AEPA Elementary Practice Questions (2026) — Free Sample Questions with Answers

Answer: B

Readers' theater: Wrong. Readers' theater is repeated, expressive oral reading of a script to build fluency.

Reciprocal teaching: Correct. Reciprocal teaching (Palincsar and Brown) has students rotate leading four strategies: predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing.

Round-robin reading: Wrong. In round-robin reading, students take turns reading aloud. It has no strategy instruction and is not research-supported for comprehension.

Guided spelling: Wrong. Guided spelling is an encoding activity, not a comprehension routine.

Reciprocal teaching uses four strategies, predict, question, clarify, and summarize, with the teacher's role gradually passing to students.

Answer: D

stop: Wrong. 'St' is a consonant blend. Each letter keeps its own sound (/s/ /t/).

brim: Wrong. 'Br' is a consonant blend. Both /b/ and /r/ are heard.

flag: Wrong. 'Fl' is a consonant blend. Both /f/ and /l/ are heard.

ship: Correct. 'Sh' is a consonant digraph: two letters that make one new sound, /sh/.

Digraph: two letters, one sound (sh, ch, th, wh, ph). Blend: two or three letters, each sound still heard (st, br, fl, str).

Answer: A

Arizona became the 48th state on February 14, 1912: Correct. Arizona was admitted as the 48th state on February 14, 1912, the last of the contiguous 48 states.

Arizona joined the Union as a state at the end of the Mexican-American War: Wrong. Most of Arizona was acquired after the war (1848), but it did not become a state until 1912.

Arizona entered the Union together with Texas in 1845: Wrong. Texas was annexed in 1845. Arizona was still Mexican territory then.

Arizona was admitted to the Union during the Civil War in 1863: Wrong. 1863 is when Congress created the Arizona Territory, separating it from New Mexico Territory. It was not statehood.

Arizona timeline: Mexican Cession (1848) and Gadsden Purchase (1853/54); Arizona Territory (1863); statehood (Feb. 14, 1912, 48th state).

Answer: D

The mean is 7 and the median is 8: Wrong. The values are reversed. The median (middle value) is 7, and the mean is 8.

The mean and median are both 7: Wrong. 7 is the median and the mode, but the mean is 40 / 5 = 8.

The mean is 8 and the mode is 9: Wrong. The mean is 8, but the mode is 7, which appears twice.

The mean is 8 and the median is 7: Correct. Sum = 40, and 40 / 5 = 8 (mean). The middle value of the ordered list is 7 (median).

Mean = sum / count. Median = middle of the ordered data. Mode = most frequent value. An outlier (13) pulls the mean above the median.

Answer: C

Ice melting into liquid water on a warm day: Wrong. Melting is a change of state. The substance is still water, so it is a physical change.

Sugar dissolving completely in a cup of tea: Wrong. Dissolving is physical. The sugar can be recovered by evaporating the water.

An iron nail rusting after it is left outside: Correct. Rusting forms a new substance (iron oxide) from iron and oxygen, so it is a chemical change.

A sheet of paper being cut into small squares: Wrong. Cutting changes size and shape but not the substance, so it is a physical change.

Chemical changes make new substances (signs include gas, color change, light or heat, a precipitate). Physical changes alter form or state only.

Answer: C

Holding a sit-and-reach stretch for 30 seconds: Wrong. The sit-and-reach builds and measures flexibility, not cardiorespiratory endurance.

Doing three sets of push-ups with long rests: Wrong. Push-ups build muscular strength and endurance. Long rests keep the heart rate from staying up.

Jumping rope continuously for ten minutes: Correct. Sustained, rhythmic aerobic activity that keeps the heart rate elevated develops cardiorespiratory endurance.

Practicing a single cartwheel on a mat: Wrong. A cartwheel mainly develops skill-related fitness (balance, coordination), not aerobic endurance.

Health-related fitness components: cardiorespiratory endurance (sustained aerobic activity), muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition.