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The TExES STR exam has 91 questions and runs 4 hours 45 minutes.
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A Grade 2 student scores at the 28th percentile on a nationally normed reading screener. A follow-up criterion-referenced phonics survey shows 9 of 10 CVC words, 8 of 10 digraph words, and 2 of 10 vowel-team words read correctly. Which interpretation should guide instruction?
Correct answer: D - The percentile describes relative standing; the survey identifies vowel-team decoding as the immediate teaching target.
After four weeks of a supplemental Grade 1 phonics intervention delivered as designed, a student's weekly mastery scores rise from 42% to 55%, 68%, and 82%. The week-4 aim-line target is 75%. What should the team do now?
Correct answer: C - Continue the intervention and scheduled monitoring because the student is responding adequately.
A Grade 1 student has received explicit core phonics and 10 weeks of faithfully delivered small-group intervention. Progress monitoring remains flat; pseudoword decoding and spelling are persistently weak, while listening comprehension is age appropriate. What action best avoids a wait-to-fail response?
Correct answer: A - Continue intensive structured word-reading instruction while initiating multidisciplinary evaluation and collaboration.
A beginning English learner in kindergarten follows demonstrations, responds accurately by pointing, and talks freely in the home language but speaks little English during the first weeks of school. How should the teacher respond?
Correct answer: C - Use visuals, gestures, home-language links, and low-risk English rehearsal without lowering the thinking demand.
A kindergartner names the letters in ship and gives their common sounds but cannot separate the spoken word ship into individual phonemes. The missing prerequisite is best addressed by:
Correct answer: B - pushing three counters for /sh/ /ĭ/ /p/, then mapping the sounds to sh-i-p
During shared reading in prekindergarten, a child points once under each syllable of the sentence "We like apples" rather than once under each printed word. What teacher move directly targets this mismatch?
Correct answer: C - Reread while tracking each written word, then match the three spoken words to the three printed words.
A first grader reads CVC words accurately but reads hope as hop and ride as rid; the student also spells the target words without the final e. Which lesson fits this error pattern?
Correct answer: A - Explicitly contrast CVC and CVCe pairs, read and spell them, then apply the pattern in decodable text.
A Grade 3 student pronounces robot as "rob-ut" after dividing it rob/ot. Which correction applies a productive syllable-division principle?
Correct answer: B - Try V/CV and divide ro/bot, making ro an open syllable with long o.
While reading a science article, a fourth grader decodes reusable accurately but cannot explain it. The most useful structural analysis is:
Correct answer: A - re- means again and -able means capable of; reusable means able to be used again
A Grade 2 student attempts 150 words in 75 seconds and makes 12 errors. Use WCPM = (words correct ÷ seconds) × 60 and round to the nearest whole number. The student's accuracy is 92%. Which result should inform the next lesson?
Correct answer: D - 110 WCPM; analyze the errors and use supported accuracy practice before emphasizing speed
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