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A kindergarten teacher plays the following game with students. The teacher says, "Guess whose name
I'm going to say now?" The teacher then says the initial sound of a student's name (e.g., /m/ for Mariko),
and the children try to guess the name. This activity is likely to promote the reading development of
students primarily by helping them: - answer recognize that a spoken word is made up of sounds.
Which of the following informal assessments would be most appropriate to use to assess an individual
student's phonemic awareness? - answer asking the student to identify the sound at the beginning,
middle, or end of a spoken word (e.g., "What sound do you hear at the end of step?")
Which of the following strategies would best help a kindergarten student who is having difficulty visually
distinguishing between the letters b and d? - answer helping the student focus on the directionality of
each letter as the student traces it
A kindergarten teacher is preparing a student for a phonemic awareness assessment.
Teacher: What is this a picture of? [The teacher displays a picture of a boat.]
Student: A boat?
Teacher: A boat, that's right. Now, let's say the word boat together very slowly: /b/.../ō/.../t/. [The
student pronounces the word with the teacher.]
Teacher: How many sounds do you hear? /b/.../ō/.../t/ . . . [The teacher slowly repeats the word.]
Student: Three?
Teacher: That's right, three. Now, I'd like you to do this for some more words.
This assessment would be an appropriate way to test the student's ability to perform which of the
following phonemic awareness tasks? - answer recognizing how many phonemes are contained in a
word
The use of rhyming texts for kindergarten read-alouds is likely to promote the reading development of
kindergarten students primarily by: - answer fostering their phonological awareness.
A first grader can identify the letters of the alphabet and decode a number of simple words. He becomes
confused, however, when tracking print in consecutive lines of print. Which of the following strategies is
, likely to be most effective in helping the student read a short paragraph of simple text? - answer Have
him use his finger or a marker as he reads the text.
Which of the following instructional practices would be most effective in promoting kindergarten
students' understanding of the alphabetic principle? - answer routinely saying the sounds in words
when writing the words on the board
An emergent reader frequently reverses some letters and numbers during writing tasks. Which of the
following strategies would be most effective in helping this student develop more accurate letter
formation skills? - answer having the student practice tracing the target letter shapes with a finger while
saying aloud the sequence of steps to form each letter
In the word chimpanzee, which of the following pairs of letters is a digraph? - answer ch
A kindergarten student has demonstrated the ability to write words phonetically, but she is reluctant to
write because she is worried about misspelling words. The teacher could best promote the student's
reading and writing development by: - answer reassuring her that it is okay for now to express herself in
writing by spelling words as they sound.
During which of the following stages of spelling development do students typically begin to show an
understanding of the correspondence between letters and sounds? - answer semiphonetic
Function words such as to, the, and of are most appropriately taught in the context of which of the
following areas of reading instruction? - answer sight-word vocabulary
A first-grade teacher provides students with explicit, systematic phonics instruction to promote their
reading development. When designing activities to teach letter-sound correspondences, the teacher
should: - answer provide reading opportunities for students to practice sounds in context after studying
the sounds in isolation.
Early in the school year, a first-grade teacher wants to conduct an assessment of students' ability to read
grade-appropriate words, including phonetically regular words and high-frequency irregular sight words.
Which of the following informal assessments would be most appropriate and effective for this purpose? -
answer The teacher prepares a list of grade-appropriate words, asks each student to try reading the
words aloud, and records the results.
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A kindergarten teacher plays the following game with students. The teacher says, "Guess whose name
I'm going to say now?" The teacher then says the initial sound of a student's name (e.g., /m/ for Mariko),
and the children try to guess the name. This activity is likely to promote the reading development of
students primarily by helping them: - answer recognize that a spoken word is made up of sounds.
Which of the following informal assessments would be most appropriate to use to assess an individual
student's phonemic awareness? - answer asking the student to identify the sound at the beginning,
middle, or end of a spoken word (e.g., "What sound do you hear at the end of step?")
Which of the following strategies would best help a kindergarten student who is having difficulty visually
distinguishing between the letters b and d? - answer helping the student focus on the directionality of
each letter as the student traces it
A kindergarten teacher is preparing a student for a phonemic awareness assessment.
Teacher: What is this a picture of? [The teacher displays a picture of a boat.]
Student: A boat?
Teacher: A boat, that's right. Now, let's say the word boat together very slowly: /b/.../ō/.../t/. [The
student pronounces the word with the teacher.]
Teacher: How many sounds do you hear? /b/.../ō/.../t/ . . . [The teacher slowly repeats the word.]
Student: Three?
Teacher: That's right, three. Now, I'd like you to do this for some more words.
This assessment would be an appropriate way to test the student's ability to perform which of the
following phonemic awareness tasks? - answer recognizing how many phonemes are contained in a
word
The use of rhyming texts for kindergarten read-alouds is likely to promote the reading development of
kindergarten students primarily by: - answer fostering their phonological awareness.
A first grader can identify the letters of the alphabet and decode a number of simple words. He becomes
confused, however, when tracking print in consecutive lines of print. Which of the following strategies is
, likely to be most effective in helping the student read a short paragraph of simple text? - answer Have
him use his finger or a marker as he reads the text.
Which of the following instructional practices would be most effective in promoting kindergarten
students' understanding of the alphabetic principle? - answer routinely saying the sounds in words
when writing the words on the board
An emergent reader frequently reverses some letters and numbers during writing tasks. Which of the
following strategies would be most effective in helping this student develop more accurate letter
formation skills? - answer having the student practice tracing the target letter shapes with a finger while
saying aloud the sequence of steps to form each letter
In the word chimpanzee, which of the following pairs of letters is a digraph? - answer ch
A kindergarten student has demonstrated the ability to write words phonetically, but she is reluctant to
write because she is worried about misspelling words. The teacher could best promote the student's
reading and writing development by: - answer reassuring her that it is okay for now to express herself in
writing by spelling words as they sound.
During which of the following stages of spelling development do students typically begin to show an
understanding of the correspondence between letters and sounds? - answer semiphonetic
Function words such as to, the, and of are most appropriately taught in the context of which of the
following areas of reading instruction? - answer sight-word vocabulary
A first-grade teacher provides students with explicit, systematic phonics instruction to promote their
reading development. When designing activities to teach letter-sound correspondences, the teacher
should: - answer provide reading opportunities for students to practice sounds in context after studying
the sounds in isolation.
Early in the school year, a first-grade teacher wants to conduct an assessment of students' ability to read
grade-appropriate words, including phonetically regular words and high-frequency irregular sight words.
Which of the following informal assessments would be most appropriate and effective for this purpose? -
answer The teacher prepares a list of grade-appropriate words, asks each student to try reading the
words aloud, and records the results.
