Reading 📖 & Language Arts Flashcards
1. A Teacher and class write a language experience story about their trip to the zoo. The class reads the story together as the teacher sweeps a hand along the lines of text. This is a good practice activity to develop
Print Concept
- Which word recognition skill would be most effective for teaching the following words?
Disagreeable, reappearance, substandard, intramural
Structural Analysis
- Which of the following skills should students use to decode the following words?
Infiltrate, intervene, disarm, transport
Structural Analysis and Phonics
A teacher who provides direct word study instruction beginning with vowel- consonant and
consonant-vowel- consonant words and progressing to consonant- consonant- consonant- vowel-
consonant and consonant- consonant- consonant- vowel- consonant- consonant words is using
Explicit Systemic Instruction
- When reading a book to a kindergartener, a teacher changes tone of voice to show different
characters, pauses at commas, and changes pitch to show punctuation. Which component of
fluency is the teacher demonstrating?
Prosody
- On Friday afternoons, students in a 4th grade reading class re-read a story selection with a classmate, they read in unison with each other, and finally, choose a new book to read together. This activity is called:
Share Reading
- In a 6th grade language art lesson on storytelling, a teacher wants students to use visual
representations in lieu of words to tell their autobiography. Which of the following activities
would match the learning objective?
Creating a Picture Book
- Which activity would best help students to understand the author’s organization of a content-area
test
Preview topics and subtopics
- A 1st grade teacher is reading a big book to students. While reading, the teacher moves a pointer under the words. On which emergent literacy concept is the teacher focusing?
Directionality
.A teacher’s class has written a paragraph about their summer vacation. A teacher has asked that they reread their paragraphs and check carefully for mechanical errors. This teacher is teaching the class to:
Edit
Which mode of writing consists of the main focus as entertaining including stories, poems and Plays?
Narrative Writing
- A teacher is concerned about a student and feels there may be difficulties that are interfering with his academic work. The teacher does want to draw attention to the student and feels writing about it would be a positive way to address the issue. Which of the following modes of writing would be most effective in opening a line of communication between the teacher and the student in this scenario?
Dialogue Journal
- Which of the following words is spelled incorrectly?
Separate
- Which of the following assessment procedures would most effectively measure students’
understanding of word meaning?
Sentence Generation using the Words
- Which of the following assessment methods is an individual, informal observation in which a
teacher indicates a student’s oral reading behavior using a series of check marks and notes?
Running Record
- Shondra is a 5th grader who is struggling with a reading assignment. Her teacher wants to give
her extra help and thus accumulates the following test information:
Percentile Stanine
Vocabulary 52 4
Comprehension 38 3
Reading analysis 83 7
Comments: The student has good word attack skills, but she does not seem to remember what she reads, What strategy would be most helpful for the student?
Teaching the student comprehension such as predicting and self-questioning
The correlation between the results of a final exam and the results of a standardized test taken just prior to the final is -0.65. Based on this information, which is the most likely conclusion?
The standardized test and the final exam appeared to be measuring different content
A student scored at the 80th percentile on a standardized reading achievement test. This indicates
that the student
Scored as well as or better than 80% of the norming group
- An activity in which the participants read aloud a selection as though it were a play is a
Reader’s Theatre
- While reviewing beginning of the year test data, a kindergarten teacher notices that the students
were unable to consistently hear initial sounds in words. Which of the following activities would
help develop the skill?
listening to tongue twisters
- Which of the following is a measure of a student’s emergent oral skill set?
Nonsense word fluency
- Which of the following elements of legibility would a student use to analyze his own
handwriting?
Alignment
- Which of the following best describes passive listening?
Listen to a book on CD and wearing headphones for privacy.
Which of the following skills are both productive?
Writing and Speaking
- Which of the following activities would be most effective in stimulating the development of
oral language for primary students?
Using puppets to retell or create stories
- Which of the following has the strongest influence on a child’s ability to understand stories that are read or told to the child?
Language development
- Based on current research, spelling instruction should emphasize
Repetitive practice through writing and rewriting
- A teacher has a small group of 1st-grade students who have very limited sight word vocabulary and few decoding skills. Select the most effective strategy the teacher can use to
develop their word recognition skills.
Labeling objects in the classroom, making books that controlled vocabulary and phonics instruction
- A teacher is developing a set of word cards emphasizing the -at sound. He identified the first word as bat. Each of the next few words contain the -at sound but has a different beginning
Graphophonemic Cues
- Which of the following is the best definition of prosody?
A linguistic term that describes the rhythmic patterns of speech using changes in pitch, stress, and duration
- A 4th-grade teacher wants the class to read with fluency and expression. To achieve this objective, the teacher reads aloud every day. This type of instruction is called
modeling
- A 1st-grade teacher encourages students who are ELL to read basal reading stories five times to their caregiver. The purpose of the oral reading is to increase
automaticity
- Which of the following word recognition methods would be most effective in teaching the following words? Rattlesnake, the mailman. Fireplace, anchorwoman
context clues
- Choose the most appropriate method for developing vocabulary
Teaching students to use the graphophonemic elements in words
A teacher wants to improve student’s metacognition as they read. The most effective method is for the teacher to
Read and think aloud
Which of the following reflects a directed reading approach sequence?
rvinos reading with vocabulary, information, conducts oral reading, and silent reading
A student who has difficulty understanding the implied message of a story most likely needs
further instructions in which of the following comprehension skills?
Inferring
- Students read the following paragraph about Italy: About 11 million tourists visit Italy every year, more than any other country in Europe. The sunny climate and art treasures such as Davinci’s “The last Supper” earn more money for Italy than most factories. The teacher asks “How many tourists visit Italy each year?” The teacher’s question checks which type of comprehension?
Literal
- Which of the following phrases from a social studies textbook signals to the reader that an important idea is being discussed?
primary concern
- A 3rd grade student uses a sheet of paper divided into two columns to response to s story. The student enters direct quotation from the text in the left column and a response to the quotation in the right column. What form of written response to literature is being used?
double-entry journal
By definition, poetry should contain
soothing rhythm
The following poem is an example of which kind of poetry?
There once was a frog named Pete,
Who did not but sit and eat,
He examined each fly,
With so careful an eye,
And the said "You are dead meat"
limerick (contains humor)
- The following poem is an example of which kind of poetry?
Spider web shinning,
Tangled on the grass with dew,
Waiting quietly
Haiku (3 lines, syllables 5,7,5)
21. Which of the following is most important when selecting literature for shared reading experiences with a class of culturally diverse students in an inclusive classroom?
Matching students reading level to the selected literature
- Identify the literary device used in the following example. His nose was as red as rose
simile
- Using conversation to move a piece of writing or to give voice to a character is an example of
Dialogue
24. A 6th grade teacher has a culturally diverse class of students who are at-risk readers. When selecting reading materials for this class, the teacher should select books
Representative of student’s culture and supportive of students’ varied reading level
- A 1 st grade teacher notices that his students are having trouble composing opinion pieces about a book and supplying reasons for their opinions. He wants to help them formulate an organized plan for visualizing the elements in the book. Which of the following techniques would best help these students?
double entry journal
26. Read this passage from Leslie Marmon Gilco's poem "Story from Bear Country" . We can send hear priest Loping after you Their medicine bag Bouncing against the chests Naked legs painted black Bear claw necklaces Ranting against Their capes of the blue spruce Which of the following approaches would be most useful in developing a viable interpretation of the poem?
(SLC) Studying related languages and contextual words meaning
. A kindergarten journal entry is given “S”
Student draws th~ picture of the sun and writes the letter S beneath. Which of the following would a
teacher expect to see from this student journal progress sequentially through the stages of development?
Sn
Students need to further develop on an original draft to writing as part of
Revision
- 3rd graders have listen to their teacher read the humorous patterned book ‘Just for you”. They each have written an original sentence patterned after the book. The teacher intends to collect their work in book to be loaned out in the media center. The children are now in the process
of illustrating their own sentences. For which of the following are the children preparing?
Publishing
The most helpful strategy for students learning to write a persuasive essay is to ask them to
Role Play their intended audiences prop to writing
Pinky the pig basked in the buttery sun when mud oozed from his nose. “ From which of the following modes of writing was the excerpt taken?
narrative
- Mrs. Bankroft wants her students to write an essay that would cause them to consider the
way they have currently acquired and used language. What kind of essay would be the most
appropriate for this purpose
Literacy Autobiography
- In the following sentence, an ELL used “no” for “did not” “He no do his homework”. What
type of mistake did the ELL make?
Syntax
- A small group of 2nd graders are having difficulty understanding the concept of using a
question mark or a period when writing sentences is rewriting sentences in corrected
composition. What would be the most appropriate strategy to help them?
Distributing worksheets giving the children extensive practice writing questions and statements
- The activity that will produce the best result if a teacher wants the students to become more skillful in composing sentences is
Rewriting sentences in corrected composition
- Spelling instruction is most effective when the emphasis is
learning patterns that recur in spelling
- Norm-referenced
assignment must be used for a student whose test score is reported as 84th percentile
Use reading survey identify
Student’s Attitudes and Interests
- The most efficient way to assess student’s ability to apply phonic decoding skills is to
have the student read on grade-level orally and note decoding errors
- A teacher wants to recommend her students for a remedial reading program based on
both standardized and informal test scores. A 5th grade student’s records reveal the
following:
Statewide reading assessment———————————— Level 3
Norm-referenced reading comprehension———————–Stanine 7
Based on the score, the teacher should recommend that the student
Continue grade-level instruction
A student is at the independent reading level can read
96% of words accuracy
- An ELL scored at the 31st percentile on the writing portion of the ESOL placement
section which is standardized test. The student’s parents have asked for an explanation of
the test result. The best explanation of the assessment result is
The ELL students is placed in ESOL score was high as or higher than 31% of other students who took that section of the test
- If a 4th grade student obtained a language arts grade equivalent score of 7.5 on a
standardized test, the best explanation to give her parents about this score is that
Since she scored this high on the test she has some mastery of specific skills needed for 7th grade
To determine student’s independent and instructional reading levels at the beginning of
the year, a teacher must use
informal reading inventory
- A 3rd grade student is working at a 2.5 instructional reading level. The student enjoys
reading but has difficulty with comprehension. When unable to pronounce many of the words within a passage, the teacher must administer
Phonics Test
- A 1 st grade teacher administers a midyear assessment to his class and identifies three
students who are unable to decode consonant-vowel-consonant pattern words. The best
method to implement to best help develop decoding skills in these three students is
Explicit Approach
A class characteristic that could be assessed only by observation is
Amount of Student Time on task
A prerequisite or readiness skill for handwriting is
Eye-hand coordination
- A 4th grade teacher notices that the students have nice penmanship during the handwriting lessons but on other assessments, their writing is illegible. The teacher can alleviate this
Something that has to deal with time
Writing and speaking are both
productive skills
- When a l grade teacher reads aloud a short descriptive passage and asks the children to
draw a picture of what is described. The teacher is testing listening
Comprehension skills
54. A teacher has given a class a research project. Students are allowed to choose any topic from their social science textbook. The most valuable characteristic online encyclopedia would be
pictures that accompany articles
- Administering a high-frequency word list for students to read orally would be appropriate
procedure for assessing
sight-word knowledge
- In an effort to save money, safely engage learners, and provide exposure to higher order thinking processes, many science and social studies departments are using
Simulation software
- Each 2nd grade student has a hard copy of a classroom magazine. The teacher has access to an electronic version of the magazine with educational games, comprehension activities and videos to support the text. The teacher wants to incorporate the electronic version into her large group lessons. The best way for the teacher to share the online resource during the lesson is to use
interactive whiteboard
- A teacher has a group of students who have not mastered print orientation concepts.
Which of the following materials could appropriately be used for instruction?
Big Books
- A child who uses “mock” letters when asked to write a sentence is in which stage of
writing?
emergent
- In a 1st grade class, three students are unable to blend sounds to help decode unfamiliar
words. Which should be used to teach this skill?
phonics approach
- Which of these word recognition methods would be most effective for teaching the
pronunciation of the following words: what, have, where, they.
sight word
- Which of the following is the best definition of automaticity in reading?
Quick and effortless reading of words by sight born in and out of context
The most effective strategy for increasing students’ reading fluency
choral reading
- Which instructional method would help students categorize the following words? Shred,
flake, crumble, bake, broil, fry, stir, toss, fold, broiler, mixer, blender
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semantic mapping
- A teacher helps students comprehend a text by encouraging them to ask themselves
question to be sure they understand what they are reading. This reading comprehension strategy is known as
monitoring
- After students read a detective story in their basal reader, the teacher asks them to make a judgement about the guilty or innocent of the main character. What type of thinking is the teacher encouraging?
evaluative
- Which of the following activities most effectively supports students utilizing technology as learning resource in the 5th grade language arts setting?
students creating podcast showing research they gathered
- After the students have read an essay about the responsibilities of US citizens to vote in
elections, the teacher asks the students about the author’s purpose, the author’s biases, the appropriateness of essay’s title, and the accuracy in the information of the essay. These questions are most likely to promote students’ use of the following types of thinking?
Critical
- Speculations about possible future events is an element frequently found in
Science Fiction
