STR Study Guide

Science Of Teaching Reading!

Multiple Choice

Asset Based Approached

• focuses on a student's strengths and potential rather than their deficits

• Student need based assessments

• Shadydale ES

• Ms. Bacon is the best!

Multiple Choice

Phonemic Awareness

• Recognizing and manipulating sounds in spoken words.

• Understanding the sound of words

• Decoding a word

• Inferencing skills

Multiple Choice

The extension of the activity best demonstrates the teacher's understanding of which of the following key factors affecting vocabulary development in prekindergarten children?

• the benefits of encouraging families to have literacy play a prominent role in their household

• . the interrelationships between vocabulary development and concept learning

• the role of families in supporting and reinforcing young children's vocabulary development

• the importance of making abstract vocabulary words concrete for young children

Multiple Choice

During the second reading of the text, the teacher would like to focus students' attention on analyzing the author's craft. How can the teacher best achieve this goal?

• by using the illustrations and text to discuss the feelings and reactions of the main character

• by prompting students to retell the story in the order that the events occur (e.g., First, . Next, )

• by rereading very expressively the parts of the text that are written in quotations

• by discussing how the text is constructed (e.g., who narrates the text; the use of dialogue, word choice, and diary structure)

Multiple Choice

A second-grade teacher periodically conducts reading interest surveys with individual students. The teacher could best use the results of these assessments for which of the following instructional purposes?

• determining the level of parent/guardian involvement in students' literacy development

• assisting students in selecting books for independent reading time

• selecting texts at students' instructional reading level for small-group reading lessons

• identifying appropriate reading activities for students to complete at home

Multiple Choice

A kindergarten teacher would like to determine if students can make inferences about characters and/or events in stories they hear or read. Which of the following assessment approaches is most likely to require students to make inferences?

• asking students to identify an important event in the story and to provide details about a character's actions during that event

• asking students to answer general understanding questions about the story based on evidence from rereading the text and/or reviewing the illustrations

• asking students to use evidence from the text and illustrations to explain how a character feels and why the character feels that way

• asking students to retell the events of the story, first by using an open-ended question, and then by following up with a focus question about event sequences

Multiple Choice

. A prekindergarten teacher frequently reads aloud high-quality literature to develop children's familiarity with literary texts. Which of the following accompanying activities would best promote the children's understanding of basic story structure?

• having the children use props to act out a scene from the story

• . pre-teaching unfamiliar vocabulary from the story to support comprehension

• stopping at appropriate places in the story to make predictions

• giving the children picture cards of events in the story to retell in sequence

Multiple Choice

A first-grade teacher often uses a simple timeline graphic organizer to scaffold information for students when they are reading social studies texts about historical events or the lives of important people. The teacher's practice is most likely to promote students' development of which of the following disciplinary-literacy skills?

• recognizing text structures commonly used in social studies

• identifying discipline-specific text features commonly used in social studies

• evaluating sources and using evidence in social studies texts

• distinguishing discipline-specific meanings of words used in social studies and other content areas

Multiple Choice

As the story progresses, more characters enter the bedroom and pile on the snoring granny to take a nap. The teacher asks students to describe what is occurring on each page. In response to the text and illustrations, one English learner says, "Mouse sleep on cat. Cat sleep on dog." The student's grammar is most typical of an English learner at which of the following levels of English language proficiency?

• Beginning

• Intermediate

• Advanced

• Advanced High