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RICA EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSA 6th grader who is advanced in most areas of reading has difficulty completing
assigned reading selections. He appears motivated when he begins reading, but he has
difficulty keeping his attention on the task at hand. Which of the following would be his
teacher's best INITIAL strategy for addressing this difficulty? - Answers -breaking down
the student's reading assignments into small steps and helping him learn to monitor his
own attention and progress. Competency 1
When creating lesson plans to promote specific reading skills, a teacher should make
sure that: - Answers -the targeted reading skills relate to an appropriate instructional
progression ans reflect students' needs. Competency 1
An early elementary teacher could most effectively support at-home reading by: -
Answers -recommending books that parents/guardians would likely enjoy reading with
their children. (Competency 1)
A 6th grade teacher wants to ensure that the classroom reading environment supports
content-area learning for the English Learners in the class. Which of the following
strategies is likely to be most effective in addressing this objective? - Answers -making
avalible in the classroom content-area texts at various levels that supplement and
reinforce the information presented in students' textbooks Competency 1
Of the following questions, which would be most important for a teacher to consider
when interpreting the results of a reading assessment for a particular student? -
Answers -How do these findings relate to the student's performance on other recently
administered reading assessments? (Competency 2)
Which of the following strategies would best help a kindergarten student who is having
difficulty visually distinguishing between the letters b and d? - Answers -helping the
student focus on the directionality of each letter as the student traces it (Competency 4)
A 1st grader can identify the letters of the alphabet and decode a number of simple
words. He becomes confused, however, when tracking print in consecutive lines of
print. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in helping the
student read a short paragraph of simple text? - Answers -Have him use his finger or a
marker as he reads the text. (Competency 4)
Which of the following instructional practices would be most effective in promoting
kindergarten students' understanding of the alphabetic principle? - Answers -routinely
saying the sounds in words when writing the words on the board (Competency 4)
An emergent reader frequently reverses some letters and numbers during writing tasks.
Which of the following strategies would be most effective in helping this student develop
more accurate letter formation skills? - Answers -having the student practice tracing the
, target letter shapes with a finger while saying aloud the sequence of steps to form each
letter (Competency 4)
In the word CHIMPANZEE, which of the following pairs of letters is a digraph? -
Answers -ch (Competency 5)
A kindergarten student has demonstrated the ability to write words phonetically, but she
is reluctant to write because she is worried about misspelling words. The teacher could
best promote the student's reading and writing development by: - Answers -reassuring
her that it is okay for now to express herself in writing by spelling words as they sound.
(Competency 5)
During which of the following stages of spelling development do students typically begin
to show an understanding of the correspondence between letters and sounds? -
Answers -semiphonetic (Competency 5)
Function words such as TO, THE, and OF are most appropriately taught in the context
of which of the following areas of reading instruction? - Answers -sight-word vocabulary
(Competency 5)
A 1st grade teacher provides students with explicit, systematic phonics instruction to
promote their reading development. When designing activities to teach letter-sound
correspondences, the teacher should: - Answers -provide reading opportunities for
stuents to practice sounds in context after studying the sounds in isolation.
(Competency 6)
Early in the school year, a 1st grade teacher wants to conduct an assessment of
students' ability to read grade-appropriate words, including phonetically regular words
and high-frequency irregular sight words. Which of the following informal assessments
would be most appropriate and effective for this purpose? - Answers -The teacher
prepares a list of grade-appropriate words, asks each student to try reading the words
aloud, and records the results. (Competency 6)
Several 1st graders have mastered sounding out and blending words that follow simple
short-vowel phonics patterns. Their teacher would like to help them begin to develop
whole-word reading (i,e., automatic word recognition) of words that follow these
patterns. Which of the following instructional approaches would eb most effective for
this purpose? - Answers -providing modeling and guided student practice sounding out
simple, regular words subvocally and then reading them aloud normally (Competency 6)
When reading aloud texts, a 2nd grad English Learner often makes errors in
pronunciation that are unrelated to her ability to accurately decode the words. The
teacher;s best response would be to: - Answers -analyze the student's pronunciation
patterns and plan an intervention to address difficulties that may affect her reading
comprehension. (Competency 6)
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