RVE PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Which of the following is the best reason for using flexible grouping in the reading
classroom - Answers :Flexible grouping allows teachers to tailor instruction to address
students' changing needs.
primary purpose of a norm-referenced test - Answers :Indicating where a student
performs in comparison to a group of similar students
A student at the conventional stage of writing development will primarily write - Answers
:words that are often correctly spelled and include storybook language such as "Once
upon a time
A second-grade teacher uses an assessment tool for coding, scoring, and analyzing a
student's oral reading behavior. Which of the following best describes the technique? -
Answers :Running record
After administering a phonemic awareness test, which of the following is the most
appropriate next step a teacher would take with students who scored low on the
assessment? - Answers :Teaching blending and segmenting sounds
A teacher reads a series of graded passages to a student to assess the skill of creating
meaning from written language when decoding is not a factor. Which of the following
identifies the highest level at which the student can comprehend 75 percent of the
material? - Answers :Listening capacity
Ms. Osborn teaches a variety of reading strategies to help her students become
strategic readers. The strategies include predicting, previewing, monitoring
comprehension while reading, generating questions, and summarizing. Which of the
following most likely explains Ms. Osborn's purpose in teaching the strategies? -
Answers :Research has shown that reading comprehension improves when teachers
provide explicit instruction
Which of the following is the most accurate statement about the process of language
acquisition in young children - Answers :Young children infer the underlying rules of
language to which they are exposed
Which of the following words contains the soft sound of "g"? - Answers :The "g" in
"urgent" is pronounced as /j/ which is the soft sound of the letter. The word follows the
phonic rule that when "g" is followed by "e", "l," or "y," it usually makes the soft sound of
the grapheme.
Students in a sixth-grade class are preparing to give an oral report on a famous author
they have researched. Which of the following strategies would be most effective for
,students to do before speaking to an audience? - Answers :Writing key words on note
cards to refer to during the presentation
When students have completed their research projects and are asked to develop an
oral report, they should consider how to present information that will be both interesting
and well organized. Students should write the key words or phrases from the
information they want to present on note cards to help them recall the material
The words "accommodate" and "television" each have how many syllables? - Answers
:Four
Syllabication is the forming of syllables or the division of words into syllables. In this
case, both words can be divided into four word parts: "ac-com-mo-date" and "te-le-vi-
sion."
Which of the following scenarios best demonstrates behavior of an emergent reader -
Answers :A student opens a familiar book and recalls enough of the language and plot
to pretend to read it without actually identifying any of the words
Emergent is the first stage of early literacy development and is followed by the early,
early fluent, and fluent stages. Emergent readers understand that written language
conveys messages. Children may pretend to read by turning the pages of a book and
invent a story by using pictures and their memory of the story.
How many phonemes does the word "shade" have - Answers :The word shade has
three phonemes: /sh/-/a/-/d/. Phonemes roughly correspond to the letters, but the
connection is not one-to-one. It can be confusing because early readers will want to
segment the word into four parts /s/-/h/-/a/-/d/.
A first-grade class sorts word cards into categories provided by the teacher. The chart
below shows the results of the sort.
CVCVCCVCECVVCtobatmakesailsosatlikebaitbegotkitemail - Answers :Knowledge of
vowel patterns. The categories are common vowel patterns, and sorting words into the
categories reinforces students' familiarity with the patterns in both their reading and their
writing.
A first-grade teacher plans to instruct students in the decoding strategy of dividing
phonetically regular words into onsets and rimes. Which of the following words is best
for the teacher to use to most effectively model the skill - Answers :Stop
Teaching beginning readers about onsets and rimes helps them recognize common
phonetically regular chunks within words. This knowledge can help readers decode new
words with similar spelling patterns. "Stop" contains the major phonogram "-op,"
knowledge of which assists students in decoding unknown words with the same
phoneme-grapheme pattern.
While observing a student reading, the teacher notices that the student does not match
letters with their correct sounds. The student is most likely having problems with -
Answers :graphophonic cues
, The student seems to be having trouble with letter-sound correspondence. ("Graph,"
which means print, and "phonic," which means sound, refer to letter-sound
correspondence.)
A student who reads with expression, appropriate phrasing, and good inflection, is
described as reading with - Answers :Prosody is the appropriate use of phrasing and
expression to convey meaning.
A teacher plans to differentiate reading instruction for students but first needs to gather
and analyze assessment data to determine students' needs.
Question: For each row, select whether the assessment is effective or ineffective in
diagnosing the reading needs of individual students.
Standardized, norm-referenced, reading assessments - Answers :Ineffective
A teacher plans to differentiate reading instruction for students but first needs to gather
and analyze assessment data to determine students' needs.
Question: For each row, select whether the assessment is effective or ineffective in
diagnosing the reading needs of individual students.
Informal reading inventories - Answers :Effective
A teacher plans to differentiate reading instruction for students but first needs to gather
and analyze assessment data to determine students' needs.
Question: For each row, select whether the assessment is effective or ineffective in
diagnosing the reading needs of individual students.
Formative reading assessments - Answers :Effective
A fourth-grade teacher is developing a writing assignment, the goal of which is to help
students persuade readers to agree with an opinion. Which of the following writing
prompts is most appropriate for the assignment - Answers :Should a limit be placed on
the amount of time children spend watching television
A teacher is searching for an assessment tool that will provide specific information to
guide instruction in order to improve each students' writing abilities. Which of the
following is most likely to assist the teacher in this goal? - Answers :An analytic scoring
rubric
A first-grade student shows evidence of phonological awareness but has difficulty
segmenting words into phonemes. Which of the questions below is likely to be the most
challenging for the student to answer - Answers :Listen to this word: "sad." How many
sounds do you hear
My vacation was exciteing. We did many interesting things. We went to the beach. We
played in the sand. We were so hot that we went in the wuter. We played games in the
water. We had an awesome time.
Which of the following is the best reason for using flexible grouping in the reading
classroom - Answers :Flexible grouping allows teachers to tailor instruction to address
students' changing needs.
primary purpose of a norm-referenced test - Answers :Indicating where a student
performs in comparison to a group of similar students
A student at the conventional stage of writing development will primarily write - Answers
:words that are often correctly spelled and include storybook language such as "Once
upon a time
A second-grade teacher uses an assessment tool for coding, scoring, and analyzing a
student's oral reading behavior. Which of the following best describes the technique? -
Answers :Running record
After administering a phonemic awareness test, which of the following is the most
appropriate next step a teacher would take with students who scored low on the
assessment? - Answers :Teaching blending and segmenting sounds
A teacher reads a series of graded passages to a student to assess the skill of creating
meaning from written language when decoding is not a factor. Which of the following
identifies the highest level at which the student can comprehend 75 percent of the
material? - Answers :Listening capacity
Ms. Osborn teaches a variety of reading strategies to help her students become
strategic readers. The strategies include predicting, previewing, monitoring
comprehension while reading, generating questions, and summarizing. Which of the
following most likely explains Ms. Osborn's purpose in teaching the strategies? -
Answers :Research has shown that reading comprehension improves when teachers
provide explicit instruction
Which of the following is the most accurate statement about the process of language
acquisition in young children - Answers :Young children infer the underlying rules of
language to which they are exposed
Which of the following words contains the soft sound of "g"? - Answers :The "g" in
"urgent" is pronounced as /j/ which is the soft sound of the letter. The word follows the
phonic rule that when "g" is followed by "e", "l," or "y," it usually makes the soft sound of
the grapheme.
Students in a sixth-grade class are preparing to give an oral report on a famous author
they have researched. Which of the following strategies would be most effective for
,students to do before speaking to an audience? - Answers :Writing key words on note
cards to refer to during the presentation
When students have completed their research projects and are asked to develop an
oral report, they should consider how to present information that will be both interesting
and well organized. Students should write the key words or phrases from the
information they want to present on note cards to help them recall the material
The words "accommodate" and "television" each have how many syllables? - Answers
:Four
Syllabication is the forming of syllables or the division of words into syllables. In this
case, both words can be divided into four word parts: "ac-com-mo-date" and "te-le-vi-
sion."
Which of the following scenarios best demonstrates behavior of an emergent reader -
Answers :A student opens a familiar book and recalls enough of the language and plot
to pretend to read it without actually identifying any of the words
Emergent is the first stage of early literacy development and is followed by the early,
early fluent, and fluent stages. Emergent readers understand that written language
conveys messages. Children may pretend to read by turning the pages of a book and
invent a story by using pictures and their memory of the story.
How many phonemes does the word "shade" have - Answers :The word shade has
three phonemes: /sh/-/a/-/d/. Phonemes roughly correspond to the letters, but the
connection is not one-to-one. It can be confusing because early readers will want to
segment the word into four parts /s/-/h/-/a/-/d/.
A first-grade class sorts word cards into categories provided by the teacher. The chart
below shows the results of the sort.
CVCVCCVCECVVCtobatmakesailsosatlikebaitbegotkitemail - Answers :Knowledge of
vowel patterns. The categories are common vowel patterns, and sorting words into the
categories reinforces students' familiarity with the patterns in both their reading and their
writing.
A first-grade teacher plans to instruct students in the decoding strategy of dividing
phonetically regular words into onsets and rimes. Which of the following words is best
for the teacher to use to most effectively model the skill - Answers :Stop
Teaching beginning readers about onsets and rimes helps them recognize common
phonetically regular chunks within words. This knowledge can help readers decode new
words with similar spelling patterns. "Stop" contains the major phonogram "-op,"
knowledge of which assists students in decoding unknown words with the same
phoneme-grapheme pattern.
While observing a student reading, the teacher notices that the student does not match
letters with their correct sounds. The student is most likely having problems with -
Answers :graphophonic cues
, The student seems to be having trouble with letter-sound correspondence. ("Graph,"
which means print, and "phonic," which means sound, refer to letter-sound
correspondence.)
A student who reads with expression, appropriate phrasing, and good inflection, is
described as reading with - Answers :Prosody is the appropriate use of phrasing and
expression to convey meaning.
A teacher plans to differentiate reading instruction for students but first needs to gather
and analyze assessment data to determine students' needs.
Question: For each row, select whether the assessment is effective or ineffective in
diagnosing the reading needs of individual students.
Standardized, norm-referenced, reading assessments - Answers :Ineffective
A teacher plans to differentiate reading instruction for students but first needs to gather
and analyze assessment data to determine students' needs.
Question: For each row, select whether the assessment is effective or ineffective in
diagnosing the reading needs of individual students.
Informal reading inventories - Answers :Effective
A teacher plans to differentiate reading instruction for students but first needs to gather
and analyze assessment data to determine students' needs.
Question: For each row, select whether the assessment is effective or ineffective in
diagnosing the reading needs of individual students.
Formative reading assessments - Answers :Effective
A fourth-grade teacher is developing a writing assignment, the goal of which is to help
students persuade readers to agree with an opinion. Which of the following writing
prompts is most appropriate for the assignment - Answers :Should a limit be placed on
the amount of time children spend watching television
A teacher is searching for an assessment tool that will provide specific information to
guide instruction in order to improve each students' writing abilities. Which of the
following is most likely to assist the teacher in this goal? - Answers :An analytic scoring
rubric
A first-grade student shows evidence of phonological awareness but has difficulty
segmenting words into phonemes. Which of the questions below is likely to be the most
challenging for the student to answer - Answers :Listen to this word: "sad." How many
sounds do you hear
My vacation was exciteing. We did many interesting things. We went to the beach. We
played in the sand. We were so hot that we went in the wuter. We played games in the
water. We had an awesome time.
