TExES Exam TExES Supplemental 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A supplemental teacher is asked to provide differentiated instruction for English Language Learners (ELLs). Which strategy is most effective for supporting academic language development?
- Providing glossaries and visual supports alongside content instruction (Correct answer)
- Assigning ELLs to separate tasks with simplified vocabulary only
- Reducing all written assignments to oral responses
- Grouping ELLs exclusively with native English speakers at all times
Correct answer: Providing glossaries and visual supports alongside content instruction
Glossaries and visual supports help ELLs access academic content while simultaneously building language proficiency.
Question 2: Under the Texas Education Code, which entity is primarily responsible for establishing curriculum standards for public school students?
- Individual school districts
- The State Board of Education (SBOE) (Correct answer)
- Campus-level committees
- The Texas Education Agency (TEA) Commissioner
Correct answer: The State Board of Education (SBOE)
The State Board of Education adopts the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), which are the state curriculum standards.
Question 3: A student consistently struggles with reading fluency despite adequate decoding skills. What is the most likely explanation?
- The student has not mastered phonemic awareness
- The student lacks automaticity with sight words and practiced reading (Correct answer)
- The student has a visual impairment requiring glasses
- The student needs more phonics drill activities
Correct answer: The student lacks automaticity with sight words and practiced reading
Fluency depends on automaticity — the ability to read words accurately and quickly without conscious effort — which develops through extensive reading practice.
Question 4: In a mathematics classroom, a teacher uses manipulatives before introducing abstract symbols. This approach best reflects which instructional framework?
- Bloom's Taxonomy progression
- The Concrete-Representational-Abstract (CRA) sequence (Correct answer)
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
- The gradual release of responsibility model
Correct answer: The Concrete-Representational-Abstract (CRA) sequence
The CRA sequence moves students from hands-on concrete materials to pictorial representations and finally to abstract symbolic notation.
Question 5: A teacher notices a student exhibiting sudden changes in behavior, withdrawal, and unexplained bruising. What is the teacher's legal obligation in Texas?
- Notify the principal and wait for their decision
- Report suspicions directly to Child Protective Services (DFPS) (Correct answer)
- Document observations and share only with the school counselor
- Contact the student's parents before making any report
Correct answer: Report suspicions directly to Child Protective Services (DFPS)
Texas law requires teachers as mandatory reporters to immediately report suspected child abuse or neglect directly to DFPS, not through intermediaries.
Question 6: Which assessment type is best suited for monitoring a student's ongoing progress toward a learning objective during a unit of instruction?
- Summative assessment
- Norm-referenced assessment
- Formative assessment (Correct answer)
- Criterion-referenced end-of-year assessment
Correct answer: Formative assessment
Formative assessments are conducted during instruction to monitor progress and inform teaching decisions in real time.
Question 7: A student with an IEP requires extended time on tests. A supplemental teacher administering a classroom quiz must:
- Offer extended time only if the classroom teacher requests it that day
- Provide the accommodation as written in the IEP regardless of the quiz type (Correct answer)
- Waive the accommodation for informal quizzes not graded for a major mark
- Check with the campus diagnostician before each administration
Correct answer: Provide the accommodation as written in the IEP regardless of the quiz type
IEP accommodations are legally mandated and must be consistently applied across all testing situations unless specifically excluded in the IEP.
TExES Exam TExES Supplemental 2
A supplemental teacher is asked to provide differentiated instruction for English Language Learners (ELLs).
Which strategy is most effective for supporting academic language development?