MTTC TEST LOWER ELEMENTARY TEST -118 ACTUAL

MTTC TEST (LOWER ELEMENTARY TEST -118) ACTUAL

EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS

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• A teacher wants to evaluate students' literacy interests, with the goal of promoting the students'

literacy motivation and engagement. Which of the following questions would be most helpful for the teacher to ask for this purpose?

• "Why do you think that reading is either important or unimportant?"

• "What did you like and dislike about the last few books you have read?"

• "Do you enjoy reading for pleasure, or do you only read your assigned work?"

• "What do you do when you are reading and come to a word you don't know?" - ANSWER✔✔.A. This

question is asking about the importance of reading and not about the students' reading interests.

• CORRECT. This question directly gets to the heart of the students' reading interests, which supports

their motivation to read and engagement.

• This question is a general question asking if the students like reading, and it does not get in depth

about what they like to read.

• This question is about reading strategies that the students use and not about their reading interests.
• Which of the following instructional strategies would most effectively promote kindergarten students'

development of print concepts?

• tracking text from left to right and line to line with a finger while reading to students

• guiding students to segment the individual sounds of one-syllable words in a text
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• previewing the illustrations in a text with students before beginning a read-aloud

• reading a text aloud to students and then having them read the text chorally - ANSWER✔✔.A.

CORRECT. Concepts of print is an awareness of how print works; left-to-right directionality and one-to- one matching when reading are examples of print concept skills.

• Sound segmenting supports students with decoding words when reading and encoding words when

writing.

• Previewing illustrations builds background knowledge and supports making connections when reading

a story to students, but this practice does not include instruction in the print on a page.

• Choral reading activities are used to support reading fluency.
• In a planned sequence of phonics lessons, a kindergarten teacher introduces the consonants p, t, b, m,

and s before introducing any vowels. Which of the following statements identifies an evidence-based rationale for sequencing the lessons this way?

• Vowels have more than one sound and are more challenging than consonants to learn.

• Letter-sound correspondence of consonants is easier for students to learn than that of vowels.

• Students are more familiar with these consonants so they will generally learn them faster than vowels.

• Consonants such as these can be used to create easily decodable words once a vowel is introduced. -

ANSWER✔✔.A. Vowels do make more than one sound, but that does not mean learning the sounds is more challenging.

• Letter-sound correspondence of consonants may be easier for students to learn, but that is not a

sound rationale for introducing the specific consonants p, t, b, m, and s first.

• There is no evidence that shows that these letters are more familiar than other letters as students'

background knowledge and experience will determine the letters with which they are familiar. 2 / 4

• CORRECT. These consonant letters are common and are found in many decodable words.
• First-grade students work in small groups using letter tiles to sound out and build decodable, high-

frequency words that the teacher taught in a whole-group lesson. Which of the following areas of early literacy is most directly supported by this activity?

• invented spelling

• phoneme segmenting

• basic concepts of print

• letter-sound correspondence - ANSWER✔✔.A. Invented spelling is when students use the sounds they

hear to write words phonetically.

• Phoneme segmenting is separating words into their individual sounds.

• Concepts of print is the knowledge that print carries meaning and the understanding that print is

organized in a specific way.

• CORRECT. Letter-sound correspondence is the relationship of letters and the sounds they produce,

and this activity has students using their letter-sound knowledge to build words with letter tiles.

• A third-grade teacher notices that students are struggling to spell previously learned high-frequency

words during daily journal-writing. Which of the following word learning artifacts would be most helpful to incorporate in the classroom for these students?

• sentence starters

• online dictionaries

• thematic word lists 3 / 4

• interactive word walls - ANSWER✔✔.A. Sentence starters are used as a scaffold to support students'

ability to analyze, understand, and write about content.

• Online dictionaries are best used for looking up the meaning and usage of words.

• Thematic word lists focus on words that are content-specific rather than on high-frequency words.

• CORRECT. Interactive word walls are used to help students recognize high-frequency words and as an

easy reference for students when spelling these words.

• A teacher selects a variety of texts for the classroom library that reflect the diverse cultures

represented in the class and school community. An important rationale for the teacher's practice is that

it will enable all students to:

• make text-to-self connections with reading materials.

• access a variety of texts written about similar topics.

• locate books that appeal to their personal interests.

• choose a book at their independent reading level. - ANSWER✔✔.A. CORRECT. When selecting texts for

a classroom, the teacher should choose texts that allow students to see themselves and identify with the characters.

• Texts that represent diverse cultures may be written in many different genres on a variety of topics.

• Selecting high-interest texts is a good practice, but these texts may not necessarily reflect diverse

cultures.

• Selected texts that reflect diverse cultures do not need to be at students' independent reading level.
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