Rica 2 Multiple Choice

 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:

• No

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

  
  

• Provide the student harder stuff

  
  

• Nothing

A second-grade student has limited vocabulary knowledge, which hinders the student's word recognition and reading comprehension. The student's oral reading is slow and labored, 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?

• nothing

• The student will run away

• The student will get ahead

• 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.

Which of the following statements best explains an important limitation of teaching students to rely on context as their primary strategy for determining the meaning of unfamiliar words in texts?

• Explicit context clues about a word's meaning are not very common in most texts, while implicit contextual clues often require students to apply background knowledge they lack.

• nothing

• no

• nada

A fifth-grade teacher is planning a multidisciplinary unit on water pollution. For this unit, students will read chapters from their social studies and science textbooks as well as relevant fictional narratives. These materials will also be incorporated into a variety of instructional activities designed to promote students' reading development. Which of the following statements best describes an important advantage of using a cross-curricular approach such as this unit to promote students' reading development?

• o

• n

• Reading instruction that integrates a variety of related texts promotes deep processing of new vocabulary through multiple exposures to key words and concepts.

  
  
  

• no

A web diagram with an oval in the center labeled dict open parens speak close parens. Lines extend out from the oval to the following five English words: benediction, dictionary, contradict, predict, dictator.

This activity is likely to promote students' vocabulary development primarily by helping the students:

• apply knowledge of word roots as a word-learning strategy.

  
  
  

• yes

• no

• n

A teacher substitutes blank spaces for several nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in an appropriate level text and asks students to determine reasonable and logical words to complete each blank. This technique is useful as an informal assessment of students' understanding of English language structures primarily because it requires them to:

• no

• no

• select appropriate words based on their grammatical function as well as on their mean

• no

A fifth-grade teacher gives students the following sentence:

Neither walking on the beach nor running around the track cheered Ahmed up.

The teacher asks the students how the phrases that come just after neither and just after nor are similar. This exercise can promote students' reading comprehension by helping them:

• no

• no

• Parallel Gramatical structures

• recognize parallel grammatical structures.

A middle school teacher designs an instructional activity in which students combine several sentences to form a single sentence, as illustrated below.

Combine
Matthew stood and waited for the bus.
The sun was blazing hot.
Matthew fanned himself with the newspaper.

Single sentence:
Waiting for the bus, Matthew stood in the blazing sun, fanning himself with the newspaper.

This activity is likely to be most effective in helping students:

• no

• strengthen their ability to comprehend and write complex sentences.

• no

• no

. Structural analysis would be the most appropriate strategy for a student to use to determine the meaning of which of the following words?

• impassable

• no

• no

• no

This comprehension strategy is most effective in facilitating students' ability to:

• organize textual information according to similarities and differences.

• no

• no

• no