Questions & Answers
LETRS Unit 7 Assessment
How should the balance of instructional time spent on foundational reading
skills and language comprehension between first grade and third grade for
typical learners?
- The time spent on foundational reading skills should skift from about 40% in
first grade to 20% in third grade.
What criterion would be most relevant for selecting high-quality texts for
reading aloud or for meiated text reading?
- The text has layers of meaning that can be explored through several readings.
According to the National Reading Panel (2000) and several research analyses,
whcih of these strategies is more effective than the others for developing
comprehension?
- having students retell or summarize what they have read
During a teacher-mediated reading of the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood,
which of these questions is most likely to facilitate construction of a mental
model of the texts meanings?
- "What do we know about the characters so far?"
If a high quality, worthwhile narrative text has been read once, what is the most
appropriate activity studetns should do next?
- Complete a story frame that outlines major events.
What is an effective way to helpo students construct a mental model of
informational text?
- Pose queries during reading to ensure studetns are making the necessary
inferences.
What is the main advantage of letting students know ahead of time what kind of
text (e.g., narrative, informational) they will be reading?
, - They can anticipate how the text is organized and how the information is
presented.
What is a helpful approach when working with a student who is a heavy dialect
speaker and who is having trouble comprehending the language in a text?
- Explain the relationship between home langauge and school language in
frequent, brief lessons.
Which of the following teaching strategies is least helpful to English learners?
- allowing them to avoid speaking in class if they are embarrassed
Which is the most effected technique for supporting students' expressive oral
language development in school?
- encouraging students to talk with a partner before raising their hand to respond
LETRS Unit 7 Session 1
With first-grade students, how much instructional time should be spent on
English language arts? - d. 2 hours or more
Teachers should depend heavily on the results of screeners such as Acadience
Reading K-6 to determine what skills should be taught to students. - false
By second grade, the most effective approach to teaching reading
comprehension emphasizes:
a. phonics.
b. comprehension skills.
c. language study. - d. all of the above in roughly equal proportion.
Which of the following is NOT a criterion for high-quality text? - b. relevant to
what's going on that day