Evans Quizzes

Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in promoting reluctant readers' interest in independent reading outside of school.

Encourage students and parents to read books together on a regular basis, either silently or aloud, and discuss their personal responses to each chapter or key event.

Sixth-grade students have just finished reading a chapter in a novel and are getting ready to write an entry in their response journals. The teacher could most effectively develop students' literary response skills by assigning which of the following journal prompts?

What do you think is the main idea or theme of the novel? Relate specific events in this chapter to the theme you suggest.

Which of the following types of assessments would best provide information about the comparative reading proficiency of students in an elementary school?

a norm-referenced survey test

A second-grade student demonstrates automaticity decoding grade-level regular and irregular words. However, the student frequently experiences poor text comprehension. Which of the following is the first step the teacher should take in order to promote this student's reading proficiency?

determining the extent of the student's vocabulary knowledge.

Phonemic awareness contributes most to the development of phonics skills in beginning readers by helping them:

identify in spoken language separate sounds that can be mapped to letters.

Over the course of the school year, a sixth-grade student who had been a fluent, proficient reader in previous years is having increasing difficulty comprehending grade-level literary and informational texts assigned in class. The results of informal, curriculum-based assessments indicate that the student still meets grade-level expectations in vocabulary knowledge, but the student's reading rate and comprehension have dropped below grade level. The student also tends to choose fiction and graphic novels written well below the sixth-grade level for independent reading. The student's overall reading performance suggests that the student would likely benefit most from instruction focused on promoting the student's:

knowledge and skills related to understanding complex academic language.

A fifth-grade teacher guides students in reading a complex literary text. First, the teacher reads aloud the beginning of the text as the students follow along silently in their copies. Next, the teacher rereads key phrases and sentences, asking students what the author meant by certain statements or by the choice of certain words. Finally, the teacher and students reread the section aloud together with expression. The teacher repeats these steps with each section of the text. This activity promotes reading proficiency primarily by:

modeling for students how to engage in close reading of academic texts.

Which of the following sets of words would be most effective to use when introducing students to the concept of structural analysis?

pretest, retest, tested, testing

Skimming is likely to be the most effective strategy for accomplishing which of the following reading tasks?

previewing a chapter in a content- area textbook

A second-grade teacher regularly reviews spelling patterns previously taught. The teacher also provides students with multiple opportunities to read and write connected text that features words containing the target spelling patterns and to engage in word sorts focused on previously taught spelling patterns. These types of activities are likely to promote students' reading proficiency primarily by developing their:

reading fluency with respect to accuracy.

According to basic principles of research- based, systematic phonics instruction, which of the following common English letter combinations would be most appropriate for a first-grade teacher to introduce first?

th