ELED 412 - Week 12 Quiz

You are planning a phonological awareness activity in which students are practicing finding pictures of words that start with the sound /k/.  Which pictures do you want to include in the activity?

• quail

• cookie

• kitten

• city

• chips

You are planning a phonological awareness activity in which students are practicing finding pictures of words that start with the sound /g/.  Which pictures do you want to include in the activity?

• goat

• glue

• giraffe

• gym

• green

Your students need practice segmenting three phoneme words. Which of the following words would be appropriate to use?

• far

• three

• bake

• log

• say

Your students need practice segmenting four phoneme words. Which of the following words would be appropriate to use?

• show

• spit

• hint

• king

• phone

Mrs. Evans wants her students to practice the comprehension strategy of predicting. Which of the following activities would accomplish this goal?

• a. Select an appropriate decodable book.

• b. Select a high quality children's book that is a narrative.

• c. Select a high quality children's book that is informational.

• d. students to write about what they plan to do over the weekend.

The zone of proximal development is best described as:

• a. Where interrelated sets of actions, memories, thoughts or strategies may be used to predict and understand the environment.

• b. The memory storage that allow children to briefly remember of large amounts of information for a very short time.

• c. The difference between what a child can do independently and what the child can potentially do when working with an adult or more capable peer.

• d. The concept that children assimilate or accommodate new information and ideas into their current understandings.

Answer explanation

The zone of proximal development is the difference between what a child can do independently and what the child can potentially do when working with an adult or more capable peer.

According to the Four-Part Processing Model of Word Recognition

• a. A word recognized by first being decoded by an interaction between the phological awareness and phonics processors; then its meaning determined by the language comprehension processor; and then its appropriate meaning determined through the vocabulary processor.

• b. A word is recognized by an interaction between the meaning and context processors and then compared to its spelling by an interaction between the phonological and orthographic processors.

• c. A word is recognized by first being decoded through an interaction between the phonological and orthographic processors; then its meaning determined by the meaning processor; and then its appropriate meaning determined through the context processor.

• d. A word is recognized by an interaction between phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, and vocabulary.

Answer explanation

You realize that your 1st grade students are struggling with capitalization. At which point in the writing process would you teach students how to capitalize the beginning of sentences?

• Prewriting

• Drafting

• Revision

• Editing

• Publishing