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This practice test prepares candidates for the TExES ELA and Reading 4-8 exam, focusing on oral language proficiency, multicultural awareness, literacy stages, and phonemic awarene...

Questions: 35 | Attempts: 4251 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2023

Sample Question
Students in a middle school class have been studying the battle of the Alamo.The teacher plans a role-playing activityto help structure whole-class discussionabout the Alamo. During the discussion,one student will play the role of anewspaper reporter and interview otherstudents who assume the roles of varioushistorical figures (e.g., Santa Anna, SamHouston, soldiers in the Mexican army).This instructional strategy is likely topromote students' oral languageproficiency primarily by helping thestudents:

Understand how differing points of view affect spoken messages.

Recognize differences between spoken and written language.

Learn how to adapt spoken language for informal occasions.

Expand their speaking and listening vocabularies.

TExES English Language Arts and Reading 8-12

This quiz prepares candidates for the TExES English Language Arts and Reading 8-12 exam, focusing on character analysis, vocabulary development, writing support, grammatical accura...

Questions: 37 | Attempts: 1354 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2023

Sample Question
An English teacher wants to promote students' ability to analyze the traits and motivation of characters in a novel the students are reading. Which of the following activities would most effectively integrate writing with reading to address this goal?

Students write a letter from one character to another in which they describe their character's feelings at an important point in the novel.

Students choose a major event in the novel and rewrite it as a short play, with stage directions and dialogue for the characters.

Students work in small groups to brainstorm lists of adjectives describing each of the major characters in the novel.

Students create a timeline for the story and use it to summarize the actions of two major characters at appropriate points in the plot.

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Prep TExES 191, 291 Generalist Ec-6 Exam Practice Test

Prep TExEs 191, 291 Generalist EC-6 Exam Practice Test. This quiz has a combination of three tests in the competency of English, Social Studies, Science, and Fine Arts except for Maths. So, stay on this quiz till the very end, it...

Questions: 299 | Attempts: 1105 | Last updated: Jan 21, 2025

Sample Question 1
The use of thematic planning is ideal for English language learners (ELLs) because in this curriculum arrangement students are exposed to

Cultural features through the use of concrete objects in reallife situations.

The same information in all content areas.

Instruction in highly contextualized situations.

Concepts and vocabulary related to the themes in various content areas.

Sample Question 2
The main purpose of using semantic mapping in social studies is to

Teach geography concepts to ELLs.

Identify critical features of a given concept.

Establish connections between concepts in two languages.

Present a graphic representation of a process.

Sample Question 3
The Spaniards Francisco Pizarro and Hernán Cortés conquered, respectively, which of the following two civilizations?

Mayan and Aztec

Inca and Aztec

Toltec and Olmec

Taino and Quechua

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