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2027 Exams Includes Frequently Tested Questions With
ELABORATED 100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Guaranteed Pass First Attempt!! Current Update!!
1. DIBELS - Correct Answer: Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy Skills
2. TPRI - Correct Answer: Texas Primary Reading Inventory: a screening
tool for early literacy skills
3. PALS - Correct Answer: Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening:
comprehensive assessment of a child's early literacy fundamentals that are
predictive of future reading success
4. WRAT - Correct Answer: Wide Range Achievement Test: brief
achievement test measuring reading recognition, spelling, arithmetic
computation
5. If a student is making A's and B's in the classroom but is a slow reader, the
teacher should give what type of assessment - Correct Answer: informal
6. The Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Education Battery - Correct Answer: an
academic achievement and norm-referenced test
,7. Grade equivalent scores - Correct Answer: not a dependable
representation of progress
8. An individual Education Plan (IEP) for a student identified with a learning
disability does not include - Correct Answer: a prescription for a specific
intervention (correct)
9. A brief assessment that identifies students who may need additional testing
or alternative instruction is known as - Correct Answer: informal
screening
10.The Conner's Rating Scales - Correct Answer: used to measure Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
11.acuity - Correct Answer: keenness of thought or vision (zero in on it and
see what's going on)
12.active listening - Correct Answer: giving one's full attention to the
speaker and making eye contact with him or her
13.structured instruction - Correct Answer: instruction that follows ordered
procedures
14.direct instruction - Correct Answer: instruction in which concepts are
explicitly taught
,15.diagnostic teaching - Correct Answer: teaching that is informed by a
continual assessment of student needs
16.prescriptive teaching - Correct Answer: individualized teaching based on
needs
17.systematic and cumulative instruction - Correct Answer: teaching with a
logical order of introduction of concepts that progress from easiest to more
difficult
18.explicit instruction - Correct Answer: direct, purposeful instruction
19.VAKT - Correct Answer: Visual , Auditory, Kinesthetic/ Tactile (Grace
Fernald)
20.Top-Down Theory - Correct Answer: led by Kenneth Goodman and
Frank Smith
**strong meaning-based position
**Goodman calls reading a "psycholinguistic guessing game"
**rather than read every word, good readers select out on the essential
textual information
**only focus on individual words/sounds when text does not make sense,
and the reader needs to go back and reread
**this is Whole Language characteristic
, 21.Bottom-Up Theory - Correct Answer: emphasis on the subprocesses of
the reading act and its contention that many of these subprocesses, such as
letter and word identification, must become automatic in order for readers
to be fluent. (Alphabetic Phonics)
22.Interactive Theory - Correct Answer: readers simultaneously initiate
word identification and predict meaning----these are reciprocal events
23.analytical approach - Correct Answer: whole to part (Top-Down) put the
whole word on the board/discover what's the same, how it can be broken
down into component parts
24.synthetic approach - Correct Answer: part (letters) to whole words
(bottom up)
25.Socratic technique - Correct Answer: Using carefully planned questions,
the student is led to discover the new concept
26.linguistics-based beginning reading approach - Correct Answer:
Learning to recognize word families (bat, cat, hat, )
27.To teach syllable division, Mr. Smart first taught his students to recognize
closed or (VC) syllables. He then showed the class words such as napkin,
impact, and mascot and discussed accent. Later, he demonstrated how the
words could be divided into two syllables. Finally he gave the students
syllables and asked them to construct words. - Correct Answer:
synthetic and analytic instruction
2027 Exams Includes Frequently Tested Questions With
ELABORATED 100% Correct COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Guaranteed Pass First Attempt!! Current Update!!
1. DIBELS - Correct Answer: Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy Skills
2. TPRI - Correct Answer: Texas Primary Reading Inventory: a screening
tool for early literacy skills
3. PALS - Correct Answer: Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening:
comprehensive assessment of a child's early literacy fundamentals that are
predictive of future reading success
4. WRAT - Correct Answer: Wide Range Achievement Test: brief
achievement test measuring reading recognition, spelling, arithmetic
computation
5. If a student is making A's and B's in the classroom but is a slow reader, the
teacher should give what type of assessment - Correct Answer: informal
6. The Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Education Battery - Correct Answer: an
academic achievement and norm-referenced test
,7. Grade equivalent scores - Correct Answer: not a dependable
representation of progress
8. An individual Education Plan (IEP) for a student identified with a learning
disability does not include - Correct Answer: a prescription for a specific
intervention (correct)
9. A brief assessment that identifies students who may need additional testing
or alternative instruction is known as - Correct Answer: informal
screening
10.The Conner's Rating Scales - Correct Answer: used to measure Attention
Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
11.acuity - Correct Answer: keenness of thought or vision (zero in on it and
see what's going on)
12.active listening - Correct Answer: giving one's full attention to the
speaker and making eye contact with him or her
13.structured instruction - Correct Answer: instruction that follows ordered
procedures
14.direct instruction - Correct Answer: instruction in which concepts are
explicitly taught
,15.diagnostic teaching - Correct Answer: teaching that is informed by a
continual assessment of student needs
16.prescriptive teaching - Correct Answer: individualized teaching based on
needs
17.systematic and cumulative instruction - Correct Answer: teaching with a
logical order of introduction of concepts that progress from easiest to more
difficult
18.explicit instruction - Correct Answer: direct, purposeful instruction
19.VAKT - Correct Answer: Visual , Auditory, Kinesthetic/ Tactile (Grace
Fernald)
20.Top-Down Theory - Correct Answer: led by Kenneth Goodman and
Frank Smith
**strong meaning-based position
**Goodman calls reading a "psycholinguistic guessing game"
**rather than read every word, good readers select out on the essential
textual information
**only focus on individual words/sounds when text does not make sense,
and the reader needs to go back and reread
**this is Whole Language characteristic
, 21.Bottom-Up Theory - Correct Answer: emphasis on the subprocesses of
the reading act and its contention that many of these subprocesses, such as
letter and word identification, must become automatic in order for readers
to be fluent. (Alphabetic Phonics)
22.Interactive Theory - Correct Answer: readers simultaneously initiate
word identification and predict meaning----these are reciprocal events
23.analytical approach - Correct Answer: whole to part (Top-Down) put the
whole word on the board/discover what's the same, how it can be broken
down into component parts
24.synthetic approach - Correct Answer: part (letters) to whole words
(bottom up)
25.Socratic technique - Correct Answer: Using carefully planned questions,
the student is led to discover the new concept
26.linguistics-based beginning reading approach - Correct Answer:
Learning to recognize word families (bat, cat, hat, )
27.To teach syllable division, Mr. Smart first taught his students to recognize
closed or (VC) syllables. He then showed the class words such as napkin,
impact, and mascot and discussed accent. Later, he demonstrated how the
words could be divided into two syllables. Finally he gave the students
syllables and asked them to construct words. - Correct Answer:
synthetic and analytic instruction
