RED4519C Final Exam Review - OLD

Data should inform teacher decision making regarding instructional methods, grouping, resources and assessment.

• True

• False

A School Improvement Plan provides specific goals for student achievement along with resources and instructional plans to meet those goals.

• True

• False

Students should engage in these habits during close reading:

(select all that apply)

• 1. Identifying their own purpose for reading the text

• Focusing on their fluency and prosody when reading

• Determining the author’s purpose for writing it

• Developing their own schema

• Consider the thought systems of a discipline (genres)

A District Reading Plan provides an invaluable resource for teachers’ instructional practices specific to their students’ needs.

• True

• False

Harris and Hodges (1995) refer to comprehension as “the construction of meaning of a written text through a reciprocal interchange of ideas between the reader and the message in a particular text.”

• True

• False

Explicit instruction of story structure enhances students’ memory and recall of narratives, with even greater benefits for struggling readers (National Reading Panel 2000).

• True

• False

The PAST Screener includes:

(select all that apply)

• Phonemic awareness skills

• Vowel teams

• Syllabication skills

• Blending, Segmenting, Substitution of sounds

• Blending, Segmenting, Substitution of letters

The LETRS Screener includes:

(select all that apply)

• Vowel teams

• Reading nonsense words

• Fluency

• Blending, Segmenting, Substitution of letters

• High frequency words

The three components of effective vocabulary instruction are:

• Incidental vocabulary learning, intentional vocabulary learning, word consciousness

• Rich oral language experiences, read-alouds, & independent reading

• Specific word instruction, phonics, & phonemic awareness

• Adept diction, word play, & word origins

Engaged readers are not strongly motivated to learn from what they are reading.

• True

• False