RATIONALE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
A research paper about the Civil War - ANSWER- Which of the following assignments
would best assess a student's use and understanding of citing works in writing?
Phonemic Awareness - ANSWER- Which of the following concepts involves
understanding that spoken words consist of a sequence of individual sounds?
Phoneme Deletion - ANSWER- Which of the following phonemic awareness skills would
be the last skill a student should be expected to master?
Single, closed-syllable words - ANSWER- When teaching decoding skills, what kind of
words should a teacher use to introduce the concept?
Three - ANSWER- How many phonemes are in the word hat?
Review the title, headings, and legends to develop an understanding of the content
presented in the graph or chart - ANSWER- Which of the following strategies should
students first use in the process of interpreting graphs or charts containing numerical
information?
Having students read aloud for one minute and count the number of words read
correctly - ANSWER- Which of the following is the best way to assess the fluency skills
and reading levels of sixth-grade students?
Holding peer conferences - ANSWER- During the revising stage of the writing process,
which of the following would be most beneficial for students?
Allowing students to use verbal communication to organize their thoughts - ANSWER-
Which of the following will best support early elementary students in the prewriting stage
of the writing process?
Many words and roots of words are likely to have similar spellings and meanings -
ANSWER- Which of the following best explains why learning English as a second
language is easier when a person already knows a historically-related language?
That a square is a rectangle and a rectangle can be a square - ANSWER- Which of the
following would be the best concept to introduce to students in a second grade class?