1. Caret, carrot, to, two and too share something in common. They:

2. A third-grade teacher has several students reading above grade level. Most of the remaining students are reading at grade level. There are also a few students reading below grade level. She decides to experiment. Her hypothesis is that by giving the entire class a chapter book above grade level, high-level readers will be satisfied, grade-level readers will be challenged in a positive way, and students reading below grade level will be inspired to improve. Her method is most likely to:

3. A school has a policy of only permitting administration of its first choice among standardized formal assessments of phonological development twice per school year to conserve money and time. A 1st-grade teacher wanting to inform her instructional planning, implementation, and adjustments appropriately can do which of these?

4. 'Decoding' is also called:

5. Which of the following literary elements are most likely to be found in both fictional narratives and nonfictional informational text?

6. The purpose of 'targeted instruction' is to:

7. Which statement is most accurate about social contexts of L1 and L2 acquisition?

8. Which of the following statements is most accurate about writing the introduction to an essay or paper?

9. A teacher is working with a group of third graders at the same reading level. Her goal is to improve reading fluency. She asks each child in turn to read a page from a book about mammal young. She asks the children to read with expression. She also reminds them they don't need to stop between each word; they should read as quickly as they comfortably can. She cautions them, however, not to read so quickly that they leave out or misread a word. The teacher knows the components of reading fluency are:

10. Which choice describes the most complete method of displaying student achievement or progress in language arts?

11. Which choice constitutes the best method for building conceptual vocabulary?

12. A student is taking a reading test. The teacher has blocked out a number of words. Each blank is assigned a set of three possible words. The student must select the correct word from each set so that the text makes sense. The student is taking:

13. Which of the following processes used in writing is the most complex?

14. Which text(s) are likely to foster the greatest enthusiasm for and increase comprehension in reading and literature among students?

15. Phonemic awareness is a type of:

16. Components of 'explicit instruction' include:

17. Of the following statements, which is true about the relationship of reading fluency, word decoding, and reading comprehension?

18. The questions in this test can give you an idea of what kinds of questions you might find on the actual test; however, they are not duplicates of the actual test questions, which cover the same knowledge but may differ somewhat in form and content.
The preceding sentence is which of the following sentence types?

19. Train, brain, spring. The underlined letters are examples of:

20. When working with English Language Learners, the teacher should:

21. Among four categories of media that teachers instruct students to identify, in which one are books primarily classified?

22. A child in kindergarten is most likely to be referred to a speech-language pathologist if s/he does not correctly produce which of the following phonemes?

23. In the Three Cueing Systems model of word recognition in reading instruction, which system most relates to how words are assembled into meaningful language?

24. Which of the following statements regarding the acquisition of language is false?

25. A teacher writes four sentences on the board and instructs his students to copy the sentences from the board into their notebooks. They must capitalize words with suffixes. Which sentence is correct?