TExES Science of Teaching Reading
(STR) (293) V3 Exam Questions and
Answers 100% Pass
A first-grade teacher teaches three sight words per week during the course of the fall
semester. This includes reading books and playing games containing the words. At the
end of six weeks of instruction, she has students take turns individually reading all the
sight words taught over the six week period from the word wall. The teacher then
records the percentage of words each student reads correctly as a grade in the grade
book. Which of the following assessment types is this teacher utilizing? - ✔✔summative
assessment
A third-grade teacher administers a fluency benchmark halfway through the year and
notices several students in the class are reading in the 80th percentile or above when it
comes to Words Correct Per Minute (WCPM). However, when reading out loud, this
same group of students reads without proper inflection or phrasing. Which of the
following strategies should the teacher implement in order to help these students? -
✔✔have students participate in reader's theatre several times per week
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,In a kindergarten class, several students have mastered the letter-sound relationships
for the consonant letters g, d, and b. In addition, the students have mastered the short
vowel sound for the letter o. This group of students also consistently uses initial and
final consonant sounds correctly when spelling words during writing time. In order to
help this group of students develop along the continuum of knowledge and skills
related to the alphabetic principle, the teacher should take which of the following steps?
- ✔✔In a small group, read simple, decodable texts containing the letter sounds
students have mastered, modeling how the letter sounds combine to form words.
A second-grade teacher recently received a new student who has been diagnosed with
dyslexia. Which of the following approaches should the teacher implement during
reading instructional time? - ✔✔a multimodal curriculum with various literacy
activities
How many phonemes are in the word "spit"? - ✔✔4
A kindergarten teacher is planning to read the book Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins,
by James Dean, to the class and ask some text-dependent questions. The teacher has
several English Language Learners in the classroom and wants to ask developmentally
appropriate questions. In the book, five pumpkins sit on a gate, fly in the air, and trick
or treat, among other fall activities. The book talks about each pumpkin, from number
one to number five, and each one's unique characteristics. At the end of the story, the
pumpkins are shown walking away from the reader, ready to have fun.
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, The teacher turns to the page in the book where the pumpkins are flying and says,
"What are the pumpkins doing?" When calling on students, the teacher should expect a
student with a beginning level of oral language proficiency to respond by: - ✔✔pointing
to the flying pumpkin in the book while the teacher holds it open.
A kindergarten teacher is planning to read the book Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins,
by James Dean, to the class and ask some text-dependent questions. The teacher has
several English Language Learners in the classroom and wants to ask developmentally
appropriate questions. In the book, five pumpkins sit on a gate, fly in the air, and trick
or treat, among other fall activities. The book talks about each pumpkin, from number
one to number five, and each one's unique characteristics. At the end of the story, the
pumpkins are shown walking away from the reader, ready to have fun.
On one page of the text, the pumpkins are scared because the wind has blown out the
candles. The picture in the book shows just the pumpkins' scared eyes and the lights out
all around them. The teacher says, "All we can see are the pumpkins' eyes. How do you
think they are feeling right now?" A student answers, "Sad. It dark." This response -
✔✔Intermediate
A third-grade class contains students at various levels of English language proficiency.
Some have been learning English for less than a year. This week, the teacher has been
conducting read alouds featuring biographies as part of a unit on book genres. So far,
the teacher has read from the following biographies: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther
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(STR) (293) V3 Exam Questions and
Answers 100% Pass
A first-grade teacher teaches three sight words per week during the course of the fall
semester. This includes reading books and playing games containing the words. At the
end of six weeks of instruction, she has students take turns individually reading all the
sight words taught over the six week period from the word wall. The teacher then
records the percentage of words each student reads correctly as a grade in the grade
book. Which of the following assessment types is this teacher utilizing? - ✔✔summative
assessment
A third-grade teacher administers a fluency benchmark halfway through the year and
notices several students in the class are reading in the 80th percentile or above when it
comes to Words Correct Per Minute (WCPM). However, when reading out loud, this
same group of students reads without proper inflection or phrasing. Which of the
following strategies should the teacher implement in order to help these students? -
✔✔have students participate in reader's theatre several times per week
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,In a kindergarten class, several students have mastered the letter-sound relationships
for the consonant letters g, d, and b. In addition, the students have mastered the short
vowel sound for the letter o. This group of students also consistently uses initial and
final consonant sounds correctly when spelling words during writing time. In order to
help this group of students develop along the continuum of knowledge and skills
related to the alphabetic principle, the teacher should take which of the following steps?
- ✔✔In a small group, read simple, decodable texts containing the letter sounds
students have mastered, modeling how the letter sounds combine to form words.
A second-grade teacher recently received a new student who has been diagnosed with
dyslexia. Which of the following approaches should the teacher implement during
reading instructional time? - ✔✔a multimodal curriculum with various literacy
activities
How many phonemes are in the word "spit"? - ✔✔4
A kindergarten teacher is planning to read the book Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins,
by James Dean, to the class and ask some text-dependent questions. The teacher has
several English Language Learners in the classroom and wants to ask developmentally
appropriate questions. In the book, five pumpkins sit on a gate, fly in the air, and trick
or treat, among other fall activities. The book talks about each pumpkin, from number
one to number five, and each one's unique characteristics. At the end of the story, the
pumpkins are shown walking away from the reader, ready to have fun.
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, The teacher turns to the page in the book where the pumpkins are flying and says,
"What are the pumpkins doing?" When calling on students, the teacher should expect a
student with a beginning level of oral language proficiency to respond by: - ✔✔pointing
to the flying pumpkin in the book while the teacher holds it open.
A kindergarten teacher is planning to read the book Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins,
by James Dean, to the class and ask some text-dependent questions. The teacher has
several English Language Learners in the classroom and wants to ask developmentally
appropriate questions. In the book, five pumpkins sit on a gate, fly in the air, and trick
or treat, among other fall activities. The book talks about each pumpkin, from number
one to number five, and each one's unique characteristics. At the end of the story, the
pumpkins are shown walking away from the reader, ready to have fun.
On one page of the text, the pumpkins are scared because the wind has blown out the
candles. The picture in the book shows just the pumpkins' scared eyes and the lights out
all around them. The teacher says, "All we can see are the pumpkins' eyes. How do you
think they are feeling right now?" A student answers, "Sad. It dark." This response -
✔✔Intermediate
A third-grade class contains students at various levels of English language proficiency.
Some have been learning English for less than a year. This week, the teacher has been
conducting read alouds featuring biographies as part of a unit on book genres. So far,
the teacher has read from the following biographies: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther
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