Questions 1-30

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

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

• B

A first grade teacher leads a small group of beginning readers in a lesson focused on decoding simple words composed of letters that students have learned to sound out in isolation. The teacher begins by writing word “sat” on the board. In keeping the research based practices, the most appropriate step for the teacher to take next in this lesson would be to:

• Teach the student to blend the sound in the word slowly and continuously without pausing or tapping the sounds out.

• B

Sound blending helps students blend sounds together to correctly pronounce words.

•  Say the sounds /d/, /o/, and /g/ separately, then ask the child to say them as one word.

• B

Which of the following informal assessments would be most appropriate to use to assess an individual students phonemic awareness?

• Asking a student to identify the sound at the beginning, medial, or final of a spoken word (what sound do you hear at the end of step?)

• B

What strategy is best used to teach phonemic awareness?

• Say the individual sounds of a word

• B

A student who joins a first grade classroom in late October performs poorly on a phonemic awareness activity. To address this students reading needs, which of the following steps would be most important for the teacher to take first?

• Conducting formal phonemic awareness assessments with the student

• B

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

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

• B

A Third grade teacher develops a word list from a small group of students that includes words representing complex phonics patterns. After reviewing the list with students the teacher did a dictation activity with a different set of words that follow the same pattern and the student wrote down the word. This activity demonstrates the teachers awareness of the importance of?

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

• B

A first grade teacher provides students with explicit, systematic phonics instruction to promote their reading development. When designing activities to teach letter-sound correspondence, the teacher should:

•  Provide reading opportunities for students to practice sounds in context after studying the sounds in isolation.

• B

Prosody has which of these characteristics?

• Variation in pitch and intonation

• B