1. The phrase 'Pretty as a picture' is best described as a:

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. A teacher is teaching students analogizing. She is teaching them to:

5. How should teachers best instruct students in writing?

6. A classroom is comprised of students with varying abilities in language.  Some students can read fluently while others are still just learning.  Speech and language abilities also range widely among the students.  Which approach best suits this class?

7. Learning to construct a reading response would be most beneficial in enhancing which language skill?

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

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

10. English language learner (ELL) students typically are able to develop which type of English language skills the soonest?

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

12. With a teacher's guidance, a class brainstorms main ideas, topics, or concepts from a text. Students choose a select number of these ideas and copy them onto separate index cards. The students then individually review the text, recording any supporting evidence on the notecard with the applicable main idea. This activity would be an excellent pre-lesson for teaching which skill set?

13. Ms. Baird wants to check her students' individual comprehension skills, specifically their ability to support an idea with evidence from a text. Which scenario is the best way to accomplish her goals?

14. 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?

15. A high school teacher has given her students an assignment to write a non-rhyming poem of three lines. The first and last lines each contain five syllables, and the middle line contains seven syllables. The students are writing a:

16. 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:

17. To help students understand abstract concepts in the print materials they read, which instructional aids that teachers provide can students always use three-dimensionally?

18. Relative to reading, we should teach students to activate their prior knowledge at which time(s)?

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

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

21. Which student is most likely to need referral to a reading specialist for assessment, special instruction, or intervention?

22. Research has found which of the following outcomes occur for students via revision and rewriting?

23. 'Coarticulation' affects:

24. In writing, ______ is the overall written expression of the writer's attitude, and ______ is the individual way in which the writer expresses the former.

25. Following a typical developmental sequence, which of the following is expected of 2nd-graders in decoding and identifying new or unfamiliar words?