The ultimate goal of teaching students to read is to ensure the students:

Have the skills needed to read for understanding

What does a think-aloud include?

Teacher pausing periodically to share their thoughts to comprehend a text

A key element of structured literacy is that it involves:

Systematic, explicit instruction

Which of the following correctly describes the relationship between oral language and written language?

Oral language development influences reading and writing development.

Informal assessments are:

Used during or throughout instruction

Which is not a goal of reading fluency instruction?

To encourage students to read faster than a peer

Which of the following describes the relationship between word decoding and reading comprehension?

Decoding skills are essential for reading fluency and comprehension

Why is it important for instruction to be at the “just right” level for students?

So that the student can complete the task with minimal frustration

Research finds that which of the following strategies can improve fluency

Rereading the text and structured partner reading

Which of the following sentences contains a pair of italicized words that differ from each other by one phoneme?

He took off his cap before he lay down to take a nap.

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1
The ultimate goal of teaching students to read is to ensure the students:
Have the skills needed to read for understanding
Can answer the teacher’s questions
Enjoy reading with a partner
Pass the state-mandated annual test
2
Which of the following has research found to be less effective for supporting reading comprehension?
Small-group reading
Partner reading
Option 1Round-robin reading
Independent reading
3
What does a think-aloud include?
None of the above
Teacher pausing periodically to share their thoughts to comprehend a text
The teacher explaining the best strategy to use with a particular text
Students explaining their thinking when answering the guiding question
4
An effective literacy lesson with phonics instruction includes:
Blending lines
All of the answers
Explicit instruction about the target phonics pattern
Decodable texts are read afterwards to practice the target phonics pattern
5
The “I do, we do, you do”, how often should the students practice the “You do” portion of the lesson?
Eight times
As much as required
Skip the you do
Until all the worksheets are completed
6
Which of the following is not an essential component of reading instruction?
Option 1Comprehension
Fluency
Picture cues
Phonics
7
Which skill is the most complex on the phonological awareness continuum?
Option 3Phonemic awareness
Onset-rime blending and segmenting
Rhyme and alliteration
Sentence segmentation
8
Why should teachers scaffold learning?
To provide opportunities for drill routines
To offer long-term accommodation
To provide temporary support
To ensure that student progress is assessed
9
Sight words are words that:
Are read automatically
Tier 2 words
Have irregular spelling patterns
Are spelling lists
10
A key element of structured literacy is that it involves:
Drill and kill
Systematic, explicit instruction
Balanced literacy
A focus on the student’s learning style
11
Why is morphology important?
Red and Blue are both correct
It draws students’ attention to features of the surrounding text
Helps students figure out unknown words read by using the meaning
It helps (ELs) recognize words in English that have similar form & meaning
12
Which of the following correctly describes the relationship between oral language and written language?
Oral language development influences reading and writing development.
Written language influences reading before children begin to read.
It is unclear how reading and writing are influenced by oral language .
Oral language development influences reading development but not writing.
13
Informal assessments are:
Used only at the beginning, middle, and end of the school year
Used during or throughout instruction
Administered by a school psychologist
Administered at the end of the year
14
Which is not a goal of reading fluency instruction?
To increase comprehension of text
To increase student confidence while reading
To enable students to read a text with automaticity
To encourage students to read faster than a peer
15
Pairs of students read and reread a large number of accessible texts together. This activity best promotes
reading rate and automaticity.
prosodic reading skills.
comprehension skills and strategies.
new phonics skills.
16
Which of the following describes the relationship between word decoding and reading comprehension?
Reading comprehension contributes to the development of decoding skill
Decoding skills are essential for reading fluency and comprehension
Tend to develop independently of one another.
Development of decoding skills has little effect on reading
17
Why is it important for instruction to be at the “just right” level for students?
Get plenty of practice by completing a series of worksheets
Students do not interrupt the teacher during small-group instruction
So that the student can receive most of the instruction using a computer
So that the student can complete the task with minimal frustration
18
Research finds that which of the following strategies can improve fluency
Structured partner reading
Retelling the story
Rereading the text
Rereading the text and structured partner reading
19
Which of the following words do not include digraphs?
sing, lurch, wash
shout, judge, chomp
witch, bunch, choir
boil, last, range
20
Which of the following sentences contains a pair of italicized words that differ from each other by one phoneme?
She walked down the lane to see the beautiful deep blue sea.
They were distracted by the noise as the window shade retracted.
After he bashed his toe, he sat down for a while and basked in the sun.
He took off his cap before he lay down to take a nap.

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