EDT 346 Final

You carefully determine the prior knowledge of all of your students before beginning a new unit, because knowing what they already know about a topic helps you to understand ___.

IF SOME STUDENTS HAVE DIFFICULTIES WITH THE CONTENT AND OTHERS WON'T Detetmine who might need to most help

You are helping your tutee Magneto with retelling because ___.

IMPROVES ABILITY TO RETELL AND ABILITY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS Duh

When you use the QAR strategy, you'll start with ___ questions because success with these questions gives students confidence in their ability to find answers in their texts and reminds them that looking back is a good idea.

IN THE BOOK Easiest to look back

Since you want your classroom to be dynamic, you incorporate all of the following aspects of transactional strategies instruction except ___.

INCORPORATING INCREMENTAL ASSESSMENT

Your new student Loki comes from Asgard. You encourage his parents to read to him in their L1; then you follow up by reading the same book in the classroom. This ___, which helps with his prior knowledge.

INCREASES HIS ENGLISH VOCAB Helps him become more familiar with reading the same book

Sentence comprehension can create problems for struggling readers for all of the following reasons except ___.

SENTENCES HAVE AT LEAST 2 CONFUSING PUNCTUATION MARKS Makes it harder to look for what it means--damn commas

Now Storm's friend Rogue wants to show that she can retell Henry and Mudge, too. However, her retelling is poor because of all of the following characteristics except ___.

SHE INCLUDES ALL IDEA STATEMENTS BUT REASON FOR GOAL goal is important part of retelling

In your classroom, you promote ___ because fluency develops through practice and students should have daily opportunities to read independently.

SSR Reading silently to selves

When considering Tris's reading rate as your instructional focus, you need to consider all of the following except ___.

THE UNIFORM RATE SHE MUST ATTAIN The set pace she should go

As Storm retells Henry and Mudge to you, you discover that this book (level 2.2) is at her instructional level because she includes ___ of the ideas statements in the text.

33% Shows understanding

Many of your 3rd graders are showing signs of struggling with the increased number of expository texts required by the school's curriculum and the Common Core standards. This could contribute to ___.

4TH GRADE SLUMP Getting scared for 4th

Although your tutee Jeanine decodes well when she reads aloud, she sounds as though she is reading a list of unconnected words. So she is ___.

A CHOPPY READER Not connected=choppy

With WCPM (or CWPM), you are evaluating your students' reading speed and ___.

ACCURACY How many words they get correct

You are guiding your struggling readers to self-question because they ___.

ARE MOSTLY FAMILIAR WITH LITERAL QUESTIONS need to get them to think outside the box

When your tutee Christine reads on her own, you choose books ___ to allow her to experience success and keep on reading

AT HER INDEPENDENT LEVEL Most comfortable at that level

When students are at the ___ stage of word learning, their word pronunciation becomes almost effortless and their oral reading is more expressive.

AUTOMATIC WORD RECOGNITION They recognize words automatically which makes their oral reading more comfortable and fluent

Your tutoring sessions with your student are __, which means that each lesson addresses word study, fluency, and comprehension in some way.

BALANCED Making sure to incorporate all three of those areas of lesson study will help your student. Like a balanced diet!

Students learn new vocabulary in all of the following ways except ___.

BEING TESTED BY PARENT OR GUARDIAN Not as effective

In guiding your 3rd grade students to move from narrative to expository texts, you introduce them to Houdini: World's Greatest Mystery Man and Escape King. This is because ___ have many of the same elements as ___.

BIOGRAPHIES, NARRATIVE TEXTS Duh

To expand your tutee Walter's vocabulary learning, you help him understand that ___ can change the tense of a word but keep it the same part of speech or they can change the part of speech, too. For example, cat and cats, or subtract and subtraction.

BOUND MORPHEMES Same speech Different tense

When looking at Bella's reading level as an indicator of comprehension proficiency, you will consider all of the following except ___.

CAN SHE RECOGNIZE MOST OF THE WORDS? That is more of a focus of fluency not comprehension

When eliciting your tutee Jane's prior knowledge, you focus on __ and not just definitions, because ___ are much broader and richer than definitions.

CONCEPT KNOWLEDGE, CONCEPTS Concept is super broad

You know that your students must ___ as they read; that is, they must use their knowledge base to interpret text information in specific ways.

CONSTRUCT MEANING Make meaning out of the text to acitivate knowledge

Your 2nd grade class is doing the Hot Seat strategy and each student is preparing a book to present. To help them figure out what to say, you have posted a list of ___, so that they can ask themselves these questions about any book they select.

CONTENT-FREE QUESTIONS not specific to book

Banshee, your new ELL from China, is confused when you talk about story structures for narrative texts. Perhaps it is because ___.

CULTURAL GROUPS VARY IN THE IMPORTANCE THEY GIVE TO STORY ELEMENTS Cultures tell stories differently

As you consider your tutee Eric's reading rate, you realize that there will be variations in his rate ___.

DEPENDING ON TYPE OF TEXT HE IS READING Interest? Difficult?

When you allow your students to look-back in their texts, ___.

DETERMINE THEY UNDERSTOOD WHAT THEY READ let them look and see what they just read

Word such as revolution, battle, general, and firearms are ___ words in social studies

DOMAIN-SPECIFIC ACADEMIC VOCAB In a social studies which is an academic subject

You should ask your students to orally read a selection for the first time cold when ___.

DURING THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS To get accurate results for data

Your cooperating teacher wants your tutoring sessions to be balanced, which means that ___.

EACH FOCUS DOES NOT RECEIVE THE SAME FOCUS Focusing on student's specific needs--e.g struggles in comprehension so focus more on that

You help your students' grow their knowledge base by connecting it to something that they already know using ___ and ___.

EXAMPLES AND ANALOGIES Helps connect to prior knowledge

You are going to use a graphic organizer [on doc cam] with your 1st grades when you begin a unit on transportation and to prepare them to read a book about the invention of the automobile. This ___ will help activate their prior knowledge before they read the text.

EXPOSITORY EXPECTATION GRID Using knowledge to see what to expect

Storm, your 2nd grade tutee, is retelling Henry and Mudge to you. With a narrative text, you are looking for her to retell all of the following except the ___.

EXPOSITORY IDEA Advanced for her

ELLs comprehension may suffer with ___, because they may not have the necessary cultural and linguistic knowledge

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Helps with background

When students struggle with ___, they often apply decoding strategies to words they should know automatically, have difficulty with irregular words, and often read slowly with poor comprehension.

FLUENCY Reading slow is the key word and having difficulty with irregular words

When your cooperating teacher asks you on which general patterns of reading difficulty you will focus with your tutee Edward, you confidently reply, "___," since they represent his strengths and difficulties.

FLUENCY, COMPREHENSION, AND WORD STUDY Duh

You include ___ of vocabulary words in your classroom as part of effective vocabulary instruction.

FREQUENT AND REGULAR REVIEW Reviewing a lot will help them master it

In order to help your students read effectively in the different content areas, you instruct them on ___ vocabulary, knowing that these words may sometimes be abstract and can vary in meaning depending on the discipline.

GENERAL ACADEMIC these type of words are trickier

Since you know that it will be impossible to teach your students all of the specific topic knowledge they will need to know when they are reading expository texts, you focus instead on ___.

GENERAL TOPIC KNOWLEDGE Just have the general sense will work

Since you have several students who are ELLs in your 2nd grade class, you are using lots of ___ with your expository texts in order to make the content and the relationship between the concepts more clear.

GRAPHIC ORGANIZER Visual=good

Effective comprehension instruction includes all of the following except ___.

Guided practice accompanied by formative assessment to determine student needs ASSESSMENT NEEDS TO BE FIRST

You are briefly assessing Gary's retelling to determine his comprehension of Animals in Summer (level 3.6). His retelling is good for all of the following reasons except ___.

HAS DETAILS SCATTERED THROUGHOUT IT Needs to be in order

Caleb is reading Henry and Mudge aloud to you: "Henry [pause] had no -- had no -- brothers [pause] and no sisters -- and no sisters. "I [pause] want a -- want a -- brother," [pause] he told -- told -- his [pause] parents. [pause] "Sorry," -- sorry -- they said. From this passage and his pauses and repetitions, you can tell that he is a ___ reader.

HESISTANT Kept pausing

Suppose, imagine, what might happen if... These are examples of ___ question stems.

INFERENTIAL What the reader thinks

Your tutoring sessions have a consistent structure for all of the following reasons except ___.

IT IS BORING FOR YOU BUT COMFORTABLE FOR YOUR TUTEE You might get tired of the same routine but it makes the tutee more relaxed

At the lowest level of word learning, your tutee Sam can ___.

KNOW THE WORDS DEFINITION Shows basic understanding

With your lesson plan openings, you focus on ___ because your tutee Erik needs to know that his knowledge is relevant to what he is reading.

KNOWLEDGE ACTIVATION Activates his prior knowledge

Your tutee Jacob is a ___ reader, which means that he uses visual cues as opposed to matching letters with sounds; therefore, you consider him to be a prereader.

LOGOGRAPHIC He recognizes visual signs--like mcdonalds

Your students should self-question for all of the following reasons except ___.

MOST EXPOSITORY TEXTS ARE SET UP THAT WAY All set up different

All of the following except ___ are research-proven methods to assess your students' knowledge base.

MULTIPLE CHOICE TESTS Doesn't give them opportunity to write

At your next in-service, your principal has asked you to describe why expository text is more difficult for readers. You've decided to break up your presentation into 4 difficulties that expository readers face. You'll include all of the following except ___.

PROSODY Not important

Your student Dan is a 3rd grader who is reading instructionally at 1st grade. In particular, he struggles with struggles with retelling and guesses at answers. So you model a retelling of a book about volcanoes by rereading portions of the text to help you recall the information. You do this because...

Poor readers view rereading as a sign of weakness and believe good readers never do it Need to know it's okay

You plan to use the comprehension strategy framework with your students, with all of your strategies included in the framework of ___.

Pre-reading, active reading & post-reading phases Before, during, after--can see understanding at each point

Which of the following is a divergent question?

Predict how you will introduce the different question types to your students could have more then one answer

With a ___, ELLs and all students can distinguish between essential and non-essential information with 2 columns: One indicates what needs to be read and the second presents questions to answer.

QUESTION GUIDE Visual on questions

Since you have several ELL students in your classroom, you are focusing on which of the following 2 question-and-answer patterns?

Question-response-feedback & student-organized interaction Easiest to just ask and have them work with other students

You know that recognizing and using text structures is not a quick fix to help your students retell or summarize texts. In order to help them, you know that you have to avoid all of the following except ___.

READ AT INDEPENDENT LEVEL Makes them more comfortable

Even though your tutee Tobias is reading instructionally at a 3rd grade level, you are reading The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (reading level grade 4) aloud to him. That's because ___.

READING OUT LOUD EXPOSES HIM TO TEXT HE COULD NOT HANDLE ON HIS OWN Giving him a broad range of texts

With ___, students use 4 strategies: Clarifying, predicting, summarizing, and questioning.

RECIPROCAL TEACHING Just teaching them how to think

In your 2nd grade students' word study notebooks, you have them include the following list of words: • Before, During, After, Finally, Later This list will help their ability to ___.

RETELL EXPOSITORY TEXT Those words are used during retelling

You plan to incorporate all of the following strategies to help your ELLs with fluency except ___.

ROUND ROBIN Intimidating for ELL

You decide to use a(n) ___ with your tutee Darcy to help activate her knowledge of frontier life before you start reading The Little House On the Prairie together.

SEMANTIC MAP ABOUT WAGON TRAINS Helps visually map out background knowledge

When your first grader Xavier struggled to retell a story to you, you scaffolded him by first asking him to retell his favorite TV show. That is because ___.

STORIES ON TV AND BOOKS HAVE SIMILAR ELEMENTS Duh

Your student Victoria is an ELL from Haiti. For your reading intervention with her, you use all of the following effective practices except ___.

TEACHING HER MORE THE 12 WORDS A WEEK Overwhelming for her

In teaching story structure to your 1st graders, you include all of the following steps except ___.

TEACHING RESOLUTION BEFORE THE PROBLEM That would be stupid

As your school's expert on effective literacy instruction, your inservice presentation on retelling narrative texts includes all of the general principles for developing narrative retelling except ___.

TEACHING STORY GRAMMER INDIRECTLY Not important

You encourage your tutee Annie to be able to produce novel responses to new words by restating them in her own words, which is ___.

THE GENERATION LEVEL OF WORD LEARNING She can show understanding on her own level

With QAR, "What are the general principles for helping students to answer questions?" would be a ___ question.

THINK AND SEARCH Have to think about it then find it

The following is an example of ___: [Student reading aloud an article from Time For Kids--TFK] "Have you ever wondered what a bear does in the woods all day? Winnie-the-Pooh seemed to have the life, but that can't be the full story. Fans of the mysterious animals will wonder no more thanks to Disneynature's new documentary, Bears. Viewers get to peak inside the secretive world of bears to find out where they go, whom they meet, and what sort of mischief they get into. STOP [Student paraphrases]: "Disney is making a documentary about bears and will show what bears do during the day." The film's co-director Keith Scholey chatted with TFK about filming a few feet away from the large, beautiful creatures in one of nature's most untouched areas, Katmai National Park in Alaska. The park was nearly destroyed in 1912 after a nearby volcano erupted and covered the land in ash. After the disaster, Katmai became home to only plants and animals. When people started visiting the park, they found it full of bears that were not afraid of humans. "Because it's so isolated, the bears live the perfect life there," Scholey told TFK. STOP [Student makes new meaning]: The bears in this documentary live in a remote area of Alaska, which means they haven't been in contact with human beings and are more likely to behave naturally. Scholey said the crew was charmed by one bear family in particular: Sky and her two cubs, Amber and Scout. The crew followed closely as avalanches and wolves threatened the bears. How did the cubs learn to survive in the dangerous wilderness? By following mom, of course." STOP [Student questions]: I wonder how the film crew kept out of danger as they were making the documentary?

THINKING OUT LOUD Duh

Your students have really gotten into using discussion cards during class discussions, and you have noticed that ___.

The cards give the students cues about possible comments they might make Helps them learn what to say

Identifying the main idea statement in a text passage is difficult for readers for all of the following reasons except ___.

There is always an explicitly stated main idea but the author camouflage it to provide dramatic tension Because they're so damn cool

To help your ELL students Cyclops (Greek) and Mimic (French) learn English story structures, you use all of the following instructional strategies except ___.

USING REPEATED QUESTIONING Doesn't work

You use ___ with your students to increase their ability to make mental pictures, as well as improve their predicting and inferencing.

VISUAL IMAGERY seeing visuals helps with mental pictures

When asking your students' parents or guardians to encourage concept development, you suggest that they respond to their children's questions and focus on dialogic reading using ___.

WH-QUESTIONS Forces them to not respond "yes" or "no"

When measuring your tutee Renesmee's comprehension with an informal reading inventory, you can either ask her to answer your questions ___ or ___

WITHOUT LOOKING BACK, LOOKING BACK Both can measure comprehension by using or not using the text

While reading together with your tutee Jonah, you model an awareness of new words you encounter, as well as an interest in their meanings, to foster his ___.

WORD CONSCIOUSNESS Make him aware of words in text

When completing the activity ___ with your tutee Clarise, she needs to include what she learned about the word from some source and then make a personal connection to it.

WORD IN MY LIFE Prior knoweldge

Your 3rd grade students are reading the biography Helen Keller (reading level 3.9) and you are focusing on the Common Core standard "Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea." To help them understand the difference between retelling and summarizing, you give them a summarizing checklist with all of the following items except ___.

YOUR SUMMARY IS FREE FORM Retelling is not a free for all

An information reading inventory can provide all of the following except ___.

YOUR TUTEES GRADE LEVEL It will just tell you the reading level

You are using read-alouds with your struggling readers for all of the following reasons except ___.

You use them with books you and the students will only be able to read once Can read more then once