STR QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE
ANSWERS
"explicit" correct answer targeted and direct
"informal literary experience" correct answer experience without books
"Multimodal instruction" correct answer involves using auditory, visual, and
tactile-kinesthetic sensory systems along with articulatory-motor components to
help students link spoken language to the printed language on the page. It also
involves integrating listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities to reinforce
new learning across language modalities.
"systematic" correct answer established form of procedure
10. A kindergarten teacher reads a decodable text about cats with a small group
of students and then incorporates the content of the text into an interactive
writing lesson. First, the teacher has students orally generate several sentences
that relate to the actions of the cat in the story. The teacher then says, "Those are
great sentences. Help me write them on the chart paper." For each decodable
word in a sentence, the teacher pauses to prompt the students to listen to the
sounds of the word and use their knowledge of the letter-sound correspondences
that they practiced in the decodable text to identify which letter the teacher
should write next. This scenario best demonstrates the teacher's awareness of
which of the following concepts related to students' development of beginning
reading skills? correct answer the importance of applying newly taught phonics
elements to writing
because the scenario describes an interactive writing lesson designed to prompt
students to apply what they know about phonics to writing words in a meaningful
context. The teacher models the thinking process of going from an idea to print
,on the page. The teacher knows the phonics elements students have learned
during instruction, so as the teacher is writing each sentence, when the teacher
comes to words that consist of known phonics elements, the teacher asks the
students to apply those letter-sound relationships to spell the words. This type of
interactive writing routine, in which the students "share the pen" with the
teacher, provides students with opportunities to apply newly taught phonics
elements to meaningful writing by using the phonics skills they just used to
decode the words in the story to construct meaningful sentences about the story.
Convergent research has shown that students benefit from practicing spelling the
same words that they are learning to read. As an added bonus of this instructional
strategy, research also strongly suggests that writing about what they have read
strengthens students' reading comprehension.
13. Several students in a first-grade class have progressed from the partial-
alphabetic phase of word-reading development to the full-alphabetic phase.
Which of the following instructional activities would be most appropriate for
promoting these students' word-reading accuracy and automaticity? correct
answer having the students practice reading simple closed-syllable words in
isolation and in decodable texts.
Having the students practice reading simple closed-syllable words in isolation and
in decodable text supports this process and allows students to recognize an
increasing number of words automatically by sight, while orthographic knowledge
continues to accumulate. According to L.C. Ehri's research (2014), once a word
has been stabilized in memory through repeated exposures, the mere sight of the
word's spelling immediately activates its pronunciation and meaning
(automaticity).
18. A third-grade class includes several English learners who represent a variety of
home languages and English language proficiency levels. Some of the students are
beginning readers in English. The teacher collects folktales from several countries
to use for whole-class read-alouds and during small-group reading instruction.
Which of the following statements accurately describes a feature of folktales and
why that feature makes the genre especially well-suited for students in a
, multilingual, multicultural classroom? correct answer Folktale themes tend to be
universal, so students are likely to have the necessary schema to comprehend
them.
folktales convey universal themes common to most cultures, such as the virtues
of compassion, generosity, and humility succeeding over the vices of greed,
selfishness, and excessive pride or boastfulness. In addition, different versions of
some folktales exist across cultures (e.g., Cinderella stories). Thus, students in a
multilingual, multicultural classroom are likely to have the necessary schema, or
background knowledge, to comprehend the stories because of the universality of
these themes.
19. A kindergarten teacher frequently conducts think-alouds when reading aloud
to the class. The following is a transcript of the teacher reading aloud an
informational text called "Making a Bird Feeder." The teacher's think-aloud
process is seen below in italics.
Step 2: Tie the string to the top and bottom of the pinecone.(Pausing) "Hmm, I
wonder why the instructions say to tie the string at each end? I'm going to keep
reading and see."
Step 4: Hold the string at each end, dip the pinecone in the honey, and then dip it
in the seeds.(Pausing) "Oh! Now I know why the instructions say to tie the string
to each end! If I didn't, I think I would get honey all over my hands, and they
would become sticky." correct answer drawing conclusions about information in a
text
the italicized text (the think-aloud) the kindergarten teacher models how to pose
questions during reading and use background knowledge to draw conclusions
about information in the text. The teacher uses information in the text and
background knowledge about the stickiness of honey to draw a conclusion about
why Step 2, tying the string to both ends of the pinecone, happens before the
other steps.
ANSWERS
"explicit" correct answer targeted and direct
"informal literary experience" correct answer experience without books
"Multimodal instruction" correct answer involves using auditory, visual, and
tactile-kinesthetic sensory systems along with articulatory-motor components to
help students link spoken language to the printed language on the page. It also
involves integrating listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities to reinforce
new learning across language modalities.
"systematic" correct answer established form of procedure
10. A kindergarten teacher reads a decodable text about cats with a small group
of students and then incorporates the content of the text into an interactive
writing lesson. First, the teacher has students orally generate several sentences
that relate to the actions of the cat in the story. The teacher then says, "Those are
great sentences. Help me write them on the chart paper." For each decodable
word in a sentence, the teacher pauses to prompt the students to listen to the
sounds of the word and use their knowledge of the letter-sound correspondences
that they practiced in the decodable text to identify which letter the teacher
should write next. This scenario best demonstrates the teacher's awareness of
which of the following concepts related to students' development of beginning
reading skills? correct answer the importance of applying newly taught phonics
elements to writing
because the scenario describes an interactive writing lesson designed to prompt
students to apply what they know about phonics to writing words in a meaningful
context. The teacher models the thinking process of going from an idea to print
,on the page. The teacher knows the phonics elements students have learned
during instruction, so as the teacher is writing each sentence, when the teacher
comes to words that consist of known phonics elements, the teacher asks the
students to apply those letter-sound relationships to spell the words. This type of
interactive writing routine, in which the students "share the pen" with the
teacher, provides students with opportunities to apply newly taught phonics
elements to meaningful writing by using the phonics skills they just used to
decode the words in the story to construct meaningful sentences about the story.
Convergent research has shown that students benefit from practicing spelling the
same words that they are learning to read. As an added bonus of this instructional
strategy, research also strongly suggests that writing about what they have read
strengthens students' reading comprehension.
13. Several students in a first-grade class have progressed from the partial-
alphabetic phase of word-reading development to the full-alphabetic phase.
Which of the following instructional activities would be most appropriate for
promoting these students' word-reading accuracy and automaticity? correct
answer having the students practice reading simple closed-syllable words in
isolation and in decodable texts.
Having the students practice reading simple closed-syllable words in isolation and
in decodable text supports this process and allows students to recognize an
increasing number of words automatically by sight, while orthographic knowledge
continues to accumulate. According to L.C. Ehri's research (2014), once a word
has been stabilized in memory through repeated exposures, the mere sight of the
word's spelling immediately activates its pronunciation and meaning
(automaticity).
18. A third-grade class includes several English learners who represent a variety of
home languages and English language proficiency levels. Some of the students are
beginning readers in English. The teacher collects folktales from several countries
to use for whole-class read-alouds and during small-group reading instruction.
Which of the following statements accurately describes a feature of folktales and
why that feature makes the genre especially well-suited for students in a
, multilingual, multicultural classroom? correct answer Folktale themes tend to be
universal, so students are likely to have the necessary schema to comprehend
them.
folktales convey universal themes common to most cultures, such as the virtues
of compassion, generosity, and humility succeeding over the vices of greed,
selfishness, and excessive pride or boastfulness. In addition, different versions of
some folktales exist across cultures (e.g., Cinderella stories). Thus, students in a
multilingual, multicultural classroom are likely to have the necessary schema, or
background knowledge, to comprehend the stories because of the universality of
these themes.
19. A kindergarten teacher frequently conducts think-alouds when reading aloud
to the class. The following is a transcript of the teacher reading aloud an
informational text called "Making a Bird Feeder." The teacher's think-aloud
process is seen below in italics.
Step 2: Tie the string to the top and bottom of the pinecone.(Pausing) "Hmm, I
wonder why the instructions say to tie the string at each end? I'm going to keep
reading and see."
Step 4: Hold the string at each end, dip the pinecone in the honey, and then dip it
in the seeds.(Pausing) "Oh! Now I know why the instructions say to tie the string
to each end! If I didn't, I think I would get honey all over my hands, and they
would become sticky." correct answer drawing conclusions about information in a
text
the italicized text (the think-aloud) the kindergarten teacher models how to pose
questions during reading and use background knowledge to draw conclusions
about information in the text. The teacher uses information in the text and
background knowledge about the stickiness of honey to draw a conclusion about
why Step 2, tying the string to both ends of the pinecone, happens before the
other steps.
