Science of Teaching Reading Exam|42
Questions and Answers
It is helpful to know the learning styles of students AND teachers in order to
write effective lesson plans. True or False - -True or False *True*
- Knowledge of students as learners is only important in the sense of
creating and implementing effective assessments for students. True or False
- -True or False *False*
- The generation MOST conversant with technology is?
Millennials
You Answered Gen X'ers
Baby Boomers - -Millennials
- (Choose all that apply) Teachers rely on a knowledge of which of the
following to effectively teach and assess their students?
grades received in this subject area last year
preferred learning styles
students' background and prior experiences
readiness for learning - -Correct! preferred learning styles
Correct! students' background and prior experiences
Correct! readiness for learning
- Which of the following definitions most closely matches the meaning of
"crosswalk" as it pertains to the field of education?
ways to move from the old to the new
pedestrian walkway
means to move from the business sector to the educational
how to connect the present to the future - -ways to move from the old to the
new
- A first-grade teacher is reading aloud from an instructional text on the life
cycle of a butterfly. During the reading, she stops to think-aloud with the
goal of teaching the class a specific reading skill. Here is an excerpt of the
think-aloud with the teacher's dialogue in italics.
There are four parts to the life cycle of a butterfly. First, a butterfly lays an
ovum, or egg,
on a leaf. I wonder what an "ovum" is. I'm going to reread the sentence
before and look
at the phrases around the word to see if I can figure it out. The word "egg" is
right after,
and that makes sense. The butterfly chooses a plant that can provide the
larvae with
, food. Once born, the tiny caterpillar starts eating and molts its skin often. I
wonder what
the word "larvae" means. After reading before and after the word, it seems
like the next
sentence calls the "larvae" a "tiny caterpillar." You might see pieces of skin
coming off
the larvae a - -
- A second-grade teacher is starting a new science unit on living organisms
and their environments. She seats students in pairs and assigns them an
article and multiple-choice questions on the topic. That afternoon, she
checks their work and notices most students missed a majority of the
comprehension questions. Which of the following statements best describes
why students were unsuccessful on the assignment?
The students were not able to decode words featuring a CVC pattern and
require additional phonics instruction in this area.
The students are largely uninterested in the topic and would rather read an
article about something else.
The students had not achieved mastery in the following areas: reading rate,
prosody, or word accuracy.
The students were likely unfamiliar with the tier-three vocabulary words and
concepts discussed in the article. - -
- A first-grade teacher is using the strategy of phoneme-grapheme mapping
to help students master necessary phonics skills. The teacher reads students
short, predictable texts focused on a particular letter sound, such as short i
or short o. At the end of one week of reading a particular short text, the
teacher presents a small group of students with the chart below. The teacher
calls out one target word from the books at a time while students write the
word and separate the phonemes on the chart. The students are told to put
only one sound in each box.
bag
b
a
g
run
r
u
n
jog
j
o
g
Considering the fundamentals of phonics instruction, these activities help
students to understand:
how to effectively decode and encode text while reading and writing.
Questions and Answers
It is helpful to know the learning styles of students AND teachers in order to
write effective lesson plans. True or False - -True or False *True*
- Knowledge of students as learners is only important in the sense of
creating and implementing effective assessments for students. True or False
- -True or False *False*
- The generation MOST conversant with technology is?
Millennials
You Answered Gen X'ers
Baby Boomers - -Millennials
- (Choose all that apply) Teachers rely on a knowledge of which of the
following to effectively teach and assess their students?
grades received in this subject area last year
preferred learning styles
students' background and prior experiences
readiness for learning - -Correct! preferred learning styles
Correct! students' background and prior experiences
Correct! readiness for learning
- Which of the following definitions most closely matches the meaning of
"crosswalk" as it pertains to the field of education?
ways to move from the old to the new
pedestrian walkway
means to move from the business sector to the educational
how to connect the present to the future - -ways to move from the old to the
new
- A first-grade teacher is reading aloud from an instructional text on the life
cycle of a butterfly. During the reading, she stops to think-aloud with the
goal of teaching the class a specific reading skill. Here is an excerpt of the
think-aloud with the teacher's dialogue in italics.
There are four parts to the life cycle of a butterfly. First, a butterfly lays an
ovum, or egg,
on a leaf. I wonder what an "ovum" is. I'm going to reread the sentence
before and look
at the phrases around the word to see if I can figure it out. The word "egg" is
right after,
and that makes sense. The butterfly chooses a plant that can provide the
larvae with
, food. Once born, the tiny caterpillar starts eating and molts its skin often. I
wonder what
the word "larvae" means. After reading before and after the word, it seems
like the next
sentence calls the "larvae" a "tiny caterpillar." You might see pieces of skin
coming off
the larvae a - -
- A second-grade teacher is starting a new science unit on living organisms
and their environments. She seats students in pairs and assigns them an
article and multiple-choice questions on the topic. That afternoon, she
checks their work and notices most students missed a majority of the
comprehension questions. Which of the following statements best describes
why students were unsuccessful on the assignment?
The students were not able to decode words featuring a CVC pattern and
require additional phonics instruction in this area.
The students are largely uninterested in the topic and would rather read an
article about something else.
The students had not achieved mastery in the following areas: reading rate,
prosody, or word accuracy.
The students were likely unfamiliar with the tier-three vocabulary words and
concepts discussed in the article. - -
- A first-grade teacher is using the strategy of phoneme-grapheme mapping
to help students master necessary phonics skills. The teacher reads students
short, predictable texts focused on a particular letter sound, such as short i
or short o. At the end of one week of reading a particular short text, the
teacher presents a small group of students with the chart below. The teacher
calls out one target word from the books at a time while students write the
word and separate the phonemes on the chart. The students are told to put
only one sound in each box.
bag
b
a
g
run
r
u
n
jog
j
o
g
Considering the fundamentals of phonics instruction, these activities help
students to understand:
how to effectively decode and encode text while reading and writing.
