Science of Reading Exam|48
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Which of the following statements best explains the difference between
phonemic awareness and phonics skills? - -Phonemic awareness is the
ability to distinguish individual speech sounds, while phonics requires
knowledge of letter-sound correspondence
- Which of the following describes the most likely source of phonics
difficulties for English Language Learners whose primary language is
alphabetic? - -The letters of the English alphabet may represent different
phonemes in other languages' writing systems.
- In which of the following nonsense words is the vowel sound likely to be
the same as the vowel sound in the word on? - -Gobb
- Students in an upper-elementary class examine and discuss paired words
such as compete and competition, inflame and inflammation, and magic and
magician. Word pairings such as these are most likely to promote students'
reading development by increasing their awareness that: - -the spelling of a
word may give clues to its meaning as well as to its sound.
- A fourth-grade teacher leads a class discussion about different types of
animals. As students name various animals, the teacher draws on the board
the diagram shown below. This type of activity is most likely to promote
students' reading proficiency in which of the following ways? - -enriching
their vocabulary knowledge by relating familiar words to larger conceptual
categories
- In this conversation, the student most clearly demonstrates which of the
following reading skills? - -interpreting the mood of a literary text
- This conversation suggests that the student would benefit from instruction
to help the student: - -analyze the development of the main character in a
literary text.
- Students in a fourth-grade class read the following passage from their
science textbook.
You can sometimes feel static electricity in action. As you take off a sweater
over your head, some of the negatively charged particles from the sweater
rub onto your hair. This gives your hair extra negative charges, while your
sweater is left with extra positive charges. Notice how your hair sticks to the
sweater as you pull it over your head.
, 8. This passage illustrates which of following types of text structure? - -
cause and effect
- Which of the following student responses to the passage most clearly
suggests that the student is applying inferential comprehension skills? - -"I
guess positive charges stick to negative charges."
- Reading researchers have observed that while sentence 1 is easily
understood by most readers, sentence 2 is not. This observation best
supports which of the following conclusions about effective phonics
instruction? - -Students' ability to decode connected text will develop most
quickly if phonics instruction begins with consonants.
- Which of the following students is demonstrating the specific type of
phonological awareness known as phonemic awareness? - -a student who,
after hearing the word hat, can orally identify that it ends with the sound /t/
- A kindergarten teacher could best determine if a child has begun to
develop phonemic awareness by asking the child to: - -say the word cat,
then say the first sound the child hears in the word.
- As students begin to read, the ability to blend phonemes orally contributes
to their reading development primarily because it helps students: - -use
knowledge of letter-sound correspondence to decode words.
- A teacher holds up a series of familiar objects, asking students to name
each object and isolate the final sound they hear. This type of activity would
be most appropriate for a student who: - -needs help developing phonemic
segmentation skills.
- Phonemic awareness contributes most to the development of phonics skills
in beginning readers by helping them: - -identify in spoken language
separate sounds that can be mapped to letters.
- Which of the following first-grade students has attained the highest level of
phonemic awareness? - -a student who, after hearing the word hot and the
sound /ĭ/, can substitute /ĭ/ for /ŏ/ to make the word hit
- Asking students to listen to a word
(e.g., same) and then tell the teacher
all the sounds in the word is an exercise that would be most appropriate for
students who: - -have a relatively high level of phonemic awareness.
- A kindergarten teacher asks a small group of students to repeat after her.
First, she says the word grape and then pronounces it as gr and ape. Next,
Questions and Answers A+ Scores
Which of the following statements best explains the difference between
phonemic awareness and phonics skills? - -Phonemic awareness is the
ability to distinguish individual speech sounds, while phonics requires
knowledge of letter-sound correspondence
- Which of the following describes the most likely source of phonics
difficulties for English Language Learners whose primary language is
alphabetic? - -The letters of the English alphabet may represent different
phonemes in other languages' writing systems.
- In which of the following nonsense words is the vowel sound likely to be
the same as the vowel sound in the word on? - -Gobb
- Students in an upper-elementary class examine and discuss paired words
such as compete and competition, inflame and inflammation, and magic and
magician. Word pairings such as these are most likely to promote students'
reading development by increasing their awareness that: - -the spelling of a
word may give clues to its meaning as well as to its sound.
- A fourth-grade teacher leads a class discussion about different types of
animals. As students name various animals, the teacher draws on the board
the diagram shown below. This type of activity is most likely to promote
students' reading proficiency in which of the following ways? - -enriching
their vocabulary knowledge by relating familiar words to larger conceptual
categories
- In this conversation, the student most clearly demonstrates which of the
following reading skills? - -interpreting the mood of a literary text
- This conversation suggests that the student would benefit from instruction
to help the student: - -analyze the development of the main character in a
literary text.
- Students in a fourth-grade class read the following passage from their
science textbook.
You can sometimes feel static electricity in action. As you take off a sweater
over your head, some of the negatively charged particles from the sweater
rub onto your hair. This gives your hair extra negative charges, while your
sweater is left with extra positive charges. Notice how your hair sticks to the
sweater as you pull it over your head.
, 8. This passage illustrates which of following types of text structure? - -
cause and effect
- Which of the following student responses to the passage most clearly
suggests that the student is applying inferential comprehension skills? - -"I
guess positive charges stick to negative charges."
- Reading researchers have observed that while sentence 1 is easily
understood by most readers, sentence 2 is not. This observation best
supports which of the following conclusions about effective phonics
instruction? - -Students' ability to decode connected text will develop most
quickly if phonics instruction begins with consonants.
- Which of the following students is demonstrating the specific type of
phonological awareness known as phonemic awareness? - -a student who,
after hearing the word hat, can orally identify that it ends with the sound /t/
- A kindergarten teacher could best determine if a child has begun to
develop phonemic awareness by asking the child to: - -say the word cat,
then say the first sound the child hears in the word.
- As students begin to read, the ability to blend phonemes orally contributes
to their reading development primarily because it helps students: - -use
knowledge of letter-sound correspondence to decode words.
- A teacher holds up a series of familiar objects, asking students to name
each object and isolate the final sound they hear. This type of activity would
be most appropriate for a student who: - -needs help developing phonemic
segmentation skills.
- Phonemic awareness contributes most to the development of phonics skills
in beginning readers by helping them: - -identify in spoken language
separate sounds that can be mapped to letters.
- Which of the following first-grade students has attained the highest level of
phonemic awareness? - -a student who, after hearing the word hot and the
sound /ĭ/, can substitute /ĭ/ for /ŏ/ to make the word hit
- Asking students to listen to a word
(e.g., same) and then tell the teacher
all the sounds in the word is an exercise that would be most appropriate for
students who: - -have a relatively high level of phonemic awareness.
- A kindergarten teacher asks a small group of students to repeat after her.
First, she says the word grape and then pronounces it as gr and ape. Next,
