LETRS Post Test

Question 1

One of the most important follow-up activities to deepen student understanding of a specific text is...

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retelling or summarizing the text.

Question 2

Which of the following activities would help students identify cohesive ties in a text?

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having students draw arrows between pronouns and their referents

Question 3

The most practical way for teachers to assess student progress in writing is to use...

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all of the above

Question 4

When sts are still learning foundational reading skills, the recommended amount of time to teach word work is...

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30-40 minutes of word work during a 90-minute reading lesson

Question 5

The research consensus on the teaching of comprehension strategies during reading instruction indicates that...

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strategy instruction is more effective in grades 4 & up than in grades 1-3.

Question 6

Which of the following would be a good example to use while teaching students to identify compound sentences?

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The rain came, but the team played on.

Question 7

When a student is an accurate but slow reader, which of the following practices is most effective?

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Focus on foundational reading skills that address many aspects of language

Question 8

About how many word meanings should teachers aim to teach explicitly and thoroughly per week?

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10-12

Question 9

Of the topic sentences below, which one would be most appropriate for writing an opinion?

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This book about wolves is one of my favorites.

Question 10

Which criterion best describes a high-quality text for use in read-alouds or comprehension instruction?

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It is worth rereading for new meanings.

Question 11

Standardized tests of reading comprehension have been shown by research to...

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give teachers varied results depending on the content and format.

Question 12

The Hart and Risley study (1995) identified a "30-million-word" gap. This gap refers to:

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the difference in the number of words heard amongst preschool children.

Question 13

To introduce a Tier 2 vocab. word explicitly and systematically before reading, which would be the least effective?

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asking students to write the word 10 times until they can spell it.

Question 14

The act of writing words into print by hand or by keyboarding is part of which phase of the writing process?

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transcription

Question 15

When sts read about a topic for which they already have well-developed background knowledge, they are more likely to...

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acquire new knowledge faster from the text.

Question 16

How should the vocab. instruction of ELs be distinguished from the vocab. instruction of native English speakers?

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They may need to learn the meanings of the Tier 1 words in a passage.

Question 17

Which of the following is least helpful for encouraging comp. monitoring (knowing when the text doesn't make sense)?

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teaching students to summarize after reading

Question 18

Which of the following sentence-writing skills is the most challenging for students to learn?

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writing complex sentences with adverbial phrases

Question 19

Which teaching strategy is most likely to help students construct a mental model of a text's meaning?

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anticipating the takeaways and building background knowledge

Question 20

If an EL is confused about the meaning of a text, a teacher might be more successful conveying the meaning by...

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supplementing the text with pictures, actions, and objects.

Question 21

Writing is sometimes called the "quintessential mental juggling act" because...

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it requires more cognitive, motor, and lang. skills than any other task.

Question 22

Which of the following is the best description of the comprehension process as it relates to reading?

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linking the surface code with the ideas in the text base

Question 23

Good readers will stop and reread a portion of the text for clarity if they don't understand it. This demonstrates...

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metacognition

Question 24

Which of the following is least likely to narrow the vocabulary gap between language-rich and language-poor students?

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watching children's television programs

Question 25

Which would be the most essential step to take in preparing students to write a complete narrative?

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make notes within a Story Framework

Question 26

During the editing phase of writing, a personal editing/proofreading checklist should contain...

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a few specific reminders of skills the student has learned and practiced

Question 27

Students with comprehension weaknesses benefit from teachers actively mediating comprehension because these students...

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typically make fewer, lower-quality inferences on their own.

Question 28

Which one of the following is not a key difference between narrative and informational texts?

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its appropriateness for classroom libraries in all grades

Question 29

A teacher broke a word into the parts dog-s and taught the meanings of the parts. What was emphasized?

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morphology

Question 30

Research supports handling language dialect differences by...

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explicitly contrasting between "home language" and "school language"

Question 31

Which technique would be least relevant for teaching an inform. passage about the difference between frogs and toads?

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outlining the elements of story grammar.

Question 32

A primary-grade teacher who wants to implement research-based vocabulary instruction should try to emphasize...

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word relationships, including antonyms, synonyms, and semantic families.

Question 33

Which text structure organization is suggested by the topic sentence, "Here are some steps for making pancakes."?

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process (time sequence)

Question 34

To select the best vocabulary words to teach before reading a text, the teacher should prioritize which types of words?

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words that are central to understanding key meanings in the passage

Question 35

The most important reason for systematically teaching good handwriting and spelling is that...

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mastery and automaticity enable higher quality writing

Question 36

About how many US students demonstrate "proficient" or "advanced" writing skills by grade 8, according to NAEP (2007)?

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33%

Question 37

Which statement best describes the relationship between foundational writing skills and composition?

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An equal emphasis on found. skills and composition will work best for most.

Question 38

During a read aloud of The Three Little Pigs, which question is most likely to help students form a mental model?

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"What have we learned so far about the third pig?"

Question 39

A valuable first step before reading a text with a group of students is...

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clearly stating the purpose for reading the text.

Question 40

Once student can decode well, which component is the best single predictor of reading comprehension?

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vocabulary

LETRS Post Test

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LETRS Post Test

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