Teaching Reading

Question 1

A student would add detail to their writing during the __________ stage of a writer’s workshop.

Answer 1

Revising

Question 2

The four stages of reading are: _____________________.

Answer 2

Emergent, Beginning, Transitioning, and Fluent

Question 3

When students “take charge” of their learning and self-regulate their comprehension and understanding, they are illustrating _____________.

Answer 3

metacognition

Question 4

Using your background knowledge or schema about a topic to “fill in” the gaps of a text is called ____________.

Answer 4

Inferencing

Question 5

Making educated guesses about what a text will be about or what will happen next is called _____________.

Answer 5

predicting

Question 6

Being able to identify the main ideas of a text and giving a short description of what the text is about involves _______________.

Answer 6

summarizing

Question 7

After reading a book about the Civil War, Miss Humphries asks the class: “What was this book about?” She is asking students to identify the ____________.

Answer 7

Main idea

Question 8

Mrs. Silver is working with some students who have difficulty reading and comprehending long texts. She decides to divide the text into shorter segments, starring where she wants students to stop reading and reflect or summarize what they read. This is an example of ____________.

Answer 8

chunking a text

Question 9

Use the following passage to answer the question below:

Matter comes in several forms. First, matter can be a liquid. Liquids have no form, and take the shape of whatever container they are poured into. Matter can also be a solid. Solids have a definite shape. Finally, gasses are also matter. Gasses have no definite shape.

After reading this passage in her Science textbook, Amy’s teacher asks her to identify how many forms that matter comes in (several, sentence 1). The type of question that Amy’s teacher is asking is an example of a _____________.

Answer 9

“Right There”

Question 10

Use the following passage to answer the question below:

Matter comes in several forms. First, matter can be a liquid. Liquids have no form, and take the shape of whatever container they are poured into. Matter can also be a solid. Solids have a definite shape. Finally, gasses are also matter. Gasses have no definite shape.
After Amy finished reading the passage about matter, her teacher then asked her to identify a time when she encountered one of these types of matters in her own life. The type of question that Amy’s teacher is asking is an example of a _____________.

Answer 10

“on my own”

Question 11

A graphic organizer that asks students to identify the characters, setting, events, conflict, and resolution in a narrative text is called a _____________.

Answer 11

story map

Question 12

Mrs. Marks is reading a Science book aloud to her class. She wants to model a new comprehension strategy. The bestway to do this would be to engage the students in a(n) ___________.

Answer 12

shared reading

Question 13

Tim is reading independently during his class’ reading block. After he finishes his chapter for the day, he pulls his reading log out of his book box and records the pages he read and he also writes a short reaction to the chapter. Tim is completing a _____________.

Answer 13

reader response

Question 14

The vowels in the words snap, stop, sink, and end are examples of ____________.

Answer 14

long vowels

Question 15

The word climb has ________ phonemes and ________ graphemes.

Answer 15

4 and 4

Question 16

The underlined consonants in the words write, gnat, knife, and lamb are examples of ____________.

Answer 16

silent letters

Question 17

The underlined parts of the words shop, chug, whip, and think are examples of ___________.

Answer 17

disgraphs

Question 18

The underlined parts of the words snug, twig, clip, and brink are examples of ___________.

Answer 18

blends

Question 19

The underlined parts of the words fan, can, ban, and man are examples of the _________.

Answer 19

onset

Question 20

In the word unassuming, the free morpheme(s) is/are ____________.

Answer 20

assume

Question 21

_____________ deals with translating phonemes into graphemes.

Answer 21

encoding

Question 22

Prosody refers to a student’s ability to read with ____________.

Answer 22

appropriate intonation and expression

Question 23

Typically, in one syllable CVC words like cat, bat, and sat, the vowel is a(n) ___________.

Answer 23

short vowel

Question 24

The word uncongenial is an example of a _____________.

Answer 24

multisyllabic word

Question 25

When a word is separated into syllables and the end of the syllable is a vowel it is a(n) __________.

Answer 25

open syllable

Question 26

Words that contain the vowel team –ar, -er, -ir, and –ur are called ____________ because the “r” sound takes over the vowel sound.

Answer 26

r-controlled vowels

Question 27

A __________ is an affix that attaches to the beginning of a word and can change the meaning of that word.

Answer 27

prefix

Question 28

In word study, looking at a word’s origin (Greek or Latin) and how the meanings of words have changed throughout time is known as __________.

Answer 28

etymology

Question 29

In this writing stage, students hold writing utensils in their fists and their writing resembles scribbles. Students are beginning to understand that writing carries meaning, and their work is often accompanied with a picture. What writing stage is this?

Answer 29

Preliterate Stage

Question 30

What is an effective way to support English Language Learners (ELLs) in the classroom?

Answer 30

Use culturally and linguistically diverse learning materials representing different student cultures.
Encourage ELL students to participate in discussions, but do not force them
Use simple sentence structures and visual clues to support comprehension