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Which of the following is least likely to be an indicator that a student has a delay in oral language development?

A student has difficulty explaining a concept that was just introduced

The teacher then write several more words on the board and guide students practice of the syllable division strategy. This lesson and soul vacation is highly related to which of the following pre-requisite skills for early reading proficiency?

Ability to separate words into syllables

Sometimes students incorrectly assumed synonyms are all equally inner changeable in a senates. The following sentence describes the amount of fish flowing through the streams. Select form the answers below the correct synonym to complete the sentence. The streams were blank with Fish

Abundant

Mrs. Hollister gives each student a copy of the concept lab developed by the class. She could best help students make use of the web to learn and retain facts from their rating by asking them to

Add continuously to the Webb as they encounter and organize new information in a reading

Mrs. Martin is attempting to help students like books that they can read on their own as part of this process she must determine each students independent reading level. In order to determine her students independent reading level Mrs. Swanson's best approach would be to

Administer an informal reading inventory to each students

There are many different strategies to help spell a word correctly. Which of the following statements represents the best approach to using these strategies?

Be flexible on which strategy to use depending on the word to be spelled

Which of the following methods is the most effective method for helping students retain new words learned

Before having students read an article on magnets the teacher bring some magnets into the classroom and engages students in discussion and experimentation

The teacher could assume the student use the word author instead of blogger because

Both words fit contextually in the sentence

Based on this data which skills should Mrs. Holmes address with the student during an instructional intervention?

Claim and reasoning

Mrs. Brown is currently teaching a first grade social studies unit that focuses on how technology affects daily life. Which of the following graphic organizers would be the most appropriate for this text analysis activity?

Compare and contract graphic organizer

A beginning first grade teacher conference with a reading specialist teacher in school about the difficulties several English learners are having with Orly segmenting three and four phoneme words. Based on a convergence of research evidence which of the following pieces of advice should the reading teacher gift

Continue with oral phoneme segmentation activities but begin linking sounds two letters and print as soon as possible

Mr. Johnson poses a question to the group and each student has a minute or two to think about the question. Then they turn and discuss it was someone sitting next to them. This scenario is an example of

Cooperative learning

According to Dishon's reading performance, What specific reading school does Mr. Roman need to address with an instructional intervention?

Decoding multisyllabic words with using knowledge of suffixes

Vowels are often divided into which two categories?

Diphthong and monophthong

After participating in this activity all of the students review the chapter in their science text about volcanoes. Which of the following best describes one important way in which this activity is likely to benefit English learners?

Discussing in writing about a constant area topic supports English learners rating of related text by reinforcing key vocabulary, language structures, and schemata

Which of the following strategies were best facilitate the students involvement in class discussions and promote their comprehension of the text?

Distributing the ELL students and a mixed group of other students for discussion of cultural references

Mrs. Kelli conducts daily read aloud's in her first grade classroom. She engages her students throughout the book by asking questions and discussing events. Which of the following teacher questions is least likely to promote oral language in order to assess vocabulary development?

Do you like the story?

Students that are in the pre-reading stage or pre-alphabetic stage should be categorized as which of the following

Emergent

Ms. Cho Teaches pre-kindergarten. While I am serving instruction she noticed that some of her students regularly experience challenges with recognizing distinct letter sounds. To address the needs of the students miss show wants to implement a variety of instructional strategies that promote familiarity with distinct letter sounds among students. Which of the following instructional ask strategies would be least appropriate for Mrs. show to use?

Encourage students to make sound effects with their feet, hands, and mouth that fit with what is happening in a story

.A kindergarten teacher slowly says a child's name. The teacher then claps once for each syllable as she repeats the child's name. The teacher repeats the steps for several other names. Students then join the teacher in clapping the syllables for every child's name. This activity is likely to promote literacy development for the students primarily by

Enhancing the students phonological awareness

Which three of the following instructional act strategies may help support Mrs. Varner students and their ability to use information learned from this informational text?

Facilitate a whole class as she asked in about how each season affects daily life. Demonstrate completion of a graphic organizer that categorizes facts about each season using information from the book. Show students a variety of pictures that relate to different seasons. Have them identify the season and use information from the book to support their responses

Mrs. Swanson is attempting to help students select books they can read on their own as part of this process she must determine each students independent reading level in order to accomplish this task affectively Mrs. Swanson should select books in which students

Have five or less word recognition errors per 100 words of text

To help a group of first grade students who are having trouble hearing when two words rhyme which of the following activities would be least effective in helping them develop the skill

Have the students do an open sort where they group word cards by similar spelling features

Which of the following strategies would be most effective in helping Michael retell a story the teacher has read aloud?

Having Michael used figures on a flannel board to help him describe what happened to the characters in the story

A third-grade teacher is planning instructional activities to promote students reading fluency. Which of the following activities would be most effective in helping third-grade students read aloud in the natural, fluid, and expressive manner?

Having students participate in readers theater and other choral reading activities

One student response that the passage may be a science passage about the stars are formed. The discussion described above is likely to promote the students reading development by

Having the students make inferences about the passage

Mandy a student in Medspring Wells first grade class frequently mixes at the B in the D in both reading and writing. Which of the following describes the best approach for Mrs. Bramwell should take to address this?

Help Mandy establish a reference point for one or both letters. For example Mandy could use her name and the name tag on her desk to check how a D is written

The blending activity described above is not likely to promote which of the following decoding instruction goals?

Help children use context to confirm words to coded using letter sound knowledge

A first grade teacher uses sentence stems to assist English learners reading and writing skills. This activity might also promote students writing development by

Helping students build an understanding of syntactic structure

Creating such a web is likely to promote students ability to retain and use information that they read about a topic by

Helping students learn to use categories to organize their thinking about the topic

The teacher uses this activity and small groups on a regular basis adding or changing letter cards as new letter sound correspondence is our learning mastered. This making words activity is likely to promote student students word recognition by

Helping students read regular words

The first step in helping a student learn about a topic is to understand it completely yourself. Choose from the list below the compound morphemes

Hot shot

Mr. Class is teaching his third grade students how to generate higher order thinking questions about an informational text. To support their construction of questions, he want to sit is playing anchor chart with question stems in the classroom. Which three of the following question stems should Mr. glass include on the anchor chart? Select all that apply

How does this connect with? What are some types of the problems with? What would happen if?

Click on the question in the lesson plan excerpt that require students to apply use of evaluative comprehension skills.

If you were Goldilocks what would you have done differently?

Which of the following is not an effective way for teachers to support English learners with phonics and word study?

Implement the same teaching methods for phonics and word study instruction to all students including English learners

The book where the wild things are by Maurice Sendak is an example of a book that is ideal for which grade level student

K-2

Which of the following instructional strategies would be least appropriate for Mr. Niswander to use?

Model how to hold a book right side up and turn the pages in the book one at a time from front to back

Which of the following scenarios presents the least appropriate way to implement culturally responsive instruction that supports content, language, and literacy development in a fourth grade science lesson?

Model the use of a graphic organizer to record information

Mr. Chavez is a second grade teacher who has several English learners in his class. He is planning the next lesson in his fraction unit which will focus on halves fourths and eights. To meet the content, language, and literacy needs of all students, which of the following lesson activities should Mr. Chavez implement?

Mr. Chavez places each student with a partner. Working together each pair of students draw three different shapes with shading that represent examples showing halves, fourths, or eighths. When students finish each pair shares their drawings with the class

Mr. Matthews is a kindergarten teacher and wants to promote his students understandings with alphabetic knowledge. Which of the following is the most effective approach for him to address alphabetic knowledge during instruction?

Mr. Matthews should implement brief lessons that use explicit instruction to teach a letters name, sound, and written form

NF active way to teach syllables is to break them down into a tree or structure. What are the two subcategories that are below the rhyme of a syllable?

Nucleus and coda

In order to best improve his student speaking ability Mr. Laythan should implement which additional activity

Partners take turns describing to each other what they have learned from their reading and their discussion of the text

Mrs. Morrison is teaching her second grade students strategies to find answers in a text to literal comprehension questions. Which of the following shows the easiest and most clear type of question Mrs. Morrison could use to begin modeling the strategy for her students?

Pause while reading a passage and ask a question that has just had the answer stated verbatim in the passage

Mr. Dirks needs to locate appropriate text in the schools library for this activity. Which of the following literacy genres would provide students with more exposure to examples of figurative language?

Poetry

According to Joshua's reading performance, which specific reading scale does Mr. bodkin need to address with an instructional intervention?

Prosody

Miss Bolton has planned a reading response assignment that corresponds with the novel her six grade students are reading. The English learners in her class all in the intermediate language proficiency level of speaking and writing have enjoyed the novel and participated well with her class discussion and comprehension checks. She knows they have difficulty though knowing how to approach this assignment. Which of the following strategies is the most helpful to support their understanding of the assignment?

Provide a sample of what a completed project might look like

Youssef is a fourth grader who reads at grade level. Lately when choosing a book to read Youssef always select books from the series that is written in a very formulaic style that does little to extend his conceptual or language development. The teachers best response to this behavior would be to

Provide you self with books with similar themes or on similar topics that are more challenging for him

Mrs. Smythe's Kindergarten class is working on phonological awareness. Which of the following skills should she emphasize first with her students?

Recognizing and counting syllables in a word

When reviewing these paragraphs she notices that many students simply summarize the story rather than telling a possible theme. Based on her evaluation what is the next best instructional step for Mrs. Allender to take?

Review the definition of theme. Read a story together and discuss possible themes and whether they can be supported with text evidence

Which three of the following should miss Alton due to discuss accurately and appropriately the results of reading assessment information? Select all that apply

Share specific instructional goals from the relevant time. Communicate to students assessment results in an accurate and clear manner. Provide examples of the students performance that demonstrate strength in areas needing improvement

Which of the following is the best activity to provide the teacher with the most information following the one minute reading on February 18?

Student gives a retelling of the text

Once Mr. Barrett completes these lessons she wants to include a speaking activity as a performance based assessment. This way she can assess her students contact understandings as well as the language development of the English learners. Which of the following activities would help Mrs. Barrett achieve her goal?

Students are each given a bill of rights booklet, in the booklet there are several pages that describe different real life scenarios. For each page students read the scenario with a peer partner and discuss which amendment relates to the scenario students then write down and explain their selection

Based on Mrs. Jaska's analysis, which of the following presents a sound explanation and an appropriate intervention to address her students needs?

Students who provide a general in and complete descriptions of setting require additional instruction. One way to address the needs of the students is to facilitate visualization learning activities.

Mr. Wooster will cover several classic novels in his high school literature class. For each novel his students will also read a short story, an essay, a poem, or a newspaper article that in someway relates to the novel. Which is the most likely purpose for this pairing of text?

Students will consider characters and themes in new ways by comparing ideas across different types of text

A pre-kindergarten teacher is teaching children to clap the rhythms of their names. This music activity would most directly promote the children's development of pre-requisite skills for understanding which of the following concepts related to literacy?

Syllabication

Based on Anna's results, which of the following instructional interventions would be most appropriate to address her learning needs?

Teach Anna how to summarize paragraphs and informational text with the single sentence

Each week Mrs. Reese Alexa big book for her class to enjoy together in a shared reading time. Early in the week Mrs. Reese introduces the book and read it to the class. The text of the big book is visible to the entire class. By the end of the week most of the students are joining in and reading with her. Which of the following is not a benefit of shared reading which will help promote students fluency?

The group setting for reading does not allow the teacher to individualized reading instruction

Automaticity is part of being a fluent reader. Which of the following is true about the role of automaticity in reading?

The less attention given to word recognition, the more attention given to comprehension

Based on your knowledge of fluency which of the following is not a likely cause of the drop in fluency right on February 25?

The student has adequate word recognition strategies

Which of the following is an appropriate activity for developing phonemic awareness and first graders?

The student segments the spoken word wrote as /r/-/ō/-/p/

A second grade teacher wants to assess students ability to apply knowledge of phonics to spell words correctly. Which of the following assessment strategies would be most effective for this purpose?

The teacher dictates a set of words for the students to write and then the teacher analyzes how the students encodes different sounds

Which of the following represents the first year of the response to intervention instructional model

The teacher does an early universal screening of the class

A pre-kindergarten teacher wants to assess the students skill individually discriminating the shapes of letters. Which of the following assessment strategies would be most effective for this purpose?

The teacher gives the student a set of letter cards lays down a chart with the same letters on it and then has a Student match each letter card to the letter on the chart

Kindergarten class is learning about the letter M. The teacher plans homework around his focus. Which of the following activities best reinforces student knowledge of the alphabetic principle?

The teacher has students cut out and label objects which begin with the letter M

A teacher plans to increase reading fluency among a group of struggling readers. Which of the following would be least effective in improving fluency?

The teacher might have the students race each other to see who can read a passage the quickest

Which three of the following are appropriate instructional interventions a kindergarten teacher may use to address a students ability to identify rhyming words?

The teacher says three different words such as bed, sad, hat. The student identifies which word does not rhyme. The teacher shows three different picture cards, such as picture cards for a car, card, and star. The student matches the picture cards that rhyme. The teacher shows a Student a written list of three words such as Ken, pan, ham. The student identifies the two words that rhyme.

For struggling readers in first and second grade rapid progression from phonemic awareness to letter sound knowledge is necessary for developing reading proficiency. Additionally phonemic awareness training is most beneficial for struggling readers when combined with letters sound instruction. Which of the following modifications to the previous activity best incorporates letter sound instruction?

The teacher writes the words on the board is the student segment the sounds. The teacher then asked the students to name each letter and sound. Then the teacher demonstrates the blending of words

Mrs. King recently administered a phonics assessment to her first grade students. While analyzing the assessment results Mrs. King notice that five students demonstrated issues with the coding the following words bark, chirp, cold, horn, term. Which statement below best represents how Mrs. King should interpret these assessment results and plan future instruction?

These five students appear to have issues with our control and I controlled vowels. Mrs. king should implement interactive small group activities such as games for the students to practice decoding words with our control in el control vowels

Several English learners in Mrs. nights first grade class are having a particular difficulty with site words. Site words or most likely difficult for the students because

They are irregular words which are difficult to decode using Graphophonemic knowledge

As the teacher is verbally Walking the students through the process of identifying decoding compound words which of the following teaching strategies is this teacher using?

Think aloud

Fourth grade English as a second language teacher is working with a group of students who are about to begin some pre-vocational training. It is important for the students to learn certain site words before beginning his training which of the following words with the teacher most likely want to focus on teaching a sight words?

Through, lights, said, there

Mrs. Torres notices that one of her students using reading strategies such as decoding very well but still lags behind in her reading pace. Which one of the following options would be the least helpful in helping a student to practice reading at a quicker pace?

Time the student reading a page and then challenge her to read it faster while you time her again

Which of the following words would be the best answer to use for teaching an elementary school student how to use structural analysis on a word

Unhappy

Based on these assessment results, which of the following would be most appropriate instructional strategy for Mrs. Waters to improve students reading comprehension?

Use assessment results to form homogeneous small groups based on student performance. Within each small group design instructional interventions that target specific learning needs

An elementary teacher uses Synonyms as a strategy to define general vocabulary. The teachers goal is to

Use student background knowledge to learn new words

Which of the following best represents how Mr. Nunez should interpret Veronica's response to his question?

Veronica's response was incorrect, thereby demonstrating possible issues she may have with vocabulary knowledge

Mr. Johnson assign the students to analyze a text. He specifically wants them to analyze the audience of the text. Which of the following choices with a student answer when analyzing the audience of the text?

What would the reader have to be interested in to read this text?

Which of the following is an example of a consonant digraphs?

ck as in back