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A 1st grade teacher considers ways to help a new student who is beginning English learner development skills and phonemic awareness and knowledge of English sounds. Which of the following steps will be most important for the teacher to take first?

• Collecting a set of simple rhyming poems in English to practice reciting with the student.

• Preparing a list of simple English words with different vowel sounds for the student to study.

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

• Making a study tape for the student by recording an oral in reading of high frequency English words.

A 1st-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 the 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 sounds in the word "sat" slowly and continuously without pausing.

• Tapping sounds out.

• Ask the students to suggest words they know that rhyme with "sat" and write these words on the board.

• Teach students to first silently scan all the letters in the word "sat" and then pronounce the word aloud.

• Have the students practice identifying the word "sat" in a variety of connected texts.

Which of the following strategies would best help a kindergarten teacher assess a student's ability to blend phonemes?

• Say the words dog, pet and mp, then ask the child which one sounds different.

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

• Say the words sat, set and sit then ask the child to say them with /m/ in place of /s/.

• Say the word set, then ask the child to tap once for each sound the word contains.

Which of the following assessments would be most appropriate to use to assess an individual student's phonemic awareness?

• Asking the student to identify the sound at the beginning, medial, or final of a spoken word (e.g., "What sound do you hear at the end of "step"?

• Have the student break apart the word "cat."

• Having the student listen to a tape-recorded story while looking at the book and then answer simple questions about the story.

• Asking student to identify letters in the alphabet that correspond to the initial consonant sounds of several familiar spoken words.

• Having the student listen to the teacher read aloud a set of words with the same beginning sound (e.g. train, trap, trouble) and repeat the words.

What strategy is best used to teach phonemic awareness?

• Sing old McDonald

• Write the word "ride"

• Break apart words from a list

• Say the individual sounds of a word

• Say the pronunciation of "cat"

A student who joins a 1st grade classroom in late October performs poorly on a phonemic awareness activity. To address this student's reading needs, which of the following steps would be most important for the teacher to take first?

• Engaging the student in a variety of beginning phonics games and activities.

• Consulting informally with the special education teacher to see if the student might benefit from an IEP.

• Conducting formal phonemic awareness assessments with the student.

• Making immediate plans for a sequence of differentiated instruction for the student in phonemic awareness skills.

Which of the following statements best explain why students continue to need systemic, 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.

• Students need continued guided practice in basic phonics patterns and elements.

• Students need continued guided practice in basic word identification skills.

• High frequency irregular sight words continue to be significant factors that disrupt students fluency.

A 3rd 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 teacher's awareness of the importance of?

• Developing students recognition of common syllable patterns to support accurate reading and writing.

• Helping students understand use of invented spelling to reinforce their phonics skills and foster self expression.

• Helping students understand how the morphology of words relate to spelling patterns.

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

A 1st grade teacher provides students with explicit, systematic phonics instruction to promote their reading development. When designing activities to teach letter-sound correspondences, the teacher should:

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

• Make certain that students have mastered vowel sounds before focusing on consonants,

• Ensure that students master the spelling of practice words using the target sound before teaching a new sound.

• Provide reading opportunity for student to whisper read.

• Include instruction in related consonant blends when introducing individual consonants.

Prosody has which of these characteristics?

• reading with excitement and correct intonation like teachers do. A good strategy is choral reading.

• Pronunciation of phonemes.

• Reading at a rapid rate.

• Coarticulation of word boundaries.

• Variation in Pitch and Intonation. Sounding of natural speech.