texes STR- Reading Pedagogy exam
questions and answers
Deficit-Based Approach - Answers -A traditional educational approach, which focuses
on strengthening a student's weak areas
Reading Comprehension - Answers -The ability to read a text and understand its
meaning
Reading Intervention - Answers -A strategy applied to assist a struggling reader
Independent Reading - Answers -Reading done by students independent of the teacher.
This reading can be either assigned or student selected. Typically silent
Retell - Answers -A comprehension strategy in which students retell or tell differently
what they have read or listened to
Interest Survey - Answers -Questions that ask students the types of books they enjoy
reading
Alphabetic Principle - Answers -The understanding that there is a logical/systematic
relationship between the sounds of spoken English and the letters and letter-patterns of
written English
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - Answers -A label applied to individuals
who have great difficulty concentrating on what they are doing AND are extremely
active, impulsive, distractible, and excitable
Alphabetic Knowledge - Answers -The ability to recognize, name, and write letters
Genre - Answers -Various forms of text including short stories, essays, folktales, fairy
tales, poetry, historical fiction, biographies and autobiographies, memoirs, comedies
and tragedies
Phonological Awareness - Answers -The understanding and ability to hear individual
words, syllables, and sounds in spoken language apart from print
Prosody - Answers -The reader's ability to convey expression, including using correct
emphasis, punctuation, and tone, while reading aloud
, Guided Reading - Answers -Reading done by students with teacher support. This
reading will be done within the framework of a lesson and often in a small group setting
with the teacher
Reading Fluency - Answers -The ability to read with appropriate speed, accuracy, and
prosody
Dysgraphia - Answers -Language-based disorder, in which one struggles with the
mechanics of writing resulting in impaired or illegible handwriting
Speed (when reading) - Answers -The pace at which the reader reads the text
Intrinsically Motivated - Answers -Students draw their motivation from the learning
process itself
Syllable Awareness/Syllabication/Syllable Segmentation - Answers -The ability to hear
individual parts/syllables of words
Response to Intervention (RtI) - Answers -A process to monitor and measure student
progress in the general education curriculum after instructional intervention is provided
Accuracy (when reading) - Answers -The reader's ability to correctly pronounce words
Instructional Interventions - Answers -Additional focus on a specific skill in an effort to
improve it
Flexible Grouping - Answers -Grouping students based on their learning needs or
interests
Ongoing Assessment - Answers -An assessment that guides the pace and content of
instruction
Extrinsic/External Motivation - Answers -The motive for the activity comes from outside
the individual
Syntax - Answers -Rules that govern the construction of words in order to make
phrases, clauses, and sentences
Autonomy - Answers -A student's ability to self-govern or self-motivate
Orthography - Answers -Spelling patterns of language
Literature Circles - Answers -A strategy in which a teacher organizes students into small
groups to discuss a common text
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