STR 293 Exam Practice Questions (Frequently Most Tested) with 100% Accurate Answers | Latest Edition

STR 293 Exam Practice Questions (Frequently Most Tested) with 100% Accurate Answers | Latest Edition 1. Assets-based approach - ANSWER a teaching philosophy and method that builds on students' strengths and what they can do rather than their deficits. Student strengths include cultural, family, and linguistic background, among other things 2. Data-based decision-making - ANSWER making decisions for the school, grade level, or classroom based on actual data rather than just intuition. 3. Derivational affix - ANSWER an affix that changes one word to another (e.g., red to redden; empathy to empathize) 4. Phoneme - ANSWER The smallest unit of sound in a word. In English there are approximately 44 phonemes 5. Pragmatic - ANSWER how language is used in certain context 6. Prosody - ANSWER reading with expression, proper intonation, and phrasing. Part of reading fluency. 7. Phonology - ANSWER the way a word is pronounced. One of the components of oral language. 8. Modeling - ANSWER A teaching procedure where the teacher overtly demonstrates a strategy, skill or concept that the students will learn 9. Morphology - ANSWER the way words are formed: inflectional endings, etc. 10. National Reading Panel - ANSWER A group of literacy professionals brought together by the federal government to review reading research and issue recommendations. Their report, issued in 2000, was highly influential in reading instruction 11. National Literacy Panel for Language Minority Children and Youth - ANSWER A group of bilingual education and literacy professionals brought together in the early 2000s to examine the research about the development of literacy in language minority children. 12. Response to Intervention (RTI) - ANSWER A multileveled instructional and prevention system to monitor and support readers who may need extra help. Tier One: Core Classroom Instruction Tier Two: Targeted Small Group Instruction Tier Three: Intensive Individual Intervention 13. Scope and sequence - ANSWER The overall 'roadmap' for a skills-based instructional program showing what content will be taught and what order it will be taught in. 14. Scaffolding - ANSWER The support given to students in order for them to arrive at the correct answer or to learn a concept. This temporary support assists the student in achieving what they otherwise could not achieve alone. 15. Semantics - ANSWER definitions of words 16. Syntax - ANSWER sentence structure in both oral and written language 17. Stages of Reading Development - ANSWER · Pre-Reading or Pre Alphabetic · Beginning- initial reading and decoding stage or partial to full alphabetic stage · Transitional- confirmation and fluency stage or consolidated alphabetic stage · Intermediate- reading to learn new content · Advanced- multiple viewpoints stage 18. Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) - ANSWER state standards for what children should be able to know and do, organized by grade level 19. Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines - ANSWER Guidelines delineating behaviors and skills that prekindergarten children should be able to do. 20. Differentiated Instruction - ANSWER tailoring curriculum and pedagogy to meet students' individual needs 21. Direct Instruction - ANSWER The teacher defines and teaches a concept, guides students through its application, and arranges for guided practice until mastery is achieved. 22. Discourse - ANSWER written or spoken communication 23. Dyslexia - ANSWER A broad label defining a learning disability that affects language processing, often leading to difficulty with reading 24. Dysgraphia - ANSWER A severe difficulty in producing handwriting that is legible and written at an age-appropriate speed 25. Emergent Literacy - ANSWER The reading and writing experiences children participate in before they begin formal schooling. 26. Evidence-based practices - ANSWER teaching practices based in research and professional wisdom. 27. Explicit Instruction - ANSWER A type of instruction that involves direct explanation of a concept or idea to a student. The teacher's language is concise, specific, and related to the objective. The actions of the teacher are clear, unambiguous, direct and visible 28. Fidelity of Implementation - ANSWER the degree to which an intervention, curriculum or program is delivered as intended. 29. Flexible Grouping - ANSWER Grouping students according to shared instructional needs and abilities and regrouping as their instructional needs change. Group size and allocated instructional time may vary among groups. 30. Guided Reading - ANSWER An instructional practice where small groups of students with similar needs meet for instruction from the teacher and can practice a new skill with the support of the teacher. 31. Inflectional suffix - ANSWER A suffix that creates a new form of the same word. It may express: • plurality or possession when added to a noun (e.g., cats, computers) • tense when added to a verb (e.g., racing, helped) • comparison when added to an adjective and some adverbs (e.g., greenest)