FTCE Reading K-12 Sample Questions

KWL Chart

(Know, Want to know, Learned) A strategy to guide reading and inquiry: Before—what do I already know? What do I want to know? After—what have I learned?

realistic fiction

A story using made-up characters that could happen in real life.

historical fiction

A type of realistic fiction that takes place in a particular time period in the past. Often the setting is real, but the characters are made up from the author's imagination.

Specially Designed Instruction

Adapting, as appropriate to the needs of an eligible child under this part, the content, methodology, or delivery of instruction to address the unique needs of the child that result from the child's disability

what are the Assessment tools for the purpose of evaluating expertise

1. research papers, 2. formal presentations, 3. formal debates

Criterion for selecting multicultural literature

1.treatment of issues 2. authentic dialogue 3. cultural accuracy

Chomsky

Believed language was innate; developmental theorist

narrative nonfiction

Factual information presented in a format which tells a story

Freire

Known for "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"

Tier 3 Vocabulary

Low Frequency/ Context Specific Vocabulary.

QAR

Question-answer relationship; readers learn how to answer questions, delineate between explicit and implicit information, and draw on background knowledge: "right there," "think and search," "author and you," and "on your own" questions.

Rosenblatt

Reader Response Theory

graphonics

Refers to the sound relationship between the orthography (symbols) and phonology (sounds) of a language. (using pics)

Which adaptation of the basal reading program is the most efficient for struggling readers?

Repeated readings

Informal Reading Inventory

Series of increasingly difficult reading passages followed by comprehension checks/ questions. Formative assessments used to determine reading levels (independent, instructional, frustration).

Analytical phonics

Sounds are not taught in isolation but rather in familiar chunks. Students are taught to read words by focusing on onsets and rimes. Students are taught to read the word trip as /tr/-/ip/ and slip as /sl/-/ip/.

literacy skills

Specific knowledge needed for reading and writing, including phonemic/phonological awareness; print concepts; decoding; word analysis; sight-word recognition; and spelling, punctuation, or other language conventions.

problem and solution

Tells about a problem (and sometimes says why there is a problem) then gives one or more possible solutions.

Phonemic Awareness

The ability to hear, identify,and manipulate the individual sounds, phonemes, in oral language.

phonics approach

The idea that reading instruction should teach the basic rules for translating written symbols into sounds.

Tier 1 Vocabulary Words

Tier consists of the most basic words. These words typically do not have multiple meanings. Sight words, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and early reading words (book, girl, sad, run, dog, and orange)

Tier 2 Vocabulary Words

Tier consists of words important for reading comprehension, mature language users, contain multiple meanings,Increased descriptive vocabulary. (ex. masterpiece, fortunate, measure)

screening

To test or examine for the presence of something (as a learning disability)

social constructivist

Vygotsky - emphasis on collaboration with others to produce knowledge and understanding

SQ3R

a study method incorporating five steps: Survey, Question, Read, Retrieve, Review

role play

an effective way for a teacher of ELL to integrate speaking and listening into the classroom

Language Experience Approach

approach to writing instruction from personal experience; stories about personal experiences are written by teacher and read together until learner associates written form of word with spoken

Partial Alphabetic Phase

children know some letters and letter-sound associations and can use them along with context clues

monitoring

collecting learning samples over time todocument change

What is the most effective strategy to assist a middle schooler struggling with high-frequency words?

create an individual word bank

A teacher working with diverse learners in the emergent stage of literacy development should

develop student's oral and academic vocablary knowledge

Pre-alphabetic phase

don't understand phoneme / letter correspondence, memorize visual features (word stop in stop sign)

full alphabetic phase

good understanding of connection between graphemes and phonemes, can decode letter by letter and spell phonetically.

diagnosis

identification of a problem

contextual analysis

infer or predict meaning of words from context in which they appear

IRI

informal reading inventory

outcomes

key factors that are affected by some other variables

Lev Vygotsky

most famous for social development theory (of child cognitive development) information intensive learning environment with students collaborating on a variety of assignments and teacher roaming to help individuals and students

A biography is the best example of

narrative nonfiction

lexical

relating to the words or vocabulary of a language

What is the best way to determine reading instructional groups in a classroom with students who have a wide range of skills and abilities>

review state reading scores and then administer an IRI

consolidated alphabetic phase

tend to see words as whole units and use decoding skills in unison to decode unfamiliar words

Reader Response Theory

the belief that responsibility for constructing textual meaning resides primarily with the reader and depends to a great extent on the reader's prior knowledge and experience

Structural Analysis

the process of using familiar word parts (base words, prefixes, and suffixes) to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Semantics

the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning

syntactic working system

the strategy of using the grammatical structure of whole sentences to figure out meaning

data-based grouping

using observational notes to monitor student's strengths and needs in order to provide differentiated instruction and flexible grouping

A reading Teacher is reviewing a recently published book about a new approach to improving reading comprehension. What approach should the teacher look for when evaluating the reported success of this approach?

whether the results of the research the author condusted on the approach are reliable and valid