MDE English Language Proficiency 3

Question 1

Which vocabulary instruction strategy asks students to rate their familiarity with words before reading?

Accepted Answer

Knowledge rating scale

Answer

A knowledge rating scale has students indicate how well they know each word before instruction, activating prior knowledge and focusing attention.

Question 2

The sentence 'She gave the book to him' can be rewritten with an indirect object as:

Accepted Answer

She gave him the book.

Answer

When the indirect object precedes the direct object, the preposition 'to' is dropped: 'She gave him the book.'

Question 3

Which reading comprehension strategy involves students creating mental pictures based on text descriptions?

Accepted Answer

Visualizing

Answer

Visualizing requires readers to form mental images from descriptive language, deepening comprehension and engagement with text.

Question 4

A teacher uses sentence frames like 'In my opinion, ___ because ___.' This scaffold primarily supports which skill?

Accepted Answer

Academic language production

Answer

Sentence frames provide structural support for academic language, helping ELL students produce complex discourse patterns they may not yet control independently.

Question 5

Which suffix changes the adjective 'beauty' into a noun in standard English?

Accepted Answer

-ful

Answer

'Beautiful' uses the suffix '-ful' to form an adjective; 'beauty' is already a noun, but '-ful' applied to 'beauty' yields the adjective 'beautiful,' illustrating derivational morphology.

(MDE) Minnesota Department of Education Practice Test

(MDE) Minnesota Department of Education Practice Test

MDE English Language Proficiency 3