ParaEducator Practice
Exam Questions (113
questions and
answers)
Q1. How do students use knowledge of language
structure as a source of information to understand
what they are reading? - answer Students use
their understanding of the way language sounds
when spoken to influence the way they read.
Q2. Which of the following is true of the monitor
reading strategy? - answer A student notices that
something is not quite right about what he or she
is reading.
Q3. Which of the following prompts would NOT be a
good choice for helping a student use meaning to
understand a text? - answer Does that sound
right?
Q4. According to Schulman and Payne, what
characteristics do students have in the transitional
,stage of reading development? - answer Students
read most punctuation points appropriately.
Q5. Which of the following is a good way to
promote reading with students? - answer
Assisting reading groups with their instructional
activities using a teacher-selected text.
Q6. According to Schulman and Payne, what
characteristics do students have in the emergent
stage of reading development? - answer Students
understand that the printed word means
something.
Q7. Which of the following is true of the search
reading strategy? - answer A student looks for
more information to correct something that wasn't
right in his or her reading.
Q8. In which of the following circumstances might
it be helpful to assign a student a shorter reading
passage? - answer The student shows signs of
being overwhelmed by the length of an assigned
passage.
Q9. Which prompt would encourage a student to
use the visual grapho-phonic source of information
, to understand what he or she is reading? - answer
"What word do you see within that word?"
Q10. With the predict reading strategy, a student
predicts words or things that will happen in the
story based on his or her knowledge of which of
the following? - answer What might make sense.
What he or she already knows.
What might look or sound right.
All of the options. (correct: all options)
Q1. Which of the following is true of the self-
correct reading strategy? - answer A student
notices that something is not quite right about
what he or she is reading and goes back to correct
it.
Q2. Which of the following is a good way to
promote reading with students? - answer
Assisting reading groups with their instructional
activities using a teacher-selected text.
Q3. Who is the best person to ask for information
about what type of support a student might need
in reading? - answer The general education
teacher.
Exam Questions (113
questions and
answers)
Q1. How do students use knowledge of language
structure as a source of information to understand
what they are reading? - answer Students use
their understanding of the way language sounds
when spoken to influence the way they read.
Q2. Which of the following is true of the monitor
reading strategy? - answer A student notices that
something is not quite right about what he or she
is reading.
Q3. Which of the following prompts would NOT be a
good choice for helping a student use meaning to
understand a text? - answer Does that sound
right?
Q4. According to Schulman and Payne, what
characteristics do students have in the transitional
,stage of reading development? - answer Students
read most punctuation points appropriately.
Q5. Which of the following is a good way to
promote reading with students? - answer
Assisting reading groups with their instructional
activities using a teacher-selected text.
Q6. According to Schulman and Payne, what
characteristics do students have in the emergent
stage of reading development? - answer Students
understand that the printed word means
something.
Q7. Which of the following is true of the search
reading strategy? - answer A student looks for
more information to correct something that wasn't
right in his or her reading.
Q8. In which of the following circumstances might
it be helpful to assign a student a shorter reading
passage? - answer The student shows signs of
being overwhelmed by the length of an assigned
passage.
Q9. Which prompt would encourage a student to
use the visual grapho-phonic source of information
, to understand what he or she is reading? - answer
"What word do you see within that word?"
Q10. With the predict reading strategy, a student
predicts words or things that will happen in the
story based on his or her knowledge of which of
the following? - answer What might make sense.
What he or she already knows.
What might look or sound right.
All of the options. (correct: all options)
Q1. Which of the following is true of the self-
correct reading strategy? - answer A student
notices that something is not quite right about
what he or she is reading and goes back to correct
it.
Q2. Which of the following is a good way to
promote reading with students? - answer
Assisting reading groups with their instructional
activities using a teacher-selected text.
Q3. Who is the best person to ask for information
about what type of support a student might need
in reading? - answer The general education
teacher.
