The following items are part of the Study Guide for the Florida Teacher Certification Exam (FTCE), Kindergarten - Grade 6, developed by the Florida Department of Education (from Study Guide).
Directions: Read each item and select the best response.
Sample Item 1Jeanette, a kindergarten student, enjoys reading books found in her classroom.
At the beginning of the year, she picture read the book. However, by the middle
of the year, she was pointing to each word on the page as she read the book.
Which concept of print is Jeanette exhibiting by the middle of the year?
A. voice-to-print
B. phonemic awareness
C. book knowledge
D. visual conventions
Suggested correct answer: A (Language Arts Sample Item)
Sample Item 2Which activity is most beneficial to help students improve their structural
analysis skills?
A. teaching students the syllabication rules
B. demonstrating the use of sentence structure to unlock unknown words
C. teaching students about free and bound morphemes
D. helping students look at the meaningful parts of unknown words
Suggested correct answer: D (Language Arts Sample Item)
Sample Item 3A. fable
B. fairy tale
C. parable
D. legend
Suggested correct answer: A (Language Arts Sample Item)
Sample Item 4A teacher asks a student to read a new story orally. The story is complete -- with a clear beginning, middle, and end -- and written at one grade level higher that the student's instructional reading level. Following the reading, the student retells the story, and the teacher subjectively scores understanding.
The informal assessment that the teacher is using is
A. cloze procedure.
B. running records.
C. miscue analysis.
D. comprehesion analysis.
Suggested correct answer: D (Language Arts Sample Item)
Sample Item 5
After studying the annual rainfall map of India, identify the relationship between the amount of rice planted and the annual rainfall in the central and coastal sections.
A. More rice is produced in regions that have the least annual rainfall.
B. More rice is produced in the areas that have the most annual rainfall.
C. Most rice production occurs in the interior regions.
D. Bombay produces more rice than Madras and New Delhi.
Suggested correct answer: B (Social Science Sample Item)
Sample Item 6
Which pair of angles is supplementary?
A. ACB, BDE
B. ABC, DBE
C. CAB, BDE
D. CBE, EBD
Suggested correct answer: D (Mathematics Sample Item)
Sample Item 7A company wishes to provide ID cards for its employees. Each identification number will begin with a letter of the alphabet followed by two digits. How many different ID numbers can be made>
A. 1872
B. 2106
C. 2340
D. 2600
Suggested correct answer: D (Mathematics Sample Item)
