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Adverb

Yesterday

KWL (Know, Want-to-know, and Learned)

a chart is an organizational tool primarily used by students and teachers to direct and facilitate learning in the classroom

What is a subordinating conjunction?

a conjunction that introduces a subordinate clause examples: although, because, or, but

What is an adjective?

a word that describes a person, place or thing example: silly

ask students to infer based on the text provided

classic young adult literature

encourage traditional literacy skills

classic young adult literature

serve as pathways to current movies and television series

classic young adult literature

What is a predicate adjective?

comes after linking a verb to describe the subject of a sentence example: happy, cute, wonderful

What is a preposition?

expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause, as in "the man ON the platform"

develop readers' ability to interpret characters' nonverbal gestures

graphic novels

discern character emotions through emphasis in text

graphic novels

encourage visual literacy

graphic novels

Adjective

Football

Preposition

For

A teaching strategy used in the classroom to encourage students to write without interruption of the flow of thoughts is called --

Freewriting

Mrs. Coronado teaches fifth-grade ESL at Reginald Elementary School. Her students have a wide array of English language proficiency but recently she discovered that most of her students were having difficulty understanding multisyllabic words with prefixes and suffixes. Mrs. Coronado would like to plan an activity that leads to the purposeful use of morphemic analysis as a word learning strategy. Which of the following activities is best suited to achieve this purpose?

Given a specific root, students work with a partner to create a list of words with the root then write definitions for the words on their list

Mrs. Swanson is attempting to help students, in order to accomplish this task effectively

Have 5 or less word recognition errors per 100 words of text

Mrs. Slosson is working with Lani, a second grade student who has difficulty with reading fluency. One technique that would be very effective for Mrs. Slosson to use with Lani would be to —

Have Lani read familiar books she has already read

Mrs. Dothan's fourth-grade class is reading the book, The Best School Year Ever, by Barbara Anderson. Mrs. Dothan wants to make sure that her students keep up with their reading assignments and understand the character and plot developments as they read. Which of the following activities would be most appropriate for accomplishing this?

Have students keep a book journal and make an entry relating to character and plot development for each reading assignment.

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 a natural, fluid, and expressive manner?

Having students participate in Readers Theatre and other choral reading activities

Which of the following sentences contains an error?

He knows that each of the students need a book, pencil and paper.

Graphophonic Cues

Hints based on sound-symbol correspondences that help readers decode and comprehend a text (sounding out words)

An elementary teacher uses an I-chart to help students examine a topic by integrating prior knowledge on the topic with information found from a variety of sources. Which of the following tasks should the students do first when conducting research?

Identify the topic

A fifth-grade teacher plans to supplement studies in the content areas with a research project. Which of the following answers might the teacher consider? Select all that apply.

- Have students use multiple resources while researching - Encourage students to research and collaborate outside of the classroom - Review web literacy skills with students

A teacher works with English language learners of various levels of language proficiency. Which of the following strategies provides language support for ELLs during classroom instruction? Select all that apply.

- Visuals which illustrate complex concepts - Access to content word lists - Cooperative learning activities - Sentence stems

A sixth-grade teacher plays a short video clip report from a credible and safe news channel and has students orally provide the main idea of the news report. Which of the following answers best reflect why this strategy is effective for supporting oral language skills.

- the students evaluate spoken language of others and rephrase their own language - the students practice getting the gist of a story in a quick and engaging way

see

2 phonemes

knight

3 phonemes

play

3 phonemes

shin

3 phonemes

sight

3 phonemes

watch

3 phonemes

correctness (cor-rect-ness)

3 syllables

crocodile (croc-o-dile)

3 syllables

bent

4 phonemes

fox

4 phonemes

plan

4 phonemes

disturbances (dis-turb-anc-es)

4 syllables

individual - (in·di·vid·u·al)

5 syllables

When choosing a book for independent reading it is important that the reader be able to read at least how many of the words in the text accurately?

95%

Which of the following is the most important advantage of using portfolios for developing writers?

A portfolio can provide evidence of growth and change in a student's writing skills

Ms. Hollister's fourth-grade class is beginning a unit on deserts. She starts the unit by having the students form small groups and list everything they know about deserts. Then the whole class meets to share their lists, and Ms. Hollister asks the students to help her arrange their ideas into a concept web. Ms. Hollister gives each student a copy of the concept web developed by the class. She could best help students make use of the web to learn and retain facts from their reading by asking them to —

Add continuously to the web as they encounter and organize new information in their reading

In order to determine her students' independent reading level Mrs. Swanson's best approach would be to —

Administer an informal reading inventory to each student

Ms. Swanson is attempting to help students, in order to determine her students independent reading level

Administer an informal reading inventory to each student

Subordinating Conjunction

Although

Pairing proficient readers with english language learners or struggling readers is an established strategy for helping both groups to develop reading fluency. The proficient readers receives additional practice, and the ELLs and struggling readers are able to listen to fluent readers. Both groups can also read to their partners and receive input. Which of the following strategies might be included in Paired/Partner Reading to encourage a focus on reading comprehension as well as reading fluency.

Answering and asking questions Who, What, When, Where, How, and Why Questions

Indefinite Pronoun

Anything

What is an interrogative sentence?

Asks a question

Mr. James fourth-grade class is reading a class story. Mr. James want to ensure all students comprehend the story point of view, the figurative language, and characters' thoughts and feelings by having a class discussion. Which of the following questions would get students to engage in discussion more?

If you were the main character in the story, how would you have handled the problem?

Conjunctive Adverb

Indeed

Use the excerpt of the poem "Jabberwocky quote published by Lewis Carroll in 1871, to answer the question that follows

Being familiar with a common language structures can help a reader interpret text

During guided reading groups, an ESL teacher points out the use of apostrophes in possessive nouns to a group of students. The teacher was --

Building an understanding of writing conventions through the use of literature

A teacher uses the "pie" analogy to teach her students about authors purpose. The acronym stands for the most common purposes --

Entertain

What is a conjunctive adverb?

Examples: However, therefore, meanwhile, as a result

I made a 100 on my test!

Exclamatory

I went to the store

Declarative

A fourth grade social studies teacher is designing a lesson to help his students critically evaluate magazine articles on various topics. Which of the following activities would most likely accomplish that purpose?

Determine which parts of the article are fact and which are opinion

Mr. Batista's sixth-grade class has been studying volcanoes. He designs the following activity for the class, which includes a number of English Language learners. Which of the following best describes one important way in which this activity is likely to benefit English language learners?

Discussing and writing about a content-area topic supports English language learners reading of related texts by reinforcing key vocabulary, language structures, and schemata.

Goodreads is a social cataloging website that allows individuals to search its database of books, quotes, and reviews. Which of the following would be an appropriate use for Goodreads in a sixth-grade language arts classroom?

Encouraging students to follow each other on Goodreads to read each other's reviews and recommendations for independent reading

Predicate Adjective

Intelligent

How are you today?

Interrogative

Mr. Lathan's fourth-grade social studies students are engaged in the following activity: How would this activity tend to improve students comprehension skills?

It would improve students engagement with the text and increase their comprehension

Ms. Adams is developing an instructional unit that will help her fourth-graders activate their prior knowledge before reading content area texts. Which of the following instructional strategies should Ms. Adams include in this unit?

KWL

What is an imperative sentence?

Makes a demand

What is a declarative sentence?

Makes a statement

Noun

Monday

Mr. Stinson is helping students in his Content Mastery class with their science assignment. They are required to read a chapter in their fourth-grade science book and answer questions about it. All of these students have difficulty with reading. Which of the following approaches would be most effective in helping them with their assignment?

Mr. Stinson goes over vocabulary words they will encounter in their reading and they discuss the meaning of those words

A first-grade student is reading a story aloud. The student attempts to read the sentence, "Jill likes to play on a swing." Printed below is an excerpt from the student's comments as he attempts to read the sentence. Which of the following teacher responses to the student's question would best address this goal?

Now try reading the sentence again and see whether swing makes sense.

Mr. Lathan's fourth- grade social studies students are engaged in the following activity: In order to best improve his students' speaking ability, Mr. Lathan 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.

Mr. Brogna knows that it is important for his students to work on their delivery skills while rehearsing their speeches. During rehearsal, he tells the students to work on the physical aspects of their delivery which support communication including- Of the following which would be the best strategy to use in order to emphasize the physical aspects of speech delivery?

Place students with a partner and then have each student record his/her speech into a tape recorder. Students then work together with a partner to provide feedback on each other's delivery skills

Matouk is working with his fifth grade students to develop their reading comprehension skills. During a guided practice activity, Mr. Matouk asks his students questions to stimulate some specific strategies for reading comprehension. One of the questions he asks is as follows: "Look over the pages we will be reading today. What is the title of the chapter? Do you see any paragraph headings? Any italicized or bolded words? Make a note of what you see. What do you think this text is about? What reading comprehension strategy is Mr. Matouk teaching his students to use?

Previewing

Mr. Brandon had his class write a story on a personal experience they had. Below is the story written by Kyle. When having students write about personal experiences such as Mr. Brandon is doing here, what would be the most effective activity to undertake first?

Put students in groups and have them share their stories with each other

Mr. Brandon had his class write a story on a personal experience they had. Below is the story written by Kyle. Based on this writing sample, what suggestion would Mr. Brandon want to make to Kyle in revising it in order to obtain the most immediate improvement?

Reorganize the sequence of events into a more logical order

Mrs. Schlaegel teaches English, language arts, and reading for fifth and sixth graders. To support her students' continuing development of comprehension skills, Mrs. Schlaegel teaches them to use the SQ4R plan when reading in the content areas. Mrs. Schaegel believes that the SQ4R supports her students' reading comprehension because it

Requires students to process and present the information they have read in a new structure and enhances their memory retention

Which of the following instructional strategies is likely to be most effective in improving the reading fluency of Sascha, a third-grade student?

Sascha practices reading a favorite story aloud several times and then reads it into a microphone to record the reading the reading

What is a exclamatory sentence?

Shows excitement and an exclamation mark

A third-grade teacher wants to broaden students' understanding of their own culture and the cultures of others through the reading of literary texts. Which of the following strategies would most effectively address this goal?

Students read folktales and other literature from various cultures and discuss the similarities and differences

A first-grade student is reading a story aloud. The student attempts to read the sentence, "Jill likes to play on a swing." Printed below is an excerpt from the student's comments as he attempts to read the sentence. Which of the following teacher prompts would most likely be effective in eliciting helpful information about the student's use of word-identification strategies.

Tell me how you figured out that the word was swing

Mrs. Ramirez facilitated oral language development during small group interactions with her students. She was deliberate about her word choice and language during her discussion with students. Which of the teacher prompts is a weak response?

That's right - toys!

A third grade student is struggling with writing and the parent would like ideas about how to help. Which of the following might the teacher recommend?

The person and the student can write letters back and forth to each other for fun

A teacher anticipates students will have a difficult time reading an expository text associated with content planned for a science lesson. Which of the following strategies might the teacher implement prior to reading the text?

The teacher may have students skim the text for difficult words, which the class will discuss before reading

The teacher Considers ways to use word relationships and the students prior knowledge to expand vocabulary knowledge. Which of the following strategies would best and he has word recognition?

The use of synonyms it would enhance word recognition

A fourth-grade English-as-a-second language teacher is working with a group of students who are about to begin some pre-vocational training

Through, light, said, there

Mr. Batista's sixth-grade class has been studying volcanoes. He designs the following activity for the class, which includes a number of English Language learners. The paragraph-building activity designed by Mr. Batista is likely to promote students' reading development primarily by helping them--

Transfer skills from oral language to written language

An elementary teacher uses synonyms as a strategy to define general vocabulary period the teacher's goal is to --

Use student background knowledge to learn new words

A middle-school teacher designs the following instructional activity. Using the board, the teacher writes and pronounces dict. She explains that dict derives from the Latin word for "speak." She then asks students if they can think of English words that start with or include dict. The teacher uses students' suggestions to create the diagram shown here.This activity is likely to promote students' vocabulary development primarily by helping the students--

Use word roots to determine the meaning of related words

A first-grade student is reading a story aloud. The student attempts to read the sentence, "Jill likes to play on a swing." Printed below is an excerpt from the student's comments as he attempts to read the sentence. In the comments above, the student most clearly demonstrates which of the following reading skills? After identifying the word swing, the student turns to the teacher and asks, "Is that right? Is it swing?" The teacher wants to encourage the student to use semantic and syntactic cues to verify the word. Which of the following teacher responses to the student's question would best address this goal?

Using Graphophonic cues to help analyze and decode an unfamiliar word

always, around, because, been, before, best, both, buy... Which of the following strategies is most effective in teaching students to recognize the words listed in the picture above?

Using creative ways to expose the students to the words in multiple situations and contexts

What is an indefinite pronoun?

Vague and not definite examples: anyone, everybody, everyone

Ms. Hollister's fourth-grade class is beginning a unit on deserts. She starts the unit by having the students form small groups and list everything they know about deserts. Then the whole class meets to share their lists, and Ms. Hollister asks the students to help her arrange their ideas into a concept web. The class partially completed concept web is shown here.

helping student learn to use categories to organize their thinking about the topic

Structural analysis would be an especially appropriate strategy for a student to use to determine the meaning of which of the following words?

impassable

Shut the door

imperative

Mr. Clay regularly provides instructional activities to support his students developing reading comprehension. He is planning an activity for tomorrow in which his students will read two different versions of a story titled The Luncheon. His objectives for this instructional activity include all of the following except --

inferring meaning based on social conventions

What is a noun?

person, place or thing

Brian writes "home" for the word home. When considering the developmental stages of spelling, Brain uses

phonetic spelling

Mrs. Ramirez facilitated oral language development during small group interactions with her students. She was deliberate about her word choice and language during her discussion with students. In her response to "it was funny," the teacher used the word amusing to -

purposefully model an alternative word that the child is not accustomed to using

Choral reading

reading aloud in unison with a group

Brian writes "spcl" for the word special. When considering the developmental stages of spelling, Brain uses

semiphonetic spelling

Which of the following phrases contains a mistake in capitalization?

the north pole

What is an adverb?

words used to change, describe, or add more information about a verb in a sentence


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