Science of Teaching Reading STR (293) (2025)
ACTUAL EXAM (detailed & elaborated)
comprehensive questions and verified accurate
solution 2025 TEST!!!!
When teaching how identify adjectives, a teacher starts with explicit teaching. Then, she leads
the class in guided instruction, and repeats or rephrases the necessary information. Next, she
prompts the students with questions like "what kind?" and "which one?" Eventually, students
identify adjectives independently.
Reading Fluency - ✔✔The ability to read with appropriate speed, accuracy, and prosody
Syllable Awareness / Syllabication / Syllable Segmentation - ✔✔the ability to hear individual
parts/syllables of words
"Education" has four syllables "ed-u-ca-tion"
Syntax - ✔✔Rules that govern the construction of words in order to make phrases, clauses,
and sentences. (sentence structure)
Subject-verb Agreement or Pronoun-Antecedent agreement
Differentiation - ✔✔teaching that offers multiple options for learning the material based on
different student needs and learning styles
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) - ✔✔The state foundation curriculum developed
by the State Board of Education, that requires all students to demonstrate the knowledge and
skills necessary to read, write, compute, problem solve, think critically, apply technology, and
communicate across all subject areas
,Competence - ✔✔A student's desire to perform
Interest Survey - ✔✔questions that ask students the types of books they enjoy reading
given by the teacher at the beginning of the year to determine what books to assign to meet
the interests of the class
Autonomy - ✔✔A student's ability to self-govern or self-motivate
Speed - ✔✔a measure of how fast an object's position changes, calculated from
distance/time
Reading Intervention - ✔✔a strategy applied to assist a struggling reader
Reading Interventions can help children overcome reading difficulties and become proficient
readers.
Accuracy (when reading) - ✔✔the reader's ability to correctly pronounce words
Ongoing Assessment - ✔✔an assessment that guides the pace and content of instruction
Ongoing assessments are used to determine student knowledge and dictate whether the class
is prepared to move on to a new skill.
Background Knowledge - ✔✔(schema or prior knowledge) information or experience that
the student has prior to learning
,When students can connect their background knowledge to the texts they read, it aids their
comprehension.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - ✔✔A label applied to individuals who have
great difficulty concentrating on what they are doing AND are extremely active, impulsive,
distractible, and excitable
Genre - ✔✔Various forms of texts including short stories, essays, folktales, fairy tales,
poetry, historical fiction, biographies and autobiographies, memoirs, comedies and tragedies.
Night by Elie Wiesel is an example of a memoir.
Alphabetic Knowledge - ✔✔The ability to recognize, name, and write letters.
Instructional Interventions - ✔✔additional focus on a specific skill in an effort to improve it
A class struggles with focus, so the teacher incorporates more movement breaks into the daily
lesson plan.
Differentiation - Pacing - ✔✔how much content is presented and how fast the content is
presented
Teachers may need to adjust pacing to allow students time to comprehend difficult text.
Dyslexia - ✔✔A disorder manifested by a difficulty in learning to read, write, or spell, despite
conventional instruction, adequate intelligence, and sociocultural opportunity
Differentiation - Complexity - ✔✔how difficult the vocabulary, sentence structure and
organization is to understand within a text
, When assessing the complexity of a task, a teacher should determine if the skill or content be
broken down into more simple components.
Extrinsic / External Motivation - ✔✔the motive for the activity comes from outside the
individual
Retell - ✔✔a comprehension strategy in which students retell or tell differently what they
have read or listened to
When students retell a story, they are demonstrating their comprehension of the most
important parts.
Deficit-Based Approach - ✔✔a traditional educational approach, which focuses on
strengthening a student's weak areas
When using a deficit-based approach, teachers try to identify problems and work to fix them.
Prosody - ✔✔the reader's ability to convey expression, including using correct emphasis,
punctuation, and tone, while reading aloud
Literature Circles - ✔✔A strategy in which a teacher organizes students into small groups to
discuss a common text.
Phonemic Awareness / Sound Awareness - ✔✔the ability to hear, identify, and re-create
individual sounds in spoken words
A student can hear that"B" makes first sound in the word "blue"
ACTUAL EXAM (detailed & elaborated)
comprehensive questions and verified accurate
solution 2025 TEST!!!!
When teaching how identify adjectives, a teacher starts with explicit teaching. Then, she leads
the class in guided instruction, and repeats or rephrases the necessary information. Next, she
prompts the students with questions like "what kind?" and "which one?" Eventually, students
identify adjectives independently.
Reading Fluency - ✔✔The ability to read with appropriate speed, accuracy, and prosody
Syllable Awareness / Syllabication / Syllable Segmentation - ✔✔the ability to hear individual
parts/syllables of words
"Education" has four syllables "ed-u-ca-tion"
Syntax - ✔✔Rules that govern the construction of words in order to make phrases, clauses,
and sentences. (sentence structure)
Subject-verb Agreement or Pronoun-Antecedent agreement
Differentiation - ✔✔teaching that offers multiple options for learning the material based on
different student needs and learning styles
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) - ✔✔The state foundation curriculum developed
by the State Board of Education, that requires all students to demonstrate the knowledge and
skills necessary to read, write, compute, problem solve, think critically, apply technology, and
communicate across all subject areas
,Competence - ✔✔A student's desire to perform
Interest Survey - ✔✔questions that ask students the types of books they enjoy reading
given by the teacher at the beginning of the year to determine what books to assign to meet
the interests of the class
Autonomy - ✔✔A student's ability to self-govern or self-motivate
Speed - ✔✔a measure of how fast an object's position changes, calculated from
distance/time
Reading Intervention - ✔✔a strategy applied to assist a struggling reader
Reading Interventions can help children overcome reading difficulties and become proficient
readers.
Accuracy (when reading) - ✔✔the reader's ability to correctly pronounce words
Ongoing Assessment - ✔✔an assessment that guides the pace and content of instruction
Ongoing assessments are used to determine student knowledge and dictate whether the class
is prepared to move on to a new skill.
Background Knowledge - ✔✔(schema or prior knowledge) information or experience that
the student has prior to learning
,When students can connect their background knowledge to the texts they read, it aids their
comprehension.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - ✔✔A label applied to individuals who have
great difficulty concentrating on what they are doing AND are extremely active, impulsive,
distractible, and excitable
Genre - ✔✔Various forms of texts including short stories, essays, folktales, fairy tales,
poetry, historical fiction, biographies and autobiographies, memoirs, comedies and tragedies.
Night by Elie Wiesel is an example of a memoir.
Alphabetic Knowledge - ✔✔The ability to recognize, name, and write letters.
Instructional Interventions - ✔✔additional focus on a specific skill in an effort to improve it
A class struggles with focus, so the teacher incorporates more movement breaks into the daily
lesson plan.
Differentiation - Pacing - ✔✔how much content is presented and how fast the content is
presented
Teachers may need to adjust pacing to allow students time to comprehend difficult text.
Dyslexia - ✔✔A disorder manifested by a difficulty in learning to read, write, or spell, despite
conventional instruction, adequate intelligence, and sociocultural opportunity
Differentiation - Complexity - ✔✔how difficult the vocabulary, sentence structure and
organization is to understand within a text
, When assessing the complexity of a task, a teacher should determine if the skill or content be
broken down into more simple components.
Extrinsic / External Motivation - ✔✔the motive for the activity comes from outside the
individual
Retell - ✔✔a comprehension strategy in which students retell or tell differently what they
have read or listened to
When students retell a story, they are demonstrating their comprehension of the most
important parts.
Deficit-Based Approach - ✔✔a traditional educational approach, which focuses on
strengthening a student's weak areas
When using a deficit-based approach, teachers try to identify problems and work to fix them.
Prosody - ✔✔the reader's ability to convey expression, including using correct emphasis,
punctuation, and tone, while reading aloud
Literature Circles - ✔✔A strategy in which a teacher organizes students into small groups to
discuss a common text.
Phonemic Awareness / Sound Awareness - ✔✔the ability to hear, identify, and re-create
individual sounds in spoken words
A student can hear that"B" makes first sound in the word "blue"
