Which of the following criteria is important for choosing books for beginning readers?

Use of repeated words and common language structures

Which informal assessment tells you if a K student has phonemic awareness?

Students can substitute phonemes, Student claps syllables in words, Student can identify beginning sound of a word

If a standardized test lacks reliability, it...

gives fluctuating scores in different administrations

Validity considerations of a test relate most closely to:

whether the test measures the content

The comprehension level of a fourth grade ELL varies widely with text books. What do you do?

Determine if the student has background knowledge of topic

What is the primary advantage of a retelling over asking comprehension questions?

Retellings are open-ended and involve student construction

The most important purpose of an Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) is to

establish independent, instructional, and frustration levels

An advantage of using portfolios and scoring rubrics is that they

promote self-evaluation opportunities for students

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Which of the following criteria is important for choosing books for beginning readers?
Use of repeated words and common language structures
Require problem solving to connect text to illustrations
Emphasized use of literary language and dialogue
Wide range of punctuation and rich vocabulary
2
Which informal assessment tells you if a K student has phonemic awareness?
Students can substitute phonemes
Student claps syllables in words
Student can delete second word in a compound word
Student can identify beginning sound of a word
3
If a standardized test lacks reliability, it...
gives fluctuating scores in different administrations
has poor predictive value of a student's class performance
is not measuring what it's supposed to measure
has not been proven as a useful intervention
4
Validity considerations of a test relate most closely to:
how the test taker's score relates to the standard
whether the results will be repeated with a different group
whether the test measures the content
how one test taker's score relates to his classmates
5
The comprehension level of a fourth grade ELL varies widely with text books. What do you do?
Determine if the student has background knowledge of topic
Determine if the student has a specific learning disability
Assess the students' first language literacy?
Assess the student's decoding and word analysis skills
6
A teacher shows students a dog, prompts them to say the word, and count how many sounds.
Phonemic awareness skills
Word identification skills
Alphabetic principle
Letter-sound correspondence
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What is the primary advantage of a retelling over asking comprehension questions?
Results are more objective and easy to quantify
Retellings are more familiar to a wider range of students
Retellings are the only way to demonstrate inferences
Retellings are open-ended and involve student construction
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The most important purpose of an Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) is to
establish independent, instructional, and frustration levels
learn prior knowledge and text structure impacts comp.
determine how students use semantic and syntactic cues
analyze how silent reading impacts comp.
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A student read this sentence as shown, and then self-corrected. How could the teacher support?
Develop self-monitoring skills
Enhance students' oral vocabulary development
Improve decoding skills
Promote the students' ability to track print
10
Which of the following assessments tells you about the comparative reading ability of students?
Reading miscue inventory
Diagnostic portfolios
A norm-referenced test
Test of vocabulary development
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An advantage of using portfolios and scoring rubrics is that they
provide more objective results than multiple-choice tests
offer reliable assessment data
ensure consistency among evaluators
promote self-evaluation opportunities for students

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