ELAR 4-8 Practice Test
Read the excerpt below from "What Is a Watershed?" A seventh-grade English language arts teacher could most appropriately use the excerpt develop students' ability to:
analyze how an author uses evidence to support a controlling idea.
When teaching a Tier Three word to a group of students, a sixth-grade teacher provides a non-example word that is related to but does not match the word's definition. This practice best demonstrates the teacher's awareness that non-examples provide:
an image that the students can associate with the word - new context to support
Fourth-grade students are conducting background research for informational essays about the Battle of San licinto. which Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna surrendered to Sam Houston in 1836. Which of the following materials gathered. during the student's search is a primary source?
an official letter from Santa Anna ordering the retreat of the Mexican Army
Use the information below to answer the two questions that follow. Students in an eighth-grade English language arts class listen for the second time to a recording of John F. Kennedy's 1962 "Race to Space" speech, reading along on individual copies of the transcript. During the speech, the teacher pauses the recording for a brief discussion. A transcript of the discussion appears below. The transcript demonstrates the teacher's attention to promoting students' development of which of listening skills?
analyzing how structure contributes to meaning
An eighth-grade teacher uses an exit ticket prompt asking students to identify what is being foreshadowed during a scene in a novel they are reading. In reviewing the students responses, the teacher determines that most students struggle with this concept. The teacher should plan to adjust instruction in which of the following ways?
asking students to reread the scene and then brainstorm possible consequences of characters' actions in the scene
A sixth-grade teacher is preparing a cross-curricular lesson about the solar system and reviews the accommodations on a student's 504 plan to see how to use manipulatives to promote the student's understanding of the material. While reading the plan, the teacher is not sure if the student's previous teacher properly implemented the accommodation about the use of manipulatives, although the student has been successful in science lessons. Which of the following approaches would be most appropriate for the current teacher to take?
asking the student's previous teachers if they understood and followed proper protocol to implement the student's accommodations
During a lesson on effective online research skills, a seventh-grade teacher tells students that people tend to dick the first result of an Internet search over 25 percent of the time. The teacher uses this information to start a discussion about the importance of gaining a broad perspective and deep understanding of a research topic. Which of the following activities would best support the teacher's goal of guiding the students to develop a broad perspective and deep understanding of their next research topic?
asking the students to conduct an advanced search for specific information related to the topic
A sixth-grade teacher works with students on small-group discussion skills in preparation for a collaborative research project. After the students review a rubric for productive collaboration, which of the following activities would most effectively prepare them for participation in the research project?
asking the students to study the rubric and then describe behaviors to avoid during group discussions *having students engage in a discussion
A group of eighth-grade students needs additional instruction in using context to comprehend unfamillar words and words with multiple meanings. The teacher could most effectively use questions from a formative item bank in conjunction with the existing curriculum outlined in the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for English Language Arts and Reading in which of the following ways?
assigning TEKS-related items from the item bank for independent practice
An eighth-grade teacher wants to informally assess students ability to use Latin roots to determine word findings. Which of the following sets of words would be most appropriate to use for this purpose?
attention, contestant elegant. Ikelitood
This is how to cook pancakes. Add a tablespoon of butter to a heated pan and tilt the pan so that the melted butter covers the bottom of the pan. Pour in a spoonful of batter. The batter should get dry around the edges and small bubbles will form on top of the pancake. Flip the pancake and let it cook for another one or two minutes. Be sure that it browns but doesn't burn. Flip the pancake onto a plate. Repeat these steps until the batter is used up. You can keep the pancakes warm in the oven until you are ready to serve them. During the revision stage of the writing process, the student would most likely benefit from instruction in which of the following writing skills?
using transitional words and phrases
In a conference with a student's parents, a fourth-grade teacher learns that the parents are reluctant to converse with the student in their primary language because they worry about impeding the student's acquisition of English. Which of the following recommendations would be most appropriate for the teacher to make to the parents?
"Encourage your child to read and speak in your primary language at home, because doing so will support your child's academic. success."
Read the excerpt below from Tuck Everlasting, a novel by Natalie Babbitt; then answer the two questions that follow. After students read the excerpt, a fourth-grade teacher asks them to identify a literary element in the text and explain how the author uses it to achieve a specific purpose. Which of the following student responses best demonstrates understanding?
"In the third sentence, the author uses personification to give human characteristics to the birds that are singing"
Read the excerpt below from The Scholarship Jacket, a short story by Marta Salinas; then answer the three questions that follow. After students read the excerpt twice, a fifth-grade teacher wants to assess the students' understanding of linear plot elements. The teacher asks the students to determine what element of linear plot the excerpt exemplifies and then explain their reasoning. Which of the following student responses would demonstrate the clearest understanding?
"It's an example of exposition because it explains why winning the scholarship jacket would be important to the narrator." - RISING ACTION!!!
During a class discussion of the excerpt, a teacher asks students the following question: "What effect does the author achieve by using the phrase into the night and through the night?" Which of the following student responses would demonstrate understanding?
"The phrase conveys the difficulty of the journey."
After students read the excerpt, a fourth-grade teacher asks them to use text evidence to infer a theme. Which of the following student responses best demonstrates the ability to infer the theme?
"The sentence about the milkweed seed that blows away is evidence that nothing and no one stays in the same place."
During a class discussion after students read the excerpt, the teacher asks the following question: "What aspect of life in the United States during the twentieth century does the author emphasize in the excerpt?" Which of the following student responses would demonstrate the clearest understanding?
'The author emphasizes the pressure on children to succeed academically."
A fourth-grade teacher wants to use the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) November Interim Assessment results to differentiate instruction and improve student progress. Given these results, which of the following steps should the teacher take to differentiate instruction and best prepare students for the STAAR?
providing interventions for students based on individual results
Students in an eighth-grade English language arts class maintain learning portfolios throughout the school year. Each portfolio contains a description of standards that the student hopes to master over the course of the year. Periodicaly. students examine their portfolios to measure their progress toward mastering the standards. This practice is likely to be most effective in achieving which of the following goals?
encouraging students to take responsibility for their learning
A fourth-grade student diagnosed with ADHD has difficulty staying focused. The student's Individualized Education Program (IEP) includes a written expression goal to independently develop ideas fully with 80 percent accuracy. Which of the following scaffolding strategies would be most appropriate for the teacher to use to support this IP goal during this writing activity?
providing sentence starters with frequent reminders to stay on task
A sixth-grade student gathers sources for a research report. Which of the following questions should the student ask when evaluating the source for bias?
How are alternate points of view presented?
Students in a seventh-grade class are conducting research in preparation for a debate. The class discusses keywords students can use to locate sources on the Internet before students start their searches. One student locates an interesting article that contains strong arguments on the debate topic, but several links to cited sources no longer work. Which of the following questions should the teacher suggest that the student consider?
How can you confirm that the information in the article is accurate?
A fifth-grade teacher plans to have students listen to a recording of an actor delivering a monologue from a play students. are reading. Which of the following sets of guiding questions would likely be most effective for helping students interpret the author's purpose in the monologue?
How do you feel as you hear the characters words? What does the author want you to notice Wrists important?
Decades of research now show that a plant-based diet can reduce a person's risk of developing cancer. That does not mean people should not eat meat. It means that, to reduce cancer risk, most of the food people eat should be plant-based. Plants have essential nutrients, such as antioxidants, that support cell health and a balanced immune system. A robust, balanced immune system reduces the risk of cancer because it identifies and attacks cancer cells before they develop into disease. Which of the following sentences, if inserted in the blank, would prompt the student to effectively provide transitions between ideas in the paragraph?
Moreover, plant-based foods are often high in fiber that enhances the health of the digestive system.
A fourth-grade teacher is planning a cross-curricular unit that will include complex content-area readings and will culminate in students explaining an informational report on the water cycle. The teacher wants to plan instruction to accommodate an English learner who has been identified as having an auditory processing disorder. Which of the following approaches would best provide opportunities for the student to meaningfully engage in whole- and small-group activities?
Providing the student with a copy of the text supplemented with visual prompts and pre-teaching academic language commonly used to signal order
A fifth-grade teacher is preparing for a short unit in which students read fables that each contain an adage. The teacher first explains to students that an adage is a saying that expresses a common truth. Then the teacher asks students to read their fables and identify the adage in each. Which of the following strategies would be most effective for the teacher to use with several students who are ready for an additional challenge?
having students use the adage appropriately in their own piece of writing
A seventh-grade class is reading a persuasive speech. The teacher directs students to annotate the counterarguments used in the speech. This activity is likely to be most effective in achieving which of the following goals?
Students read to identify the main idea and supporting details.
A teacher wants to promote students' ability to summarize the central idea of the excerpt in one sentence. Which of the following sentence starters would be most effective for this purpose?
The narrator wants to earn the scholarship jacket because...
After the students reread the excerpt, the teacher asks the following questions. Why was the author's grandfather's communal house so large? What cultural values do tribal communal houses help preserve? What can children learn from "the thoughts of the adult world"? Which of the following statements provides the most appropriate rationale for the teacher's instructional approach?
The questions will promote students' inferential comprehension through higher-order thinking.
A fourth-grade teacher would like to determine students' ability to use information from a short story to make predictions. Which of the following strategies would best achieve this purpose?
The teacher asks students to write an ending after reading the first page of the story.
A sixth-grade teacher plans to introduce the skill of synthesizing information to students before they start a research project. First, the teacher will explain that one purpose of synthesizing is to create new understandings The teacher nil then have students read a short informational text. After students read the text, the teacher wants to model questions students can ask to synthesize information. Which of the following sets of questions would best serve the teachers purpose?
What is the author's purpose in the text? How did the author achieve this purpose? Where can you find additional information about this subject?
Seventh-grade students are preparing to research the topic of the effects of social media on interpersonal relationships. Which of the following questions would be most appropriate for the students to use as a research question?
What is the purpose of various algorithms used by social media platforms?
An eighth-grade teacher is planning a lesson in which students will compare and contrast the themes or moral lessons of several works of fiction. Students in the class represent a number of different instructional levels. As the teacher thinks about the flexible grouping configuration to differentiate instruction for the lesson, which of the following questions would be most appropriate for the teacher to consider first?
What type of grouping configuration best meets the learning outcome for this activity?
An eighth-grade teacher wants to assess stúdents' inferential comprehension of the editorial. Which of the following questions would be most appropriate for the teacher to ask for this purpose?
Who is the intended audience for the editorial?
A sixth-grade teacher seeks to understand whether students have grasped linear plot elements before moving on to discuss nonlinear plot elements. Which of the following assessment strategies would be most appropriate for this purpose?
a digital storyboard that summarizes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
A fourth-grade teacher provides differentiated instruction for word analysis and reading fluency to small groups of students based on their reading level. When working with one group, the teacher observes that the students are able to apply decoding rules after direct instruction and repeated practice with the rules' applications, but they still have difficulty reading grade-level high-frequency words that are not phonetically regular. Which of the following strategies would be most appropriate to use with this group?
adapting spelling lessons to tie phonetically irregular, high-frequency words to known spelling patterns and explaining the irregularities - adding phonetically irregular, high freq
As a part of ongoing assessment of students' writing skills, a fourth-grade teacher evaluates various writing tasks each week. Below is an excerpt from one student's journal. Given the journal excerpt provided, the more appropriate instruction for this student would focus on the student's understanding of:
adding inflectional endings to indicate the verb tense - encoding inflectional endings
A sixth-grade student reads texts accurately, but rarely participates in classroom discussions. When called upon, the student has difficulty answering questions about or summarizing the texts. In writing assignments, the student does not make many spelling errors but must often make revisions to clarify their writing. The teacher would like to identify the student's areas of need. Which of the following assessment techniques would be most appropriate for this purpose?
administering an oral language assessment to determine the student's listening comprehension and oral expression - giving the students an on-level
After students read a myth, a fifth-grade teacher asks students to record their personal reflections in reading journals. This practice is likely to promote students' reading comprehension in which of the following ways?
by encouraging students to make connections between ideas and events in the text
A fifth-grade class is doing a focused reading of a narrative text. The teacher asks students to annotate the text as they read. Some of the students find focused reading a challenge, so the teacher models annotating a chapter of the text in a mini-lesson and then makes a copy of the chapter available to students. In which of the following ways does the annotated chapter provide a scaffold for students?
by providing students the correct annotations to make for the chapter
A sixth-grade teacher has students read an article online and complete a graphic organizer. The teacher wants to make sure students can independently understand what they are reading. Which of the following actions should the teacher take to support students who indicate a lack of comprehension?
calling on several students randomly and asking them comprehension questions related to the article - walking around!!!
A fifth-grade teacher reads aloud to the class from a nonfiction text. Which of the following student activities would most effectively support the students' ability to listen critically and gather meaning from the text?
completing a thinking map with supporting details during the read-aloud
According to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for English Language Arts and Reading (Grades 4-8), which of the following writing skills would be most appropriate to introduce at the sixth-grade level?
composing an argumentative text using genre characteristics and craft
Fifth-grade students produce first drafts of argumentative essays. While conferring with individual students, the teacher notes a consistent lack of transition language in the first drafts. According to best practices in teaching the writing process, which of the following steps would be most appropriate for the teacher to take next?
conducting a mini-lesson in which the teacher presents a writing sample, thinks aloud about how to add transition language, and then directs students to revisit their drafts to add their own transition language
An eighth-grade class is reading a chapter of a literary novel together. Many students are struggling to articulate comparisons between the linear and nonlinear plot development. Which of the following strategies ensures explicit instruction that will support students' understanding of a nonlinear plot element in the chapter?
discussing the linear development of a plot and then having students identify what point in the plot development of the chapter represents - explaining the plot structure
An English learner who uses a logographic language is currently in the semiphonetic stage of spelling development. Which of the following strategies would best support this student?
emphasizing spelling rules and having the student begin to learn alternative and irregular spellings in words - emphasizing letter sound corr
A sixth-grade teacher is planning a performance assessment task after the class reading of a biographical novel. The teacher completes a Learning Profile Card with each student and then uses the results to create balanced collaborative groups for the task. The teacher's practice of using Learning Profile Cards to create groups for performance tasks benefits students primarily in which of the following ways?
encouraging students to demonstrate their understanding through different modalities
A fifth-grade class has 20 minutes of independent reading time each day. The teacher explains that students may choose any book in the library for independent reading and establishes strategic support if they choose a book that is above their current reading level. According to best practices in building students' independent reading, which of the following supports should the teacher set for students who choose a book that is above their reading level?
encouraging the students to continue to read the book outside of school - having the students record a small
Read the essay prompt below from a released test item from the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR); then answer the three questions that follow. A fourth-grade teacher works with students as they respond to the exam prompt. After reading the prompt, the students write down the name of an invention. Next, they list single words and phrases that relate to the invention. Students then select at least four words related to the invention and write a short paragraph about their named invention. This series of prewriting activities would most effectively prepare the students to:
explore relationships between key ideas.
Students in a sixth-grade class are reading a historical fiction novel about a young boy from China who emigrates to the United States to join his father. To build students' content schema for this novel, the teacher should select an activity that:
explores the culture, customs, and experiences of immigrants from China in the United States. - contains conceptual knowledge
A sixth-grade teacher uses a variety of assessment instruments throughout the year, each with a different purpose. Each day, the teacher wants to evaluate students' understanding of an informational text the class is reading. Which of the following types of assessment should the teacher use for this purpose?
formative
Which of the following signs is a key indicator, as outlined in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), that a student may have dysgraphia?
forming letters incorrectly when writing
A seventh-grade teacher wants students to use Latin roots to connect words in the same family. The teacher distributes a graphic organizer with the Latin root in the center of a web and instructs students to add words that include that root. The most effective way for the teacher to differentiate this activity for English learners in the class is by:
giving English learners a list of words that include the target word part. - providing ELL with visual cues
According to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for English Language Arts and Reading (Grades 4-8), which of the following oral language skills should a seventh-grade teacher introduce to students?
giving complex oral instructions to perform specific tasks or solve problems
A teacher works with eighth-grade students to increase their word analysis skills in preparation for reading complex texts. Which of the following methods is likely to be the most effective way of assessing students on these skills?
giving students grade-level words and asking them to identify meanings of roots and aftwes to determihne the words menings
When previewing texts for an upcoming cross-curricular unit, a sixth-grade teacher should primarily consider texts that include Tier Two words that:
have been encountered frequently - contain multiple meanings
Which of the following strategies would be most appropriate and effective in a lesson designed to promote seventh-grade students' ability to acknowledge diverse perspectives during small-group discussions?
having each group member write answers to discussion questions, and then share and defend their ideas during the discussions * having all students engage in a quick-write
In a focused reading of a novel, a sixth-grade teacher asks students to reread an excerpt and notice how detals of the setting contribute to mood. According to best practices in reading instruction, which of the following steps would be most appropriate for the teacher to take next in this lesson?
having small groups of students discuss the setting details and their significance to the mood
A fifth-grade teacher notices that students consistently have difficulty evaluating the author's use of facts for or against a claim in argumentative texts. Which of the following approaches to scaffolding instruction would best help students as the class reads an argumentative text?
having students complete a graphic organizer by listing the authors chins and anal aing the authors resoning
Several students in a seventh-grade class are having difficulty distinguishing factual claims from opinions. Which of the following Tier 2 intervention steps should the teacher take first?
identifying a factual claim in a model paragraph and asking students how the claim could be proven - defining for students that the factual claim
In an oral reading check with a sixth-grade English learner receiving Tier 2 interventions, the student performs below what is expected in terms of number of words read correctly per minute. According to best practices in implementing Response to Intervention (Rtl)/Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), which of the following steps would be most appropriate for the teacher to take next?
identifying factors to determine the cause of the student's performance
A sixth-grade teacher wants to provide literacy instruction for an English learner who reads fluently in a home language that is alphabetic in nature, but whose understanding of English language phonemes is limited. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in promoting the student's reading development?
immediately correcting mistakes the student makes while reading aloud - providing explicit information
A seventh-grade teacher has sequenced texts for instruction in a cross-curricular unit on Texas history, adjusting student support for the texts that are more complex. The first text students read is moderately complex but has structural supports that make it more accessible. The next text is the longest text of the unit but is less complex. The third text is the most complex of the unit. According to best practices in the gradual release of responsibility, which of the following steps would be most appropriate for the teacher to take with the third text?
introducing the text and modeling whole-group strategies to access the text
Seventh-grade English learners are receiving foundational reading skills instruction. In a progress-monitoring assessment, the following data were collected about the phonetic knowledge of the students. The teacher groups students together for targeted instruction based on identified skill gaps. Which of the following activities is likely to help students 2 and 4?
introducing vowel teams and then having students match words with the vowel teams to pictures that represent the words
Which of the following tasks provides the best opportunity for students to use new Tier Two and Tier Three words in a variety of meaningful settings?
making word maps or semantic maps of new words and drawing lines to connect the words to their defitions
A fourth-grade teacher works with a small group of students whose reading lacks prosody. Before beginning the lesson, the teacher explains to students the importance of reading with expression. The teacher explains how to read the text in chunks, phrase-by-phrase, and provides students with a copy of phrase-cued text. Which of the following steps would be most appropriate to take next in this lesson?
modeling for students how to read the text with expression
A fifth-grade teacher is selecting a group of short texts to make available for students independent reading time that will support the specific reading comprehension goal of identifying the author's viewpoint. Given this goal, which of the following genres would be most important for the teacher to include?
newspaper editorials - famous dramatic works
Which of the following activities would most effectively promote eighth-grade students* understanding of rhetorical devices used in the speech?
paraphrasing important ideas from the first part of the speech in writing
As fourth-grade students listen to recordings of poems that include examples of similes, metaphors, and personification. the teacher notices that some students are less attentive than others. Which of the following additional activities would most effectively promote all students' development of active and purposeful listening skills?
pausing the recording for students to identify examples of figurative language and discuss their meanings
An eighth-grade teacher finds that a student frequently pronounces words containing the letter combination e and das /ed/ and never as /d/ or /t/. Which of the following strategies would be most effective for the teacher to use to support this student?
presenting several multisyllabic words containing ed, reading the words aloud, and asking the student to identify the syllable breaks - displaying several words that contain ed
Read the essay prompt below from a released test item from the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR); then answer the three questions that follow. Fourth-grade students complete first drafts of essays in response to the exam prompt. To help prepare students to revise their drafts, which of the following steps would be most appropriate for the teacher to take first?
projecting a sample draft that is annotated with revisions
While conducting informal oral fluency checks, a fifth-grade teacher notices that some students confuse the hard and soft sounds represented by the consonants c and g when reading aloud. The teacher plans to have students use flash cards for repeated practice and automaticity. Which of the following instructional strategies should the teacher use to prepare students for the practice activity?
providing a list of words that have a c or g in them with a pronunciation key alongside each word - pre-teaching how to look for
A group of fourth-grade students designs and implements a survey for the entire elementary school to determine features to include on a new playground. The students create a bar graph showing the survey data that they will display during a presentation to the student body. The teacher wants to help the students enhance the audience's understanding of the data. Which of the following instructional approaches would be most appropriate for this purpose?
providing guidelines for unmarting data cleaty and accurately
Each day, fifth-grade students read a chapter from the novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis. One student has an Individualized Education Program (IEP) goal related to reading and comprehending grade-level literary texts with 80 percent accuracy. Which of the following approaches for differentiating instruction is likely to be most effective in promoting the student's reading comprehension?
providing the student with an outline each day, describing characters and delineating events from the day's reading
the excerpt, the authors make an ethical appeal primarily by
quoting a credible source
Seventh-grade students are preparing to read an article about causes of the 2008 financial crisis, in which they may encounter unfamiliar and ambiguous words. Which of the following student activities would most effectively promote the students' ability to determine or clarify the meaning of such words?
reading the words in continuous text and using context to solve their meanings
Which of the following approaches would be most appropriate for a sixth-grade teacher to use to support students at the start of a research project?
recommending reliable sources to encourage multiple perspectives
A seventh-grade teacher plans to use the excerpt as a starting point during a lesson on synthesizing information. Which of the following student activities would be most appropriate to include in the lesson?
researching how residents of the school community can help protect the local watershed
Eighth-grade students are working on a collaborative research project that will culminate in a presentation. After identifying the type of information they want to include in their presentations, the students brainstorm multiple keywords and concepts to use in search engines. This strategy demonstrates the students' awareness that:
results that appear on multiple keyword searches will be reliable.
A fourth-grade class includes several students who are reluctant to speak during class discussions. Which of the following approaches should the teacher use before each discussion to create an environment in which all students feel comfortable contributing to class discussions?
reviewing previously agreed upon ground rules for listening and speaking during class discussions and encouraging all students to voice their thoughts
A seventh-grade intervention teacher notices that an English learner has difficulty distinguishing short vowel sounds in words. For example, the student says send when the intended word is sand. Which of the following student activities would likely be most effective for promoting phonological awareness?
saying words with the target sounds before writing the words, matching letters with their sounds - watching the teacher say words
Sixth-grade students research an issue and draft a three-paragraph argumentative essay. The teacher then displays a rubric and guides students step-by-step through a process of assessing their own writing prior to revising As needed, tie teacher models appropriate examples of requirements in the rubric. The teacher's actions will most effectively bereft students by:
scaffolding students" assignment to create more manageable segments - activating students prior knowledge
A fourth-grade teacher is preparing for a parent-teacher conference to discuss a student's classroom behavior challenges during reading lessons. Which of the following best practices will support the teacher's goal of partnering with the family to address the issue constructively?
sharing the student's self-report with parents and discussing with them functional behavior-based options
Read the excerpt from A Long Walk to Water, a novel by Linda Sue Park; then answer the two questions that follow. After a second and focused reading of a text, a sixth-grade teacher wants to assess students' understanding of the author's use of foreshadowing. The teacher asks students the following question: "Why does the author describe the lions, bones, and Salva's desire to remain near Uncle?" This question will most effectively develop students* comprehension of the author's use of foreshadowing to:
suggest the presence of danger
A fourth-grade teacher uses the observational checklist below to gain insight into the relationship between a student's learning and classroom behaviors. Given these assessment data, the teacher can reasonably conclude that the student:
takes initiative in mpst learning situations.
During a student-teacher conference about an independent reading selection, the teacher first asks the student questions to gauge their understanding of the text. Based on the student's responses, the teacher determines that the student is having difficulty comprehending the text. A transcript of the dialogue between the teacher and student is shown below: T: It seems like this text was frustrating for you. S: (shrugs) Yeah, I guess. T: I wonder if there were words that tripped you up. S: Not the words really, but I didn't always get what it was saying. T: Can you give me an example? S: Well. OK. Here's something (pointing to an image of the sun in the book). This caption says the sun is a ball of gas. The chapter talks about how much heat the sun makes. But I don't see how a ball of gas even relates to the sun giving off heat. Which of the following components of text complexity is causing comprehension difficulty f
the language features of the text
A fifth-grade teacher notices a student reading words incorrectly. The teacher works with the student using a familiar text to increase the student's reading accuracy. Which of the following activities is likely to be most effective for this purpose?
underlining challenging words or ideas when reading and then returning to investigate the marked text afterward
A fifth-grade teacher incorporates technology tools during the reading block. The teacher asks students to think about the plot of a story as it is being read aloud. Each student has a multimedia story timeline to complete. The teacher pauses several times during the read-aloud and asks students to pair-share with a classmate and add events to their timeline. This type of classroom activity would be most effective in supporting students':
understanding of sequence of events and text engagement. - reading fluency and ability
A fourth-grade teacher includes an independent reading block three times weekly to foster a lifelong love of reading and support all students' engagement. While observing student behaviors during silent reading time, the teacher notices several students seem to be only pretending to read. Which of the following teacher strategies is likely to be most effective in supporting and encouraging readers during independent reading time?
using an interest inventory to determine genres the students will enjoy - giving the students
An eighth-grade teacher notices that students have different levels of understanding about commercial oyster farming. Which of the following activities would most effectively build students' background knowledge to help them understand the authors' argument?
using open-ended questions to prompt one another to support an opinion on commercial oyster farming
