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subarea's for objectives 1-4 correct answers Multiple-Choice
I. Foundations of Reading Development
II. Development of Reading Comprehension
III. Reading Assessment and Instruction
Open-Response
IV. Integration of Knowledge and Understanding
Norm-Referenced Tests correct answers A standardized test to compare reading proficiency
students with one another.
Ex. A student finds herself in the 40 percentile of the students in her class.
Reliability correct answers A test yields consistent results across different administrations.
Ex. A student discovers that when she took the same exam multiple times, she earned similar
scores.
Validity correct answers The degree to which a test measures what it intends to measure.
Ex. A student discovers the test they took effectively measures their phonics knowledge.
Literal Comprehension correct answers Surface level of understanding a text. A student retells
the main events of a story.
Ex. The answer is "Right There."
Inferential Comprehension correct answers Readers use what is explicitly stated in the text to
determine what is not stated.
Ex. A student identifies implicit character relationships.
Evaluative Comprehension correct answers Readers analyze and make judgments about what is
read using evidence from the text
A student draws conclusions about the author's purpose for writing a story.
Independent Reading Level correct answers A text a student can read with 95-100% accuracy.
Ex. A student chooses a book he can read to himself accurately during silent reading time.
Instructional Reading Level correct answers A text a student can read with 90-98% accuracy.
Ex. A student chooses a book to read with support from his teacher during guided reading time.
Frustration Reading Level correct answers A text a student reads with less than 90% accuracy.
Ex. A student chooses a book for his father to read to him at bed time.
Norm-Referenced Tests correct answers A standardized test to compare reading proficiency
students with another population.
, Ex. Standardized testing.
Structural Analysis correct answers The process of recognizing the morphemic structure of
words.
Ex. A teacher introduces the words: Preview, review, viewing, viewed. She then discusses the
prefix, suffix and root words.
Literary Analysis correct answers Understanding the techniques that make a literary form
effective. May attend to elements such as plot, character, mood, symbolism, dialogue etc. A
teacher helps students make a concept map of a story. The process of recognizing the morphemic
structure of words.
Phonological Awareness correct answers - Focuses on the sounds of spoken language. and how
they can be blended together, segmented, and switched/
manipulated to form new combinations and words.
- Does not involve print.
- Activities are auditory.
- Phonological awareness does not equal phonics.
- Use blocks and objects to teach the phonemes of words
Text features correct answers Children should pay attention to specific text features:
a period which marks the end of a "telling sentence" a question mark that is at the end of a
sentence that asks a question, an exclamation mark that is used to express surprise or excitement
at the end of a sentence, capital letters which begin a sentence and the names of persons, places,
and things; bold italicized or underlined text to highlight key ideas; quotation marks which show
dialogue, a hyphen used to break a long word into its syllables, a dash used to show a break in an
idea, or to indicate a parenthetical element or an omission; an eclipse, which shows an omission
or break in the text; and a paragraph in nonfiction which shows a new point being made.
Transitional readers correct answers They can provide summaries of the stories that they read.
They are more at ease with handling longer, more complex, connected text with short chapters.
They use a variety of strategies to figure out unfamiliar words. They can integrate meaning,
syntax, and phonics in an consistent manner so that they can understand the texts that they are
reading.
Phonology correct answers The study of speech structure in language that includes both the
patters of basic speech units (phonemes) and the tacit rules of pronunciation.
Phonological cues correct answers Readers use their knowledge of letter/sound and sound /letter
relationships to predict and confirm reading.
Define Phonics: correct answers - The study of relationships between phonemes (speech sounds)
and graphemes (letters) that represent phonemes.
- Involves print
- Helps students identify words in print by "sounding out" the phonemes, blending them together,
and saying the word.
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subarea's for objectives 1-4 correct answers Multiple-Choice
I. Foundations of Reading Development
II. Development of Reading Comprehension
III. Reading Assessment and Instruction
Open-Response
IV. Integration of Knowledge and Understanding
Norm-Referenced Tests correct answers A standardized test to compare reading proficiency
students with one another.
Ex. A student finds herself in the 40 percentile of the students in her class.
Reliability correct answers A test yields consistent results across different administrations.
Ex. A student discovers that when she took the same exam multiple times, she earned similar
scores.
Validity correct answers The degree to which a test measures what it intends to measure.
Ex. A student discovers the test they took effectively measures their phonics knowledge.
Literal Comprehension correct answers Surface level of understanding a text. A student retells
the main events of a story.
Ex. The answer is "Right There."
Inferential Comprehension correct answers Readers use what is explicitly stated in the text to
determine what is not stated.
Ex. A student identifies implicit character relationships.
Evaluative Comprehension correct answers Readers analyze and make judgments about what is
read using evidence from the text
A student draws conclusions about the author's purpose for writing a story.
Independent Reading Level correct answers A text a student can read with 95-100% accuracy.
Ex. A student chooses a book he can read to himself accurately during silent reading time.
Instructional Reading Level correct answers A text a student can read with 90-98% accuracy.
Ex. A student chooses a book to read with support from his teacher during guided reading time.
Frustration Reading Level correct answers A text a student reads with less than 90% accuracy.
Ex. A student chooses a book for his father to read to him at bed time.
Norm-Referenced Tests correct answers A standardized test to compare reading proficiency
students with another population.
, Ex. Standardized testing.
Structural Analysis correct answers The process of recognizing the morphemic structure of
words.
Ex. A teacher introduces the words: Preview, review, viewing, viewed. She then discusses the
prefix, suffix and root words.
Literary Analysis correct answers Understanding the techniques that make a literary form
effective. May attend to elements such as plot, character, mood, symbolism, dialogue etc. A
teacher helps students make a concept map of a story. The process of recognizing the morphemic
structure of words.
Phonological Awareness correct answers - Focuses on the sounds of spoken language. and how
they can be blended together, segmented, and switched/
manipulated to form new combinations and words.
- Does not involve print.
- Activities are auditory.
- Phonological awareness does not equal phonics.
- Use blocks and objects to teach the phonemes of words
Text features correct answers Children should pay attention to specific text features:
a period which marks the end of a "telling sentence" a question mark that is at the end of a
sentence that asks a question, an exclamation mark that is used to express surprise or excitement
at the end of a sentence, capital letters which begin a sentence and the names of persons, places,
and things; bold italicized or underlined text to highlight key ideas; quotation marks which show
dialogue, a hyphen used to break a long word into its syllables, a dash used to show a break in an
idea, or to indicate a parenthetical element or an omission; an eclipse, which shows an omission
or break in the text; and a paragraph in nonfiction which shows a new point being made.
Transitional readers correct answers They can provide summaries of the stories that they read.
They are more at ease with handling longer, more complex, connected text with short chapters.
They use a variety of strategies to figure out unfamiliar words. They can integrate meaning,
syntax, and phonics in an consistent manner so that they can understand the texts that they are
reading.
Phonology correct answers The study of speech structure in language that includes both the
patters of basic speech units (phonemes) and the tacit rules of pronunciation.
Phonological cues correct answers Readers use their knowledge of letter/sound and sound /letter
relationships to predict and confirm reading.
Define Phonics: correct answers - The study of relationships between phonemes (speech sounds)
and graphemes (letters) that represent phonemes.
- Involves print
- Helps students identify words in print by "sounding out" the phonemes, blending them together,
and saying the word.
