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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 awareness.

Questions: 35 | Attempts: 4251 | Last updated: Mar 22, 2025

Sample Question 1
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.

Sample Question 2
A fourth-grade class has been reading folktales from around the world. Which of thefollowing oral language activities wouldbe most effective in promoting students'multicultural awareness and appreciation?

Students discuss folk tales from various countries and then read aloud and discuss descriptions of the geography and cultural characteristics of each country.

The teacher guides students to discuss some features that folk tales of various countries have in common as well as some of the unique features of each culture's folk tales.

Students read aloud "folk tales" they have written themselves and then review folk tales from various countries and decide which culture's folk tales most closely resemble their own.

The teacher helps each student select a folk tale, present it to the class, and answer any questions that other students in the class may have about the folk tale's plot or characters.

Sample Question 3
A teacher reads aloud a story to a studentwho is in the emergent literacy stageof reading development. The teacherwants to assess the student's literalcomprehension of the sequence of eventsin the story. Which of the followingassessment strategies would be mostappropriate for this purpose?

Encouraging the student to begin by describing the beginning and the end of the story

Asking the student to identify the most important episode in the story

Providing the student with visual aids to use in explaining what happened in the story

Asking the student to explain the consequences of the characters' actions

TEXES English Language Arts And Reading 8-12

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 accuracy, and historical linguistic changes.

Questions: 37 | Attempts: 1354 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2025

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.