Language & Literacy (Content Test): Essential
Questions & Accurate Answers (Pass!)
Reading research conducted using scientific based research methods has
identified which of the following areas as one of the 5 essential components of
an effective reading instruction program? Right Ans - Vocabulary
Development
CR: The 5 essential components of an effective reading instruction program
are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocab, and text comprehension.
Providing students w/ opportunities to read and write about fiction and
nonfiction texts related to concepts they are studying in content area lessons.
CR: Effective literacy instruction emphasizes the importance of reading and
writing in all content areas. Right Ans - Which of the following actions by
an elementary teacher best demonstrates an awareness of the
interconnections among literacy skills across the curriculum?
The sentences below are from an elementary students creative writing piece.
The students spelling in this excerpt is representative of the student's overall
spelling performance.
The children new they wood get in truble. The lesons were esey for them to
lern.
The students spelling is most characteristic of students in which stage of
spelling development? Right Ans - Transitional Stage
CR: The spellings are typical for children in transitional stage, moved beyond
the phonetic spelling stage & is more familar with more sophisticated
orthographic rules (-le in trouble, -ey in they)
An entering-level English Language learner has acquired grade-level literacy
skills in the home language. Which of the following features of the home
language would be most likely to support the transfer of basic literacy skills
, form the students home language to English. Right Ans - The home
languages writing system is alphabetic is English
CR: English is an alphabetic language and an ELL who has already developed
the alphabetic principle in the home language will be at great advantage in
learning basic literacy skills in English.
Several 4th grade students have accurate decoding skills but need work on
building automaticity and improving reading rates. The teacher would like the
students to read a wide range of texts to strengthen these fluency skills. Which
of the following text types would be most appropriate for the teacher to
provide for the students purpose? Right Ans - Independent-level texts
CR: Expose students to wide variety of texts written at their independent level
for the purpose of improving reading automaticity and rate. Assists students
in learning how to read and process info quickly, aiding in text comprehension
because less time is requires to interpret material they are reading.
A 5th grade teacher regularly incorporates technology in instruction for
various purposes. In upcoming lessons the teacher would like to promote a
collaborative classroom environment by having students post a written
response to an assigned text in which they reflect on connections they make to
the text as they read. The teacher wants the students to read and reply to
classmates and be able to screen the responses for students' posts. Which of
the following forms of technology would best achieve the teachers goal?
Right Ans - A group blog
CR: Allows group members to publish their work with ease, read and respond
to other members work and fosters collaborative environment.
A 2nd grade teacher is planning to read aloud a narrative text to students.
Which of the following approaches to conducting the read aloud would best
strengthen students oral language development thereby promoting the
developmental process of reading acquisition? Right Ans - Having the
students use think-pair-share- to orally answer a question related to the
story's main idea.
CR: Sets up conversations between students, supporting oral language
development.
Questions & Accurate Answers (Pass!)
Reading research conducted using scientific based research methods has
identified which of the following areas as one of the 5 essential components of
an effective reading instruction program? Right Ans - Vocabulary
Development
CR: The 5 essential components of an effective reading instruction program
are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocab, and text comprehension.
Providing students w/ opportunities to read and write about fiction and
nonfiction texts related to concepts they are studying in content area lessons.
CR: Effective literacy instruction emphasizes the importance of reading and
writing in all content areas. Right Ans - Which of the following actions by
an elementary teacher best demonstrates an awareness of the
interconnections among literacy skills across the curriculum?
The sentences below are from an elementary students creative writing piece.
The students spelling in this excerpt is representative of the student's overall
spelling performance.
The children new they wood get in truble. The lesons were esey for them to
lern.
The students spelling is most characteristic of students in which stage of
spelling development? Right Ans - Transitional Stage
CR: The spellings are typical for children in transitional stage, moved beyond
the phonetic spelling stage & is more familar with more sophisticated
orthographic rules (-le in trouble, -ey in they)
An entering-level English Language learner has acquired grade-level literacy
skills in the home language. Which of the following features of the home
language would be most likely to support the transfer of basic literacy skills
, form the students home language to English. Right Ans - The home
languages writing system is alphabetic is English
CR: English is an alphabetic language and an ELL who has already developed
the alphabetic principle in the home language will be at great advantage in
learning basic literacy skills in English.
Several 4th grade students have accurate decoding skills but need work on
building automaticity and improving reading rates. The teacher would like the
students to read a wide range of texts to strengthen these fluency skills. Which
of the following text types would be most appropriate for the teacher to
provide for the students purpose? Right Ans - Independent-level texts
CR: Expose students to wide variety of texts written at their independent level
for the purpose of improving reading automaticity and rate. Assists students
in learning how to read and process info quickly, aiding in text comprehension
because less time is requires to interpret material they are reading.
A 5th grade teacher regularly incorporates technology in instruction for
various purposes. In upcoming lessons the teacher would like to promote a
collaborative classroom environment by having students post a written
response to an assigned text in which they reflect on connections they make to
the text as they read. The teacher wants the students to read and reply to
classmates and be able to screen the responses for students' posts. Which of
the following forms of technology would best achieve the teachers goal?
Right Ans - A group blog
CR: Allows group members to publish their work with ease, read and respond
to other members work and fosters collaborative environment.
A 2nd grade teacher is planning to read aloud a narrative text to students.
Which of the following approaches to conducting the read aloud would best
strengthen students oral language development thereby promoting the
developmental process of reading acquisition? Right Ans - Having the
students use think-pair-share- to orally answer a question related to the
story's main idea.
CR: Sets up conversations between students, supporting oral language
development.
