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A 6th grade teacher at Sinagua Middle School reads an informational text and asks the students to
think of a good title to the excerpt. After reading she asks for some volunteers and then writes their
responses on the board. They then talk about the different possible titles and eventually agree upon
one that best reflects the information in the passage. What does this activity promote with regard to
the students' development of listening skills?
a.
Listen to the author's primary purpose for the text and figure out the main idea(s)
b.
Use listening skills in order to evaluate supporting evidence
c.
Predicting to support listening comprehension
d.
Use the information to create mental images that support listening comprehension ✔Correct
Answer-a.
Listen to the author's primary purpose for the text and figure out the main idea(s)
Emma is a beginning reader. She is reading a book and comes across a new word. Once she decodes
the word how is she able to succeed in understanding the meaning of the word she just decoded?
a.
The new word is easy to spell
b.
The new word rhymes with some site words
c.
The new word is inside a passage of text that is interesting to Emma
d.
The new word is already a part of Emma's oral vocabulary ✔Correct Answer-d.
The new word is already a part of Emma's oral vocabulary
Jamison, a kindergartner, says that there are eight words in the spoken sentence "My kite is blue and
flies really high." What skill is this student demonstrating?
a.
Phonological awareness
b.
Oral language fluency
c.
Letter-sound correspondence
d.
Print awareness ✔Correct Answer-a.
Phonological awareness
For English Language Learners, early literacy skills that transfer from the child's first language to his
or her second language include:
a. Knowing the sounds of the alphabet
b. Knowing the functions of and purpose of printed words and writing
, c. Being able to rhyme words
d. Being able to decode digraphs and sound blends ✔Correct Answer-b. Knowing the functions of
and purpose of printed words and writing
A first grade teacher is teaching her students a new song and asks one student to identify any words
that have similar sounds. This teacher is demonstrating the best practice of promoting the students'
awareness of :
a. phonemic patterns
b. decoding strategies
c. letter-sound correspondence
d. word identification strategy ✔Correct Answer-a. phonemic patterns
At Humphrey Elementary School, many of the second graders are struggling with grade level sights
words and are limited in their abilities to recognize words. Choose the best strategy that would assist
them in overcoming this challenge.
a.
Give them explicit directions for spelling their sight words as well as many opportunities to use the
words during journal responses or any other type of writing exercise.
b.
Give the students multiple activities that allow them to sort the words in order to learn various
spelling patterns.
c.
Teach them the roots that are often used and also the prefixes that are often used in the English
language. This will help them understand their sight words and/or spelling words better with
automatic recognition.
d.
Provide the students with experiential learning so that they learn to independently find
opportunities to use and learn sight words. ✔Correct Answer-a.
Give them explicit directions for spelling their sight words as well as many opportunities to use the
words during journal responses or any other type of writing exercise.
When working with English Language Learners (ELL), which teaching strategy is NOT likely to be
utilized?
a. The teacher works with the students using context clues to understand words that they do not
recognize.
b. The instructional aide working with a small group adjusts her reading rate of a particular passage.
c. The students are instructed to look up words in the dictionary and record them in a journal.
d. The teacher stops after every few sentences in a passage she is reading allowed to check for
comprehension. ✔Correct Answer-c. The students are instructed to look up words in the dictionary
and record them in a journal.
When assigning a research project paper to her class, Ms. Jones reviews skills with the students that
will assist them in conducting their research. Which of the following would probably NOT be a topic
the Ms. Jones is going to review with the students?
a. Ask the students to write down a topic sentence for each of their paragraphs in the report.
b. Give the students an outline template and discuss how outlines are created and used in the
writing process.
c. Have students write down questions about their topic that they would like to answer through their
research. ✔Correct Answer-a. Ask the students to write down a topic sentence for each of their
paragraphs in the report.
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GRADED A+
A 6th grade teacher at Sinagua Middle School reads an informational text and asks the students to
think of a good title to the excerpt. After reading she asks for some volunteers and then writes their
responses on the board. They then talk about the different possible titles and eventually agree upon
one that best reflects the information in the passage. What does this activity promote with regard to
the students' development of listening skills?
a.
Listen to the author's primary purpose for the text and figure out the main idea(s)
b.
Use listening skills in order to evaluate supporting evidence
c.
Predicting to support listening comprehension
d.
Use the information to create mental images that support listening comprehension ✔Correct
Answer-a.
Listen to the author's primary purpose for the text and figure out the main idea(s)
Emma is a beginning reader. She is reading a book and comes across a new word. Once she decodes
the word how is she able to succeed in understanding the meaning of the word she just decoded?
a.
The new word is easy to spell
b.
The new word rhymes with some site words
c.
The new word is inside a passage of text that is interesting to Emma
d.
The new word is already a part of Emma's oral vocabulary ✔Correct Answer-d.
The new word is already a part of Emma's oral vocabulary
Jamison, a kindergartner, says that there are eight words in the spoken sentence "My kite is blue and
flies really high." What skill is this student demonstrating?
a.
Phonological awareness
b.
Oral language fluency
c.
Letter-sound correspondence
d.
Print awareness ✔Correct Answer-a.
Phonological awareness
For English Language Learners, early literacy skills that transfer from the child's first language to his
or her second language include:
a. Knowing the sounds of the alphabet
b. Knowing the functions of and purpose of printed words and writing
, c. Being able to rhyme words
d. Being able to decode digraphs and sound blends ✔Correct Answer-b. Knowing the functions of
and purpose of printed words and writing
A first grade teacher is teaching her students a new song and asks one student to identify any words
that have similar sounds. This teacher is demonstrating the best practice of promoting the students'
awareness of :
a. phonemic patterns
b. decoding strategies
c. letter-sound correspondence
d. word identification strategy ✔Correct Answer-a. phonemic patterns
At Humphrey Elementary School, many of the second graders are struggling with grade level sights
words and are limited in their abilities to recognize words. Choose the best strategy that would assist
them in overcoming this challenge.
a.
Give them explicit directions for spelling their sight words as well as many opportunities to use the
words during journal responses or any other type of writing exercise.
b.
Give the students multiple activities that allow them to sort the words in order to learn various
spelling patterns.
c.
Teach them the roots that are often used and also the prefixes that are often used in the English
language. This will help them understand their sight words and/or spelling words better with
automatic recognition.
d.
Provide the students with experiential learning so that they learn to independently find
opportunities to use and learn sight words. ✔Correct Answer-a.
Give them explicit directions for spelling their sight words as well as many opportunities to use the
words during journal responses or any other type of writing exercise.
When working with English Language Learners (ELL), which teaching strategy is NOT likely to be
utilized?
a. The teacher works with the students using context clues to understand words that they do not
recognize.
b. The instructional aide working with a small group adjusts her reading rate of a particular passage.
c. The students are instructed to look up words in the dictionary and record them in a journal.
d. The teacher stops after every few sentences in a passage she is reading allowed to check for
comprehension. ✔Correct Answer-c. The students are instructed to look up words in the dictionary
and record them in a journal.
When assigning a research project paper to her class, Ms. Jones reviews skills with the students that
will assist them in conducting their research. Which of the following would probably NOT be a topic
the Ms. Jones is going to review with the students?
a. Ask the students to write down a topic sentence for each of their paragraphs in the report.
b. Give the students an outline template and discuss how outlines are created and used in the
writing process.
c. Have students write down questions about their topic that they would like to answer through their
research. ✔Correct Answer-a. Ask the students to write down a topic sentence for each of their
paragraphs in the report.
