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67. 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?

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

• Is the context vocabulary across area related?

• graphic organizers for visual representation

• following the CA content standards

68. 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:

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

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

• Improves decoding skills by strengthening students' short term recall

• Promotes written language development by motivating

69. 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

• Recognize words with interesting spelling and meaning

• Encourages students love for words

• Encourages the different use of words in writing

70. 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

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

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

• 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

71. A fourth grade teacher ensures flexible grouping strategy that ensures that English Learners are included in a variety of small groups for both … and content area activities. This instructional approach best demonstrates the teacher’s awareness that English learners' development of academic English is enhanced by?

• 1. Modifying classroom routines to motivate the students to improve their academic language performances

• 1. Involving the students in a range of situations that maximize their exposure to and use of academic language

• 1. Limiting group size to minimize distractions and help the students concentrate on their language development

• 1. Challenging the students to monitor their own progress in achieving targeted english language goals

72. 2 part question (CTC)

Part 1:

A teacher substitutes blank spaces for several nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in 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:

• Define various grammatical categories in their own words

• Select appropriate words based on their grammatical function as well as on their meaning

• 1. Group words into grammatical categories to clarify their meaning

• Draw on grammatical knowledge to identify the subjects and predicates of complex sentences.

72. 2 Part question (CTC)

Part 2:

Which of the following best describes one important way in which this activity is likely to benefit English Learners?

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

• Discussing and writing about a content-area topic supports English Learners' reading related to the topic by reinforcing key concepts and academic-language development.

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

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

73. When reading aloud "big books" a first grade teacher often pauses at predictable points and encourages students to suggest words or phrases that could come next....The teachers awareness of the importance of promoting beginning readers' reading development by:

• Reinforcing their test phonemic awareness

• promoting their comprehension at the word and sentence levels as well as at the text level

• 1. Encouraging them to use context clues to decode unfamiliar words in a text

• 1. Enhancing their auditory-discrimination skills

  
  

74. An 8th grade teacher - wants to help students understand how, in literary texts, an author’s cultural background, history, beliefs can affect the story

• Students do a library research project

  
  

• Offer reading material that deals with multicultural stories around the classroom for independent reading

• Students in small groups read narrative poems from both ancient and modern times, compare and contrast how the characters react to events and are treated

• Students need to connect to the text