WEST VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY

(Formerly Iloilo Normal School)

JANIUAY CAMPUS
(Formerly Janiuay Polytechnic College, Don Tiburcio A. Lutero Nat’l Comp.
High School, Janiuay Nat’l Comp. High School, Janiuay National
Vocational High School, Janiuay High School)
SCHOOL OF TEACHER EDUCATION
Janiuay, Iloilo
Trunkline (063) (033) 330-3485
Website: janiuay.wvsu.edu.ph Email Address: [email protected]

FINAL EXAMINATION
in
LIT 207 - Teaching Literacy in the Elementary Grades through Literature

Instructions: Read all the statements carefully and choose the best answer. Write the letters
only of your choice and submit it to

1. Teacher Ben, an experienced teacher, does daily review of past lessons, why?

a. To provide his pupils with a sense of wholeness and continuity

b. To determine who among his pupils are studying
c. To reflect on how he presented the previous lesson
d. To introduce a new lesson

2. Teacher Jen is the teacher of English as a Second Language. She uses vocabulary cards, fill-in-
the-blank sentences, dialogues, dictation and writing exercises in teaching a lesson about grocery
shopping. Based on this information, which of the following is a valid conclusion?

a. The teacher is teaching in a variety of ways because not all students learn in the same
manner.
b. The teacher wants to make her teaching easier by having less talk.
c. The teacher is emphasizing reading and writing skills.
d. The teacher is applying Bloom’s hierarchy of cognitive learning.

3. You have presented a lesson on animal protective coloration. At the end, you ask if there are
any questions. There are none. You can take this to mean ______________.

a. Your students are not interested in the lesson

b. You need to determine if the students understood everything you presented
c. You need to ask specific questions to elicit responses
d. Your students did not understand what you were talking about

4. In your attempt to develop creative thinking skills, you want to test fluency of ideas. Which
activity will be most appropriate?

a. List animals covered with hair in 1 minute

 b. Compare pictures 1 and 2. Where there are the differences?
c. Solve this puzzle.
d. Solve this math problem.

5. The following are characteristics of a good teaching/learning practice except?

a. students are governed by fixed and rigid standards

b. life-like situations introduced as learning experiences in classroom

c. students are given more opportunities to act or experience learning

d. evaluation is made an integral part of teaching procedures

6. Lesson Plans should be written to __________.

a. guide the teacher on what to say

b. make it possible for lessons to be checked for completeness and adequacy

c. assure a logical approach to the lesson being followed

d. keep a record of lessons that have been taken in the classroom

7. Reducing certain classroom activities to routine work is an effective teaching method because?

a. It enables teachers and students to spend more time to each other.

b. It provides students valuable training and exchange of ideas.

c. It gives teachers and students time to do more important tasks.

d. It allows the teachers to prepare their lesson plans.

8. What principle of learning provides various learning activities and teaching methods to meet
diverse needs and interests of the learner?

a. Multiple Intelligences c. Cognitive Development

b. Cooperative Learning d. Learning by doing

9. Which is the LEAST valuable way for a teacher to present a new lesson?

a. Develop an overview of the lesson.

b. Provide an explanation on the importance of the subject.

c. Hand out a step-by-step outline of the lesson.

d. Explore some of the existing interest by the learners.

10. The most relevant characteristics of the daily lesson plan in the integrated activity program is

a. detailed b. flexible c. comprehensive d. specific

11. Which must be primarily considered in the choice of instructional aid?

a. must be updated and relevant to Filipino setting
b. must stimulate and maintain student interest
c. must be suited to the lesson objective
d. must be new and skillfully made
12. The teacher is the first audio-visual aid in the classroom. What does this imply?
a. Your physical appearance and voice should be pleasing
b. You should be fashionable or else students won’t listen to you.
c. Make good use of the radio and TV in the classroom.
d. Include singing in your teaching method
13. Is it advisable to use realia all the time?
a. No, only when feasible.
b. Yes, because it is the real thing.
c. Yes, because there is no substitute for realia
d. No, for the sake of variety of instructional materials.
14. Which group of technology has the highest degree of abstraction?
a. book, imaginative literature, programmed instruction
b. digital, video, film, versatile, compact disc
c. video, pictures, and television
d. realia and computers
15. If there is truth to the statement “A picture is worth a thousand words”, then for effective
teaching, what should teachers do? Teachers should ____________.
a. make use of visual aids as often as they can
b. talk less and listen more
c. remain abstract in their teaching method
d. hang many pictures of heroes on the wall
16. Which can best help a Language teacher develop her students’ pronunciation skills?
a. TV b. Audio recording c. Computer d. Radio
17. Which is the first thing that the teacher determines in the selection of media for teaching?
a. ability of the students c. techniques to be used
b. objectives of the lesson d. availability of the media
18. How would you make your students look forward to coming to school every day from the
point of view of B.F. Skinner's reinforcement theory?
a. Make them enjoy learning activities.
b. Make use of mental drills in the classroom.
c. Convince them of the importance of education.
d. Always end your lessons with a clear summary. 
19. How would you make the teaching-learning process effective from the point of view of Gestalt
theories?
a. Ask your students to draw their insights from the lesson.
b. Reward every performing child.
 c. Dwell on the development of critical thinking.
d. Punish a child who does not do his/her assignment.

20. Which is an application of Vygotsky's zone of proximal development?

a. Guide the child for learning until she/he can be on his/her own
b. Transmit information to students
c. Reward every child for every good work
d. Create a stimulating learning environment
21. Which is an application of Gardner's MI theory?
a. Make use of variety of teaching strategies
b. Stick to one proven effective teaching for learners with multi-intelligences
c. Present one model of a project for class to imitate
d. Demonstrates the steps in doing an experiment
22. Which would be Piaget's advice to teachers?
a. Challenge the learners ability but do not present information far beyond their level.
b. There is no such thing as information beyond the level of learners provided it is
presented clearly.
c. Use varied teaching strategies to cater to learners varied developmental stages.
d. Arrange subject matter in a hierarchal manner. 
23. Which flows from Kohlberg's theory of moral development?
a. Use of moral dilemmas
b. Teacher as model of values
c. Using the inculcation method of values education
d. Teaching the unchanging values 
24. For discipline, how should you approach a student's misbehavior from the point of view of
Skinner's extinction or non-reinforcement theory?
a. Ignore the misbehavior (mild)
b. Punish the misbehaving student as inconspicuously as possible (not acceptable- positive
punishment-undesirable)
c. Withdraw a privilege which the student used to entail (negative punishment-
undesirable)
d. Isolate the student to prevent disruption of class activities (antiseptic bouncing- heavy) 
25. Applying information processing theory, I how can you help learners increase retrieval of
information by context?
 a. Connect the information to a situation
b. Recite the information, not just hear
c. Personalize the information
d. Connecting pieces of information
26. What is an application of Ausubel's subsumption theory to instruction?
a. Make use of advance organizers
b. Teach from the concrete to abstract
c. Arrange curriculum hierarchically
d. Connect one information to another
27. If a teacher is guided by Gestalt's Law of Figure/Ground when he/she teaches, what does
she/he do?
a. Highlights the words I want to give attention to
 b. Relates the topic to something the student already knows (background)
c. Arranges topics logically
d. Teaches topic that are similar close to one another

28. If a teacher applies Kolb's experiential learning theory in his teaching, with which will he
begin his lesson?
a. Concrete experience c. Observation and reflection
b. Testing in new situations d. Abstract concepts
29. Which is a pedagogical consequence of John Locke's tabula rasa?
a. Teacher does not expect students to have built in mental content
b. Teacher withdraws ideas from students minds
c. Teacher expects knowledge contributions from students
d. Teacher draws insights from learners
30. If your approach to teaching is constructivist, which class behavior is observable?
a. Students uncompounded words by creating their own compound words using comic
strip
b. Teacher introduces and develops the lesson without interruption
c. Students don't ask questions as these are signs of inattention
d. Students drill on subject-verb agreement
31. Which assumption about learning underlies the cognitive model of learning?
a. One cannot force someone to learn
b. The process of learning excludes sensory input
c. Meaningful learning can be imposed on learners
d. Mistakes committed in the process of learning are unacceptable
32. According to Erikson, what happens to a young adult who is confused about his/her possible
future role as an adult?
a. Isolates himself/herself
b. Findings intimacy through meaningful friendship
c. Fails to grasp a sense of meaning in life
d. Trust himself/herself
33. Learning is functional when
a. The learner meets his present and future needs.
b. Learning could be observed and measured.
c. Learning is more of memorization.
d. Learning is applied in group activities.
34. To enhance the learning abilities of slow-learning pupils, the teacher should give?

a. reinforcement b. activities c. enrichment d. remedial

35. Why should learning activities be carefully planned?

a. This is expected by the students.

b. accomplishment of objectives is dependent on the plan

c. Teacher’s ability to plan is tested.

 d. It is a teaching requirement.

36. This statement implies that children at the early learning stage, consider parents and teachers
as authorities and models.
a. Parents and teachers should always coordinate children’s activities.
b. Parents should enforce strict discipline at home and teachers in school.
c. Parents and teachers should be the role models at all times.
d. Parents and teachers should always consult each other with regards the child’s
intellectual development.
37. Intelligence is the basis of education. Education is an effective means for national
development, hence, a country spends a large portion of its budget for the systematic training of
the learner to attain full development. Why is education one major concern of every country?
Because

a. Intelligence has many facets.

b. Intelligence is useful in testing.

c. Intelligence is a safe gauge for budgetary allocation.

d. i\Intelligence tests when carefully conducted, can help in determining need for future

facilities for national building.

38. A review lesson to be an effective tool for mastery learning must be

a. the repetition of old lesson

b. the drill lesson

c. reteaching but presented in a different challenging way

d. in a test format

39. The goal of good teaching is to direct learning activity so that the learner

a. reaches the level of achievement for the grade

b. reaches the level of achievement for at least the average child in the grade

c. exceeds the average level of achievement in the grade

d. reaches the level of achievement which is possible within the limits of his ability.

40. Through the proper use of multi-sensory aids, a learner may live realistically and vicariously in
places remote from his immediate environment. This attests to the value of these aids to
a. arouse interest c. enlarge one’s environment
b. supplement knowledge d. contribute to greater retention of learning
41. Which statement is not necessary to achieve the learner’s interest in a learning activity?

a. The activity must lead to a practical end.

b. The activity must be within the ability of the learner.

c. The activity must fill a need recognized by the learner.

d. The learner must have the experience that will furnish the background for the activity.

42. The non verbal symbols used to maximize learning are referred to as?

a. instructional devices c. field trips

b. classroom techniques d. educational media

43. Graphic materials which are eye-catching and which uses slogans and topics presented in
bold letterings and strong colors to serve as reminders of standards.

a. posters b. film strips c. projector d. objects

44. To accomplish many good activities in a particular class period, the teacher must provide

a. additional curricular activities c. institute a systematic plan

b. provide unique teaching aids d. use expensive materials

45. The teacher should give ________ to enhance the learning abilities of slow-learners

a. assignments b. enrichment c. reinforcement d. activities

46. When the students fail to accomplish the assignment, the teacher should __________ to
provide learning interaction in the class.

a. prepare alternative activities c. send out the student

b. proceed with the lesson d. report the situation to the principal

47. If the teacher encounters a student who is reluctant to attend classes, the teacher should
________ to encourage him to go to class regularly.

a. report the matter to the principal c. praise the student sincerely

b. scold him d. report the matter to the parents

48. In correcting student errors, which of the following is a good correcting measure?

a. encourage more reading to enhance comprehension

 b. readily correcting the errors right there and then

c. noting the error or mistake and deal with it after the class

d. simply ignore it and let the students correct the error by themselves

49. Which of the following questions demand the highest level of thinking?

a. “How should you present your report?”

b. “Was the student’s reporting well-done?” Support your answer.

c. “What steps in reporting are you taking?”

d. “What conditions must be met to have an effective reporting?”

50. If schools want to equip children with the basic skills, what should teachers do?
a. Make pupils master reading, writing and arithmetic
b. Develop pupils "multiple intelligences
c. Teach them to ask the right question
d. Teach them livelihood skills

Good luck and God bless!!!

Prepared by:

DR. DIVINA E. BORBON

Subject Teacher