his/her independent reading level.
A teacher in a PreK environment has books and materials out about gardening for students to explore. She suggests they build a garden and talks with them about how they could build an imaginary garden inside. What is she demonstrating? - <<,Answers>>>She is encouraging discussion and how to solve problems creatively. Why use nonsense words when teaching phonics? - <<,Answers>>>When a teacher has students read nonsense words such as "ib" or "dright," as if they are real words they can determine a student's phonological skills. What is the /fr/ sound in frog? - <<,Answers>>>consonant blend How does spelling help with reading comprehension? - <<,Answers>>>automaticity and fluency. What are sight words important to know? - <<,Answers>>>They help build reading fluency. What is connected text? - <<,Answers>>>Words that are linked (as opposed to words in a list), as in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs.
