C909 EXAMINATION QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
When cleaning a year-long strategy, instruction curriculum, what should a teacher do -
Answer-Choose a few key strategies to teach in depth. Teaching too many
comprehension strategies at a time confuses most students. It is best to choose a few
appropriate strategies for your grade level and teach them all year.
Why is independent reading important? - Answer-It provides practice and decoding
strategies, it develops automaticity, it accounts for much of children's annual vocabulary
growth
What do students do during reading workshops? - Answer-Apply a reading, skill or
strategy to a self selected text. During reading workshops, students are involved in a
variety of authentic reading activities. The workshop may include whole group, strategy,
demonstration, conferring with the teacher, individually or in a small group and reading
teacher, selected and self-selected texts at an appropriate level.
Phonemic awareness refers to which of the following - Answer-Knowledge that spoken
words are comprised of somewhat separable sounds
Metacognitive readers do what - Answer-Actively monitor their reading. Metacognition
involves thinking about your own thinking in reading. This means you monitor your
reading and think about if what you were reading makes sense.
Children who have not develop phonemic awareness, are in need of what - Answer-
Activities, such as rhyming and segmenting sounds.
What are teacher sharing time many lessons, self-selected reading, and response and
student sharing time for main components of - Answer-A reading workshop
What is the ultimate goal of word study instruction? - Answer-Comprehending
Fluency includes prosody, which is what - Answer-Intonation, stress, and phrasing. It is
the three elements of fluency that teachers should assess and teach. It indicates
understanding when reading.
Which activities are examples of affective word study instruction - Answer-Making
words, sorting words by spelling patterns, blending words
, Compare and contrast, formative and summative assessments - Answer-Formative
assessments have low stakes, and usually carry no grade, which in some instances
may discouraged the students from doing the task or fully engaging with it. The goal of a
summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit
by comparing it again, some standard or benchmark.
Compare and contrast, formal and informal assessments - Answer-Formal assessment
refers to a grading system based evaluation to monitor students knowledge in formal
assessment refers to a method of student evaluation that does not have any standard
grading criteria, norm referenced teacher measure students performance based on the
average performance in class
What types of informal assessments are used in the classroom? - Answer-Portfolios,
quizzes, formative, assessment, presentations, exit, slips, projects, observation,
demonstration, written, samples
How can a teacher implement progress monitoring with curriculum based
measurements? - Answer-Set a measurable and realistic goal based on the students
baseline data and expected growth rate then select a CBM probe that matches the skill
or concept that the student is working on and administer it, at least once a week
recording the score
What is a running record and how is it used? - Answer-It provides you with a playback
of an entire oral reading conference, including the smallest details on the readers
attitude, demeanor, accuracy, and understanding with this information you can analyze
behaviors. Responses competencies initiatives, taken an intern determine instructional
needs.
What is a portfolio? - Answer-A compilation of academic and professional materials that
exemplifies your beliefs, skills and qualifications, education and training
Describe the dynamic indicators of basic early literacy skills assessment, DIBELS -
Answer-A set of procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of literacy
skills. It is a series of short tests that assess K through eight grade school literacy. It
measures literacy skills, such as phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, accuracy,
fluency, and comprehension.
Why is nonsense word fluency included in DIBELS - Answer-It uses nonsense words to
assess student ability to decode
Explain the importance of descriptive feedback, informative assessments - Answer-It
highlights gaps in understanding, and explicitly inform students on how to improve their
learning rather than listing what they got wrong
What are the four purposes of reading assessment? - Answer-Screening, diagnostic,
progress, monitoring, summative
WITH CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
When cleaning a year-long strategy, instruction curriculum, what should a teacher do -
Answer-Choose a few key strategies to teach in depth. Teaching too many
comprehension strategies at a time confuses most students. It is best to choose a few
appropriate strategies for your grade level and teach them all year.
Why is independent reading important? - Answer-It provides practice and decoding
strategies, it develops automaticity, it accounts for much of children's annual vocabulary
growth
What do students do during reading workshops? - Answer-Apply a reading, skill or
strategy to a self selected text. During reading workshops, students are involved in a
variety of authentic reading activities. The workshop may include whole group, strategy,
demonstration, conferring with the teacher, individually or in a small group and reading
teacher, selected and self-selected texts at an appropriate level.
Phonemic awareness refers to which of the following - Answer-Knowledge that spoken
words are comprised of somewhat separable sounds
Metacognitive readers do what - Answer-Actively monitor their reading. Metacognition
involves thinking about your own thinking in reading. This means you monitor your
reading and think about if what you were reading makes sense.
Children who have not develop phonemic awareness, are in need of what - Answer-
Activities, such as rhyming and segmenting sounds.
What are teacher sharing time many lessons, self-selected reading, and response and
student sharing time for main components of - Answer-A reading workshop
What is the ultimate goal of word study instruction? - Answer-Comprehending
Fluency includes prosody, which is what - Answer-Intonation, stress, and phrasing. It is
the three elements of fluency that teachers should assess and teach. It indicates
understanding when reading.
Which activities are examples of affective word study instruction - Answer-Making
words, sorting words by spelling patterns, blending words
, Compare and contrast, formative and summative assessments - Answer-Formative
assessments have low stakes, and usually carry no grade, which in some instances
may discouraged the students from doing the task or fully engaging with it. The goal of a
summative assessment is to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit
by comparing it again, some standard or benchmark.
Compare and contrast, formal and informal assessments - Answer-Formal assessment
refers to a grading system based evaluation to monitor students knowledge in formal
assessment refers to a method of student evaluation that does not have any standard
grading criteria, norm referenced teacher measure students performance based on the
average performance in class
What types of informal assessments are used in the classroom? - Answer-Portfolios,
quizzes, formative, assessment, presentations, exit, slips, projects, observation,
demonstration, written, samples
How can a teacher implement progress monitoring with curriculum based
measurements? - Answer-Set a measurable and realistic goal based on the students
baseline data and expected growth rate then select a CBM probe that matches the skill
or concept that the student is working on and administer it, at least once a week
recording the score
What is a running record and how is it used? - Answer-It provides you with a playback
of an entire oral reading conference, including the smallest details on the readers
attitude, demeanor, accuracy, and understanding with this information you can analyze
behaviors. Responses competencies initiatives, taken an intern determine instructional
needs.
What is a portfolio? - Answer-A compilation of academic and professional materials that
exemplifies your beliefs, skills and qualifications, education and training
Describe the dynamic indicators of basic early literacy skills assessment, DIBELS -
Answer-A set of procedures and measures for assessing the acquisition of literacy
skills. It is a series of short tests that assess K through eight grade school literacy. It
measures literacy skills, such as phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, accuracy,
fluency, and comprehension.
Why is nonsense word fluency included in DIBELS - Answer-It uses nonsense words to
assess student ability to decode
Explain the importance of descriptive feedback, informative assessments - Answer-It
highlights gaps in understanding, and explicitly inform students on how to improve their
learning rather than listing what they got wrong
What are the four purposes of reading assessment? - Answer-Screening, diagnostic,
progress, monitoring, summative
