FREE TExES Special Education EC-12 Questions And Answers

Question 1

Errors of this kind include misplaced modifiers, dangling participles, and a lack of subject-verb agreement in a student's writing.

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Syntax

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Semantics

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Phonology

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Morphology

Question 2

Word recognition is?

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Especially important to English Language Learners and students with reading disabilities.

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One of the building blocks of learning.

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Useful only to fluent readers.

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Culturally based.

Question 3

Which statement about the "multiple disabilities" category is accurate?

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Students with multiple disabilities cannot be accommodated solely for one impairment.

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Students with multiple disabilities remain in this category throughout their schooling.

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Deaf-blindness can be included in the multiple disabilities category.

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Orthopedic impairments cannot be included in the multiple disabilities category.

Question 4

Which of the following represents a culturally sensitive special education classroom the best?

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Incorporating texts from various cultures

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Pairing students with similar backgrounds

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Showing popular films from different cultures

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Acknowledging ethnic holidays and celebrations

Question 5

Which of the following medical conditions falls under the category of "other health impairment" disability?

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asthma

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traumatic brain injury

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perceptual disability

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cerebral palsy

Question 6

How can a teacher effectively teach spelling?

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Students should be taught writing is a process. By applying spelling patterns found in word families, the spelling of many words can be deduced.

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Students who have an understanding of letter-sound association and can identify syllables and recognize when the base word has a Latin, Greek or Indo-European ancestry don’t need to be taught to spell. They can deduce what is most likely the correct spelling using a combination of these strategies. A teacher who posts charts organizing words into their ancestor families, phonemic units and word-sound families is efficiently teaching spelling. The rest is up to the student.

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Students who spell poorly will be at a disadvantage for the rest of their lives. It is essential students spend at least 15 minutes a day drilling spelling words until they know them forward and backward. The teacher should alternate between students individually writing a new word 25 times and the entire class chanting the words.

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Students who have an understanding of letter-sound association do not need to be taught to spell. If they can say a word, they can spell it.

Question 7

Ten minutes of journal writing are allotted by a middle school Language Arts teacher at the start of each lesson. The topics for their essays are completely up to the students. She explains that this is the ideal location for them to respond to what they've read, write about an issue and attempt to come up with answers, keep track of a project they've started, and otherwise connect openly with themselves. The instructor should every so often:

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Suggest new and innovative ways students can use their journals, including automatic writing, found poetry, lists, and collages.

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Collect and review the journals to identify students at risk for drugs, alcohol or sexual abuse.

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Say nothing about the journals during the school year. They are intensely private and discussing them in any way with the students violates trust.

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Collect the journals and select an entry to edit; this will show the student how his writing can improve.

Question 8

Which of the following actions exhibited by a 2-year-old child is the most obvious sign that the child's motor development may be compromised?

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Making involuntary hand movements

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Difficulty coordinating hands and eyes

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Inability to climb stairs with alternating feet

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Frequently falling while running

Question 9

A fifth-grader with diabetes administers insulin to treat her condition. Which of the subsequent signs should alert a teacher that a pupil might be going through insulin shock?

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Trembling and irritability

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Muscle and joint pain

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An increased level of thirst

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A high fever

Question 10

After just a few minutes of mathematical instruction at the board, Ms. Jackson adjourns the class. She poses two questions that call for brief responses from the students on note cards. Ms. Jackson rapidly goes over the cards before getting back to her board-based instruction. What kind of evaluation is the teacher using?

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Formative

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Formal

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Summative

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Alternate