ILTS 207 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
Idiomatic expressions - Answer-An expression in the usage of a language that is
peculiar to itself either grammatically (such as no, it wasn't me) or in having a meaning
that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as ride herd
on for "supervise")
Three Part Model - Answer-1 Qualitative Measures
The qualitative measures of text complexity requires an informed judgment on the
difficulty of the text by considering a range of factors. The Standards use purpose or
levels of meaning, structure, language conventionality and clarity, as well as the
knowledge demands as measures of text difficulty.
Rubrics have been developed for both literacy and informational texts that include
descriptors for:
• Layout
• Purpose and meaning
• Text structure
• Language features
• Knowledge demands
2 Quantitative Measures
Quantitative measures of text complexity use factors such as sentence and word length
and the frequency of unfamiliar words to calculate the difficulty of the text, assigning a
single measure (grade level equivalent, number, Lexile etc). There are many formulas
to calculate text difficulty and, while they provide a guide, the readability or difficulty
level of a text can vary depending on which formulas or measures are used.
Grade band equivalents
Lexile levels
3 Reader and Task
The third measure looks at what the student brings to the text and the tasks that are
assigned. Teachers need to use their knowledge of their students and texts to match
texts to particular students and tasks.
Inflections - Answer-The modification of a word to express different grammatical
categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, and mood.
Derivations - Answer-The process of forming a new word from an existing word, often
by adding a prefix or suffix, such as -ness or un-. For example, happiness and unhappy
come from the root word happy.
Compound words - Answer-Made up of two or more smaller words that are combined to
make a new word with its own meaning. The smaller words that form this type of word
are like puzzle pieces you fit together to create a new bigger picture. Take the words
milk and shake. If we fit these pieces together, we get the ______ word milkshake.
, Morphology - Answer-The arrangement and relationships of the smallest meaningful
units in a language. So what does this really mean? Every human language depends on
sounds. When specific sounds are put together in a specific way, words, phrases, and
finally sentences can be created. This is how messages are sent and received.
Morphemes - Answer-The smallest unit of a word with meaning. That meaning is how
language conveys messages. _______ are more than just letters. When a number of
letters are put together into a word part that now has meaning, then you have a/an
______.
Think-pair-share - Answer-A collaborative learning strategy in which students work
together to solve a problem or answer a question about an assigned reading. This
technique requires students to (1) individually contemplate a topic or answer to a
question, and (2) collaborate with classmates.
Targeted words - Answer-Words chosen in advance by the teacher to specifically focus
on during a lesson
Tiers 1, 2, and 3 - Answer-______ _____ words are the words of everyday speech
usually learned in the early grades.
______ _____ words (academic vocabulary) are far more likely to appear in written
texts than in speech, and they appear in all kinds of texts: informational texts (words
such as relative, vary, formulate, specificity, and accumulate), technical texts (calibrate,
itemize, periphery), and literary texts (misfortune, dignified, faltered, unabashedly).
________ ______ words (domain-specific words) are specific to a domain or field of
study (lava, carburetor, legislature, circumference, aorta) and key to understanding a
new concept within a text.
Contextual analysis - Answer-An analysis of a text (in whatever medium, including multi-
media) that helps us to assess that text as it relates to its historical and cultural setting,
but also in terms of its textuality - or the qualities that characterize the text as a text.
Syntactic analysis - Answer-The process of analysing a string of symbols, either in
natural language, computer languages or data structures, conforming to the rules of a
formal grammar
Differentiated instruction - Answer-A teaching method in which teachers adapt their
instruction to accommodate a variety of learning needs. It is more than simply helping
students who need extra assistance after a lesson is presented. It is proactively
developing a variety of teaching materials so that all students within a classroom can
learn effectively regardless of differences in learning style or academic skill.
There are four aspects of the classroom that teachers can focus on to _______
instruction: content, which is the material students are supposed to learn: process,
which is when students work on the content: product, which is how students
CORRECT ANSWERS
Idiomatic expressions - Answer-An expression in the usage of a language that is
peculiar to itself either grammatically (such as no, it wasn't me) or in having a meaning
that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as ride herd
on for "supervise")
Three Part Model - Answer-1 Qualitative Measures
The qualitative measures of text complexity requires an informed judgment on the
difficulty of the text by considering a range of factors. The Standards use purpose or
levels of meaning, structure, language conventionality and clarity, as well as the
knowledge demands as measures of text difficulty.
Rubrics have been developed for both literacy and informational texts that include
descriptors for:
• Layout
• Purpose and meaning
• Text structure
• Language features
• Knowledge demands
2 Quantitative Measures
Quantitative measures of text complexity use factors such as sentence and word length
and the frequency of unfamiliar words to calculate the difficulty of the text, assigning a
single measure (grade level equivalent, number, Lexile etc). There are many formulas
to calculate text difficulty and, while they provide a guide, the readability or difficulty
level of a text can vary depending on which formulas or measures are used.
Grade band equivalents
Lexile levels
3 Reader and Task
The third measure looks at what the student brings to the text and the tasks that are
assigned. Teachers need to use their knowledge of their students and texts to match
texts to particular students and tasks.
Inflections - Answer-The modification of a word to express different grammatical
categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, and mood.
Derivations - Answer-The process of forming a new word from an existing word, often
by adding a prefix or suffix, such as -ness or un-. For example, happiness and unhappy
come from the root word happy.
Compound words - Answer-Made up of two or more smaller words that are combined to
make a new word with its own meaning. The smaller words that form this type of word
are like puzzle pieces you fit together to create a new bigger picture. Take the words
milk and shake. If we fit these pieces together, we get the ______ word milkshake.
, Morphology - Answer-The arrangement and relationships of the smallest meaningful
units in a language. So what does this really mean? Every human language depends on
sounds. When specific sounds are put together in a specific way, words, phrases, and
finally sentences can be created. This is how messages are sent and received.
Morphemes - Answer-The smallest unit of a word with meaning. That meaning is how
language conveys messages. _______ are more than just letters. When a number of
letters are put together into a word part that now has meaning, then you have a/an
______.
Think-pair-share - Answer-A collaborative learning strategy in which students work
together to solve a problem or answer a question about an assigned reading. This
technique requires students to (1) individually contemplate a topic or answer to a
question, and (2) collaborate with classmates.
Targeted words - Answer-Words chosen in advance by the teacher to specifically focus
on during a lesson
Tiers 1, 2, and 3 - Answer-______ _____ words are the words of everyday speech
usually learned in the early grades.
______ _____ words (academic vocabulary) are far more likely to appear in written
texts than in speech, and they appear in all kinds of texts: informational texts (words
such as relative, vary, formulate, specificity, and accumulate), technical texts (calibrate,
itemize, periphery), and literary texts (misfortune, dignified, faltered, unabashedly).
________ ______ words (domain-specific words) are specific to a domain or field of
study (lava, carburetor, legislature, circumference, aorta) and key to understanding a
new concept within a text.
Contextual analysis - Answer-An analysis of a text (in whatever medium, including multi-
media) that helps us to assess that text as it relates to its historical and cultural setting,
but also in terms of its textuality - or the qualities that characterize the text as a text.
Syntactic analysis - Answer-The process of analysing a string of symbols, either in
natural language, computer languages or data structures, conforming to the rules of a
formal grammar
Differentiated instruction - Answer-A teaching method in which teachers adapt their
instruction to accommodate a variety of learning needs. It is more than simply helping
students who need extra assistance after a lesson is presented. It is proactively
developing a variety of teaching materials so that all students within a classroom can
learn effectively regardless of differences in learning style or academic skill.
There are four aspects of the classroom that teachers can focus on to _______
instruction: content, which is the material students are supposed to learn: process,
which is when students work on the content: product, which is how students
