SUBTEST 3

  A 4th grade student asks the teacher for help in understanding the content of a passage he has been reading. After discussing it with the teacher, the student demonstrates a good understanding of the passage and confidence in his ability to continue reading. This interaction between the student and the teacher suggests that the student?

• Is reading a text at his instructional level

• Needs work on improving his word identification strategies

• Needs to work on developing evaluative comprehension skills

   

Effective instructional delivery of content needs to be ?

• Planned and standardized

• Direct and explicit

• Approved and relatable

• Fun and engaging

Which of the following guidelines Is essential for classroom teachers to follow with regard to summative assessment accommodations for students in the class who have IEPs?

• The teacher should implement the same accommodations or variations for students during testing that were used throughout instruction in accordance with the IEPs.

• Students with IEPs should be allowed to take summative classroom tests in preferred locations, such as an educational resource room or the school library

• Classroom assessment should be administrated under the most stringent conditions to provide a reliable measure of student skills

•    Testing accommodations or variations implemented for students with IEPs should be made generally available to any student in the class who requests them

    A sixth grader who is advanced in most areas of reading has difficulty completing assigned reading selections. He appears motivated when he begins reading, but he has difficulty keeping his attention on the task at hand. Which of the following would be his teacher’s best initial strategy for addressing this difficulty?

• Telling the student that his grades will be based in part on his ability to improve his concentration when he works on reading assignments

• Adapting the student’s reading assignments to reduce their complexity and level of cognitive challenge.

• Breaking down the student's reading assignments into small steps and helping him learn to monitor his own attention and progress.

• Managing the students reading assignments so that he generally has only one to work on at given time

   A 1^st grade teacher meets with a student's parents. Neither the student nor the parents speak any English. Through an interpreter, the parent asks what they can do to help foster their child’s reading and language development. The teacher can respond most appropriately by encouraging the parents to?

• Limit the students home library to books written in English

• Learn enough English to begin speaking English to the student at home

• Read or tell stories to the student in the primary language

How can a reading teacher best ensure reading practice gets done at home ?

• Teach the students how to search free books on the internet

• Encourage children to check out books from their local library

• Allow children to take home books from the classroom library

   A student who reads a book independently, after he answers 10 comprehension questions, he gets 5 correct. What is his reading level?

•     Frustration level

• Instructional level

• Independent level

    An elementary teacher should adhere to which of the following guidelines related to planning reading instruction?

• Adapt lesson plan as needed based on ongoing monitoring of student progress

• Conduct formal assessments daily to judge students' current strengths and needs.

• Rely on ability-based reading groups to foster students' reading development.

     Reading teachers have a conference. What should they discuss?

• Not focusing on their own interest

• Identify and analyze significant reading events that occurred in the classroom during reading activities/discuss and analyze what happened during the activity.

• Discussing whole group and small group strategies not individual students

   As part of an assessment to determine students' independent reading levels, a teacher asks individual students to read aloud from selected passages. If a passage is at a students independent reading level, the student should correctly read a least?

• 95% of the words

•   90% of the words

• 85% of the words 

• 80% of the words in the passage