Language Arts & Reading. Comptency 1

Question 1

What are portfolios ?

Answer 1

Working and / or growth portfolios can be used to collect work samples over time to gain true insight into how the students skills have progressed

Question 2

How can you find out a students intreset and attitude towards reading ?

Answer 2

Surveys

Question 3

How can retelling rubrics be used in a classroom?

Answer 3

They help identify what important literacy elements incorporating into their retelling.

Question 4

____ and ____ routine are key components of high quality instruction for young students.

Answer 4

Repetition & routine

Question 5

There are ___ major components of reading ?

Answer 5

5

Question 6

Billy is new to your class. How can you successfully asses his attitude and interest towards reading ?

Answer 6

Surveys

Question 7

What type of assessment is used to collect work samples over time to gain true insight into how the students skills have progressed ?

Answer 7

Portfolios

Question 8

Mr. Stribling is doing a read aloud in class. Throughout the story he asks the students questions about print conventions , book structure , letter identification , word boundaries , book cover , and so on. What is he assessing his students on ?

Answer 8

Concepts of print

Question 9

Its a new school year and its time to asses the students. You are needing to assess what words students know. This assessment is used as a screening progress monitoring tool. What assessment is this ?

Answer 9

Check lists.

Question 10

Billy is working on improving his literary elements. He is working I. Incorporating it into retelling information. What type if assessment can you use to assess billy while retelling information.

Answer 10

Rubric

Question 11

What are the different components of emergent literacy ?

Answer 11

Oral language development , phonics , phonological awareness , alphabet knowledge , concepts of print and voice to print matching

Question 12

Mrs.Orum is doing a read aloud in class. While she is reading , she is pointing to each word while she reads out loud. What technique is she doing ?

Answer 12

Voice to print matching. This technique is often used with beginning readers in the primary grades.

Question 13

What are different ways to enhance alphabet knowledge ?

Answer 13

Alphabet knowledge , magnetic letters , and the use of enviormental print

Question 14

_____ lessons teach readers to associate the letters of the alphabet with their sound values

Answer 14

Phonics

Question 15

Mr. Bailey teaches Kindergarten. He is helping Lisa increase her alphabet knowledge. Which option should she have her do ?

1. Use magnetic letters to help form words.
2. Look at the different words on the board and write them down.

Answer 15

1

Question 16

_____ and _____ settings can prevent difficulties with emergent literacy skills.

Answer 16

Guided reading & small groups

Question 17

What is phonemic awareness ?

Answer 17

The ability to head and manipulate the sounds of spoken language.

Question 18

what is phonics ?

Answer 18

The understanding of the relationships between the written letters of the alphabet and the sounds of spoken langauge. This knowledge allows the reader to “ decode “ words by translating the letters into speech sounds.

Question 19

T or F : Oral laanguage skills can be enhanced through songs , echo reading , and story retelling.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

Oral language development cab be enhanced through class and small group discussion. True or false

Answer 20

True

Question 21

____ is a literacy genre that is pleasant to the ear and contains short text that aids phonological awareness skills in young learners.

Answer 21

Poetry

Question 22

What are “ right there “ questions ?

Answer 22

These are LITERAL questions in which the answer is in the text itself.

Question 23

Read this short excerpt from a story below ….

I woke up this morning. Then I went to work. Later I went to work. I got off at 12:30AM.

what time did this character get off work?

A 3:00
B 12:30AM
C 6 ?

what type of question is this also?

Answer 23

Right there. Text explicit. Its literal because the answer is right there in the text.

Question 24

What is a think and search question?

Answer 24

The answer is implicit in the text, but the student must synthesize, infer or summarize to find the answer.

Question 25

What are reader and author questions?

Answer 25

The reader needs to generate the answer by combining his or her own experiences with what the text states, that is presented by the author.

Question 26

Students can use ______ technique to discuss what they already know about a topic with partners.

Answer 26

Think Pair Share

Question 27

Making an inference is often referred to as “ _________” or deriving meaning from the implied or underlying theme/point of the text.

Answer 27

Reading between the lines

Question 28

Thinking about the definition of poetry, what is something all different versions of poetry has in common?

Answer 28

short lines

Question 29

Oral language can be enhanced through class and small group discussions. True or False?

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Ms.Carver is assessing her students over the first nine weeks. She wants to track each of her students growth so she can compare and contrast how they were in the begging to the end of the nine weeks. Which of the following assessments should Ms.Carver conduct? a. Create a Portfolio for each student b. use rubrics for each students assignments

Answer 30

A.Create a Portfolio for each student

Question 31

Mr.Row was conducting a read aloud with his 1st grade class.Essentially as he was reading aloud he was matching his voice to the print. He would point to a word and say it aloud. What type of emergent literacy skills was he trying to enhance for his kids? A.Oral Language development B.Voice to print matching c.Concepts of print

Answer 31

B.Voice to print matching

Question 32

_________ is the concept of print that refers to the left to right and top to bottom progression of text on the printed page.

Answer 32

Directionality

Question 33

___________ is a literacy genre that is pleasant to the ear and contains short text that aids phonological awareness.

Answer 33

Poetry

Question 34

Oral language skills can be enhanced through songs,echo reading, and story retellings.

Answer 34

True

Question 35

Phonics is ?

Answer 35

understanding of the relationships between the written letters of the alphabet and the sounds of spoken language.

Question 36

Fluency is ?

Answer 36

the ability to read at an appropriate rate,accurately, and with prosody(proper expression)

Question 37

To become fluent, students must have a strong foundation in _______________ and must __________.

Answer 37

word recognition | spend time reading.

Question 38

Fluent readers focus on _____ and _________, read w/ expression and phrasing, decode quickly, and self correct when their reading does not make sense.

Answer 38

comprehension make connections

Question 39

Ms.Jackson had her students read the story " My first day of school". After the students read the story, she wanted the students to summarize the story based on their own experiences with what the text states,that is, the knowledge presented by the author. What type of question is Ms.Jackson asking her students? A. Right there B. Think and Search C. Reader and Author D.On my own

Answer 39

C. Reader and Author

Question 40

____ and _______ are text implicit or experience based questions.

Answer 40

Reader and author | "On my own" questions

Question 41

An inference often includes ______ what is already known about a topic to he new info being presented.

Answer 41

merging

Question 42

What kind of technique can students use to discuss what they already know about a topic with partners?

Answer 42

Think-Pair- Share

Question 43

Teachers can use _, like K-W-L charts, to elicit what students know about a topic.

Answer 43

graphic organizers.

Question 44

What is a double journal entry ?

Answer 44

The purpose of double-entry journal (DEJ) is to give you an opportunity to express your thoughts and become more involved with the material you encounter. You can do Double-entry Journals for both articles and listenings that are assigned in class

Question 45

Text features usually support the body of the text and help to ____ and _______ the information being presented.

Answer 45

synthesize and summarize

Question 46

Text feature "________" can be performed to locate the text features present in a particular text. .

Answer 46

scavenger hunts

Question 47

____________ is a vital part of understanding content area reading text because knowing the meaning of specific words is paramount to comprehension.

Answer 47

Vocabulary

Question 48

Graphophonemic is a phase of words recognition in elementary age students that refers to the letter- sound relationship. True or False?

Answer 48

True!

Question 49

There are ______ main genres of children s literature.

Answer 49

8

Question 50

What is a haiku ?

Answer 50

three lines w/ 5-7-5 syllables

Question 51

what is a limerick?

Answer 51

five-line humorous poem with aabba rhyme scheme.

Question 52

What is a ode ?

Answer 52

a lyerical and expressive poem

Question 53

what is a diamante?

Answer 53

seven lines;form diamond shape

Question 54

what is a clerihew?

Answer 54

humorous verse consisting of two rhyming couplets , one of which includes a persons name

Question 55

What is an alliteration?

Answer 55

Two or more words or syllables,near each other, with the same beginning consonant.

Question 56

“She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore” or “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers”.is an example of what kind of literacy device ?

Answer 56

Alliteration

Question 57

What is a hyperbole?

Answer 57

An exaggeration used to emphasize a point

Question 58

Im so hungry I could eat a horse. This is an example of what type of literacy device ?

Answer 58

Hyperbole

Question 59

What is literary language?

Answer 59

A dialect of language used in literacy writing