Teacher Knowledge of Early Literacy Skills Survey A

What does morphemic analysis help students do?

• identify letter-sound correspondence

• blend speech sounds

• examine words for meaningful parts

• separate syllables into onsets and rimes

What is the requirement of a syllable?

• It contains at least one consonant letter

• it contains no more than one vowel letter

• it be a pronounceable unit

• it contains no more than one phoneme

What can sentence combining help students learn to do?

• question the text

• correct grammatical errors

• form complex sentence structures

• analyze word structure

What is vocabulary instruction the primary grades most concerned with teaching students?

• highly frequent words

• base words and meaningful parts (e.g., prefixes, suffixes)

• decodable words

• word meanings

Which of the following is NOT an irregular, high frequency word?

• when

• does

• were

• said

How should writing lessons be explicitly taught?

• by explaining and modeling a task, skill, or strategy, and providing feedback while students write

• by engaging students in correcting sample sentences on a daily basis

• by explaining a task, skill, or strategy, and giving students an opportunity to practice

• by engaging students in shared or interactive writing

Which of the following sets of words would be best for a teacher to use when providing students with examples of words conforming to the "silent e" phonics generalization?

• time, make, cube, done

• lake, breathe, raise, fate

• brake, use, hope, shine

• tree, lie, blue, toe

As a teacher reads aloud to his students from a social studies text he comments aloud, "This word pioneer is in bold print so that means it is an important word." and "The chapter headings in the book can help me understand the main ideas in the book, so I will be sure to read them." The teacher is helping students improve their comprehension of informational text primarily how?

• teaching them how to use graphic organizers

• modeling attention to useful features of informational text

• improving students' recall of the details of the text

• teaching them how to infer word meanings from context

Two or three times each week Mrs. Hruby teaches "phonics through spelling" with her students. She pronounces words sound-by-sound as her students listen, write the appropriate letters, and then blend the letters to identify the words. Why is this activity likely to be effective?

• reinforces students' recognition of common spelling patterns

• requires students to use letter-sound relationships to blend unfamiliar words

• reviews and strengthens students' ability to recognize and blend word chunks

• prepares students to combine letter-sound relationships with meaning-based clues

Why are there two n's in "running"?

• because the base word ends in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel

• because the final consonant is always doubled when adding -ing

• because the letter u has many different pronunciations

• because the consonant n is not well articulated