Literacy 2 Flashcards
How do transitional phrases (conversely, in addition, consequently) help students?
Transitional words and phrases can create powerful links between ideas in your paper and can help your reader understand the logic of your paper.
What helps students adapt essays in oral reports?
Reverse outlining
long paragraph about the Women’s Rights Movement
Why and when to use commas
neither… nor
Correlative conjunctions
A student who is spelling the word prefer is spelling it as prefer. What should the student be taught?
Prefixes
A teacher regularly reads aloud and leads students discussion about a variety of informational passages that are related to their content area studies, but are written significantly above their instructional reading levels. The practice promotes students language development primarily in which of the following areas?
By introducing students to NEW STRATEGIES for interpreting unfamiliar content word areas.
How do increases in vocabulary happen in elementary and secondary students? everyday experiences with..
Peers and talking, oral communication.
Why do we learn sight words?
High frequency that shows up in grade level texts.
Students can decode grade level words in isolation but not in a sentence… how does the slow reading rate affect the students?
Students can’t process information or comprehend text.
Teacher read passage one time then read it a second time.. he paused frequently to emphasize different words (hmmm I think ill emphasize a different word)
Teaching expressive language
What is the etymology of the words squirrel, raccoon, squash?
Native American
(can be chipmunk.
What is the etymology of the words coco and coffee?
South American
Having knowledge about greek root words will help someone use structural analysis to determine the meaning of which of the following words:
Bibliophile
Using structural analysis would help a student determine the meaning of which of the follow words?
Demystification
Using structural analysis would help a student determine the meaning of which of the following words?
Retell
Terr.. terra.. -> terrace, terrestrial, terrain…
Morphology and etymology
Which two words below are synonyms?
Meticulous and precise
Which of the two words have positive connotation?
Lithe and willowy
The word “forbearance” used in three different contexts, one in a book, one writing an essay, and one other way.
Multiple contexts to practice (context clues)
A teacher is teaching about idioms which strategy would be best?
Preteaching and giving examples
the words hoagie, grinders, and sub have the same meaning but are used differently based on what?
Location and dialect
How does qualitative dimension of text complexity play a role in difficulty of passage?
Understanding MEANING
Three branches of government –> the teacher is planning instruction and deciding which words to pre-teach and which students should be able to figure out from context clues
Difficulty in using context clues without background knowledge.
Students have had a class discussion about the Federalists and Anti Federalists. After the discussion the students read a passage. The student has difficulty understanding the meaning of the passage. What reason best explains this?
The vocabulary in the passage is more complex than what they had discussed.
Teacher: What did you do last night? Student: I goed play bowling Teacher (enthusiastically): Oh, you went bowling? (gestures rolling a bowling ball) Student: yes, I goed bowling. Teacher: Was it fun? Tell me about it!
In this interaction, the teacher is most likely trying to:
Encourage the student to develop fluency without overt attention to form.
Which of the following identifies an underlying principle of the communicative approaches to the instruction of English Language Learners?
Students develop English language skills by negotiating meaning in interactions with other people.
The driver did a trick with his monster truck at the racetrack
Consonant blends
The baby needed her teddy bear which she holds when she is sleepy
word endings
Jessica put up streamers for the surprise party for her mother
Consonant blends
The rain watered the lima beans growing in the soil
vowel teams
The two boys had grown tall and were now towering over their mother
Open and Closed syllables
The bees were heading into the garden where they were spreading
Words endings
Which of the following students is demonstrating the specific type of phonological awareness known as phonemic awareness?
A student who after hearing the word hat, can orally identify that it ends with the sound /t/
A kindergarten teacher should best determine if a child has begun to develop phonemic awareness by asking the child to:
Say the word cat, then say the first sound the child hears in the word.
As students begin to read, the ability to blend phonemes orally contributes to their reading development primarily because it helps students
use knowledge and letter-sound correspondence to decode words.
A teacher holds up a series of familiar objects, asking students to name each object and isolate the final sound their hear. This type of activity would be most appropriate for a student who:
Needs help developing phonemic segmentation skills.
Phonemic awareness contributes most to the development of phonics skills in beginning, readers by helping them:
identity in spoken language separate sounds that can be mapped to letters.
a beginning-level English Language Leaner can consistently blend individual phonemes to make simple English words composed of two of three phonemes but is having difficulty blending the sounds of familiar single-syllable words composed of four phonemes (e.g., clip, trap, spin). Which of the following questions would be most important for the first grade teacher to consider when addressing the needs of this student?
Does the student’s primary language have consonant blends?
A social science researcher is beginning a study of Pacific Rim economies during the twenty-first century. A major focus will be the pact of China’s economic growth on other Pacific Rim nations, particularly in Asia. The best INITIAL step for the researcher would be to:
Search for articles on trade in Eastern Asia using research databases in economics and other social science.
Students in a second grade class are drafting essays about personal hobbies for the schools on line journal. One student is drafting an essay about reading for pleasure. Which of the following versions of an introductory paragraph would be most effective for the student to use to engage readers attention?
Why do I love reading? Because my annoying little brother took me to the library every Saturday.
A teacher complies a blog entry that includes excerpts from a variety of news articles that demonstrate multiple opinions about a community issue. The teacher then asks students to read through the blog and write comments that respond directly to three of the statements made in the article excerpts. This activity best supports which of the following steps in the writing process?
Prewriting
When completing a research paper about a current controversy, a student finds an online article that includes information the student would like to cite in the paper. To best ensure that the information is reliable and correct, the student should first:
Confirm that the sources in the article’s bibliography are based on research and support the article
Which of the following communication strategies would be most effective to enhance audience understanding when giving an informative speech?
Avoiding slang and vocabulary familiar to only some audience members.
A student ways asked to turn their informative essay into an oral presentation, which skill would they need to do this?
Reverse outlining.
Magnificent
open and closed
closed syllable
content or extend
Raccoon
Native American or Algonquian
Sight words
High frequency
Automatic recognition
Most frequency in texts
Introvert
quiet
popular breakfast cereal
Integrating information from multiple sources
phonological structure
pronunciation of words
Reading rate below grade level
Context clues
Running finger under sentence
print concept
This is my cat ginger
Print different than pictures
Grapheme phoneme
Letter-sound
Phonemic awareness skill easiest
Read aloud
Predictor of emergent reader success
oral vocabulary
Structural analysis
Desmystification
Retell
Hoagies, grinders, sub
location
and maybe also dialect
Dialect of English
Other speakers of the dialects
Idioms
preteaching
Branches of government
Difficulty with context clues
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First ten
- Lithe and Willowy
- Meticulous and precise
- Telephone
- Bibliography
- Photograph
- Comfortable
- MBRSTL
- “Why do I like reading?”
- “The new kitten was disliked”
- Hello, how are you?
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last 7
- Administering a series of unique assessments
- CVVC
- Sound
- Map, up, sit
- Destructing the life cycle of a frog in their own words
- Introducing students to new strategies
- Guided oral reading of independent level texts.
