RVE Practice Test
A first-grade teacher plans to instruct students in the decoding strategy of dividing phonetically regular words into onsets and rimes. Which of the following words is best for the teacher to use to most effectively model the skill? A) Stop B) Catch C) Break D) Want
A
A reading specialist conducts a workshop for teachers on use of the directed reading-thinking activity (DRTA) method of instruction. In the model, teachers ask students to first make predictions based on the title and cover of a book. At various points in the story, students stop reading and check the accuracy of their predictions. Predictions are then changed or clarified, and new predictions may be made based on new information the students learned while reading. The DRTA method of instruction is most likely to promote which of the following? A) Applying metacognitive skills to increase comprehension B) using text structures to summarize C) reinforcing use of word-recognition skills in context D) increasing motivation to read independently
A
A second-grade teacher administers an informal reading inventory (IRI) to students in September. The teacher discovers that three students are reading grade-level texts with accuracy, but their oral reading fluency is below grade level. The best instructional intervention for the students is to group the students together and assign A) reader's theater activities B) Main idea and supporting details activities C) blending and segmenting activities D) Semantic mapping activities
A
A teacher administers several word inventories and one particular student regularly misses the following words. Remark Swerving Chord Squirt Dessert Bigger According to the data, on which of the following does the teacher most likely need to focus? A) R-controlled vowels B) Consonant digraphs C) Double Consonants D) Suffixes
A
A teacher wants to describe to the class a rule associated with adding a silent "e" to the end of a consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) word. The best approach is to tell the students that when a silent "e" appears at the end of a CVC word, it cannot be heard but it will A) Make the other vowel have a long sound B) Make the other vowel and consonants have a blended sound C) Make the other vowel have a short sound D) Change the other vowel into a long "e" sound
A
A teacher wants to expose students to a wide range of genres. One week the teacher has students select a book in which a moral is taught and animals speak. The genre of literature students are being asked to check out can best be described as a A) Fable B) Myth C) Folktale D) Legend
A
After administering a phonemic awareness test, which of the following is the most appropriate next step a teacher would take with students who scored low on the assessment? A) Teaching blending and segmenting sounds B) Developing phonics and decoding strategies C) Building word recognition skills D) Developing fluency and stamina
A
After reading a story, a fourth-grade teacher asks the students to compare two characters. Which of the following graphic organizers is best for students to use for the activity? A) Venn Diagram B) Cluster Diagram C) Sequence Chart D) Flowchart
A
After studying a classic novel, which of the following instructional activities should a middle school reading teacher include in a lesson to best promote student higher-order thinking? A) Creating a backstory for a secondary character in the novel that explains his or her behavior in the book B) Reading other texts by the same author and then identifying character similarities across texts C) Answering comprehension questions that require textual evidence to support the answers D) Viewing an excerpt of a video version of the novel to observe the character interaction and setting
A
During a reading lesson, a teacher shows students five cards. Each card contains the picture of an object and the name of the object. The five objects are an igloo, an umbrella, an egg, an octopus, and an apple. The students look at each object and say the word for the object. Which of the following vowel sounds is the focus of the lesson? A) Beginning short vowel sounds B) Middle short vowel sounds C) Beginning long vowel sounds D) Middle long vowel sounds
A
During a reading of an informational text about the American Revolution, a teacher demonstrates the think-aloud strategy for students to employ while reading. I wonder what caused the start of the American Revolution. I read that King George decided to close the port after the Patriots dumped out the tea. He told them that nothing could go in or out of the port until the tea was paid for. This may have upset some of the colonists. The text also says that some people thought it was time for colonies as a group to protest British taxes. This makes me think they are coming together as a group. Which of the following best describes the strategy the teacher is using? A) Making inferences B) Making connections C) Visualizing D) Predicting
A
First-grade students Porter and Henry are working together in a learning center where they are listening to a series of words recorded by the teacher. Each student taps out the speech sounds they hear in the words and then checks with the other student to see if he agrees. The primary benefit of the activity for the students is that it: A) Reinforces phonemic awareness B) Provides practice in working cooperatively C) Helps develop auditory discrimination D) Helps develop rhyming skills
A
I understood how Angela felt in the story when her family gave her a surprise birthday party. Once my mom told me my family was going on a vacation I had been asking for and I was so excited. A) text-to-self B) text-to-text C) text-to-world
A
Later I found my old camera with one picture left I took a picture of my dog and I sent in to my uncle he loves dogs. A student wrote the sentence above in a journal. Which of the following teacher actions will most likely help the student improve his or her writing? A) having the student read aloud the journal entry and add appropriate punctuation where needed B) providing a list of rules for capitalization that the student can use for reference C) Suggesting that the student add adjectives to his or her writing to make it more descriptive D) Circling misspelled words and having the student use a dictionary to find the correct spellings
A
Mr. Stewart, a third-grade teacher, plans to assess a student's comprehension of a fictional story. He chooses an informal tool that has the following benefits. -In addition to gathering data about what the student has understood, the assessment shows what the reader has added or inferred from the story. -The assessment gives information about how the reader constructs the story and organizes a response. -Information about the quality of a student's language and the thought processes in constructing a response can be collected. Which of the following is most likely the assessment measure Mr. Stewart selects? A) Retelling B) Running Record C) Open-ended prompts D) Anecdotal Records
A
Ms. Osborn teaches a variety of reading strategies to help her students become strategic readers. The strategies include predicting, previewing, monitoring comprehension while reading, generating questions, and summarizing. Which of the following most likely explains Ms. Osborn's purpose in teaching the strategies? A) Research has shown that reading comprehension improves when teachers provide explicit instruction B) The school district mandates that students receive instruction in reading comprehension strategies C) Research has shown that only these strategies are effective D) The school literacy coach has given workshops in the use of the strategies
A
Of the following, the most appropriate way to assess whether students have generalized the skills acquired in a unit on recognizing and correcting punctuation errors is to have the students A) proofread a short passage and correct any punctuation errors it contains B) Write a sentence that illustrates the correct usage of each punctuation mark studied C) match given punctuation rules with the correct punctuation marks D) write the rules for correct punctuation in their own words
A
Teacher: What is the first sound in van? Student: The first sound in van is /v/. The teacher is assessing the student's ability to do which of the following phonemic awareness tasks? A) Phoneme isolation B) Phoneme categorization C) Phoneme blending D) Phoneme segmentation
A
To encourage students to write more descriptive essays, a fourth-grade teacher asks the students to write an essay about a memorable moment. Which of the following strategies can the teacher incorporate to support the students in that area? A) Asking the students to make a list of sensory images B) Encouraging the students to use a thesaurus to find synonyms for some of their word choices C) Explaining how the students can incorporate transition words D) Suggesting that the students combine sentences
A
When a syllable ends in a consonant, the vowel is short, as in A) Tackle B) Music C) Idle
A
Which of the following is an example of internal conflict? A) "All the way home, Emilio felt angry with himself. Why couldn't he have spoken up at the meeting? Why was he always so shy?" B) "Juanita and Marci disagreed about where they should take the money they had found" C) "in the high winds, the crew was barely able to keep the sails from dipping sideways. Each time the wind accelerated, the crew almost lost the boat." D) "Celine struggled to walk through the cold, blowing wind."
A
Which of the following is the best reason for using flexible grouping in the reading classroom? A) Flexible grouping allows teachers to tailor instruction to address students' changing needs B) Flexible grouping ensures opportunities for students to have discussions around a common text with peers C) Flexible grouping allows students to get comfortable working with the same group of peers throughout the school year D) Flexible grouping provides time for students to progress through a set of materials
A
Which of the following scenarios best demonstrates behavior of an emergent reader? A) A student opens a familiar book and recalls enough of the language and plot to pretend to read it without actually identifying any of the words. B) A student has a set of 26 cards with letters of the alphabet on them and stacks them to make a high structure. C) A student takes turns with a partner to read a chapter in a nonfiction book and then records new information. D) A student reads independently from a self-selected fiction book for fifteen minutes.
A
Which of the following strategies is most likely to increase students' motivation for silent sustained reading? A) Several times a week the teacher selects different books from the classroom library and reads short passages to the students B) The teacher selects a favorite book from the classroom library and read the entire story to the class C) The students are allowed to choose any book from the classroom library and then read it aloud to the class D) On a monthly basis, students are assigned to read any book they choose and then write a short summary
A
ELLs should be included with their English-speaking peers in choral and repeated-reading activities
Appropriate
ELLs should be taught strategies for learning new vocabulary so they can acquire new vocabulary on their own
Appropriate
A fifth-grade teacher asks students to complete the following assignment: Nonfiction Text Assignment: Read the short article titled "Protection for Coral Reefs". Then write a paragraph in which you do the following: 1. Identify the author's message or purpose for writing the article 2. Provide 3 pieces of evidence from the article that support your statement in 1. Which of the following modifications to the assignment will most appropriately accommodate an English-language learner writing at the intermediate level of English-language proficiency? A) Identifying the author's purpose for the student B) Providing the student with relevant sentence stems C) Requiring the student to list only one piece of evidence D) Translating the article into the student's first language
B
A first-grade class sorts word cards into categories provided by the teacher. The chart below shows the results of the sort. Which of the following skills does the chart best reinforce? A) spelling of rhyming words B) Knowledge of vowel patterns C) Understanding of beginning consonant sounds D) knowledge of consonant digraphs
B
A fourth-grade class read Marvin and the Mean Words, by Suzy Kline. In the story, Marvin, a boy who likes to tease others in his class, thinks he overhears his teacher saying that she hates him. Though it turns out to be a big misunderstanding, Marvin is flooded with feelings of rage and insecurity. After reading the story, a student wrote the following in a response journal.Marvin is getting better at respecting other people because he learned that mean words can hurt.The student's writing best exemplifies which of the following categories of response? A) Character Idenfitication B) Character Assessment C) Visualizing Setting D) Making Predictions
B
A student at the conventional stage of writing development will primarily write A) A combination of letters, symbols, and shapes in random order B) Words that are often correctly spelled and include storybook language such as "Once upon a time" C) Sentences without including spacing between words or awareness of punctuation marks D) Words represented by only the initial and ending consonant
B
A teacher is searching for an assessment tool that will provide specific information to guide instruction in order to improve each students' writing abilities. Which of the following is most likely to assist the teacher in this goal? A) A holistic scoring rubric B) An analytic scoring rubric C) A standardized test D) An attitude survey
B
A teacher reads a series of graded passages to a student to assess the skill of creating meaning from written language when decoding is not a factor. Which of the following identifies the highest level at which the student can comprehend 75 percent of the material? A) Expressive Language Level B) Listening Capacity C) Linguistic Processing Capacity D) Instructional Level
B
Before a fourth-grade class reads an article on honeybees, Ms. Stewart displays a word cloud created from vocabulary in the article. She asks the class the following questions. "What do you think are the important words from the article?" "How do these words go together?" "What words do you already know?" As the students answer, Ms. Stewart has them refer to the word cloud characteristics to support their answers. The best reason for using the strategy is to help students learn to: A) Define unknown words using resources such as a glossary B) build academic vocabulary by making connections between key words C) apply the meaning of new words by using them in complete sentences D) Identify synonyms for key words that most students already know
B
During a writing conference, a sixth-grade teacher notices that a student needs help with organization of ideas. Which of the following questions is most likely to promote growth in this area? A) Does the conclusion summarize all your ideas? B) Do the examples support the ideas in each paragraph? C) Where can more details be added? D) Does the topic sentence grab the attention of the reader?
B
For which of the following situations would the administration of a miscue analysis be most appropriate? A) A classroom teacher receives a new student and wishes to perform an assessment to yield data about the child's reading level B) A classroom teacher seeks confirmation of their suspicion that visual processing is responsible for impeding a child's reading growth C) A classroom teacher begins planning a word study program and seeks data about a student's grade level vocabulary knowledge D) A classroom teacher suspects that a child may be struggling to comprehend their chosen independent reading book
B
How many phonemes does the word "shade" have? A) 4 B) 3 C) 5 D) 2
B
In a fifth-grade reading class, the teacher asks students to write a list of words associated with the American Revolution. Next the teacher draws three columns on the board and labels them "British," "American," and "Both." Students are asked to come to the board and write their words in the most appropriate column. The class discusses why each word belongs in the particular column. This vocabulary-development activity is known as which of the following? A) Semantic Feature analysis B) List-group-label C) Using Context clues D) OPIN
B
My vacation was exciteing. We did many interesting things. We went to the beach. We played in the sand. We were so hot that we went in the wuter. We played games in the water. We had an awesome time. A third-grade student wrote the story above about her summer vacation. To further develop the student's writing, the focus of instruction during a writing conference should be on: A) Word Choice B) Sentence Variety C) Spelling Rules D) Focus
B
Nathan, the main character in this story, was funny like that silly cat in a story my teacher read in kindergarten. A) Text-to-self B) text-to-text C) Text-to-world
B
Phonemic awareness is important for later student reading development. Which of the following teacher prompts is best for building students' phonemic awareness? A) "Listen. I will clap the parts to your name. Jus... tin. How many?" (Students then count.) B) "Listen. Hat. Say it with a /b/ at the beginning." (Students then say "bat.") C) "Listen. If you are having fun, draw a ....." (Students then draw a rhyming word, such as sun). D) "Listen. Car. What is the last part?" (Students then answer "/ar/.")
B
Students in a sixth-grade class are preparing to give an oral report on a famous author they have researched. Which of the following strategies would be most effective for students to do before speaking to an audience? A) Providing a copy of the report to all students in the class B) Writing key words on note cards to refer to during the presentation C) Memorizing the report before the presentation D) Creating a media-based presentation from which the read the report
B
When a consonant lies between two vowels, divide the word after the first vowel, as in A) Tackle B) Music C) Idle
B
When teaching students how to use structural analysis to learn new words, which of the following words would best lend itself to this skill? A) Help B) Abnormal C) Maintain D) Detail
B
When the tadpole changed into a frog in the story, it reminded me of what we learned in our science book about metamorphosis. A) text-to-self B) text-to-text C) text-to-world
B
Which list of words is most appropriate in assessing student knowledge of the /t/ sound for the suffix "-ed"? A) Wanted, sorted, branded B) Ticked, ditched, nipped C) Fringed, dodged, hummed D) Attached, angled, invented
B
Which of the following is a critical thinking skill essential for students to develop when learning web research skills? A) Citing sources accurately and appropriately B) Cross-checking facts to ensure reliability of information C) Learning how to navigate to find relevant content D) Attributing the words and ideas of others on reports and projects
B
Which of the following is most likely to promote an adolescent's motivation to read through curriculum design? A) Aligning content and skills to state standards B) Offering students a choice of supplemental reading materials C) Offering cross-age and peer-tutoring programs D) Monitoring student growth through frequent formative assessments
B
Which of the following is the most important instructional consideration when assisting English Language Learners to gain proficiency in written and oral communication skills? A) Having students pronounce words correctly B) Increasing students' word knowledge C) Having students master grammatical structures D) Encouraging students to apply metacognitive skills
B
Which of the following strategies is most helpful in enabling students to identify the structure and purpose of a nonfiction text they are about to read? A) Creating a KWL chart B) Previewing titles, headings, captions, maps, charts, and graphs C) Creating a concept web to help build background knowledge D) Formulating questions about the text
B
Which of the following teacher interventions is most effective when readers lack the knowledge to read a text on an unfamiliar topic? A) teaching new vocabulary as a pre-reading step B) Providing relevant background information C) Questioning students to determine prior knowledge D) Reading the text aloud before asking students to read silently
B
-Bandwagon -Testimonial -Rewards -Glittering Generality The above mentioned devices should most likely be taught when studying which of the following genres? A) Narrative B) Biographical C) Persuasive D) Poetry
C
A classroom teacher and a special education teacher meet to plan a new unit of instruction. Which of the following is the best first step in the planning process? A) Creating an assessment to measure the students' mastery of the unit objectives B) developing a schedule of instructional activities and assessments C) Identifying a set of common goals and objectives for the unit D) selecting instructional and collaborative learning strategies
C
A fifth-grade teacher asks students to complete the following assignment: Nonfiction Text Assignment: Read the short article titled "Protection for Coral Reefs". Then write a paragraph in which you do the following: 1. Identify the author's message or purpose for writing the article 2. Provide 3 pieces of evidence from the article that support your statement in 1. The assignment can best be used to assess students' mastery of which of the following reading-content standards? A) Verifying facts presented within a text through the use of multiple sources B) Recognizing contradictory statements made by the author within a text C) Making an inference by connecting ideas within a text D) Comparing the viewpoints of different authors among multiple texts
C
A first-grade student shows evidence of phonological awareness but has difficulty segmenting words into phonemes. Which of the questions below is likely to be the most challenging for the student to answer? A) Listen to these word parts: /p/ /i/ /ck/. What is the word? B) Which of these two words rhyme: "fun", "sun", or "tan"? C) Listen to this word: "sad". How many sounds do you hear? D) Which of these two words have the same medial sound: "fit", "bin", "can"?
C
A language arts teacher requires students keep a reading response journal. The primary purpose of a reading response journal is to A) serve as a check that students completed a reading assignment B) keep students engaged in independent work and limit free time C) Facilitate student interactions with a text D) keep a record of the books the students have read throughout the year
C
A teacher asks students to search the Internet to locate information on a self-selected research question. Which of the following strategies is most effective for helping students locate the material needed to answer the questions? A) Finding the authorship and copyright information for various websites B) Comparing and contrasting different search engines C) Identifying keywords to use in the search D) Skimming the information on various websites
C
A teacher has students read a passage and then asks the students to think about the following questions. - Why does the writer use these words to describe the situation? -What types of adjectives and adverbs does the author use for description? - What are the denotations and connotations of the words the author uses? By asking these questions, the teacher is primarily helping students understand which of the following? A) Setting B) Characterization C) Tone D) Theme
C
A teacher wants students to actively listen and comprehend a story read aloud. Which of the following instructional strategies will best focus on individual comprehension throughout the story without interrupting the reading? A) Requiring students to complete a study guide by filling in the blanks as they listen B) Allowing students to raise their hands for questions throughout the story C) Encouraging students to apply reading strategies to the listening task D) Asking students to write questions as the story is read to monitor their comprehension
C
A third-grade class is studying polar bears in their social studies class. Their teacher prepares the following writing assignment: How would the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" be different if it took place near the Arctic Circle? The assignment helps to develop which of the following? A) Making connections between previous experiences and reading selections B) Comparing and contrasting settings, characters, and events C) Drawing conclusions about how setting affects a story D) Understanding basic plots of fairy tales, myths, folktales, legends, and fables
C
Mr. James, a kindergarten teacher, reads a story aloud to his students. As he reads, he asks the students to identify which sound is the same in the words "pig," "pumpkin," and "pail," three words mentioned throughout the story. Which phonemic-awareness skill is he practicing with the students? A) Phoneme segmentation B) Phoneme blending C) Phoneme Identity D) Phoneme Categorization
C
Mr. Peters, a sixth-grade teacher, notices that his students are having trouble writing an effective persuasive essay. Which of the following mini-lessons would best help his students improve their persuasive writing? A) Using sensory details to improve the description B) Developing an effective conclusion C) Using facts and examples to support reasons D) Organizing details by their similarities and differences
C
Over time, a teacher builds a collection of students' personal narratives at various performance levels. During a writing workshop, the teacher shows students a genre-specific assessment rubric and displays an anonymous writing piece on the smartboard. Then, using the rubric, students work in small groups to evaluate the piece and share their assessments with the class. Which of the following is the most likely goal of the instructional activity? A) To provide examples of style elements in effective written expression B) To illustrate for students how to score a writing piece holistically C) To give students a clearer understanding of meeting expected standards D) To provide an opportunity to compare characteristics of various genres
C
Research supports that highly skilled readers: A) Recognize whole words without examining individual letters B) Use context to anticipate words C) Read almost every word D) go directly from print to meaning without studying each word
C
Sarah looked forward to her family's vacation at the shore. She loved building sand castles and searching for beautiful shells. Even on a day with rain, Sarah had fun staying indoors playing cards and board games with her family. A second-grade student makes several miscues when orally reading the passage above. Which of the following shows an error in decoding a word containing a vowel digraph? A) pronouncing "cords" for "cards" B) substituting "chore" for "shore" C) saying "ran" for "rain" D) Omitting the "l" in "playing"
C
The words "accommodate" and "television" each have how many syllables? A) two B) Three C) Four D) Five
C
To promote family involvement in literacy activities, teachers can encourage parents to: A) buy comics and story books B) get their child a library card C) discuss stories and experiences at home D) volunteer in the school's media center
C
When a syllable ends in a vowel, the vowel is long as in A) tackle B) Music C) Idle
C
When the letter combination [or digraph] "a" and "i" appears in a syllable, it usually represents the sound of A) the "i" in kite B) the "a" in car C) the "a" in case D) the "a" in cat
C
Which of the following concepts is best supported by current research on emergent literacy? A) Children begin their literacy learning when they enter school B) reading and writing development have distinct beginnings and ending points C) Reading and writing develop in children concurrently and in interrelated ways D) Children begin their literacy learning after having mastered basic letter-sound skills
C
Which of the following evaluative measures indicates the degree to which a test assesses what it is supposed to assess? A) Reliability B) Stablility C) Validity D) Internal Consistency
C
Which of the following is the most accurate statement about the process of language acquisition in young children? A) Young children understand full sentences at a relatively late stage in language development B) Young children exhibit random, highly variable errors in sentence construction C) Young children infer the underlying rules of language to which they are exposed D) Young children require planned early instructional intervention to master the language's grammar
C
Which of the following is the primary purpose of a norm-referenced test? A) Interpreting a student's performance using set criteria B) Measuring how well a student has learned content-specific knowledge and skills C) Indicating where a student performs in comparison to a group of similar students D) Evaluating a student's performance compared to a standard
C
Which of the following statements is true about the main idea of a text? A) The main idea is the subject matter of the text B) The main idea is provided in the topic sentence C) The main idea summarizes the central thought of the text D) The main idea is repeated in the first sentence in each paragraph
C
Which of the following words contains the soft sound of "g"? A) Wiggle B) Thought C) Urgent D) Guilt
C
While observing a student reading, the teacher notices that the student does not match letters with their correct sounds. The student is most likely having problems with: A) Comprehension B) Syntax C) Graphophonic Cues D) Reading fluency
C
Words that cannot be sounded out according to regular pronunciation rules are called irregular words. Which list below contains irregular words? A) Man, came, well, in B) We, him, get, so C) Do, said, was, of D) How, had, make, not
C
A fourth-grade teacher is developing a writing assignment, the goal of which is to help students persuade readers to agree with an opinion. Which of the following writing prompts is most appropriate for this assignment? A) Describe your favorite TV show B) Write a new episode of your favorite TV show C) How are the TV shows you watch different than the shows your parents watched when they were your age? D) Should a limit be placed on the amount of time children spend watching TV?
D
A high school literature teacher has students engage in a close reading of a literary passage. The teacher states: "As students read, I walk around the classroom and observe their annotations. I encourage students to mark sections of text that they don't understand and I look for patterns in their responses." Based on the statement, the teacher's next best step is most likely to A) Evaluate strengths and weaknesses in students' passage-based vocabulary knowledge B) Organize students in mixed-ability pairs to orally reread the piece C) Provide students with an alternate version of the piece at a lower readability level D) Use the recorded comments as a formative assessment to drive further instruction
D
A middle school teacher wants students to support their ideas with evidence from the text they are reading. Which of the following strategies will best help the teacher achieve this goal? A) Responding to comprehension questions orally B) Recording student questions on sticky notes C) Illustrating memorable scenes on art paper D) writing a response in a double-entry journal
D
A primary benefit of giving students diagnostic reading assessments at the beginning of year, middle of year, and at the end of the year is that this process will help the teacher determine which of the following? A) How to differentiate the curriculum for each student B) The reliability level of various types of assessments C) Progress within and across content areas D) Patterns in classroom and individual students' data
D
A second-grade teacher uses an assessment tool for coding, scoring, and analyzing a student's oral reading behavior. Which of the following best describes the technique? A) Shared Reading B) Reader's conference C) Process Interview D) Running Record
D
A student has completed the following word sort: Which of the following did the student sort incorrectly? A) Flaps B) Aim C) Cat D) Mats
D
A student who reads with expression, appropriate phrasing, and good inflection, is described as reading with A) Generalization B) Inference C) Intensity D) Prosody
D
A teacher is designing an instructional plan for a small group of students who are having difficulty decoding unfamiliar multisyllabic words. The most appropriate approach to address the students' need is to teach them to A) sound out multisyllabic words phoneme by phoneme B) clap out the number of syllables in multisyllabic words C) Memorize grade appropriate word lists that contain multisyllabic words D) look for affixes and morphemes in multisyllabic words
D
Justin, a fourth-grade student, takes a norm-referenced reading test and receives a stanine score of 7 on a vocabulary subtest. Which of the following best describes the student's level of performance on the assessment? A) On grade level B) Below Average C) Average D) Above Average
D
On the reading comprehension subtest of a norm-referenced test, a student correctly answers 73 of 100 questions. The results indicate the student's A) Percentile rank B) Scaled Score C) Stanine D) Raw Score
D
Which of the following is an effective instructional strategy for helping kindergarten students develop an understanding of concepts about print? A) Exposing students to variety of rhyming texts B) Finger tapping to count phonemes in words C) Facilitating guided practice of visualization techniques D) Modeling how to track during shared reading
D
Which of the following reading tasks is most likely to be enhanced by scanning an expository text? A) Evaluating the scope and validity of the information B) Getting a general overview of the structure of the piece C) Analyzing the author's perspective on the topic D) Locating a specific piece of information quickly
D
Which of the following statements best describes test reliability in both formal and informal assessments? A) The test measures what it is supposed to measure B) A student's achievement is consistently measured in comparison to that of others of the same age C) Test results measure skills closely related to the school-based curriculum D) A student's performance would be generally consistent if the same test was administered a number of times
D
Which of the following strategies is appropriate for teaching students to automatically recognize high-frequency words? A) Encouraging students to sound out a word when it is encountered B) Asking students to make a picture dictionary using those words C) Inviting students to create new words by adding or deleting sounds D) Presenting a word visually and asking students to say it
D
Formative Reading Assessments Effective or ineffective in diagnosing the reading needs of individual students?
Effective
Informal Reading Inventories Effective or ineffective in diagnosing the reading needs of individual students?
Effective
Explicit teaching begins with little teacher input and moves towards extensive teacher support for student learning True or false?
False
Student inquiry, independent exploration, and hypothesis creation are important parts of explicit teaching. True or False?
False
Standardized, norm-referenced, reading assessments Effective or ineffective in diagnosing the reading needs of individual students?
Ineffective
ELLs should be encouraged to move quickly through the "silent period" because English language is not being acquired during this time
Not Appropriate
ELLs should be placed together in a separate learning group until all of them have become proficient in English Appropriate or Not Appropriate?
Not appropriate
Students have multiple opportunities to practice a skill on their own and to receive teacher feedback as needed True or False?
True
Teacher modeling of the skill or strategy is one of the steps in explicit teaching True or False?
True
The first step in explicit teaching is to set a purpose for what the students are about to learn. True or false?
True
