Practice Quiz for Margi

1) 1st-grade teacher considers ways to help new student who is beginning English learner development skills and phonemic awareness and knowledge of English sounds. Which of the following steps will be most important for the teacher to take first?

• collecting set of simple rhyming pome in Eng to practice reciting with the student

• Preparing list of simple English words with different vowel sounds for the student to study

• Gaining some basic familiarity with the sound system of the students' primary language

• Making a study tape for the student be recording an oral reading of high-frequency English words

1st grade teacher leads a small group of beginning reader in a lesson to focus on decoding simple words composed of letters that student have learned to sound out in isolation. The teacher begins by writing word "sat" in the board. In keeping researched based practices, the most appropriate step for teacher to take next in this lesson would be:

• Teach student to blend the sound in the word SAT slowly and continuously without pausing.

• Ask the student to suggest words they know the rhyme with sat and write these words on the board

• Teach student to first silently scan all the letters in the word sat than pronounce the word aloud

• Have student practice identifying the word sat in a variety of connected texts

3) Which of the following strategies would best help kindergarten teacher assess a student's ability to blen phonemes.

• Say the word set, pet, and map then ask child which one sound different

• Say the sounds /s/ /e/ /t/ seperately, than ask the child to say them as one word

• Say the word sat, set, and sit then ask the child to say then with /m/ in the place of /s/.

• Say the word sat, then ask the child to tap once for each sound the word contains

Which of the following informal assessments would be most appropriate to use to assess on individual studen't phonemic awareness?

• Having the student listen to a tape recorded story while looking at the book and then answer several simple questions about the story

• Asking student to identify the letters in the alphabet that correspond sounds of several familiar spoken words

• Asking student to identify the sound at the beginning, middle and end of a spoken word OR have student segment the sound in the word cat - /c/ /a/ /t/

• Having the student listen to the teacher read aloud a set of words with the same beginning sound (train, trap, trouble) and then repeat the words

5) What strategy is best used to teach phonemic awareness?

• Say the individual sound of a word

• Saying alphabet aloud

• Sing "O McDonald"

• Break a part words from a list

6) A student who joined a 1st grade class in October performs poorly on a phonemic awareness activity. To address this student's reading needs which of the following steps would be most important for teacher to take first?

• Conducting formal phonemic awareness assessment with students

• Engaging the student in a variety of beginning phonics games and activities.

• Consulting informally with the special education teacher to see if the student might benefit from an IEP

• Making immediate plans for a sequence of differentiated instruction for the student in phonemic-awareness skills

7) Which of the following statement best explain why students continue to need systamatic, explicit instruction to support and promote fluency even after they have achieved automaticity?

• Students need continued guided practice in basic phonics patterns and elements

• Vocabulary and academic language continue to be significant factors that disrupt students' fluency

• Students need continued guided practice in basic word identification skills

• High-frequency irregular sight words continue to be significant factors that disrupt student fluency

8) 3rd-grade teacher fevelopes a word lsit from a small group of students that includes word representing complex phonics patterns. After reviewing the list with students the teacher allowed a new set of words that follows same pattern and the student wrote down the word. This activity demonstrates the teachers awareness of the important things?

• developing students recognition of common syllable patterns to support accurate reading and writing

• Helping students understand the use of invented spelling to reinforce their phonics skills and foster self expression

• Helping student understand how the morphology of words relate the spelling patterns

• Using writing activities to give students opportunities to apply phonic knowledge to new words

9) !st grade teacher provides student with explicit, systematic phonics instruction to promote their reading development. When desiging an activity to teach letter-sound correspondence the teacher..

• Providing reading opportunities for students to practice context after studying the sound in isolation

• Make certain that students have mastered vowel sounds before focusing on consonants

• Ensure that students master the spelling of practice words using the target sound before teaching new sound.

• Providing reading opportunities for student to whisper read

• Include instruction in related consonants blends when introducing individual consonants

10) Prosody has which of these characteristics

• Reading with excitement and correct intonation like teachers do. A good strategy is choral reading

• Variation of pitch and intonation

• Pronunciation of phonemes

• Reading at a rapid rate