Teaching Reading Midterm

the theory of comprehension that stresses the reader's use of background knowledge to actively construct meaning

• Behaviorism Learning Theory

• Schema Theory

• Constructivism Learning Theory

• Cognitive Learning Theory

When a student can perform a learning task with the help from others, but not independently, the task is said to be in the students

• Zone of Proximal Development

• Scaffolding

• Potential Development

• Full Development

Which of the following approaches supports children working with their own language

• Basil Reading

• Lecture Based Instruction

• Language Experience Approach

• Integrates Language Ats

in which of the following locations would children encounter environmental print

• a Restaurant

• School

• a Library

• all of these

A teacher says "sand," and then says "/s/.../a/.../n/.../d/," pushing one tile forward for each separate sound she makes. Which of the following concepts is the teacher presenting to the students?

• Spelling

• Reading Comprehension

• Phonological Awareness

• Phonemic Awareness

Words that are impossible for students to sound out, such as their, of, and could, should be taught during which of the following reading lessons

• Irregular Words

• Regular Words

• Suffixes

• Function Words

At the beginning of the year, a second-grade teacher wants to perform an assessment of students' phonemic awareness. Which activity would best help the teacher assess this skill

• Providing students with a word and asking them to swap out a sound to change the word

• Having students spell a word after the teacher says the word

• Having students read a presented passage out loud

• Having students recite recent vocabulary words from memory

Which strategy would be most likely to help a kindergarten student who struggles to visually differentiate between the appearance of the letters p and q

• repeating the sounds each letter makes

• Showing them words with both letters in them

• Its normal the student will grow out of it

• Giving the student tracing exercises focusing on the shape and direction the letter faces

When working with English language learners on phonemic awareness and phoneme identification, it is most appropriate to select words that

• the current vocabulary words of the class

• include sounds used in both English and the student's native language

• are the most common in English

• the student's grade level appropriate words

Criteria such as timeliness of information, professional affiliation, bias, and domain suffixes all relate to which of the following factors

• Evaluating and selecting reference materials for student use in classroom research

• Respecting cultural knowledge and prior learner experiences when designing instruction

• Considering ethical issues that may arise when designing assessments

• Tailoring content, process, products, and learning environment to meet individual learner needs