TexMaT Flashcards
Competency 002 practice question
A teacher wants to promote the phonemic awareness of the student who usually can distinguish the beginning sound of a word but often cannot identified medial or final sounds. Which of the following types of instruction would be most effective for this purpose?
The correct answer is instructional activities that involve the stretching of words composed of three sounds.
Competency 004 practice question
Use information below to answer the three questions of follow a master reading teacher is helping at their grade teacher assess the students reading performance as the student reads aloud from the story the teacher uses another copy of the story to take notes on the student’s performance project below are an excerpt from the teachers record after the assessment of mastery teacher helps a teacher interpret his notes about the students oral reading.
Now you are prepared to address the first of three questions associated with the stimulus the first question measures competency 004 for the mastery teacher applies knowledge of word analysis skills and development to teach reading
Competency 004 practice question
In the assessment those read above the student self correction suggest that she…
Uses semantic and syntactic cues to confirm the correct meaning and pronunciation of words
Competency 004 practice question
Now you’re ready to answer the next question the second question also measures competency 00 for the mastery teacher applies knowledge of word analysis skills and development to teach reading the results of this assessment suggests that the student would benefit most from instruction to:
Strengthen her automatic recognition of your regular site words.
Competency 013 practice question
Now you’re ready to enter the third question this question assesses competency 013: master reading teaching us how to provide professional development to mentoring, coaching, and consultation with colleagues to facilitate implementation of appropriate research-based reading instruction.
The teacher tells several other teachers about the assessment technique described above, and they asked the master reading teacher to help them apply the same method. The master reading teacher could respond most appropriately to this request by:
Offering to teach the technique to interested teachers and to provide them with opportunities for guided practice in interpreting the results.
Competency 001 question one
At the beginning of the school year and middle school teacher considers ways to motivate students to discuss literary text. Which of the following activities would be most effective for this purpose?
Students form the clubs with classmates who share similar interests and talk about text at the students select themselves
Competency 001 question two
A first grade teacher wants to help students apply or language skills to clarify their understanding of literary text which of the following instructional activities would be most appropriate for this purpose?
The teacher reads a lot of chapter of a high interest fictional text each day, and then students meet in small groups to discuss the chapter and to predict what will happen next.
Competency 001 question three
A kindergarten teacher considers ways to promote students reading proficiency strengthening their oral language skills which of the following instructional activities we must effective for this purpose?
The teacher reads aloud a familiar story, and then students dramatizes story using their own words as well as words or phrases they recall from the book.
Competency 001 question four
At the beginning of the school year, a first grade teacher gives students very screening assignments in reading. One student, who speaks a dialect that is different from the English used in the classroom, seems to be significantly behind his peers in reading development. Which of the following approaches would be most effective in addressing the students oral language and reading needs?
Provide the student with initial reading instruction using a language experience approach coupled with a structured skill development program.
Competency 002 question five
A kindergarten teacher plans instructional activities to help students understand the concept of syllables which of the following activities should the teacher plan first?
Students say the name of each child in the class will copy once for each syllable in the name.
Competency 002 question six
Which of the following words contains four phonemes?
A. ties
B. check
C. plate
D. thin
The correct answer is C plate.
P-l-a-te
Competency 002 questions seven
Which of the following informal assessment strategies would be most effective in determining whether a student can segment the word into phonemes?
The teacher asked the student to say the individual sounds in a simple word such as bat.
Competency 002 question eight
A kindergarten teacher confers with the master reading teacher about a student who has normal hearing but lacks phonemic awareness. Formal and informal assessments indicate that the student is not progressing beyond basic phonological awareness, despite participation in a variety of group based phonemic awareness activities. Which of the following interventions would be most appropriate for the master reading teacher to recommend?
Individualized instruction to help the student experience and recognize the articulatory positions and mouth movements associated with each of the English phonemes.
Competency 003 question nine
Several first-graders who are struggling readers seem to be having particular difficulty understanding and applying alphabetic principle. Their teacher responds by providing them with explicit instruction in this area, as well as having them write about their reading on a daily basis. Daily writing is likely to promote struggling readers understanding of the alphabetic principle primarily by:
Giving them concrete practice in phonemic segmentation, blending, and symbol-sound correspondences.
Competency 003
Master reading teacher works with a first grade teacher to design a small group activity in which each student uses a soundboard illustrated below made it have a paper each soundboard has an upper and lower pocket strips of heavy paper with preprinted letters at the top maybe inserted and arranged in the pockets the teacher gives the student six strips preprinted with the letters A, C, N, P, R, and T.
After reviewing the names of the letters and their associated sounds, the teacher guide students to spell the word By moving the appropriate letters from the upper pocket of the soundboard to the lower pocket, as illustrated below the teacher then guides the students to form new words(e.g. nap,, rap, tap) By replacing the c in cap with different letters from the upper pocket. Students participate in soundboard activities on a regular basis, using the same sets of letters or a different set to form simple words that have the same rime. (e.g. Can/Ran/Tan or cat/pat/rat
Competency 003 question 10
The soundboard activity is likely to promote students reading proficiency primarily by:
Helping students to learn to read new words through analogy with letter patterns in familiar words.
Competency 009 question 11
After the first sound board activity, the teacher wants to determine whether a student has mastered the reading skills targeted in the activity. Which of the following informal assessment strategies would be most effective for this purpose?
The student attempts to read several words that have the same rhymes but different onsets from those studied during the activity (e.g. map, lap, sap)
Competency 003 question 12
The teacher periodically makes word cards for all the words students have formed during their soundboard sessions which of the following activities using the word cards would most effectively promote the reading skills targeted in the soundboard activity?
Students work with a partner to sort the word cards by making groups of words that share the same rime.
Competency 003 question 13
Which of the following activities using words targeted during soundboard sessions would be most effective in supporting students reading development?
The teacher displays the text of a repetitive rhyming poem that features the target words, and the students learn to read the poem.
Competency 004–A middle school teacher uses word mapping activities to help promote students reading proficiency. The teacher begins by identifying a word root and explaining the history and meaning of the root. Working in groups of four, students write the root and it’s meaning in the center of a piece of chart paper. Students then spend about 15 minutes brainstorming words that contain the root and searching through available text for additional words. Illustrated below is one groups map for the route form.
Latin Root Word: form “to shape”
Formless Formulate Uniform Format Transform
Competency 004 question 14
The word mapping activity described above is likely to promote students reading proficiency primarily by helping the students:
Apply knowledge of morphology and etymology to gain meaning from related words.
Competency 004 question 15
The teacher considers how to incorporate use of the dictionary into the word mapping activity. Which of the following strategies.would best promote students reading proficiency?
Students discuss the meaning of the words they have included in their maps and then use the dictionary to check each words derivation and definition.
Competency 005 question 16
Instruction to increase reading fluency should begin only after a student has demonstrated which of the following reading skills?
Strong word recognition skills
Competency 005 question 17
A middle school teacher has been assessing the students reading skills. The student is able to decode nearly all of the words in grade level text, but his reading fluency is only fair and this appears to be having a negative effect on his reading comprehension. Which of the following initial strategies would be most effective in improving the students reading fluency and comprehension?
Have the student practice repeatedly reading a passage that is written at his independent reading level.
Competency 005 question 18
A high school teacher asked the master reading teacher to explain the importance of reading fluency. The master reading teacher could best respond by explaining that fluent reading:
Allows students to devote more attention to interpreting the meaning of the text.
Competency 005 question 19
Which of the following sets of words would be most appropriate for students to memorize as sight words?
A. girl, come, there, what
B. train, make, shell, drink
C. plate, chore, rock, bump
D. game, trick, stop, plan
The correct answer is A. girl, come, there, what
Competency 006 question 20
According to convergent research students benefit most from vocabulary instruction that:
Offers multiple exposures to target words in authentic context within and beyond the classroom
Competency 006 Use the information below to answer the three questions that follow a middle school teacher informally assess assistance reading comprehension by having the students silently read a short tort story about Elizabeth, a teenager changes her name and social image when she moves to a new school after the student reach the story the teacher asks her to retell it shown below our next up from the story and the students retelling of it.
It was almost too easy. No one suspected that Beth, the totally cool new girl, the pink haired trendsetter, was not what she seemed. A few short months ago, she was not best but Elizabeth: dizzy Lizzy, lizard breath, loser brat. Even now, those words made her eyes sting. Shake it off, she told herself. The old-school, seen of her humiliation, was only 20 miles from here, but it might as will be light years away. Still, she got yourself wondering why the old thoughts should be tormenting her now. Maybe because of the shark face girl who’d been staring at her today. Why did that they seem so familiar? It was then she heard the giggling.
Turning, she saw the oddly familiar, shark face girl pointing toward Beth and whispering to some girls. Best filter heart sink like a stone.
Students retelling: “ There’s this girl Beth. Only sometimes they call her Elizabeth, or a bunch of mean nicknames like lizard. She moves to a new school, and some of the kids there are mean to her. There’s this other girl who whispers about her and makes fun of her.”
Competency 006 question 21
Based on the results of this informal reading assessment which of the following post reading activities would be most effective in improving the students literal comprehension of the story?
The teacher guides the student to clarify her understanding by making a graphic organizer to compare the main characters past and present experiences.
Competency 006 question 22
The teacher could best test the students inferential comprehension of the story by asking the student to explain:
Why the shark face girl was pointing toward Beth and whispering.
Competency 006 question 23
The results of this informal assessment suggested to student would benefit most from which of the following types of reading instruction?
Modeling for the student how to use think aloud techniques to help monitor comprehension as she reads.
Competency 007 question 24
Students in high school class have been reading legends and analyzing the elements of this Blu-ray genre. Competency 007 question 24
The teacher wants to plan an instructional activity that will promote students reading and writing development as well as enhancer understanding of this Johndra. Which of the following activities would best address these goals?
Pairs of students collaborate to write their own legend and read it aloud to the class.
Competency 007 question 25
Illustrated below is a writing sample of a five year old student.
WRTTTEPP
(“We are having a tea party.”)
This sample suggests that the student would benefit most from reading instruction to help him:
Recognize the separate sounds with in individual words.
Competency 007 question 26
Each student in a first grade class creates a personal word bank by making an illustrating word cards for words here she knows how to spell correctly. This practice is likely to promote students reading and writing developed primarily by:
Motivating students to expand their written vocabularies and improve their spelling skills
Competency 007 question 27
A preschool teacher sits beside student who is finishing a drawing. The teacher asked, quotation marks what would you like to say that your picture close quotation marks the student responded by saying “this is a picture of my parakeet. His name is Clarence” the teacher writes the students response on the strip of paper, slowly reading aloud as he writes the teacher then helps the student attach the caption to complete the drawing and display it on the bulletin board in In the classroom.
The activity described above is likely to promote the students redevelopment by:
Helping the student to understand that print conveys meaning.
Competency 008 question 28
Which of the following modifications of this activity would be most effective in reinforcing the students understanding of the relationship between spoken and written language?
After writing the caption, the teacher slowly rereads the caption while pointing to the words as she reads out loud.
Competency 008 question 29
A high school teacher regularly makes use of a flexible, heterogeneous grouping for reading and writing activities. The teacher typically begins with a whole class discussion related to the planned activity. Students then meet in small groups. In a follow-up discussion, the whole class debriefs, with student sharing what they learned through the small group reading activity. This instructional approach is most likely to benefit students in which of the following ways?
Encouraging students scaffolding by creating a sense of community among readers.
Competency 009 question 30
A first grade teacher is attending informational session about the Texas primary reading inventory TPR out the teacher asks a masturbating teacher if use of the T PRI is mandatory the master reading teacher could best respond by offering which of the following explanations?
State law requires all Texas school districts to assess the reading skills of students in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade, using the T PRI or another approved, research-based assessment Instrument.
Competency 009 question 31
Which of the following questions should a master reading teacher ask when judging the content validity of a particular reading assessment?
How well does the assessment measure what is being taught in the reading program?
Competency 010 question 32
A first grade class includes a number of English language learners who are at the early production stage of English acquisition and are emergent readers and English. When assembling reading materials for the students, the teacher should concentrate on selecting materials that;
Have mostly to the decodable text and Include strong visual support such as realistic illustrations.
