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A third-grade teacher prepares a lesson in which she provides students with the following lists of
words:
List 1 undo
untrue
unwell
unfinished
List 2
revise
redo
revisit
replay
List 3
happily
friendly
mysteriously
angrily
List 4
helpless
needless
spotless
harmless
She begins by asking the students to study each list and work with a partner to discuss what they
notice about the lists, create new names for each, and share their ideas out with the class.
After sharing out their ideas and discussing, the class agrees to rename the lists, "'un- Words,"
"'re- Words," "-ly Words," and "-less Words."
List three is the best option to teach students about which of the following topics?
affixes
prefixes
inflectional affixes
derivational affixes - ✔️✔️Derivational Affixes
A third-grade teacher prepares a lesson in which she provides students with the following lists of
words:
List 1 undo
,untrue
unwell
unfinished
List 2
revise
redo
revisit
replay
List 3
happily
friendly
mysteriously
angrily
List 4
helpless
needless
spotless
harmless
She begins by asking the students to study each list and work with a partner to discuss what they
notice about the lists, create new names for each, and share their ideas out with the class.
After sharing out their ideas and discussing, the class agrees to rename the lists, "'un- Words,"
"'re- Words," "-ly Words," and "-less Words."
Next, the teacher begins direct instruction. Which of the following best describes the topic that
this lesson is most likely covering?
phonological awareness
multisyllabic words
morphology
parts of speech - ✔️✔️Morphology
A second-grade teacher is planning a genre study. She includes the following texts in her plans:
The Tortoise and the Hare
The Lion and the Mouse
The Ants and the Grasshopper
After reading each text, the students will determine the moral of the story.
This lesson plan uses texts that teach moral lessons and have animals as the main characters. The
genre focus of this lesson would most accurately be described as...
fantasy
myth
fable
,drama - ✔️✔️Fable
A kindergartener has started showing the ability to decode words by breaking them into simple
forms. Which of the following best describes this student's current stage of literacy
development?
Beginning reader
Early fluyent
Emergent Litaracy
Proficient - ✔️✔️Beginning Reader
A first-grade teacher has informally assessed her students' oral language skills and identified
certain students in need of support while orally answering comprehension questions. Which of
the following activities would best support these students' oral language development?
During whole-class discussions, regularly call on these students to answer open-ended questions.
Schedule regular, formal assessments of their oral language skills.
Provide sentence stems or sentence frames to scaffold their oral language skills.
Expand vocabulary through reading a variety of genres. - ✔️✔️Provide sentence stems or sentence
frames to scaffold their oral language skills.
This is an effective way to encourage the use of oral language skills while also providing support
that will help build speaking confidence.
A second-grade teacher is planning vocabulary instruction. He chooses academic vocabulary
words and words with high utility. Which of the following best describes a word with high
utility?
It is primarily useful in one subject or domain.
It is relevant to all content areas.
It will be encountered frequently.
It can act as multiple parts of speech. - ✔️✔️It will be encountered frequently.
Following the second reading fluency assessment of the school year, a third-grade teacher
noticed that a few of her students have shown no or very little fluency growth from the first
assessment nine weeks before. Which of the following would be the least effective way to
support their fluency development?
Incorporate choral reading into the classroom routines
increase the difficulty of their independent reading
provide them opportunities to reread texts
, facilitate opportunities for the students to read aloud to themselves or with a partner -
✔️✔️increase the difficulty of their independent reading
A third-grade student is an automatic reader that reads words accurately but struggles to read
with prosody when the teacher has assessed her reading fluency. Which of the following
activities would best support the student's development of prosody?
regularly incorporate reader's theater into whole class and small group lessons
use small group instruction to reinforce letter to sound correspondence by asking students to
make the sound of a letter while tracing the shape on their desk
set aside time each day to practice sight words using flashcards
working in pairs, have students take turns timing each other while reading a passage aloud -
✔️✔️regularly incorporate reader's theater into whole class and small group lessons
A first-grade teacher regularly assesses students' oral language skills. Based on the TEKS oral
language guidelines, which of the following is not a skill that her first graders should be expected
to become proficient in this year?
express an opinion supported by accurate information
restate and give oral directions
retell texts in ways that maintain meaning
be easily understood by teachers and other adults - ✔️✔️express an opinion supported by accurate
information
A third-grade teacher plans a lesson that begins with each student independently reading the
same text, followed by a writing activity completed in partner sets, and ends with a class
discussion about the text and their writing. The teacher checks in with students throughout all
parts of the lesson then collects their writing to score with a rubric. This lesson would be best
described as an example of:
small group instruction.
differentiation.
an informal assessment.
integration of language skills. - ✔️✔️integration of language skills.
The teacher assesses each student's fluency every nine weeks, totaling four times a year, in order
to track student growth and adjust instruction as necessary. Why is it so important for teachers to
frequently evaluate reading fluency?
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A third-grade teacher prepares a lesson in which she provides students with the following lists of
words:
List 1 undo
untrue
unwell
unfinished
List 2
revise
redo
revisit
replay
List 3
happily
friendly
mysteriously
angrily
List 4
helpless
needless
spotless
harmless
She begins by asking the students to study each list and work with a partner to discuss what they
notice about the lists, create new names for each, and share their ideas out with the class.
After sharing out their ideas and discussing, the class agrees to rename the lists, "'un- Words,"
"'re- Words," "-ly Words," and "-less Words."
List three is the best option to teach students about which of the following topics?
affixes
prefixes
inflectional affixes
derivational affixes - ✔️✔️Derivational Affixes
A third-grade teacher prepares a lesson in which she provides students with the following lists of
words:
List 1 undo
,untrue
unwell
unfinished
List 2
revise
redo
revisit
replay
List 3
happily
friendly
mysteriously
angrily
List 4
helpless
needless
spotless
harmless
She begins by asking the students to study each list and work with a partner to discuss what they
notice about the lists, create new names for each, and share their ideas out with the class.
After sharing out their ideas and discussing, the class agrees to rename the lists, "'un- Words,"
"'re- Words," "-ly Words," and "-less Words."
Next, the teacher begins direct instruction. Which of the following best describes the topic that
this lesson is most likely covering?
phonological awareness
multisyllabic words
morphology
parts of speech - ✔️✔️Morphology
A second-grade teacher is planning a genre study. She includes the following texts in her plans:
The Tortoise and the Hare
The Lion and the Mouse
The Ants and the Grasshopper
After reading each text, the students will determine the moral of the story.
This lesson plan uses texts that teach moral lessons and have animals as the main characters. The
genre focus of this lesson would most accurately be described as...
fantasy
myth
fable
,drama - ✔️✔️Fable
A kindergartener has started showing the ability to decode words by breaking them into simple
forms. Which of the following best describes this student's current stage of literacy
development?
Beginning reader
Early fluyent
Emergent Litaracy
Proficient - ✔️✔️Beginning Reader
A first-grade teacher has informally assessed her students' oral language skills and identified
certain students in need of support while orally answering comprehension questions. Which of
the following activities would best support these students' oral language development?
During whole-class discussions, regularly call on these students to answer open-ended questions.
Schedule regular, formal assessments of their oral language skills.
Provide sentence stems or sentence frames to scaffold their oral language skills.
Expand vocabulary through reading a variety of genres. - ✔️✔️Provide sentence stems or sentence
frames to scaffold their oral language skills.
This is an effective way to encourage the use of oral language skills while also providing support
that will help build speaking confidence.
A second-grade teacher is planning vocabulary instruction. He chooses academic vocabulary
words and words with high utility. Which of the following best describes a word with high
utility?
It is primarily useful in one subject or domain.
It is relevant to all content areas.
It will be encountered frequently.
It can act as multiple parts of speech. - ✔️✔️It will be encountered frequently.
Following the second reading fluency assessment of the school year, a third-grade teacher
noticed that a few of her students have shown no or very little fluency growth from the first
assessment nine weeks before. Which of the following would be the least effective way to
support their fluency development?
Incorporate choral reading into the classroom routines
increase the difficulty of their independent reading
provide them opportunities to reread texts
, facilitate opportunities for the students to read aloud to themselves or with a partner -
✔️✔️increase the difficulty of their independent reading
A third-grade student is an automatic reader that reads words accurately but struggles to read
with prosody when the teacher has assessed her reading fluency. Which of the following
activities would best support the student's development of prosody?
regularly incorporate reader's theater into whole class and small group lessons
use small group instruction to reinforce letter to sound correspondence by asking students to
make the sound of a letter while tracing the shape on their desk
set aside time each day to practice sight words using flashcards
working in pairs, have students take turns timing each other while reading a passage aloud -
✔️✔️regularly incorporate reader's theater into whole class and small group lessons
A first-grade teacher regularly assesses students' oral language skills. Based on the TEKS oral
language guidelines, which of the following is not a skill that her first graders should be expected
to become proficient in this year?
express an opinion supported by accurate information
restate and give oral directions
retell texts in ways that maintain meaning
be easily understood by teachers and other adults - ✔️✔️express an opinion supported by accurate
information
A third-grade teacher plans a lesson that begins with each student independently reading the
same text, followed by a writing activity completed in partner sets, and ends with a class
discussion about the text and their writing. The teacher checks in with students throughout all
parts of the lesson then collects their writing to score with a rubric. This lesson would be best
described as an example of:
small group instruction.
differentiation.
an informal assessment.
integration of language skills. - ✔️✔️integration of language skills.
The teacher assesses each student's fluency every nine weeks, totaling four times a year, in order
to track student growth and adjust instruction as necessary. Why is it so important for teachers to
frequently evaluate reading fluency?
