Teacher Certification

    Background

    This Teacher Certification module was developed to give You feedback, how well You master the research-based content of Literacy learning, Literacy teaching and Reading difficulties. If you successfully complete the module, you will receive a Certificate of Completion that enhances Your professional development.

    How to start?

    Before you start to study eTALE Africa learning content, we highly recommend You do first a “pretest” by answering 40 random multiple-choice questions. Note that there is only one correct answer for each question (a, b, c or d). You will have one hour to complete the pretest. After answering to all 40 questions, you will receive immediate feedback how well You did.

    How to do the test?

    If You already are an expert in the content and receive at least 70% (28 out of 40 questions correct) in the pretest, you will automatically receive the Certificate to your email. You can save and print it as a demonstration of your knowledge in literacy learning and teaching and reading difficulties.

    What if I do not get 70% in pretest?

    If You don’t get 70% in the pretest, do not worry. The “pretest” is the starting point of eTALE Africa eLearning environment! When You have gone through and studied the content, you can do the “post-test” or “final examination”. You can do the test as many times as you like. But note the questions will not be the same or in same order.

    When You have answered correctly least to 28 questions (that is 70% and above), the Certificate is send to Your email.

    Parts of the eTALE Africa content may seem challenging and the test might not be an easy task! But remember, You can always read a little bit more and do the test again.

    Ready? Let´s go!

    If you want to do the pretest now, please continue below.

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    Category: Literacy learning

    1. The best literacy teaching method for beginning reading is:

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    2. To identify sounds of word helps learners to:

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    3. Phonological awareness means:

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    4. Which of these is an important learning skill?

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    5. A common manifestation of weak cognitive or mental flexibility in children is NOT:

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    6. You can get a child to pay attention:

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    7. To increase reading motivation, it is important that:

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    8. In teaching motor and visuo-motor skills, it is important to:

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    9. Which one of these is NOT related to rapid naming problems?

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    Category: Literacy learning

    10. Rapid naming means:

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    11. Which of the following is an example of a semiotic system?

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    12. Which of the following is an example of a communication mode?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    13. Many countries around the world are promoting multilingualism, even in places where multilingualism is absent from official educational policy, because multilingualism has been shown to have several advantages. These advantages do NOT include:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    14. Bilingual education entails:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    15. Monolingualism:

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    16. Which of the following is NOT a level at which phonological awareness is taught?

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    17. Steps of teaching reading comprehension when the child masters the basic reading skills.

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    18. Which of the following activities would be most appropriate for introducing pre-primary learners (5-6 year old children) to the alphabetic principle?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    19. Which of the following teacher prompts would be most appropriate to use to promote pre-primary learners’ (5-6 year old children) phonemic awareness skills?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    20. A pre-primary school teacher orally presents learners with pairs of words (e.g., buy/tie, see/saw) and has learners identify whether the words rhyme or not. Next, she says a list of one-syllable words and asks learners to point to a part of the body that rhymes with each word (e.g., the teacher says bed, and the learners point to their heads). These activities promote learners’ reading development primarily by:

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    21. Instructional support means that:

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    22. Teaching through interaction means that:

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    23. A teacher needs to inspire and encourage learners to generate ideas for what they want to write by:

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    24. When assessing reading and spelling:

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    25. When beginning to teach a new phoneme, it is useful to tell a story because:

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    26. How should a teacher NOT help children with spelling difficulties?

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    Category: Literacy teaching

    27. The centre of motor images in the brain related to writing is:

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    28. Which of the following is NOT a psychological benefit of listening to stories?

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    29. ICT is integrated into reading instruction when:

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    30. Blended learning is:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    31. Part-time special education in grades one and two:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    32. For very young children, the reading environment in the home is strongly linked to their emergent literacy skills before entering school. Which of these is NOT an important aspect of the home literacy environment:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    33. We can say that a child has dyslexia or a reading disability when we are sure that:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    34. Which of the following modalities is the most beneficial in learning to read:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    35. Which of the following is INCORRECT based on research? Fundamental principles for interventions for word-level reading difficulties include:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    36. Which of the following is the most effective method for improving literacy in children and adolescents with reading difficulties?

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    37. A precise estimate of the prevalence of dyslexia in any population is:

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    Category: Reading difficulties

    38. Spoken language skills:

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    39. The orthographic structure of a language is:

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    40. The most prominent characteristic of reading disability (dyslexia) is:

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