Which is most likely to interrupt a student's reading fluency?
a.text is too much to read in one sitting
b. student doesn't understand 15% of vowels
c. students doesn't know sight words of phonetic sounds
d. none of the above - ANSWER Student doesn't know sight words or phonetic sounds
You ask a student to look at a book without words and orally tell a story just by looking at
the pictures. What ability are you assessing?
a. concept of print
b. story structure
c. phonics
d. none of the above - ANSWER Story structure
A boy reads slowly but accurately. What is an appropriate intervention?
a. repeated reading on a text that is at his independent level
b. echo read of a text that is at his instructional level
c, group reading
d. none of the above - ANSWER repeated reading on a text that is at his independent
level.
If a child struggles with fluency, what can you expect?
a. the student will struggle with comprehension
b. the student will struggle with phonics
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,c. the student will struggle with vocabulary
d. the student will never learn to read - ANSWER The student will struggle with
comprehension-think of fluency as the "bridge to comprehension"
A teacher has students crouch when the music is low and stand on their tiptoes when the
music is high. What musical concept is she reinforcing?
a. tempo
b. pitch
c. timbre
d. dynamics - ANSWER pitch
A class goes on a field 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 student's knowledge of spatial interaction?
a. research the climates of the areas the fruits come from
b. chart the different modes of transportation used to move the fruit
c. study the food traditions in the different areas
d. find the location of where different fruits are grown and map how they get to the store -
ANSWER find the location of where different fruits are grown and map how they get
to the store.
A 1st grade class visits a pet store. Once returning back to the classroom the students are
broken up into various groups for different jobs (designing pet cages & arranging desks,
determining name and setting up the shop)After this the teacher holds a discussion on their
activities, what topic is the teacher laying the foundation for in future years?
a. opportunity cost
b. universal needs
c. economic interdependence
d. disposable income - ANSWER Economic interdependence(Previously called global
interdependence)
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, A teacher wants to connect a science unit with social studies. The students are charting a
plant's growth. Which concept is the teacher targeting?
a. time
b. continuity
c. location
d. environment - ANSWER time
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 she working on with this group?
a. alphabetic knowledge
b. print awareness
c. fluency
d. phonemic awareness - ANSWER phonemic awareness
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. sight or concrete words
b. print awareness
c. phonemic awareness
d. connecting print to letter sounds - ANSWER phonemic awareness
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?
a. a system invented by teachers to help students learn to spell words correctly
b. the ability to recognize and read words by translating the letters into speech sounds
c. vocabulary words which students should know by the end of the year
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a.text is too much to read in one sitting
b. student doesn't understand 15% of vowels
c. students doesn't know sight words of phonetic sounds
d. none of the above - ANSWER Student doesn't know sight words or phonetic sounds
You ask a student to look at a book without words and orally tell a story just by looking at
the pictures. What ability are you assessing?
a. concept of print
b. story structure
c. phonics
d. none of the above - ANSWER Story structure
A boy reads slowly but accurately. What is an appropriate intervention?
a. repeated reading on a text that is at his independent level
b. echo read of a text that is at his instructional level
c, group reading
d. none of the above - ANSWER repeated reading on a text that is at his independent
level.
If a child struggles with fluency, what can you expect?
a. the student will struggle with comprehension
b. the student will struggle with phonics
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,c. the student will struggle with vocabulary
d. the student will never learn to read - ANSWER The student will struggle with
comprehension-think of fluency as the "bridge to comprehension"
A teacher has students crouch when the music is low and stand on their tiptoes when the
music is high. What musical concept is she reinforcing?
a. tempo
b. pitch
c. timbre
d. dynamics - ANSWER pitch
A class goes on a field 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 student's knowledge of spatial interaction?
a. research the climates of the areas the fruits come from
b. chart the different modes of transportation used to move the fruit
c. study the food traditions in the different areas
d. find the location of where different fruits are grown and map how they get to the store -
ANSWER find the location of where different fruits are grown and map how they get
to the store.
A 1st grade class visits a pet store. Once returning back to the classroom the students are
broken up into various groups for different jobs (designing pet cages & arranging desks,
determining name and setting up the shop)After this the teacher holds a discussion on their
activities, what topic is the teacher laying the foundation for in future years?
a. opportunity cost
b. universal needs
c. economic interdependence
d. disposable income - ANSWER Economic interdependence(Previously called global
interdependence)
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, A teacher wants to connect a science unit with social studies. The students are charting a
plant's growth. Which concept is the teacher targeting?
a. time
b. continuity
c. location
d. environment - ANSWER time
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 she working on with this group?
a. alphabetic knowledge
b. print awareness
c. fluency
d. phonemic awareness - ANSWER phonemic awareness
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. sight or concrete words
b. print awareness
c. phonemic awareness
d. connecting print to letter sounds - ANSWER phonemic awareness
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?
a. a system invented by teachers to help students learn to spell words correctly
b. the ability to recognize and read words by translating the letters into speech sounds
c. vocabulary words which students should know by the end of the year
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