Language Arts

Question 0

What is the single best predictor of academic success for second language learners?

Answer 0

Vocabulary Knowledge

Question 1

Which concept is best supported by current research on emergent literacy?

Answer 1

Reading and writing develop concurrently and in interrelated ways.

Question 2

What is the most effective activity to develop students concept of print?

Answer 2

Listening to a teacher read aloud. It models how to use books.

Question 3

According to L. S. Vygotsky, exemplary instruction in literacy is characterized by a teacher who….

Answer 3

Provides appropriate scaffolded support as students read texts slightly more difficult than those chosen for independent reading.

Question 4

What describes the way language is used in a social context?

Answer 4

Pragmatics

Question 5

What does research suggest is the primary reason why the english language is difficult to decode?

Answer 5

The phoneme-grapheme correspondence is inconsistent

Question 6

The ability to distinguich differences or likenesses in individual sounds or words is called…

Answer 6

Auditory Discrimation

Question 7

A student is learning words that end in /-ight/. The teacher changes only the first letter of the word and asks the student to read it. What type of phonics instruction are you using?

Answer 7

Analogy-based it uses onset and rime.

Question 8

A group of first grade students is reading a book about a cat. They have written the word cat on lapboards and the teacher asks them to identify a smaller word in it. They identify “at” and they are asked to write other words that are in the same word family. Which of the following is a probably the teachers primary reason for using this activity?

Answer 8

To introduce the students to analysis of chunks or patterns in words.

Question 9

In telling a class that the sound heard at the beginning of the word “dog” is represented by the letter d a teacher is explaining

Answer 9

Phoneme grapheme correspondence

Question 10

A 5th grade teacher facilitates a discusssion in which students determine the meaning of a prefix based on a list of student generated words. What is the objective for this activity?

Answer 10

Developing students ability to apply and transfer knowledge independently.

Question 11

What procedure is speciffically designed to increase sight vocabulary and fluency and accuracy of oral reading, has research shown to be particularly effective?

Answer 11

Using a repeated reading program and easy learning materials.

Question 12

A teacher is setting up a listening center. The center activities are most likely to promote reading development by helping the students.

Answer 12

Experience different models of fluent reading.

Question 13

A second grade student recognizes all the letters of the alphabetand the corresponding sounds for each. When writing, the student consistently encodes the intial and final consonant sounds but does not include vowel sounds. The students writing is most likely at which of the following stages of development?

Answer 13

Phonetic

Question 14

Research shows that children who are allowed and encouraged to invent soelling are likely to

Answer 14

Strengthen their sense of phonemic awereness

Question 15

Students in kindergarten class draw a pictures and use invented spelling to label them. Which of the following is the best rationale for engaging students in the activity.

Answer 15

The activity helps students understand that print carries meaning.

Question 16

Prior to reading a selection about pond life from a science textbook a teacher asks the students to write all that they know about the topic quickly and spontanwously for about five minutes then the teacher asks several students to share their thoughts with the class either reading verbatim or talking through what they have written. The teacher briefly points out similarities and differences in the students concepts. The teachers goal is to help the students…

Answer 16

Expand their schemata and knowledge structures to help them construct meaning and retain information.

Question 17

During a unit on folktales, a second grade teacher wants to help students engage in higher order thinking skills after the students read the little red hen, the teachers asks the students to justify the little red hens decision to eat the bread herself. Which of the level of bloo s taxonomy does this activity address?

Answer 17

Evaluation

Question 18

Ms. Flores prepares her fifth graders to read moon over manifest. She instructs the students to place sticky notes in the text to note passages that provide clues to solve the mystery of jinx. Students will practice which of the following comprehension skills in the activity?

Answer 18

Inferential

Question 19

Ms. Osborn teaches a variety of reading startegies to help her students become startegic readings. The startegies include predicitng previewing and monitoring comprehension while reading generating questions and summarizing. Which of the following best expalins ms. Osborns purpose in teaching startegies.

Answer 19

Research has shown that reading comprehension improves when teachers provide explicit instruction.

Question 20

According to schema theorists vocabulary instruction improves reading comprehension most effectively when studenst learn

Answer 20

A network of relationships among concepts that the word represents.

Question 21

Researchers have found that knowledge of word meanings is gained in increments through many experiences which of the following is suggested as an effective technique for teaching vocabulary?

Answer 21

Introduction of new words during lessons in various content areas.

Question 22

It took the young child a long time to lick the “mile high” ice cream cone. The “” is an example of

Answer 22

Hyperbole

Question 23

Three people I kneq in achool have recently became known for their roles as actors in Hollywood movies. Which types of usages in the sentence above needs correction?

Answer 23

Verb tense form

Question 24

Some teachers requiere their students to give oral book reports. Which of the following is the best rationale for using oral book reports to motivate students to read?

Answer 24

They encourage students to share their reading experience with others.