Gerard's New Home: Which of the following strategies for effective discussion…does the teacher demonstrate as the students talk about Gerard’s New Home?

Encouraging the students to respond to another's idea and details from text

introducing new vocabulary in a context that …meaning of the words

promoting the students to relate stories to the …experiences

Using repetition to reinforce the students…concepts

Students in a 7th grade class are studying medieval society. The teacher periodically assesses students’ vocabulary…them with pairs of related words (e.g. vassals and serfs)that have been used in readings and class discussions. For each word they must write a sentence that uses both words in a meaningful way. An important advantage of this assessment method is…?

Allows students to demonstrate their understanding the words often have multiple meanings

Tests students ability to decode unfamiliar vocabulary words by using context clues.

Allows students to demonstrate their conceptual understanding of the vocabulary words

Test students ability to use structural analysis as a word identification strategy

One student comes to the teacher and says, “I get what an exotherm is but what's an endotherm?” This particular passage provides an especially good opportunity for the teacher to help the student?

Apply knowledge of suffixes to gain meaning from unfamiliar word

Learn to use standard textural guides such as table of contents

Apply skimming and scanning strategies to..information from a text

Recognize that an unfamiliar word’s …information necessary to define it.

The teacher provides students a sentence frame and demonstrates how to fill the sentence frames. What is the teacher trying to demonstrate? An (A) _____ castle was in _____. An ugly castle was in the forest. A beautiful castle was in a dark green forest?

Sentence structure in the English language

Words can have different meanings.

Which of the following is an essential component of an effective vocabulary program for elementary and middle school students?

Explicit instruction in generalizable word learning strategies

Explicit instructions in expressive oral language skills

Frequent opportunities for students to be exposed to unusual words in the classroom environment

Frequent opportunities for students to reread texts written at their independent reading levels

When introducing students to expository text such as an article from a periodical, a middle school teacher often begins by having students read information about the author(s) that is provided in the preface or other parts of the text. The teacher then leads a brief discussion about… and credentials of the author(s). This exercise is most likely to strengthen students' reading skills in which of the following ways?

enhancing students evaluative comprehensions by raising their awareness that text reflect authors’ experiences and point of view

Encouraging students to clarify their understanding of expository text by drawing on prior knowledge and personal experience

promoting students' inferential comprehension by sensitizing them to cause and effect relationships are not explicit.

helping students apply effective previewing techniques to improve fluency and concentration when reading expository text

Students who are strong readers often perform poorly on standardized reading tests because they are not sure what to do in response to the assessment task. This situation is most typically the results of the students having limited understanding of:

Important academic terms such as justify and evaluate that commonly appear in assessment questions

How to identify the main ideas and details and text if the text appears in an assessment

The important structural differences between narrative literary and expository/information text

How to make educated guesses on an assessment if they do not know the answer to a specific questio

A fifth grade teacher is concerned that some of the English learners in the class may have difficulty interpreting various idioms (e.g. sweating..burning the candles on both ends) found in a text the students will soon be reading. Which of the following pre reading strategies is likely to be most promoting the English Learner's understanding of the concept of idiomatic expressions and facilitating their comprehension of the text?

Explaining that figurative meaning of the target idioms to the classes and them having pairs of students create drawings illustrations on literal and figurative meaning.

Providing the classes with several copies of a comprehensive reference book of English idioms with literal definitions when reading the text

Having students work with a partner to write a brief essay reflecting on other English idioms they have encountered

Having students diagram the sentences from the text that contain the idioms, so they can determine the grammatical .. different words composing each idiom

6th grade research skills, what would be an initial informal assessment?

worksheet that has student match skill to content

have a discussion with them beforehand

join a group of 4 to have a discussion

8th grade teacher having trouble with her class connecting literary text too and not referring to the text at all. What strategies could she use to fix the problem?

A graphic organizer for the student to connect their answer to the text.

The teacher needs to model for the student. The student needs to see examples of what is required.

the teacher needs to give a set of questions the students have to discuss and answer

Having the teacher ask questions about the book and telling the students to use examples from the book in their answers.

Gerard's New Home Part 2: Which of the following comprehension strategies does Student 3 demonstrate during the group discussion?

Referring to the text to clarify meaning

Testing prediction he/she had made about the…

Using knowledge of text structure to enhance…

Drawing on prior knowledge to clarify meaning…

Having an understanding of the different tiers of vocabulary would best help a teacher determine

Which vocabulary words from a reading passage to teach

Which strategies to determine the meaning of words to model for students

Whether a particular word contains a Greek or Latin root

Whether particular student is meeting grade level expectations and vocabulary knowledge

A 4th grade teacher does a multiple part lesson on 3 different types of lessons throughout the week to involving the word responsibility. Some of the activities are listed below: Writing the word and its definition on the board and then having students generate an discuss morphologically and/or semantically related words and phrases Having students read and discuss a narrative essay entitled: The Responsible Thing To Do Having students write a short descriptive essay beginning with the phrase, “My biggest responsibility at school (or at home) is…” The approach to vocabulary instruction best demonstrates the teacher/’s understanding of the value of:

Promoting integration of word knowledge through repeating and purposeful exposure

Promoting students genuine interest in and enthusiasm for vocabulary study

Teaching students independent strategies for building word knowledge

Encouraging students wide reading of narrative and informational texts to promote word knowledge

A fourth grade teacher wants to test a student's English oral and conversation l understanding. How can the teacher assess the student?

Place students in a group to discuss

Have the students write an essay that assess a topic and students write an essay for the teacher to see their oral and conversation skills

Something along the lines of having students on the carpet or large group and ask them questions about a story and orally respond.

teacher lead a discussion and test for conventional understanding

he question said that the teacher had a 6th grade science article with a more developed academic vocab and wanted the students to be exposed to a similar article but easier to read before they read the more challenging one. The question was “why would the teacher do that?”

Word has meaning (longer wording of this but has key words “word has meaning”

Phonemes to smallest unit (along those lines)

students being exposed to similar language to familiarize

A fourth grade teacher writes the following two sentences on the board While you set the table, I will get the napkins. When riding her bike, Sally saw a rainbow. The teacher then asks, “what is the easiest way to divide the first sentence into two sentences?”. After some discussion, the students agree removing the word while and replacing the comma with a period. The teacher then asks the same question for the second sentence .. that in this case more words must be added to divide the sentences into two sentences. This instructional activity is likely to promote comprehension primarily by:

Helping students recognize and interpret sentences containing dependent clauses or phrases.

Enhancing students’ ability to analyze how punctuation affects the meaning of a text.

Helping students recognize the difference between nouns and verbs

Enhancing students’ ability to use semantic and syntactic clues to identify unfamiliar words

English learners students who struggle to understand reading

provide various text at their reading levels

Students are reading about a girl who wants to be a pilot. I think it was reading on struggles and challenges to fly planes and stuff like that. This question referred to something along the lines of having the students create an ending or something. What obstacles the girls will face. Something like that.

Research basic facts about pilots and predict challenges for the character.

build on their background knowledge

students being introduced to the challenges and discussing obstacles female pilots face. (Prior knowledge) or build on their knowledge

make the students create or write an ending to the story.

What study skill would you use for upper grade elementary?

Work in small groups and quiz each other

Taking detailed notes as they are reading.

Work in small groups and read aloud and then silently

Have the students look for main topic and titles and create questions to answer while reading

Have them write questions to later answer during reading

Understanding how punctuation is used to set off nonrestrictive…would enable students to gain which of the following pieces of information from this reading passage?

Reptiles need need outside courses of heat to keep them warm

Snakes are of often found basking on warm rocks

Reptiles are known as exotherms

Student made his own poem: Misha Masha Bisha Basha Boo. Teacher is going over poetry and one student in Kindergarten makes his own poem (ORALLY). Using this opportunity, what strategy should the teacher use to connect it to READING and language skills? To further the students oral language, writing, and reading skills the teacher should have the student?

Write the poem on a chart paper and read it aloud

Recite the students poem to him with the initial letter omitted

Student mimics the poem that are read than challenged to rhyme the last four lines of those poems

Ask the student to recite his poem many times.

A kindergarten teacher is collaborating with other teachers in the school to offer a series of family reading workshops for the parents/guardians of students in the primary grades.During the workshops, parents/guardians reflect on family reading, discuss children's literature, and learn strategies for reading with their children. The teacher who are leading the workshops recommend that parents/guardians encourage their children to make predictions while reading together. One parent asks why this strategy is beneficial. The teachers could best respond by explaining that this technique:

Facilitates reading comprehension by setting a purpose for reading and motivating students to focus on the text

Increases vocabulary knowledge by helping students extend their understanding of unfamiliar words

Improves decoding skills by strengthening students' short term recall

Promotes written language development by motivating

A 6th grade teacher gives students a list of statements about plants before reading a science text and asks them to mark true or false before they read. Students then have to check for accuracy of the facts when reading the chapter about plants. How does this support comprehension or what is the purpose of this activity?

Establishing a definite purpose reading the chapter

Clarifying the main ideas contained in the chapter

Prompting students to generalize from what they read

Increasing students’ awareness of text structure as they read

At the beginning of the school year, a fourth grade teacher decides to assess students' knowledge of how to use basic English conventions. Which of the following initial strategies would be most appropriate for this purpose?

The teacher asks students to write a paragraph on a subject of their choice and evaluate their use of language

Students read a passage from a text that includes complex sentences and respond to comprehension questions.

Students complete a teacher made worksheet that requires them to match various grammatical terms with the…

The teacher leads a class discussion about English language conventions and informally assess students

An elementary teacher closely monitors students' independent reading through the use of students reading logs and brief, regular conferences with individual students. During these conferences the teacher helps guide the student toward books that fall …assessed independent and instructional reading levels. This practice is likely to promote students' vocabulary development?

Ensuring that students will be exposed to appropriately challenging words during independent reading

Supporting students ability to apply word learning strategies to unfamiliar words encountered during independent…

Motivating students to engage in independent reading that stimulates their interest in and enthusiasm for words

Providing students with a strategy for selecting books with appropriate vocabulary for independent reading..

A second- grade student has limited vocabulary knowledge, which hinders the students word recognition and reading comprehension. The students' oral reading is slow and labores, and the student typically spends the majority of independent reading time browsing through books, making little effort to read the actual words on the page. Research has shown that which of the following is most likely to happen if this student receives no instructional intervention.

The student will begin to fall behind peers in reading development and will continue to fall further behind in later grades as texts include increasingly difficult vocabulary.

The student will always be behind average-performing peers but will achieve an adequate reading level to be academically successful.

The student will naturally begin to show more interest and proficiency in reading as the student matures and will catch up with average- performing peers in third grade.

The student will remain approximately at a second-grade reading level and will not be able to progress beyond this level.

Members of a literature Response Group in a sixth grade class are having difficulty initiating and sustaining Focus discussion about a text… the following instructional strategies is likely to be most effective in helping the students engage in more productive discussions that promote comprehension and Analysis of the text?

Providing the students with explicit instruction in an activity such as questioning the author to help structure their discussion

Meeting with the group to describe appropriate listening and speaking skills to use in academic discussions such as discussions about literature

Having the students take turns reading a loud favorite passages from the text and commenting on the passages

Giving members of the group a question about their personal experience to reflect on before the group meets to discuss

Part question (CTC) Part 2: Which of the following best describes one important way in which this activity is likely to benefit English Learners?

Combining sentences into paragraphs encourages English Learners to employ a variety of word identification strategies

Arranging sentences in meaningful order helps English Learners develop skills for locating and retrieving related information from content-area texts

Combining sentences into paragraphs encourages English Learners to employ a variety of word identification strategies

Analyzing and editing individual sentences improve English Learners’ reading fluency by helping them chunk text they read

A fourth grade teacher selected a core literature book for her students to read. After her students have completed reading the book she asked them to go back to the text and find situations where the main character has experience that reminded the student of something in their own lives. The student uses a response log to record their ideas. The teacher might choose this strategy as a follow-up to reading the book because.

The teacher understands that helping her students connect real life experiences to those of character will deepen their understanding of the above and she can analyze their responses to plan future appropriate instruction.

To see if the students understood the main idea

For the students to make a text to self connection

The teacher wants to check the students literal comprehension

The teacher writes the following sentences with blank spaces and provides a list of 4 nonsense words for the students to fill in the blank (not exact example but same context). The cow_ over again to the table, please, lanked, jizzle pip). This activity identifies the student’s ability to

Something about subconsciously using inferential grammar in reading

To recognize if the student understands past tense

Something about checking the student's knowledge in grammar

Lately, when choosing a book to read, a third grader who reads at grade level always selects books from a series that is written in a very formulaic style that does little to extend his conceptual or language development. The teacher’s best response to this behavior would be to:

Provide the student with books with similar themes or on similar topics that are more challenging for him.

Avoid interfering with the student’s selection of books as long as he finds his choices enjoyable

Point out to the student some of the major limitations of the books he is choosing to read and ask him not to read those books at school.

Advise the student that he should choose books that will prepare him for the more difficult reading he will encounter in fourth grade

Subtest 2 PT 1

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CCSS

RF.5.3A, RI.2.1, RI.4.4

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

Scanning would be the most effective reading strategy for a student who wants to:

Search quickly through the text to locate relevant information for a research project

Take detailed notes on a text while reading it for the second time

Analyze the strength of a writer's arguments and assumptions in a tex

Focus on key vocabulary words during in-depth reading

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CCSS.RF.4.4B

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4B

CCSS.RF.5.4C

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

What mainly leads to the acquisition of vocabulary for students from grades 4th to 8th in that four year span?

Explicit classroom vocabulary instruction

Content area specific vocabulary instruction

Everyday knowledge from developed cognition

Explicit with oral language

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

Gerard's New Home Par 3:
During the group discussion, which of the following strategies does the teacher use to help students develop these responses to…?

Encouraging students to provide evidence from the text to support their interpretations

Prompting students to analyze the use of figurative language in the text

Prompting students to make personal connections to events described in the text

Encouraging students to recognize how..establishes the mood

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following study skills is likely to be most effective in helping students comprehend and recall information they read and a textbook?

Students read the chapter slowly and carefully, taking detailed notes as they read

Working in small groups, students quiz one another on the definitions of keywords in the chapter after reading it

Students locate the chapters headings and subheadings before reading and convert each heading into a question to be answered

Working in small groups, students take turns reading the chapter allowed before they read it silently

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CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4B

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.6.10

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

A 6th grade teacher is preparing the lesson plans for upcoming school years for reading as well as math and science. Which of the following instructional reading plans does she need to consider?

Is the context vocabulary across area related?

Using the same reading skills in other subjects/content area something like tha

graphic organizers for visual representation

following the CA content standards

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A 4th grade teacher has students write “juicy words” that they encounter while reading on a classroom list. The teacher uses the words in discussions and encourages students to use them when they write…

Something about morphemes

Encourages students love for words

Recognize words with interesting spelling and meaning

Encourages the different use of words in writing

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CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4B

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.6.10

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

Teacher wrote a sentence about a girl waiting…. In 3 different ways…. The question asked what the teacher is trying to teach.
Mary stands waiting for the bus in the snow.
While in the snow, Mary waits for the bus.
Waiting for the bus, Marystand in the snow.

Introducing students to different writing styles

Teaching a way of writing

How writing styles can be different

Students learn they can change sentences around

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Scanning would be the most effective reading strategy for a student who wants to:

What mainly leads to the acquisition of vocabulary for students from grades 4th to 8th in that four year span?

Gerard's New Home Par 3:During the group discussion, which of the following strategies does the teacher use to help students develop these responses to…?

Which of the following study skills is likely to be most effective in helping students comprehend and recall information they read and a textbook?

A 6th grade teacher is preparing the lesson plans for upcoming school years for reading as well as math and science. Which of the following instructional reading plans does she need to consider?

A 4th grade teacher has students write “juicy words” that they encounter while reading on a classroom list. The teacher uses the words in discussions and encourages students to use them when they write…

Teacher wrote a sentence about a girl waiting…. In 3 different ways…. The question asked what the teacher is trying to teach.Mary stands waiting for the bus in the snow.While in the snow, Mary waits for the bus.Waiting for the bus, Marystand in the snow.

Gerard's New Home:Which of the following strategies for effective discussion…does the teacher demonstrate as the students talk about Gerard’s New Home?

One student comes to the teacher and says, “I get what an exotherm is but what's an endotherm?” This particular passage provides an especially good opportunity for the teacher to help the student?

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Gerard's New Home Par 3:
During the group discussion, which of the following strategies does the teacher use to help students develop these responses to…?

Teacher wrote a sentence about a girl waiting…. In 3 different ways…. The question asked what the teacher is trying to teach.
Mary stands waiting for the bus in the snow.
While in the snow, Mary waits for the bus.
Waiting for the bus, Marystand in the snow.

Gerard's New Home:
Which of the following strategies for effective discussion…does the teacher demonstrate as the students talk about Gerard’s New Home?