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The FTCE MGE 5-9 (014) exam has 61 questions and runs 2 hours 30 minutes.
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An eighth-grade English language learner converses easily and confidently with classmates during group work but performs poorly on written analyses of the class novel. A colleague concludes that the student no longer requires language support. The colleague's conclusion reflects a misunderstanding of:
Correct answer: D - the difference between social and academic language proficiency
A seventh-grade student reads aloud accurately and at an appropriate rate but cannot summarize the passage or answer inferential questions about it. According to the Simple View of Reading, instruction should target:
Correct answer: A - language comprehension and background knowledge
A teacher is deciding whether a novel with a below-grade-level Lexile measure is appropriate for her eighth-grade class. Which consideration falls under the reader and task component of text complexity?
Correct answer: C - students' background knowledge and the purpose of the assigned task
In Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards for ELA, the benchmark code ELA.8.C.1.3 identifies a grade 8 benchmark within which strand and focus?
Correct answer: B - Communication - communicating through writing
A government spokesperson announces, 'The crown will not negotiate with terrorists.' The substitution of 'the crown' for the monarchy and its officials is BEST identified as:
Correct answer: B - Metonymy
Throughout a short story, decaying imagery, a fog-shrouded setting, and short clipped sentences leave the reader uneasy and apprehensive. This effect on the reader is BEST described as the story's:
Correct answer: D - mood
A novel depicts a fisherman whose skill and courage prove ultimately irrelevant; heredity, poverty, and an indifferent sea determine his fate. This treatment of the human condition is MOST characteristic of:
Correct answer: C - naturalism
An article opens by documenting rising rates of student absenteeism and then devotes its final three sections to three proposed district interventions. The author's choice of this organizational structure MOST directly supports a purpose of:
Correct answer: A - persuading readers to support a particular course of action
A student's argumentative essay claims that young people should not be singled out for a library's overdue-fine problem. As support, the student writes: 'In fact, patrons ages 5 to 18 account for more overdue items than any other age group.' The MOST significant weakness in this passage is that the evidence:
Correct answer: C - contradicts the very reason it is offered to support
After a writing conference, a student rewrites her personal narrative from a different character's point of view and reorders two scenes to build suspense. According to the stages of the writing process, the student is:
Correct answer: B - revising, because the changes affect meaning and organization
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