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Module Two Flashcards

1
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Which is most likely to interrupt a student’s reading fluency?

A

Student does not know sight words or phonetic sounds

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2
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You ask a student to look at a book without words and orally tell a story just by looking at the pictures. Which ability are you assessing?

A

Story structure

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A boy reads slowly but accurately. What is an appropriate intervention

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Repeated reading on a text that is at his independent level

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If a child struggles with fluency, what can you expect?

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The student will struggle with comprehension

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A teacher has her students crouch when the music is low and stand on their tiptoes when the music is high. What musical concept is she reinforcing?

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Pitch

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A class goes on a trip to a supermarket. The produce manager explains to the class that fruits are grown in other areas and then transported to the store. Which activity would further the students knowledge of spatial interaction?

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Find the location of where different fruits are grown and map how they get to the store

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A first grade class visits a pet store. Once returning back to the classroom, the students are broken up into various groups for different jobs (designing the pet cages, arranging desks, determining names and setting up the shop, type of animals, etc.) After this the teacher holds a discussion on their activities, what topic is the teacher laying the foundation for in future years?

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Economic interdependence

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A teacher wants to connect a science unit with social studies. The students are charting a plants growth. What concept is the teacher targeting

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Time

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Ms. Duke is teaching a small group of 1st grade students. She is giving them the sounds /b/, /i/, /g/ and then sweeping them together to say “big”. Her group is practicing this skill with several short vowel words. What skill is Ms. Duke working on with this group?

A

Phonemic Awareness

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A kindergarten teacher includes poetry in her daily read-alouds. She asks her students to listen to the rhymes of familiar poems and sometimes to provide a new rhyming word. Which reading skill is she practicing with her class?

A

Phonemic awareness

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Sometimes parents are not up to date on current instructional practices. Which would be a good way to explain invented spelling to a parent of a kindergarten student?

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The use of letter-sound relationship to attempt to write words

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12
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There are yellow balloons that your students make into a sculpture. What concept is being taught?

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Form

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You want to teach the concept of change over a period of time. What activity should you choose?

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Make a poster with a timeline of your birth to your kindergarten years

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14
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Young children often begin to recognize words that they see like names of restaurants and toy stores, or names of cereal on the boxes. This type of familiar print is referred to as

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Environmental print

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15
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Which of the following design elements would you teach in correlation with a math unit?

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Pattern

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16
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A kindergarten teacher wants her students to understand that words are made up of smaller sound units or syllables. Which of the following questions should the teacher use to work on phonological awareness?

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Say “tiger”. Now say “ti” and then say “ger”

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17
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Which phonics unit should be taught last?

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Silent consonants

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18
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What is an appropriate art activity for kindergarten?

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Stamping or Mosaics

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19
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How is a student demonstrating civic responsibility/being a good citizen?

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Clean up for recycling

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20
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What is it called when a student speaks alone on stage during a play?

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Monologue

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21
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During a first grade social studies lesson, a child mentions that she lives near the city library. The teacher could take this time to reinforce which social studies concept?

A

Community

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22
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A teacher in a kindergarten classroom wants to take an initial assessment of the students in her class. She asks them individually to pick a book from the reading center and pretend to read it by flipping through the pages. What is she assessing?

A

Book handling skills

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23
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Which is the best way to develop children’s prewriting skills?

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Discussing ideas with a partner before drafting

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24
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In a 4th grade class you are learning about making a hypothesis for which candidate will win an election. Which activity would best support this learning goal

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Read through surveys of voters opinions on candidates

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A music teacher wants to show young students how dance relates to feelings and ideas. What would be a good activity?

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Reenact a favorite story through dance

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26
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What is the purpose in teaching students civic education?

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To show students that laws are created by members of society and are constantly changing

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27
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Which activity boosts child’s vocabulary development?

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Playing and interacting with other students

28
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What marked the change from 18th century farm workers in Western PA to 19th century steel workers?

A

Technological advances

29
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A fourth grade teacher is moving her students from learning to read to reading to learn. She wants them to read a passage independently to themselves. What should she do to scaffold this activity?

A

Review the headings and subheadings with students before they read

30
Q

Which would be an appropriate initial assessment of word recognition?

A

Graded word lists

31
Q

A student is able to read quickly and above grade level. However, they make careless mistakes such as saying “car” for “care” or replacing “me” with “my”. What reading strategy does this child need help with?

A

Checking for understanding

32
Q

A student can spell vocabulary words, understand there usage, and put the words into his or her own story, but when given a quiz they can’t match the words to the correct definition. Why?

A

They can use the words contextually, but do not understand the exact wording of definitions

33
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How does recognizing words with the same ending sounds help a child?

A

Builds automaticity and fluency

34
Q

A teacher gives her students cards with modes of transportation on them. She wants the students to categorize them. What should she do first?

A

Go over the criteria for sorting

35
Q

When is it appropriate to use decodable books with students?

A

When the students are good at phonics and sight words but are still working on automaticity and decoding words

36
Q

Which word has a consonant blend?

A

Frog

37
Q

A student is having trouble reading words that contain silent consonant combinations, what would be a good approach to help the student?

A

Compare and contrast between words that do and do not have silent consonant combinations (no and know)

38
Q

How do you teach 2nd graders to positively perceive and reflect on their enviroment?

A

Walk around the school and draw a favorite thing they see

39
Q

Which is an example of active listening?

A

“So what I hear you say is that you are upset about…”

40
Q

How can you help 1st graders learn about community?

A

Invite a guest speaker to speak about their roles shared in the community

41
Q

A teacher reads through a big book and then reads through it again because the students enjoy it so much. What follow up activity would best promote oral language development?

A

Acting out the story with puppets (dramatic play center)

42
Q

A teacher reads a big book and then has the students practice reading it with expression. What concept is the teacher reinforcing?

A

Prosody

43
Q

A teacher points to words in a book as she reads. What concept is she reinforcing?

A

Text to print connection

44
Q

A teacher reads a big book and then uses notecards with words from the story on them. As a class, they sort the words into words that rhyme. What is the teacher instructing?

A

Phonics

45
Q

Talking with your students about an assembly they saw yesterday reinforces what skill?

A

Reflection

46
Q

Students are exploring an evasive species that is targeting the wilderness in Pennsylvania. Where could they check for more information?

A

The Environment Protection Website

47
Q

What teaching plan can help students find out what they already know about a topic and what they would like to know?

A

KWL Chart

48
Q

To get a child interested in reading, what could you do?

A

Take them to the library and let them choose a book that they are interested in and is on their independent level

49
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A teacher in a pre-k environment has books and materials out about gardening for students to explore. She suggests they build a garden and talks with them about how they could build an imaginary garden inside. What is she demonstrating?

A

Encouraging discussion and how to solve problems creatively

50
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Why use nonsense words when teaching phonics?

A

Determines a students phonological skills

51
Q

What is the /fr/ sound in frog?

A

A blend

52
Q

How does spelling help with reading comprehension?

A

Helps with automaticity and fluency

53
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Why are sight words important to know?

A

Helps to build reading fluency

54
Q

What is connected text?

A

Words that are linked in sentences, phrases, and paragraphs

55
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Why use decodable books and phonics lessons?

A

Helps with recognition of sight words, phonemic awareness, word families, automaticity, and fluency.

56
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What can a teacher do with kindergarteners to develop a positive attitude towards art?

A

Allow them to trust and express their own feelings

57
Q

What is a creative movement to teach children how to express ideas and feelings?

A

Acting out a story

58
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What is an activity that a teacher can do with students to teach them about their perceived environment?

A

Take a walk around the school and then talk about what they saw

59
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What can you teach a student to use in order to predict the results of an election?

A

Voter opinion surveys

60
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Why would a teacher ask students to look at various websites and books before they write a research paper?

A

Helps them develop a thesis statement and gather background information

61
Q

As a teacher in first grade, you talk with students about what is close to their house. What concept are you teaching?

A

Community

62
Q

A teacher in 1st grade is talking about police officers, mailmen, firefighters, and their roles in our community. What is she emphasizing?

A

How community works together to achieve common goals

63
Q

What is important to teach students when discussing a controversial topic?

A

Value and respect the opinions of others

64
Q

What is a color level or depth of an image on a computer screen?

A

Contrast

65
Q

A kindergarten teacher read a passage during a read aloud called “Clara Is Late For School”.

“Clara jumped on the bus in the rain (pause) Clara got on the bus and sat in the back”.

(Teacher thinking aloud) I thought Clara would be late to catch the bus. I guess I was wrong. Let’s read on to see what the book will tell me next.

What is the teacher doing?

A

Teaching students to monitor their own comprehension

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