Reading Final

Which of the following contributes to a student's success or failure in school?

All of the above student's family is impoverished, students has no access to books, student's parents are illiterate

Which of the following is NOT a typical activity in a literate environment?

An adult reading aloud

What is the least significant reason for including storytelling in the curriculum?

Another form of reading

____________ are collections of stories and poems that are usually organized by themes

Anthologies

If My. Jones wants to develop an ELLs academic language in a content area classroom, he should...

Both B and C Explicitly teach terminology associated with content area books and teach students how to scan for important information

Each day students orally recite the alphabet and play alphabet bingo. Which model of reading is this teacher relying upon?

Bottom-up

Which of the following is NOT a characteristics of a bottom-up philosophical stance? a. Students must decode letters and words before they are able to construct meaning from sentences, paragraphs, and larger text sentences. b. Reading acquisition is mastering and integrating a series of word identification skills. c. Sentences, paragraphs, and texts selections are the units of language emphasized instructionally. d. Students reading a passage over and over is an important instructional activity because they develop accurate word recognization

C

Ms. Callaghan gave her students pictures of a story and asked them to sequence them in the same order in which the events occurred in the story. Ms. Callaghan is using a

Circular story map

_____ is a vocabulary-development strategy that asks the students to represent visually how words are related to other words. it is a webbing activity.

Concept circles

The phase of literacy development when young children enjoy being read to and begin to engage in sustained reading and writing activities is..

Experimental reading and writing phase

A criterion-referenced assessment is considered an informal test.

False

Close reading involves reading long, complex texts only once in order to find evidence that answers text-specific questions.

False

Districts that adopt a core program don't use other materials.

False

In an environment that promotes literacy development, risk-taking is not an important factor.

False

In both open and closed word sorting, children are guided toward discovering similarities in words, rather than being told how they are alike.

False

It is best to focus on a single method of assessment to ensure that all students are assessed in the same way.

False

Providing students opportunities to explore language with paper and pencil helps them to form expectations that print is meaningful.

False

Teachers who use the bottom-up approach think that students need to be assessed on the basis of their performance in meaningful contents.

False

Teaches should organize writing instructing by using a plan called the reading process.

False

Text complexity is based on three factors, word and sentence length, language and clarity of the text, and reader ability.

False

The First-Grade Studies indicated the bottom-up approach to be more effective for beginning reading and spelling achievement.

False

The rules for using language are culturally specific, and teachers need to recognize the language norms of minority children.

False

Vygotsky agrees with Piget that reacting to the environment will foster growth and learning

False

Skilled readers use the strategy of immediate word recognition on 50% of the printed words they encounter.

False (99%)

In which of the following locations would children encounter environmental print?

Fast-food restaraunt

Mr. Thompson was having students read predictable text so they could read with ease. What was he trying to achieve.

Fluency through repeated readings

Reader's theater, choral reading, and echo reading are all strategies

For groups of students

Which of the following is a strategy for motivating students to write?

Give them a choice about what to read or write about and Give students a choice about which genres to choice

The system that gives cues about the sounds associated with written symbols is...

Graphophonemic

Which of the following reading levels has been called the "teaching level"?

Independent

The learning strategy where a section of text is read in small groups and each student assumes a role or purpose for reading, and reports to the rest of the group is called a/an:

Informational Book Circle

In Mr. Smith's classroom, students are assigned a passage to read and put in home groups. Each student in the home group has a different purpose for reading. This strategy is called:

Jigsaw

Which of the following reading levels has been called the "potential level"?

Listening Capacity Level

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of reading fluency?

Metacognition

Which of the following best represents the experiences, conceptual understandings, attitudes, values, skills, and strategies that students put into play when they are reading?

Metal ability

______ is an effective way to develop oral fluency

Poetry

With _______ stories, less able readers can use their intuitive knowledge of language and sense to help them develop fluency.

Predictable

Which of the following is meant to help students become aware of the purpose of a reading assignment?

Previewing

When teachers delete important words in cloze passages, such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives, what type of cloze activity are they using?

Selective word deletion

Ms. Simon asked a group of fourth-grade students, "What words can you think of that have the prefix 'un' in them. She is likely enhancing the students' awareness of...

Structural analysis

____ involves teaching children how to identify words through prefixes, suffixes, and root words.

Structural analysis

In _____ children are to evaluate, critique, and revise their own responses in light of the perspectives their peer express.

Student-led literature circles

From a reading perspective, the main goal of instruction is to..

Teach children to become independent readers

_____ can be an effective way to scaffold students' understanding of how we navigate online text.

Think alouds

A dynamic conception of curriculum reflects what teachers and students do as they engage in classroom activity.

True

Basal reading can be said to have its own concepts and terms, like a language of its own

True

Both analytic and synthetic phonics approaches address rules, discuss isolated letter-sounds relationships, break words apart, and put them back together again

True

Comprehensive instruction in reading evolves from teachers' knowledge about the needs of students.

True

English Language Learners take longer to learn academic language than social communication

True

Fluency norm charts are used to assess accuracy and automatically by taking one-minutes reading samples.

True

Instruction in fluent oral reading produces readers who move from word-by-word reading to more efficient phrase reading.

True

Invented spelling signal to parents and teachers that children are beginning to analyze speech sounds in print.

True

Listening and speaking vocabularies tend to develop in the home, whereas reading and writing vocabularies fall within the domain of the school

True

Miscue analysis is a type of informal assessment?

True

Multicultural literature helps readers understand, appreciate, and celebrate the traditions and experiences that make each culture special on its own.

True

One single discipline cannot provide a teacher with the insights and understandings needed to support literacy learning in the modern world.

True

Providing students with choices and scaffolding creative options are two key elements that will foster effective writing instruction.

True

Publishing writing provides a strong incentive for children to keep writing and rewriting.

True

Research shows reading aloud to children is an important activity for building the knowledge and skills they need to become successful readers.

True

Students need frequent, in-depth activities in meaningful and various contexts in order to develop vocabulary knowledge.

True

Students' monitoring of their own vocabulary knowledge as they use context in reading and listening is essential for independent reading.

True

Students, especially ELL's, should have the opportunity to practice silently before reading orally.

True

Teachers need to help all students develop ethnic, national, and global identification

True

Teachers of culturally diverse students need to go beyond celebrations and thematic units to provide literacy and learning experiences that will give students cross-culture knowledge.

True

Textually implicit questions help students search for text relationships and provoke thinking.

True

What teachers believe about reading and learning to read is closely related to what they know about literacy learning and the teaching of literacy.

True

When assessing literacy, the teacher needs to know how children interact with print in authentic situations and why

True

When determining good literature in a classroom, the collection needs to contain books with different types of themes and books of varying difficulty.

True

When selecting literature for active comprehension, teachers should select material that fosters questions and understandings that reflect the diverse nature of their classroom.

True

When teaching reading comprehension, scaffold instruction means that teachers model strategies step-by-step and explicitly demonstrate the process of thinking before, during, and after one reads.

True

When vocabulary learning is centered on acquiring a large percentage of words appearing in actual selections that will be read in class, comprehension is likely to be enhanced.

True

Mrs. Martinez is generating a vocabulary list for her students to learn. The list should include...

Words that students encounter while reading literature and content material

Which of the following is the most important contributing factors in the learning environment of early readers?

Writing in reading journals

Anticipation guides are recommended for:

activating prior knowledge and clarifying misconceptions

Identify the characteristic that is NOT based on the top-down belief system a. Use of context clues b. vocabulary activities before reading c. Choice of reading materials d. less emphasis on correcting word errors

b

Which of the following is NOT a criterion for selecting multicultural literature? a. inclusions of member of a minority groups for a purpose b. authentic dialogue and relationships c. a few cultural details d. cultural accuracy

c

The three broad categories of reading materials are core instructional programs, supplemental materials, and

electronic texts

In literature circles the teacher's role should be on of...

facilitator

Mrs. Murray notices that many students are misusing the homophones to, too, and two in their writing. So at the beginning of class, she gives them about 10 minutes of instruction and practice using the correct words. Mrs. Murray is...

giving a mini-lesson

Choose the activity that is least likely to be part of a writing environment.

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