STR 293 Certify Teacher
Questions And Correct Answers
What would be the most appropriate scaffolding for an English learner who is
having difficulty identifying objects and the initial sounds?
Teacher names all the objects before having the students participate in the task;
EL may be unfamiliar with names of objects, so naming tgem gives them an
opportunity to articulate initial sounds
Heterogeneous grouping is most likely to benefit the students in what way?
Mixed groups allow students to help scaffold learning among peers
A teacher wants to use a variety of media tools to create a book report. The
teacher use technology to
Communicate a message through language, medium, and presentation
A teacher uses cooperative groups as an approach to reading instruction
primarily because Cooperative grouping
Allow for student choice in learning, and this is linked to increased reader
motivation and comprehension
,Word families are groups
Of words that contain similar spelling and same same rhyme. e.g. word family
"at": sat, cat, rat, mat, pat, etc
What percentage of words in the English language are phonetically regular
(meaning they can be decided using letter-sound correspondence)?
50%
The alphabetic arc helps students learn
New words through analogy with letter patters in familiar word. e.g. If student
recognizes /ran/ he should be able to decode/spell /fan/
Diagraph
combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (graph= ph/
swing=ng/chance=ch/head=ea)
Trigraph
three letters that make one sound
, How many words correct per minute (WCPM) should a student at the third
grade be able to read?
100-120 wcpm
How many words correct per minute (WCPM) should a student in second grade
be able to read?
80-100 wcpm
How many words correct per minute (WCPM) should a student in first grade be
able to read?
70-90 wcpm
When a sentence is grammatically correct, we call that
Syntactically (grammar) well-formed
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a
language.
Questions And Correct Answers
What would be the most appropriate scaffolding for an English learner who is
having difficulty identifying objects and the initial sounds?
Teacher names all the objects before having the students participate in the task;
EL may be unfamiliar with names of objects, so naming tgem gives them an
opportunity to articulate initial sounds
Heterogeneous grouping is most likely to benefit the students in what way?
Mixed groups allow students to help scaffold learning among peers
A teacher wants to use a variety of media tools to create a book report. The
teacher use technology to
Communicate a message through language, medium, and presentation
A teacher uses cooperative groups as an approach to reading instruction
primarily because Cooperative grouping
Allow for student choice in learning, and this is linked to increased reader
motivation and comprehension
,Word families are groups
Of words that contain similar spelling and same same rhyme. e.g. word family
"at": sat, cat, rat, mat, pat, etc
What percentage of words in the English language are phonetically regular
(meaning they can be decided using letter-sound correspondence)?
50%
The alphabetic arc helps students learn
New words through analogy with letter patters in familiar word. e.g. If student
recognizes /ran/ he should be able to decode/spell /fan/
Diagraph
combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (graph= ph/
swing=ng/chance=ch/head=ea)
Trigraph
three letters that make one sound
, How many words correct per minute (WCPM) should a student at the third
grade be able to read?
100-120 wcpm
How many words correct per minute (WCPM) should a student in second grade
be able to read?
80-100 wcpm
How many words correct per minute (WCPM) should a student in first grade be
able to read?
70-90 wcpm
When a sentence is grammatically correct, we call that
Syntactically (grammar) well-formed
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a
language.
