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?

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

Not focusing on their own interest

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?

80% of the words in the passage

An early elementary teacher could most effectively support at-home reading by:

Recommending books that parents/guardians would likely enjoy reading with their children

Sharing with parents/guardians important articles from professional reading journals

Sending parents/guardians a regular newsletter describing the classroom.

A 6 th grade teacher wants to ensure that the classroom reading environment supports content-area learning for the English Learners in the class. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in addressing this objective?

Making available in the classroom content area texts at various levels that supplement and reinforce the information presented in the student's textbooks.

Providing English Learners with grade-level, English-only content area books to promote academic language

Replacing content area books with simpler texts on the same subjects that the English Learners can understand more readily.

Homogeneous grouping for reading instruction is most appropriate for which of the following purposes?

Customizing skills instruction for students who have similar assessed reading needs in a particular area

Promoting students written language skills through collaboration writing activities

Motivating reluctant reader to increase their independent and their engagement in reading

Which of the following strategies would be most effective to use when grouping students for interventions addressing a specific area of difficulty in grade level reading curriculum?

Grouping students heterogeneously to ensure that every reading group includes one or more skilled readers

Grouping students heterogeneously to ensure that all students receive the same exposure to the content.

Grouping students homogeneously according to the severity of their difficulty

Entry level assessment results in a particular area of reading indicate that several students need differentiated instruction in specific skills. Which of the following questions would be most important for their teacher to consider first when planning differentiated instruction for these students?

What prerequisite skills do the students need to have to benefit from instruction and achieve content standards with respect to the specific skills?

How can content area instruction be integrated with this area of reading to reinforce the development of specific skills?

How should the grade level content standards in other areas of reading be taught over the course of the year to compensate for the student's lack of specific skills?

Of the following questions, which would be most important for a teacher to consider when interpreting the results of a reading assessment for a particular student?

How do these findings relate to the student's performance on other recently administered reading assessments? Or Content areas

How did the student's performance on this assessment compare with that of the student's classmates?

Are these findings sufficient to assign a grade to the student's performance?

Understand how to interpret the results percentile scores and grade equivalent scores. The actual question states if a student scores 68% on their reading assessment, then it dictates that:

The student scored higher than the rest of his classmates/peers

How to interest a student in reading?

A. Remember it's what the students would be more interested in, not the teacher.

A standardized test is considered to have high content validity if the test?

Assess the knowledge and skills it purports to assess

Is normed using a homogeneous group of examines

Addresses a small, discrete set of knowledge and skills

What is the purpose and use of an IRA?

An IRI is an individualized portfolio of assessments collected over the year to show an individual student's reading level.

An IRI is the individualized portfolio gathered by the student to showcase the student's parent of the work that the student is most proud of.

An IRI is an individualized portfolio of assessments collected over the lifetime of the student at school to show an individual student's reading growth.

Which strategy should a teacher use with a small group of learners who have not yet met the standard of a particular reading skill?

A teacher can use flexible grouping

A teacher can use independent practice

A teacher can use the monitored oral reading strategy

How can a teacher create a support system to promote reading for severely struggling readers?

Facilitate a conference with the students, the student's parents, the reading coach/learning specialist, and the principal to create reading goals

Read with the student one-on-one each morning for 10 min

Create a reading partner chart and schedule 20 min of partner reading each day

A teacher is helping a student find books at the student's independent reading level at the school library. What strategy should the teacher suggest for the student?

Teacher students to read paragraphs and open the book at random and have the student read one or two paragraphs

Midway through the year, a 2 nd grade teacher convenes a student success team to plan additional support for a student who is performing somewhat below grade-level standards in reading. Other members of the team include the student and her parents, another teacher who works closely with the student, and a school administrator. In the context of developing an improvement plan for the student, which of the following pieces of information would be most important for the teacher to communicate to the success team?

A description of the students assessed strengths and weaknesses that could serve as a foundation for addressing her needs

A 1 st grader enjoys reading in class. However, during a parent-teacher conference, the student's parents says that the student seems to tire quickly and become distracted when reading aloud at home. The teacher can best respond to this situation by taking which of the following steps first?

Elicit information to assess the difficulty and interest level of the students at home reading materials.

Suggest that the parent read aloud to the student until the student gains more self confidence in reading

Recommend that the parent use a simple reward system to motivate the student to read aloud for a predetermined amount of time each day

Which of the following is most likely to indicate that a 3 rd grade student may need service in addition to what the classroom teacher can be expected to provide?

Numerous reading interventions implemented by the student's classroom teacher have proven ineffective

The student has been unmotivated by individualized reading instruction offered to him/her by the classroom teacher

The students' performance in reading is at a level below his/her performance in other academic areas

13 year old student with a disability and needs help in organizational skills and planning. What should the teacher do to help?

Give students grade-level content area texts and provide differentiated instruction such as graphic organizers

Something along the lines of consulting with the special ed teacher for assigning standard/simple graphic organizers to assist with language arts lesson

Break the project into smaller, more manageable tasks

What is the goal of standards-based reading instruction?

Every student will meet the content standards adopted by the California state board of education.

A middle school teacher is preparing for the class to take the 6 th grade CST in English language arts. The teacher believes that a student in the class with a Section 504 Plan would perform significantly better on the assessment if she were allowed to have frequent supervised breaks within sections of the test. Which of the following guidelines would be most important for the teacher to follow to ensure that arrangements for this student during the test are appropriate?

Providing the student with this testing accommodation only if it specified in her Section 504 plan

Following whatever accommodations are generally recommended for students with Section 504 plans

Using good teacher judgment to determine if such accommodation is warranted

A question about the CCSS literacy framework: According to California State documents, an upper elementary teacher can best promote reading development through planning and organizing instruction of?

Reading taught through explicit and different academic subjects

A second-grade teacher has created a comfortable reading corner in the classroom that includes reading materials representing a variety of genres, topics, and difficulty levels. Which of the following additional steps is likely to be most effective in supporting and motivating students reading?

Organizing the materials in the reading corner in a way that helps students easily locate books that they can read successfully

Playing soft, relaxing music for students to listen to while they are reading in the reading corner

Displaying in the reading corner an ongoing record of how many books each student has read

A second grade teacher uses a published reading inventory to help assess the reading proficiency of a new student in her class who moved into the school district with his family at the end of January. The inventory consists of the following four components: After the teacher interprets the students scores on the published reading inventory, it would be most important for her to?

A. Supplement the findings with information gained from other assessments and observations of the students daily reading work

A. Verify the findings of the inventory by having the students take a teacher made test that assesses a broader set of reading skills

A. Compare the students scores on the inventory to the scores of other students in the class who took the same assessment

In higher elementary grade, how would you plan for a long term reading instruction?

A. By explicitly teaching strategies and incorporating them in other subject areas or content areas.

1. For an upper elementary ELD student who is proficient in English, something to be aligned with other subjects for long term curriculum goals ?

A. Feedback from formal and informal assessments

When developing an improvement plan for a student, a teacher will often reach out to people, such as the principal, student support specialist, and the parents of the student. When organizing time to meet, which of the following would be most important for the teacher to prepare prior to the meeting?

A report showcasing the students social and academic strengths and weaknesses

The records of the students recent reading assessments

Theres no need to prepare physical papers because the meeting at this time is simply a discussion

A report comparing this students performance to another students performance at the same grade level

How should a teacher test English Language learners in the class?

Use both formal and informal reading assessments

Which of the following situations suggests the need for prompt instructional intervention?

At the end of kindergarten, a student shows little phonemic awareness

At the beginning of second grade, a student is unable to demonstrate evaluative comprehension

At the end of 1 st grade, a student has just begun to use transitional spelling.

At the beginning of 1 st grade, a students is unable to decode many two-syllable words

Toward the end of the school year, a 1 st grade teacher should plan an intervention for a student who ?

Demonstrates only prephonetic spelling and writing

Lacks the ability to identify the subject and verb of a sentence

Is unable to use prefixes and suffixes in word identification

Has difficulty decoding multisyllabic words

A teacher selects a mystery novel at most of her students' independent and instructional reading levels. She reads a bit of it to the class, stopping at one point. The students ask her to read more of the text, but she declines. She tells them to predict what will happen next. She says that if they want to continue reading, they can borrow the book from her in the classroom library. Why did the teacher do that?

Stimulate students interest in a variety of genes (Broadening students on different genres)

Encourage students to read more advanced texts

Question about a middle school teacher: What should she do to ensure reading instruction for the whole class?

Teach the whole class strategies and instruction on reading across subject areas.

Which of the following is the most accurate definition for differentiated instruction?

Meeting the needs of all learning, including making adjustments to meet the needs of individual learners

Facilitating differentiated lessons for the kids to receive instruction by experts

Providing different materials to different students to give differentiated instruction

Facilitating a lesson that caters to different personalities and learning styles to achieve academic and social development

A 4 th grade teacher confers regularly with students as they edit written compositions related to their reading. During the editing process, the teacher helps each student develop an editing checklist that lists writing skills the students consistently applies correctly as well as skills that need development. One important advantage of this method of assessing students' written language development is that it?

Motivates students to take responsibility for identifying and achieving writing goals

Helps students student he importance of minimizing errors in the 1 st draft of a composition

Allows students to concentrate more on content than from when they write

A 5 th grade teacher is working with a 1 st grade teacher to plan a reading buddy program, in which interested 5 th graders will visit the 1 st grade classroom once a week to read aloud to individual students. To ensure that the program is effective in engaging the participants in reading and motivating them to progress in their reading development, which of the following steps is most likely for the 5 th grade teacher to take 1 st ?

Having students discuss the goals of the buddy program and providing them with explicit strategies for successfully achieving the goals.

Establishing some guidelines for the behavior of the 5 th graders who will be participating in the program

Having students visit the 1 st grade classroom to meet and talk with the children who will be participating in the reading buddy program

Arranging for students to meet with the 1 st grade teacher to discuss the younger children reading curriculum

A 3 rd grade teacher creates a form to use to record assessment data for each student in a particular area of reading (eg. Phonics, spelling, comprehension, vocab) An example of the form is shown below. It will be used to record information about a student's phonics assessments Which of the following statements describes the primary benefit of using this form to record assessment data?

The format facilitates the teacher's ability to track a student's ongoing progress in mastering specific reading skills

The form makes it easier for the teacher to plan integrated instruction for the class that addresses multiple reading needs

The design of the form highlights the reading skills that are most important for students in the class to master

The layout of the form facilitates comparative analysis of the reading performance of different students in the class

At the beginning of the school year, a 3 rd grade teacher consults the 2 nd grade standards in the Reading/Language Arts Framework for California Public Schools when conducting entry-level assessments of students' reading skills. In the context, the state standards are likely to be most useful in helping the teacher?

Select appropriate reading materials for instructing students individually and in groups

Determine students independent, instructional, and frustration levels of reading

Identify appropriate methods for documenting students development in specific areas of reading

Determine any differences between students current reading skills and grade level expectations

At the beginning of the school year, a new 4 th grade teacher assesses students reading skills. Which of the following would be the most important step for the teacher to take next to help set long term reading goals for the class?

Consult state and district standards to determine guidelines for expected student outcomes at the 4 th grade level

Consult professional reading journals for descriptions of new reading strategies and activites that have proven effective with 4 th graders.

Select a trade book and other materials that are likely to be useful in modeling and reinforcing the reading skill in which students performed most poorly.

Describe an informal assessment strategy that would best help an elementary teacher determine how factors such as attention and motivation in a students reading level?

Observe the student in a variety of classroom reading situations on a regular basis

Administer an IRI to the student at regular intervals throughout the year

Compare the students oral reading rates on familiar and unfamiliar passages

Ask the students comprehension questions about various types of written materials

Which of the following questions would be most important for a teacher to consider when reviewing the entries in a students independent reading log ?

Is the student selecting increasingly challenging texts from a variety of genres ?

Is the student selecting books that relate in meaningful ways to class discussions?

Is the student selecting books with clear connections to content-area

A middle school reading teacher is likely to contribute most toward the goal of developing all students reading competence by?

Relying primarily on whole class instruction to promote the development of students reading skills and strategies

Conducting forma assessments to measure student learning after every reading activity

Maximizing the amount of time students are actively involved in appropriately challenging reading tasks

Midway through the year, a 1 st grade teacher notices that two students are beginning to lag behind their peers in their reading development. The teachers best initial response would be to?

Begin collecting more diagnostic information on these students and providing them with targeted reading instruction

Avoid initiation of any special reading intervention until I becomes clear that there is a real problem

Advise the students parents to begin intensive reading skill-building activites with their children at home

SUBTEST 3

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Effective instructional delivery of content needs to be ?

Planned and standardized

Direct and explicit

Approved and relatable

Fun and engaging

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

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