Practice Test: Developing Literacy in the Elementary Level

A teacher notices that her students are struggling with vocabulary. Which strategy should she implement to help improve their vocabulary acquisition?

• Increase the amount of homework assigned

• Reduce the time spent on reading aloud

• Incorporate more read-aloud sessions with high-quality texts

• Focus solely on phonics instruction

During a read-aloud session, a teacher asks students, "What do you think will happen next in the story?" What technique is the teacher using?

• Dialogic Reading

• Text Talk

• Syntactic Development

• Vocabulary Growth

A teacher is planning her curriculum and wants to align her read-aloud sessions with broader educational goals. What should she prioritize?

• Randomly selecting any book to read

• Choosing texts that connect with current themes or subjects being taught

• Focusing only on classic literature

• Reading books that are too advanced for her students

A caregiver is trying to improve their child's listening comprehension skills. Which approach should they adopt during read-aloud sessions?

• Read without pausing for questions or discussions

• Engage the child by asking them to summarize what was just read

• Only read books that are familiar to the child

• Focus on reading quickly to finish more stories

If a parent wants to select age-appropriate texts for their child's read-aloud sessions, which resource would be most beneficial?

• A list of books from an unrelated genre

• Recommendations from teachers or educational websites focused on children's literature

• Books that only the parent enjoyed as a child

• Any book available at home regardless of content

A teacher is evaluating her current read-aloud practices and realizes she has not been connecting them to curriculum goals. What should she do next?

• Continue as usual since the students enjoy it

• Identify key themes in her curriculum and select books that align with those themes for future sessions

• Stop doing read-alouds altogether to focus on other teaching methods

• Only choose fiction books moving forward

A school principal observes that some teachers are implementing SSR differently, leading to varied outcomes among students. What action should the principal take to ensure consistency?

• Allow teachers to continue with their individual methods

• Provide professional development on best practices for implementing SSR

• Eliminate SSR from the curriculum

• Require all teachers to use the same book for SSR

A parent expresses concern that their child is not improving in reading despite participating in SSR. What could be a reasonable explanation for this situation?

• SSR is inherently ineffective for all students

• The child may not be choosing appropriately challenging or interesting books during SSR

• The child should stop reading altogether

• SSR should only be done at home, not in school

What does the acronym DEAR stand for in relation to Sustained Silent Reading?

• Daily Engagement and Active Reading

• Drop Everything And Read

• Designated Educational Assessment Reading

• Direct Engagement with Author Reading

Which limitation of SSR involves concerns about its implementation across different classrooms?

• Lack of structured guidance

• Methodological critiques of research studies

• Variability in implementation

• Potential misinterpretation of findings