Reading 📖 & Language Arts Flashcards
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1. A Teacher and class write a language experience story about their trip to the zoo. The class reads the story together as the teacher sweeps a hand along the lines of text. This is a good practice activity to develop
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Print Concept
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- Which word recognition skill would be most effective for teaching the following words?
Disagreeable, reappearance, substandard, intramural
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Structural Analysis
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- Which of the following skills should students use to decode the following words?
Infiltrate, intervene, disarm, transport
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Structural Analysis and Phonics
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A teacher who provides direct word study instruction beginning with vowel- consonant and
consonant-vowel- consonant words and progressing to consonant- consonant- consonant- vowel-
consonant and consonant- consonant- consonant- vowel- consonant- consonant words is using
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Explicit Systemic Instruction
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- When reading a book to a kindergartener, a teacher changes tone of voice to show different
characters, pauses at commas, and changes pitch to show punctuation. Which component of
fluency is the teacher demonstrating?
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Prosody
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- On Friday afternoons, students in a 4th grade reading class re-read a story selection with a classmate, they read in unison with each other, and finally, choose a new book to read together. This activity is called:
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Share Reading
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- In a 6th grade language art lesson on storytelling, a teacher wants students to use visual
representations in lieu of words to tell their autobiography. Which of the following activities
would match the learning objective?
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Creating a Picture Book
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- Which activity would best help students to understand the author’s organization of a content-area
test
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Preview topics and subtopics
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- A 1st grade teacher is reading a big book to students. While reading, the teacher moves a pointer under the words. On which emergent literacy concept is the teacher focusing?
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Directionality
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.A teacher’s class has written a paragraph about their summer vacation. A teacher has asked that they reread their paragraphs and check carefully for mechanical errors. This teacher is teaching the class to:
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Edit
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Which mode of writing consists of the main focus as entertaining including stories, poems and Plays?
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Narrative Writing
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- A teacher is concerned about a student and feels there may be difficulties that are interfering with his academic work. The teacher does want to draw attention to the student and feels writing about it would be a positive way to address the issue. Which of the following modes of writing would be most effective in opening a line of communication between the teacher and the student in this scenario?
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Dialogue Journal
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- Which of the following words is spelled incorrectly?
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Separate
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- Which of the following assessment procedures would most effectively measure students’
understanding of word meaning?
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Sentence Generation using the Words
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- Which of the following assessment methods is an individual, informal observation in which a
teacher indicates a student’s oral reading behavior using a series of check marks and notes?
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Running Record
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- Shondra is a 5th grader who is struggling with a reading assignment. Her teacher wants to give
her extra help and thus accumulates the following test information:
Percentile Stanine
Vocabulary 52 4
Comprehension 38 3
Reading analysis 83 7
Comments: The student has good word attack skills, but she does not seem to remember what she reads, What strategy would be most helpful for the student?
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Teaching the student comprehension such as predicting and self-questioning
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The correlation between the results of a final exam and the results of a standardized test taken just prior to the final is -0.65. Based on this information, which is the most likely conclusion?
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The standardized test and the final exam appeared to be measuring different content
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A student scored at the 80th percentile on a standardized reading achievement test. This indicates
that the student
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Scored as well as or better than 80% of the norming group
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- An activity in which the participants read aloud a selection as though it were a play is a
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Reader’s Theatre
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- While reviewing beginning of the year test data, a kindergarten teacher notices that the students
were unable to consistently hear initial sounds in words. Which of the following activities would
help develop the skill?
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listening to tongue twisters
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- Which of the following is a measure of a student’s emergent oral skill set?
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Nonsense word fluency
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- Which of the following elements of legibility would a student use to analyze his own
handwriting?
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Alignment
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- Which of the following best describes passive listening?
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Listen to a book on CD and wearing headphones for privacy.
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Which of the following skills are both productive?
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Writing and Speaking
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1. Which of the following activities would be most effective in stimulating the development of
oral language for primary students?
Using puppets to retell or create stories
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2. Which of the following has the strongest influence on a child's ability to understand stories that are read or told to the child?
Language development
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3. Based on current research, spelling instruction should emphasize
Repetitive practice through writing and rewriting
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4. A teacher has a small group of 1st-grade students who have very limited sight word vocabulary and few decoding skills. Select the most effective strategy the teacher can use to
develop their word recognition skills.
Labeling objects in the classroom, making books that controlled vocabulary and phonics instruction
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5. A teacher is developing a set of word cards emphasizing the -at sound. He identified the first word as bat. Each of the next few words contain the -at sound but has a different beginning
Graphophonemic Cues
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7. Which of the following is the best definition of prosody?
A linguistic term that describes the rhythmic patterns of speech using changes in pitch, stress, and duration
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8. A 4th-grade teacher wants the class to read with fluency and expression. To achieve this objective, the teacher reads aloud every day. This type of instruction is called
modeling
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9. A 1st-grade teacher encourages students who are ELL to read basal reading stories five times to their caregiver. The purpose of the oral reading is to increase
automaticity
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10. Which of the following word recognition methods would be most effective in teaching the following words? Rattlesnake, the mailman. Fireplace, anchorwoman
context clues
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11. Choose the most appropriate method for developing vocabulary
Teaching students to use the graphophonemic elements in words
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A teacher wants to improve student's metacognition as they read. The most effective method is for the teacher to
Read and think aloud
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Which of the following reflects a directed reading approach sequence?
rvinos reading with vocabulary, information, conducts oral reading, and silent reading
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A student who has difficulty understanding the implied message of a story most likely needs
further instructions in which of the following comprehension skills?
Inferring
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14. Students read the following paragraph about Italy: About 11 million tourists visit Italy every year, more than any other country in Europe. The sunny climate and art treasures such as Davinci's "The last Supper" earn more money for Italy than most factories. The teacher asks "How many tourists visit Italy each year?" The teacher's question checks which type of comprehension?
Literal
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15. Which of the following phrases from a social studies textbook signals to the reader that an important idea is being discussed?
primary concern
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17. A 3rd grade student uses a sheet of paper divided into two columns to response to s story. The student enters direct quotation from the text in the left column and a response to the quotation in the right column. What form of written response to literature is being used?
double-entry journal
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By definition, poetry should contain
soothing rhythm
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The following poem is an example of which kind of poetry?
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There once was a frog named Pete,
Who did not but sit and eat,
He examined each fly,
With so careful an eye,
And the said "You are dead meat"
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limerick (contains humor)
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20. The following poem is an example of which kind of poetry?
Spider web shinning,
Tangled on the grass with dew,
Waiting quietly
Haiku (3 lines, syllables 5,7,5)
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21. Which of the following is most important when selecting literature for shared reading
experiences with a class of culturally diverse students in an inclusive classroom?
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Matching students reading level to the selected literature
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22. Identify the literary device used in the following example. His nose was as red as rose
simile
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23. Using conversation to move a piece of writing or to give voice to a character is an example of
Dialogue
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24. A 6th grade teacher has a culturally diverse class of students who are at-risk readers. When
selecting reading materials for this class, the teacher should select books
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Representative of student's culture and supportive of students' varied reading level
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25. A 1 st grade teacher notices that his students are having trouble composing opinion pieces about a book and supplying reasons for their opinions. He wants to help them formulate an organized plan for visualizing the elements in the book. Which of the following techniques would best help these students?
double entry journal
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26. Read this passage from Leslie Marmon Gilco's poem "Story from Bear Country" .
We can send hear priest
Loping after you
Their medicine bag
Bouncing against the chests
Naked legs painted black
Bear claw necklaces
Ranting against
Their capes of the blue spruce
Which of the following approaches would be most useful in developing a viable interpretation of the poem?
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(SLC) Studying related languages and contextual words meaning
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. A kindergarten journal entry is given "S"
Student draws th~ picture of the sun and writes the letter S beneath. Which of the following would a
teacher expect to see from this student journal progress sequentially through the stages of development?
Sn
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Students need to further develop on an original draft to writing as part of
Revision
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29. 3rd graders have listen to their teacher read the humorous patterned book 'Just for you". They each have written an original sentence patterned after the book. The teacher intends to collect their work in book to be loaned out in the media center. The children are now in the process
of illustrating their own sentences. For which of the following are the children preparing?
Publishing
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The most helpful strategy for students learning to write a persuasive essay is to ask them to
Role Play their intended audiences prop to writing
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Pinky the pig basked in the buttery sun when mud oozed from his nose. " From which of the following modes of writing was the excerpt taken?
narrative
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32. Mrs. Bankroft wants her students to write an essay that would cause them to consider the
way they have currently acquired and used language. What kind of essay would be the most
appropriate for this purpose
Literacy Autobiography
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33. In the following sentence, an ELL used "no" for "did not" "He no do his homework". What
type of mistake did the ELL make?
Syntax
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34. A small group of 2nd graders are having difficulty understanding the concept of using a
question mark or a period when writing sentences is rewriting sentences in corrected
composition. What would be the most appropriate strategy to help them?
Distributing worksheets giving the children extensive practice writing questions and statements
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34. The activity that will produce the best result if a teacher wants the students to become more skillful in composing sentences is
Rewriting sentences in corrected composition
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35. Spelling instruction is most effective when the emphasis is
learning patterns that recur in spelling
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36. Norm-referenced
assignment must be used for a student whose test score is reported as 84th percentile
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Use reading survey identify
Student's Attitudes and Interests
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38. The most efficient way to assess student's ability to apply phonic decoding skills is to
have the student read on grade-level orally and note decoding errors
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39. A teacher wants to recommend her students for a remedial reading program based on
both standardized and informal test scores. A 5th grade student's records reveal the
following:
Statewide reading assessment------------------------------------ Level 3
Norm-referenced reading comprehension-----------------------Stanine 7
Based on the score, the teacher should recommend that the student
Continue grade-level instruction
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A student is at the independent reading level can read
96% of words accuracy
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42. An ELL scored at the 31st percentile on the writing portion of the ESOL placement
section which is standardized test. The student's parents have asked for an explanation of
the test result. The best explanation of the assessment result is
The ELL students is placed in ESOL score was high as or higher than 31% of other students who took that section of the test
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43. If a 4th grade student obtained a language arts grade equivalent score of 7.5 on a
standardized test, the best explanation to give her parents about this score is that
Since she scored this high on the test she has some mastery of specific skills needed for 7th grade
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To determine student's independent and instructional reading levels at the beginning of
the year, a teacher must use
informal reading inventory
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44. A 3rd grade student is working at a 2.5 instructional reading level. The student enjoys
reading but has difficulty with comprehension. When unable to pronounce many of the words within a passage, the teacher must administer
Phonics Test
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45. A 1 st grade teacher administers a midyear assessment to his class and identifies three
students who are unable to decode consonant-vowel-consonant pattern words. The best
method to implement to best help develop decoding skills in these three students is
Explicit Approach
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A class characteristic that could be assessed only by observation is
Amount of Student Time on task
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A prerequisite or readiness skill for handwriting is
Eye-hand coordination
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50. A 4th grade teacher notices that the students have nice penmanship during the handwriting lessons but on other assessments, their writing is illegible. The teacher can alleviate this
Something that has to deal with time
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Writing and speaking are both
productive skills
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53. When a l grade teacher reads aloud a short descriptive passage and asks the children to
draw a picture of what is described. The teacher is testing listening
Comprehension skills
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54. A teacher has given a class a research project. Students are allowed to choose any topic
from their social science textbook. The most valuable characteristic online encyclopedia
would be
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pictures that accompany articles
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55. Administering a high-frequency word list for students to read orally would be appropriate
procedure for assessing
sight-word knowledge
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57. In an effort to save money, safely engage learners, and provide exposure to higher order thinking processes, many science and social studies departments are using
Simulation software
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58. Each 2nd grade student has a hard copy of a classroom magazine. The teacher has access to an electronic version of the magazine with educational games, comprehension activities and videos to support the text. The teacher wants to incorporate the electronic version into her large group lessons. The best way for the teacher to share the online resource during the lesson is to use
interactive whiteboard
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59. A teacher has a group of students who have not mastered print orientation concepts.
Which of the following materials could appropriately be used for instruction?
Big Books
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60. A child who uses "mock" letters when asked to write a sentence is in which stage of
writing?
emergent
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61. In a 1st grade class, three students are unable to blend sounds to help decode unfamiliar
words. Which should be used to teach this skill?
phonics approach
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62. Which of these word recognition methods would be most effective for teaching the
pronunciation of the following words: what, have, where, they.
sight word
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63. Which of the following is the best definition of automaticity in reading?
Quick and effortless reading of words by sight born in and out of context
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The most effective strategy for increasing students' reading fluency
choral reading
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65. Which instructional method would help students categorize the following words? Shred,
flake, crumble, bake, broil, fry, stir, toss, fold, broiler, mixer, blender
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semantic mapping
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66. A teacher helps students comprehend a text by encouraging them to ask themselves
question to be sure they understand what they are reading. This reading comprehension strategy is known as
monitoring
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67. After students read a detective story in their basal reader, the teacher asks them to make a judgement about the guilty or innocent of the main character. What type of thinking is the teacher encouraging?
evaluative
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68. Which of the following activities most effectively supports students utilizing technology as learning resource in the 5th grade language arts setting?
students creating podcast showing research they gathered
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69. After the students have read an essay about the responsibilities of US citizens to vote in
elections, the teacher asks the students about the author's purpose, the author's biases, the appropriateness of essay's title, and the accuracy in the information of the essay. These questions are most likely to promote students' use of the following types of thinking?
Critical
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72. Speculations about possible future events is an element frequently found in
Science Fiction
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74. Which of the following would best supplement to utilize with ELL during vocabulary instruction?
Translation dictionary
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Students talking at the same time
Set rule guidelines before activities
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70. Research has indicated that one of the best strategies for teaching students to understand expository text is
Teaching the text in mini-lessons and having students write those attributes
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76. After Mrs. Smith 2nd grade class has read Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs which of the following activities would best help the students become aware of the joys and
hardships of having aging relatives
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Sharing stories with personal experiences with elderly family members
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77. Characteristics of historical fictions include
realistic characters accurate setting
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78. A 2nrl grades teacher wants her students to participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about texts. Which of the following would best promote positive
listening and speaking skills with collaborative conversation?
Following rules for discussions and gaining floor in respected ways
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79. One of the ways to demonstrate the relationship between revision and audience is through
Conferencing
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80. A 5th grade class visits a museum exhibit on artifacts on Egyptian culture. Upon returning to school, the students worked in small groups to write their understanding of the taped explanation of the exhibit. This language arts exercise is an example of
Exposition
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Childhood obesity is a common problem in our society. If school cafeterias change the lunches.... From the following, which mode of writing is being used in the text above?
Persuasive
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Choose the sentence that contains no errors. PPC
My dad asked, "Where did you put the paper, pencils, and crayons?"
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85. Many members of a 2nd-grade class have difficulty remembering which words are spelled with the letters i-e and which are spelled without e-i. Which of the following instructional methods would best help them overcome this problem?
Using Word Walls with i-e and e-i
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86. A social studies teacher would like to know if her students' knowledge of social studies is similar to that of other students throughout the United States. What type of standardized test would best give the teacher this information?
Norm-reference achievement test
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Criterion-reference tests were especially designed to provide a(an)
The measure of mastery of specific skills
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The assessment that best enables a teacher to determine reading comprehension is a (an)
Informal reading inventory
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89. A teacher asks a student to perform a segmentation task. The student is given this word think. This assessment provides information on the student's
Phonemic awareness
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90. A note has been recorded about a 2nd grader. What instructional strategy would probably
be most beneficial for the student?
Running record note one: reads words accurately but slowly
Anecdotal note one: does not seem to comprehend sound well
Anecdotal note two: resist reading silently
Running record note two: reads accurately but slowly
Performance on an informal silent reading test one: poor comprehension
Providing software program that includes short passage, questions, and performance score.
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84. A teacher wants the students to become more skillful in composing sentences. Which of the following would produce the best results?
Rewriting sentences in a corrected composition
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91. Which of the following is the best method of informing parents about students' achievement throughout the year?
Opening classroom facilitating a training about how to interpret assessment data
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93. What would be most appropriate method to use to validate questions on a teacher developed. Recently administered test?
Performing an item analysis
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93. What would be most appropriate method to use to validate questions on a teacher developed. Recently administered test?
performing item analysis
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95. A teacher has assigned his students with a novel to read and to discuss independently of
the teacher. Each student within this group is given a job to facilitate discussion to
enhance reading comprehension. Which strategy is the teacher providing for his students?
literature circle
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96. A teacher wants to measure the final performance of students on the course objectives.
Which of the following tests would supply appropriate data?
criterion-referenced
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98. A kindergarten teacher notices that most of the students in the class have not developed
the fine motor control necessary to form letters accurately. What might be the best course of action in teaching hand writing?
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offering tips and modeling
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99. After teaching cursive writing to 3rd grade students, the teacher notices that some of the students have lines that are too heavy. Which of the following strategies should the
teacher check first to help solve the problem?
position of the paper
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A 5th grade teacher wants his students to engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions to promote listening and speaking skills. He also wants to address the needs of struggling students be improving comprehension. Of the following, select a method that best promotes these skills
literature circles
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Which of the following student assignments will best accomplish analyzing an advertisement for hidden messages?
Examine/Analyze/Study advertisement provided by the teacher and answering/asking questions
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As part of social studies lesson, a 5th grade teacher gives students a global
positioning system (GPS) to attempt to locate hidden items. The class is engaged in which of the following activities?
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geocaching
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A 4th grade teacher is presenting a lesson on comparative shopping. After the
lesson, he divides the students into groups. Given the necessary information, the groups
are to determine the most cost effective way to serve pizza to various numbers of people. Which of the following would be most useful to the groups of students as they work through the problem?
database tool
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What kind of assessment was used for a student whose test score is reported as
being at the 84th percentile?
norm-reference
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In a narrative work, which of the following elements provide a hint of events to
come?
Foreshadowing
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1. Which strategy will help an emergent reader become aware of the concept of directionality?
During the shared reading section, the teacher points at each word to its beginning as it is being read
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2. As Mr. Howard works with a big book in his kindergarten class, he reads the title and the
author's name, emphasizing and explaining the words title and author to stress
parts of a book
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3. Willa is a potential at risk emergent learner who lacks exposure to literature. The most effective
activity for her is
selecting books from the classroom library
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4. The concept that reading depends more on letter cues can be developed through the use of
Explicit graphophonemic analysis
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5. Which vocabulary skill would a student use to do the exercise presented bellow? The boy hit the
tall ball bat with a bat
Use of context clues
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6. A student has come upon the word in his language experience story and is reconstructing the story. This activity will most likely use which two words?
Sight words and structural analysis
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7. The term flexibility refers to which reading strategy?
ability to read different materials at the appropriate level
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What is the largest vocabulary for a 2nd-grade child?
Speaking
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9. A teacher used repeated listening and repeated writing of a popular book Curious George, with her 1st graders forming a 1st grade novel. This instruction is
Appropriate because the students gain fluency
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10. Jerry, a bright 6th grade student, did not read a short passage and subsequently could not answer the teacher's questions. Which corrective strategy would be most appropriate?
Direct him to read the key portion of the text silently
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Mr. Mixon develops a set of word cards emphasizing the at sound. Each of Mr. Mixon's words has the at sound that has a different beginning. He asks the students to read each word. If a student cannot read a word, Mr. Mixon points out the letter different and how it is pronounced.
Mr. Mixon is asking the students to identify what?
graphophonemic cues
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Using letter/sound connections is an example of what type of cueing system?
graphophonemic
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13. An effective note-taking technique that requires both a narrow and a wide margin and provides a way for students to review their notes is called the
the cornel method
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14. Which strategy would be most useful for increasing students understanding of a main idea?
Categorize phase in relation to the central idea
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15. To help students develop meanings for figurative language, a teacher should use which of the following strategies?
Paraphrasing
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16. Identify the instructional method that would help children to recognize the relationship among
the following words: alligators, frogs, crocodiles, toads, salamanders
Semantic Features Analysis
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17. The study of acronyms would help students discover the meanings of which of the following
group of words?
Care, Scuba, Sonar, Zip
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18. The following excerpt appears in 5th grade social studies text book: "The trouble was getting
worse. People in many of the small towns were getting ready for war. Men and even teenage
boys were being trained to fight. They were called minutemen because they were ready at a
moment's notice. " Which question would be most effective in directing students' attention to the
cause-effect relationship?
Why were Men and even teenage
| boys were being trained to fight?
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19. Students in (;th grade class are encouraged to read the newspaper for a part of the class period 3 days a week. The teacher should suggest to the students that the best approach for reading a newspaper is to
Skim newspaper, read important and interesting articles
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20. If students want to correspond with their peers from another state on an assigned project on emergent technology, which method will be most expedient?
Electronic-mail
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. The students in Mr. Jones 5th grade class are researching topography of southeastern
United States. They would find the most information in
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Website
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A selection in a 5th grade textbook about the first woman astronaut, Sally Ride,
exemplifies the geme of
Biography
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The vocabulary strategy that requires a teacher to select a super-ordinate concept and
provide examples and attributes of the super-ordinate concept is
Semantic Mapping
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Children who use decoding and some analogies to read unfamiliar words demonstrate
characteristics of which phase of word recognition?
graphophonemic
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Several collisions have occurred at a busy intersection near the neighborhood school.
While no one has been seriously injured or killed, many students are worried that something worse would occur. They plan to ask the city council to install a stop light. The best form of written communication for the students to use would be
persuasion
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While reading aloud to his students Mr. Ambrose stops to share questions, personal connections, and inferences he made about the story, and verbalized what he thinks will happen next. The teacher is demonstrating which instructional method?
Think aloud
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Mrs. Miller's 3rd grade class is writing paragraphs about reptiles. She has directed the
class in brainstorming for ideas. The next step in the writing process is
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composing
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The old man walked down the trail with difficulty. Being confined during the winter had caused his legs to grow stiff. This question checks what type of comprehension?
Interpretive
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After listening to the story "Brown bear, brown bear" several times, students in a 1st
grade class are asked to recite the words to the story as the teacher reads aloud. This instructional method is called
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shared reading
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A 1st grade student creates books containing pictures and names of chain restaurants,
labeled from food containers, and house hold products. The child is in which phase of word recognition?
Pre-alphabetic
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A teacher wants to improve student's metacognition as they read. The most effective
method. for the teacher to
Read and think aloud
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At the beginning of the year, the teacher wanted to determine her students' independent
and instructional reading levels. Which assessment instrument is most appropriate?
informal reading inventory
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What is the most effective method for a teacher of a beginning 15t grade who have had
very little periods with prints, to read?
Instruction in phonics
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Mr. Lee wants his students to become independent learners who use their background
knowledge bud prediction skills to continually monitor their comprehension. The first strategy
for teaching this is
Semantic mapping
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A rubric will best be used to assess students' performance in
writing an essay
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The students practice reading their favorite selection into the tape recorder several times.
The purpose of this activity was to
Determine reading rates
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Which of the following procedures is the most effective method for helping students
develop writing skills?
Encourage the students to begin by talking, brainstorming and listing ideas
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Some 2nd grade students write short, simple sentences. The teacher wants the students to
write more interesting and complex sentences. Which activity would be most effective in
meeting the teacher's goal?
Practicing sentence combining, expanding, substitution.
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The students in Mrs. Perky's 15t grade classroom are practicing reading word cards.
Which of the following skills is this designed to promote?
Automaticity
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Study guide for a content text should be written in such a way that it ensures that the
students
become aware of worker's organizational structure
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A 5th grade teacher wants to help his students to use more creative language by
emphasizing the use of vivid verbs. The best active learning activity is to:
Show students, examples of vivid verbs in sentences selected from a novel they are reading
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In a 1st grade class, three students are unable to blend sounds to help decode unfamiliar
words. Which should be used to teach" this skill?
Phonics approach
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A school district wants to assess reading achievement of students entering the 5th grade.
The district wants to screen students who have major difficulties in reading as well as assessing
the reading growth of the students. The most effective means of assessment is:
Norm-reference test
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The most helpful strategy for students learning to write a persuasive essay is to ask them to?
Follow a detailed teacher-made outline while writing
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A student in the beginning stage of writing development will be most likely to develop
sentence writing
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In a heterogeneous 3rd grade class, what information would be most used to most
accurately for reading groups?
Instructional reading levels
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Which instructional strategy would best help an emergent reader identify unknown
words?
Sound out the letters in the word
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Which approach would be the most effective in teaching students to decode the following
words? Grump, whack, squall, blat
phonic analysis
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Which technique would be the most effective in developing students' literary
appreciation through recreational reading?
Allow students time to discuss their favorite books
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During a geography lesson, the teacher says, "imagine that you have just arrived in Paris.
You have a ticket that you can use to travel from one country to another. You also have a map.
Decide whether the map information is used for what you want to do. " Which comprehension
skill is emphasized most?
Evaluative
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Which 6th grade activity represents a student-centered approach of responding to the
Theodore Taylor novel, The Sniper?
Following reading, students participate in student-led
| discussions
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91. A 4th grade teacher has a group often students at the 3rd grade instructional level. The teacher has
determined through observation during the past month that the students are using
graphophonemic skills when attacking unknown words. In addition to using graphophonemic
skills, what other word should be used to attack the word pizzas in the sentence bellow?
"Hamburgers, hotdogs, and pizzas were served at the party.' "
Contextual/semantic
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Students need to further develop an original draft of writing as part of
revision
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93. One of the best ways to help students learn to read graph is to
have students record their reading rates for selected graphs
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94. The students participated in reading their favorite selection into the tape recorder several times.
The purpose of this activity was to
Determine reading rates
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95. Which word recognition method would be most effective for determining the pronunciation of
the following words? What, Where, They, Have
Sight word instruction
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98. Teachers must make informed decisions about the appropriateness of modifications needed when
using assessment instruments with specific population. In deciding how to address this situation,
in a class that includes several ELL students, which would be the best choice?
Preparing an alternative assessment form, based on ELL students' ability levels
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99. According to the reading response theory. What activities would be most appropriate or used
with students in an advanced 6th grade class who are reading de-Maupassant's "The Necklace"?
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Elicit student's experiences relevant to the story; assign reading to be followed by
discussion
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When students dictate stories reread their stories then practice the words on flashcards,
the teacher is using
language experience approach
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The most thorough methods for students to research the life of a favorite author is to
conduct an internet search
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82. In march, a 1 st grade student is able to decode words in a primer but is struggling to master
context knowledge in the class. He is having problems with which characteristic of emergent
literature?
Comprehension
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83. In a 4th grade classroom, children of high, middle, and low ability are mixed together in 3-4
member groups. They are assigned tasks to be completed as a group while the teacher circulates
while the groups help as requested. This grouping style is an example of
cooperative groups
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84. Ms. Desmond's class has written a paragraph about some applications. She has asked that they
re-read and check carefully for mechanical errors. Ms. Desmond is teaching her class to
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Edit
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86. At the beginning of class, the teacher displays a chart listing all the 50 states along with their
state trees, state flags, state birds. The students discuss the states and their corresponding
symbols, then the teacher writes the following on the board.
Mocking Bird: Florida; Blue Jay _
Florida: Orange; Georgia _
Florida is to Orange and Georgia is to what?
What strategy is the teacher using to help students develop vocabulary?
Analogy
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87. Students are to read one another's composition in an initial peer editing exercise. The best
approach for students to take when reading each other's work is to
Read the paper, sentence at
| a time, noting errors in mechanics and sentence structure
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89. Aaron is a 1 st grade student who has transferred to a new school. His new teacher has discovered
that he is ~ in letter and letter-sound recognition. To remedy this deficiency, one of the best
Pedagogical approaches would be
Phonics instruction
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70. Mr. Graves encourages his students to turn their good stories into books and incorporates these ~,
child authored books into his reading program. What is the most important purpose for this
activity?
The students are proud of their own and fellow students' work and, therefore,
would be motivated to read and write more
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Which genre of literature is characterized by heroes or heroines who are very young or poor and
by swift-moving events, magic, and happy ending?
Fairy tales
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A classroom teacher uses repeated reading for the purpose of
Improving reading fluency
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73. Mr. Jones notices that Jerry, a 4th grader has difficulty following written directions. Which
strategy would be the most appropriate to assist Jerry?
Ask Jerry questions that focus on the
| unique characteristics of directions and provide information that facilitates comprehension
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The most important strategy for increasing students reading fluency is?
Choral reading
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76. For 1 st grade students, the best strategy to encourage vocabulary development through writing is
have students incorporate words from a list into their writing
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77. The local newspaper contains two news articles in an editorial on the same subject.
Facts and opinions
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78. An effective method for developing spelling skills is
Assign spelling textbook practice exercise
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Mrs. Jackson has retrieve the following assessment data for Erica, one of her 6th grade students
FCAT Reading SSS-Scale Score 297 (high-end a/level 2)
FCAT Reading NRT-30th percentile
Using the data, which conclusion can be made?
Erika is performing at levels that are well below her peers on both the FCAT SSS and FCAT NRT reading assessments
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58. Students are working in several groups around the classroom after becoming familiar with the
textbook of William Staige. Some are constructing murals. Others are dramatizing the story. The rest of the students are constructing a large papier marche model. Which grouping style is used in this situation?
Interest
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59. A student in the beginning stage of writing development will be most likely to
develop sentence writing
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60. The 6th grade course guide requires students to revise all parts of the writing process-prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing. What will be the best approach at the beginning of the school year?
Explain all parts of the writing process, visual stimuli, and brainstorm ideas on the topic to be assigned
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61. Choose the sentence that contains no error
Genses laboratory
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62. In their writing tasks, Mrs. Charles has asked her students to writing a selection that will include characters' actions relative to a problem and its solutions. This is an example of which writing mode?
Expository
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What writing format should be used when writing a friend or relative?
letter
202
64. After a unit on book report the teacher receives the following response from the writing
assignment. "1 grew up in citrus grove in Central Florida. One of my duties was to help pick the oranges. " This is an example of what type of writing?
Reflection
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An effective way to determine students' abilities to recall information is
Summarizing
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66. Simon scored at 80 percentile on a standardized reading achievement test. This indicates that
Simon scored
As well as or better than 80% of the morning group
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46. A classroom teacher reads numerous word play books to and with her students. This activity primarily promotes the development of
Comprehension
206
47. It is very difficult for students to accommodate new information that conflicts the previous information or beliefs. Which of the following explains this phenomenon?
Metacognitive process
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Mr. Stratton is beginning a new unit in his social studies textbook. He instructs the class to read the title; read the introduction, summary and questions; read the headings and subheadings; read the print; study visual materials, such as pictures, maps and diagrams. Which of the following study skills is he demonstrating?
Previewing
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Will thought he was a poor writer because he misspelled so many words even though his teacher found the story he wrote exciting. The best method to help Will with his spelling ability is to have him
A word wall for looking up words
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When reading a paragraph in her social studies textbook, Mary has difficulty distinguishing the main idea from supportive points and details. An appropriate activity that will help her will be to
Complete a partial fill outline
210
The study of etymology would help children understand the meaning of which of the following words?
RLSS ( Radar, Laser, Sonar, scanner)
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Knowledge of vocabulary or word meaning correlates strongly with
Reading comprehension
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Directions for characters is an example of an element most frequently found in
Drama
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57. Mrs. Green realizes her classroom needs a wider selection of multicultural books. To help her choose good books, she should refer to
The media center's collection
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35. The mode of writing that includes many details and often uses adjectives and adverbs to evoke images in a reader's mind is called
Descriptive
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36. After finishing a cooperative group work, Mrs. Konnor asked her students to write an evaluation of their work. This type of writing is an example of
Expository
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37. The following writing example is which type of writing? "I grew up in a citrus grove in central
Florida. One of my chores was to help pick the oranges.
Autobiography
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. Which of the following is used to score holistically?
Rubric
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44. As Mrs. Ivar's kindergarteners asked her to write their favorite books. She writes on chart paper
each phrase or sentence the children dictate. She directs their attention to the beginning and
ending of each line as she writes and then orally repeats the dictation to reinforce
left-to-right sequencing
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45. When students dictate stories reread their stories then practice the words on flash cards, the
teacher is using
Language experience approach
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22. To help her 6th grade students apply critical thinking skills, Mrs. Franklin wants her students to identify propaganda techniques. The most effective instructional practice would be to have
students read
Students read newspaper editorials biased and loaded words and phrases
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24. A selection in a 5th grade textbook about the first woman astronaut, Sally Ride, exemplifies the genre of
Biography
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The literary genre, a conflict between two forces, is called
Conflict
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26. One of the best methods for improving the reader's attitude towards reading is to
Place students in books at their appropriate reading level
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28. Which developmental writing does Amy exhibit when she writes a string of standard letters from the left to the right paper?
Beginning
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33. A student is writing a cause-and-effect paper and asks for assistance with transitions. Which group of transitions would be the best choice?
to begin, next, finally
