FTCE K-6 Language Arts

Phonemic awareness instruction is most effective when: - Answer- children are taught to manipulate phonemes using letters of the alphabet What does research say is the most effective type of phonics instruction - Answer- systematic and explicit What is a characteristic of an emergent reader - Answer- realizes print carries a message How is fluency most directly measured - Answer- timed oral reading Which of these strategies is the most effective means of developing fluency in a struggling reader - Answer- repeated oral reading with guidance Which of the following strategies would be best for elementary-grades students to use to help develop critical thinking skills - Answer- constructing a cause and effect chart This type of assessment uses pre-set criteria - Answer- performance-based This type of assessment usually has its scores reported in percentile ranks - Answer- norms-referenced This type of assessment is used to measure how well a student has mastered material in a specific grade or subject - Answer- criterion-referenced Which method for assessing student progress would benefit from story maps - Answer- story retelling Which of the following assessments would be most effective if given during the first month of school - Answer- screening Which of the following would not be a benefit of differentiating instruction - Answer- only low-performance students could have their-learning needs met Which of these activities would demonstrate differentiated instruction - Answer- learning centers that are multi-stepped, used a variety of activities What does it mean when a student scored in the 64th percentile - Answer- that he or she scored better then 64% of the norming group A student has cut apart the words in his language experience story and is reconstructing the story. This activity will most likely reinforce which word identification skills - Answer- phonics and structural analysis The term flexibility refers to which reading strategy - Answer- the ability to read different mat