RVE PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Which of the following is the best reason for using flexible grouping in the reading
classroom?
A) Flexible grouping allows teachers to tailor instruction to address students' changing
needs
B) Flexible grouping ensures opportunities for students to have discussions around a
common text with peers
C) Flexible grouping allows students to get comfortable working with the same group of
peers throughout the school year
D) Flexible grouping provides time for students to progress through a set of materials -
Answers :A
A second-grade teacher uses an assessment tool for coding, scoring, and analyzing a
student's oral reading behavior. Which of the following best describes the technique?
A) Shared Reading
B) Reader's conference
C) Process Interview
D) Running Record - Answers :D
After administering a phonemic awareness test, which of the following is the most
appropriate next step a teacher would take with students who scored low on the
assessment?
A) Teaching blending and segmenting sounds
B) Developing phonics and decoding strategies
C) Building word recognition skills
D) Developing fluency and stamina - Answers :A
A teacher reads a series of graded passages to a student to assess the skill of creating
meaning from written language when decoding is not a factor. Which of the following
identifies the highest level at which the student can comprehend 75 percent of the
material?
,A) Expressive Language Level
B) Listening Capacity
C) Linguistic Processing Capacity
D) Instructional Level - Answers :B
Ms. Osborn teaches a variety of reading strategies to help her students become
strategic readers. The strategies include predicting, previewing, monitoring
comprehension while reading, generating questions, and summarizing. Which of the
following most likely explains Ms. Osborn's purpose in teaching the strategies?
A) Research has shown that reading comprehension improves when teachers provide
explicit instruction
B) The school district mandates that students receive instruction in reading
comprehension strategies
C) Research has shown that only these strategies are effective
D) The school literacy coach has given workshops in the use of the strategies - Answers
:A
Standardized, norm-referenced, reading assessments
Effective or ineffective in diagnosing the reading needs of individual students? -
Answers :Ineffective
Informal Reading Inventories
Effective or ineffective in diagnosing the reading needs of individual students? -
Answers :Effective
Formative Reading Assessments
Effective or ineffective in diagnosing the reading needs of individual students? -
Answers :Effective
Which of the following is the primary purpose of a norm-referenced test?
A) Interpreting a student's performance using set criteria
B) Measuring how well a student has learned content-specific knowledge and skills
C) Indicating where a student performs in comparison to a group of similar students
,D) Evaluating a student's performance compared to a standard - Answers :C
A student at the conventional stage of writing development will primarily write
A) A combination of letters, symbols, and shapes in random order
B) Words that are often correctly spelled and include storybook language such as "Once
upon a time"
C) Sentences without including spacing between words or awareness of punctuation
marks
D) Words represented by only the initial and ending consonant - Answers :B
A fourth-grade teacher is developing a writing assignment, the goal of which is to help
students persuade readers to agree with an opinion. Which of the following writing
prompts is most appropriate for this assignment?
A) Describe your favorite TV show
B) Write a new episode of your favorite TV show
C) How are the TV shows you watch different than the shows your parents watched
when they were your age?
D) Should a limit be placed on the amount of time children spend watching TV? -
Answers :D
A reading specialist conducts a workshop for teachers on use of the directed reading-
thinking activity (DRTA) method of instruction. In the model, teachers ask students to
first make predictions based on the title and cover of a book. At various points in the
story, students stop reading and check the accuracy of their predictions. Predictions are
then changed or clarified, and new predictions may be made based on new information
the students learned while reading. The DRTA method of instruction is most likely to
promote which of the following?
A) Applying metacognitive skills to increase comprehension
B) using text structures to summarize
C) reinforcing use of word-recognition skills in context
D) increasing motivation to read independently - Answers :A
, Justin, a fourth-grade student, takes a norm-referenced reading test and receives a
stanine score of 7 on a vocabulary subtest. Which of the following best describes the
student's level of performance on the assessment?
A) On grade level
B) Below Average
C) Average
D) Above Average - Answers :D
A teacher is searching for an assessment tool that will provide specific information to
guide instruction in order to improve each students' writing abilities. Which of the
following is most likely to assist the teacher in this goal?
A) A holistic scoring rubric
B) An analytic scoring rubric
C) A standardized test
D) An attitude survey - Answers :B
A first-grade student shows evidence of phonological awareness but has difficulty
segmenting words into phonemes. Which of the questions below is likely to be the most
challenging for the student to answer?
A) Listen to these word parts: /p/ /i/ /ck/. What is the word?
B) Which of these two words rhyme: "fun", "sun", or "tan"?
C) Listen to this word: "sad". How many sounds do you hear?
D) Which of these two words have the same medial sound: "fit", "bin", "can"? - Answers
:C
My vacation was exciteing. We did many interesting things. We went to the beach. We
played in the sand. We were so hot that we went in the wuter. We played games in the
water. We had an awesome time.
A third-grade student wrote the story above about her summer vacation. To further
develop the student's writing, the focus of instruction during a writing conference should
be on:
A) Word Choice
Which of the following is the best reason for using flexible grouping in the reading
classroom?
A) Flexible grouping allows teachers to tailor instruction to address students' changing
needs
B) Flexible grouping ensures opportunities for students to have discussions around a
common text with peers
C) Flexible grouping allows students to get comfortable working with the same group of
peers throughout the school year
D) Flexible grouping provides time for students to progress through a set of materials -
Answers :A
A second-grade teacher uses an assessment tool for coding, scoring, and analyzing a
student's oral reading behavior. Which of the following best describes the technique?
A) Shared Reading
B) Reader's conference
C) Process Interview
D) Running Record - Answers :D
After administering a phonemic awareness test, which of the following is the most
appropriate next step a teacher would take with students who scored low on the
assessment?
A) Teaching blending and segmenting sounds
B) Developing phonics and decoding strategies
C) Building word recognition skills
D) Developing fluency and stamina - Answers :A
A teacher reads a series of graded passages to a student to assess the skill of creating
meaning from written language when decoding is not a factor. Which of the following
identifies the highest level at which the student can comprehend 75 percent of the
material?
,A) Expressive Language Level
B) Listening Capacity
C) Linguistic Processing Capacity
D) Instructional Level - Answers :B
Ms. Osborn teaches a variety of reading strategies to help her students become
strategic readers. The strategies include predicting, previewing, monitoring
comprehension while reading, generating questions, and summarizing. Which of the
following most likely explains Ms. Osborn's purpose in teaching the strategies?
A) Research has shown that reading comprehension improves when teachers provide
explicit instruction
B) The school district mandates that students receive instruction in reading
comprehension strategies
C) Research has shown that only these strategies are effective
D) The school literacy coach has given workshops in the use of the strategies - Answers
:A
Standardized, norm-referenced, reading assessments
Effective or ineffective in diagnosing the reading needs of individual students? -
Answers :Ineffective
Informal Reading Inventories
Effective or ineffective in diagnosing the reading needs of individual students? -
Answers :Effective
Formative Reading Assessments
Effective or ineffective in diagnosing the reading needs of individual students? -
Answers :Effective
Which of the following is the primary purpose of a norm-referenced test?
A) Interpreting a student's performance using set criteria
B) Measuring how well a student has learned content-specific knowledge and skills
C) Indicating where a student performs in comparison to a group of similar students
,D) Evaluating a student's performance compared to a standard - Answers :C
A student at the conventional stage of writing development will primarily write
A) A combination of letters, symbols, and shapes in random order
B) Words that are often correctly spelled and include storybook language such as "Once
upon a time"
C) Sentences without including spacing between words or awareness of punctuation
marks
D) Words represented by only the initial and ending consonant - Answers :B
A fourth-grade teacher is developing a writing assignment, the goal of which is to help
students persuade readers to agree with an opinion. Which of the following writing
prompts is most appropriate for this assignment?
A) Describe your favorite TV show
B) Write a new episode of your favorite TV show
C) How are the TV shows you watch different than the shows your parents watched
when they were your age?
D) Should a limit be placed on the amount of time children spend watching TV? -
Answers :D
A reading specialist conducts a workshop for teachers on use of the directed reading-
thinking activity (DRTA) method of instruction. In the model, teachers ask students to
first make predictions based on the title and cover of a book. At various points in the
story, students stop reading and check the accuracy of their predictions. Predictions are
then changed or clarified, and new predictions may be made based on new information
the students learned while reading. The DRTA method of instruction is most likely to
promote which of the following?
A) Applying metacognitive skills to increase comprehension
B) using text structures to summarize
C) reinforcing use of word-recognition skills in context
D) increasing motivation to read independently - Answers :A
, Justin, a fourth-grade student, takes a norm-referenced reading test and receives a
stanine score of 7 on a vocabulary subtest. Which of the following best describes the
student's level of performance on the assessment?
A) On grade level
B) Below Average
C) Average
D) Above Average - Answers :D
A teacher is searching for an assessment tool that will provide specific information to
guide instruction in order to improve each students' writing abilities. Which of the
following is most likely to assist the teacher in this goal?
A) A holistic scoring rubric
B) An analytic scoring rubric
C) A standardized test
D) An attitude survey - Answers :B
A first-grade student shows evidence of phonological awareness but has difficulty
segmenting words into phonemes. Which of the questions below is likely to be the most
challenging for the student to answer?
A) Listen to these word parts: /p/ /i/ /ck/. What is the word?
B) Which of these two words rhyme: "fun", "sun", or "tan"?
C) Listen to this word: "sad". How many sounds do you hear?
D) Which of these two words have the same medial sound: "fit", "bin", "can"? - Answers
:C
My vacation was exciteing. We did many interesting things. We went to the beach. We
played in the sand. We were so hot that we went in the wuter. We played games in the
water. We had an awesome time.
A third-grade student wrote the story above about her summer vacation. To further
develop the student's writing, the focus of instruction during a writing conference should
be on:
A) Word Choice
