FTCE Reading K-12 Practice Questions and Answers 2022

A first-grade teacher schedules 10 minutes each day for sight word practice. This daily practice will most likely improve students' reading proficiency by building which skill? - Correct answer-Automacity What does automaticity mean? - Correct answer-Refers to the ability to recognize printed words quickly and effortlessly. Because sight word practices help increase the number of words student can recognize quickly and effortlessly, it builds automaticity. Sight words are often difficult to decode using typical phonics rules. Phonemic awareness and phonological awareness involve identifying and manipulating sounds rather than reading printed words. A teacher observes a first grade student as she writes the word stop in her journal . The student says each sound out loud before writing the corresponding letter on her paper. Which process is the student exhibiting? - Correct answer-Encoding. The student is listening to each sound in the word stop and remembering which letter makes that sound before writing it on paper. What is encoding? - Correct answer-the process of translating sounds to print using knowledge of letter/ sound relationships. While reading a book about animals, a student struggles to decode the word giraffe. He then points to the picture and says, " Those are giraffes. I saw the, at the zoo." Which cueing system is the student using to figure out the unknown word? - Correct answerSemantic what is semantic cueing? - Correct answer-Semantic cues refer to the meaning in language that assists in comprehending texts, including words, speech, signs, symbols, and other meaning-bearing forms. Semantic cues involve the learners' prior knowledge of language, text, and visual media, and their prior life experiences Sources of information used by readers to help them construct meaning. Which statement best describes the relationship between phonological awareness and phonemic awareness? - Correct answer-Phonological awareness is the ability to identify and manipulate sounds in spoken words. Phonemic awareness is one component of phonological involving the ability to identify and manipulate sounds in spoken words at the phonome level. A preschooler teacher has identified a small group of students who are lacking any phonological awareness skills. Which skill would be most appropriate for the teachers to initially focus on small-group instructions? - Correct answer-Rhyming What is rhyming? - Correct answer-Rhyming or identifying words with the same ending sound, one of the simple phonological awareness skill. Syd, a third grader, is completing a reading assessment with her teacher. During the fluency component of the assessment, she reads a short passage aloud. Her teacher notes that Syd's reading rate is in the average range for her grade level, and she correctly decodes 95% of the words in the passage. However Syd reads in a monotone voice and often forgets to pause before beginning new sentences. Which component of fluency should syd's teacher target during small-group instruction? - Correct answerProsody because it refers to reading with appropriate intonation, rhythm, and stress. Because Syd is reading in an monotone voice and not using appropriate phrasing, it would be beneficial for her teacher to focus on prosody during small-group instruction. Her accuracy rate is in the independent range, which demonstrates she has strong word recognition skills. Her high accuracy rate also suggests she is already reading with automaticity. Which statement best describes phonemic awareness? - Correct answer-Is the awareness refers to the ability to identify and manipulate sounds at the phoneme level. Because phonemes are the smallest units of spoken sound, phonemic awareness is the most advanced phonological awareness skill. During a small -group activity, a teacher asks her students to repeat a CVC word slowly, stretching out the sounds. As students repeat the word, they slide one penny forward for each sound they hear. Which phonemic skill are students practicing? - Correct answerSegmenting; by taking a whole word and breaking it into its individual sounds, the students are practicing segmenting. Which choice represents a likely progression of phonological awareness skills? - Correct answer-Rhyming,syllabification, onset and rhyme manipulation, phoneme deletion ; the ability to rhyme often develops first being that it is so simple. A preschool teacher is reading loud to his students using a bug book. He wants to help his students understand that the print carries the meaning of the story. What can the teacher do to foster this understanding? - Correct answer-Point to the words while reading. Pointing to each word as it is read aloud will help students understand the relationship between the printed text and spoken word. A teacher asks her students to say the word map. She then says " Change the/ m / sound to a/t/ sound. What word do you have now? Which phonemic awareness skill are students practicing? - Correct answer-Phonme substitution, with this students are replacing on phoneme with another. Which of the following option best describes the use of environmental print in a prekindergarten classroom? - Correct answer-Including real food packages and menu in the dramatic play area. A environmental print is the print people see in their everyday lives. Children may include restaurant logos, food labels, and street signs. Environmental print helps children understand that print has meaning, and reading familiar words can boost reading confidence. Alex is a first- grade student. His teacher notices that he commonly substitutes words that make sense in sentences but dont match the print. For example, he recently said, " The car drove down a street," while the text actually said, " The car drove down the street." which cueing system is Alex using? - Correct answer-Syntactic; readers often use this when they consider sentence structure and grammar to decode unknown words. Alex is substituting a word that sounds right in the sentence. Mrs. Lopez teaches second grade. After completing a science experiment , she gathers her students on the carpet to write a summary of what they learned . Mrs. Lopez asks students to help her record the responses on chart paper, sharing her marker. She provides guidance and sentence starters as needed. After everyone is Mrs. Lopez demonstrating? - Correct answer-Interactive Writing experiences, teachers and students work together to create writing pieces. Teachers and students share the writing utensils, with teachers guiding the students as they record their thoughts. Mr. Johnson is a 6th grade teacher. He wants to help his students assess their own growth in writing skills over the course of a year . Which type of assessment method would most likely help Mr. Johnson achieve his goal? - Correct answer-Writing portfolios. By having this it allows collections of students writing samples over time. Students can review their writing and use observations, checklists, or rubrics to evaluate how their writing skills grew over time. Ms. Peterson is reading a book to her kindergarten students. She shows them where the title and authors name are located on the cover. She then tracks the text with her finger as she reads. What is Ms. Peterson's modeling for her students? - Correct answer-Concepts of print. They are conventions used to convey meaning in printed text. They include locating the title and authors name, holding the book correctly, tracing print reading from left to right, and other similar concepts. Micheal is in the 6th grade he struggles to summarize fictional texts he has read. His summaries are long and include details that are not important. Which type of graphic organizer would help him develop concise summaries - Correct answer-Story maps because it helps students identify the main events of a fictional story, along with conflict and resolution. ability grouping - Correct answer-The process of placing students of similar abilities into groups and attempting to match instruction to the needs of these groups. phoneme - Correct answer-The smallest unit of speech that can be used to make one word different from another word. Independent Reading Level - Correct answer-The level at which a reader can read text with 95% accuracy (i.e., no more than one error per 20 words read). Independent reading level is relatively easy text for the reader. Grapheme - Correct answer-A written representation of a sound using one or more letters. Morpheme - Correct answer-in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix) Instructional Level - Correct answer-The level at which students can read with the assistace of a teacher as indicated by an 85-95% accuracy rate. action research - Correct answer-Research conducted by teachers and other school personnel to address issues and problems in their own schools or classrooms. Frustration Level - Correct answer-The level as which the reader has difficulty with word recognition and comprehends with less that 70% accuracy Alliteration - Correct answer-Repetition of initial consonant sounds Alphabetic Principle - Correct answer-an understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken words. Blending - Correct answer-The task of combining sounds rapidly, to accurately represent the word. Accuracy - Correct answer-the ability to perform a skill, such as reading words, correctly Which classroom instructional strategy would most likely assist ELLs with developing phonemic awareness skills? - Correct answer-Practicing phonemic awareness skills on familiar vocabulary words in English. It is beneficial for ELLs to practice this on words they know in english some english phonemes may not be used in students native langauges. Mr. Clark is conducting a daily phonics lesson. Today the class is focusing on the st words blend. Students first repeatedly produce the sound the blend makes. They then search for the st words within the classroom. Which approach to phonics instruction is he demonstrating? - Correct answer-Explicit they first learn the st blend in isolation before applying it to whole words Ms. Watson has included a variety of pointers in the classroom reading center. She instructs students to use these pointers or their fingers to point to the words when reading independently. Which of the following concepts of print is Ms. Watsons addressing - Correct answer-Directionally because of the pointer to each word. This helps with the understanding from reading left to right. In a classroom, the teacher has an area for small-group instruction and another area for whole-group instruction. The learning environment is information intensive with students collaborating on a variety of assignments and projects with the teacher roaming the room and helping individuals and groups of students. Which theorist best describes the teachers disposition for instruction? - Correct answer-Lev Vygotsky