My First Quiz

A first grade teacher considers ways to help a new student who is beginning English learner develop skills and phonemic awareness and knowledge to 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 for the student’s primary language

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

A first-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 that researched-based practices, the most appropriate step for the teacher to take next in the lesson would be to:

• Teach the student to blend the sounds in the word “sat” slowly and continuously without pausing. (tap the sounds)

• Ask the students to suggest words they know that they know rhyme with “sat” and write those words on the board.

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

• Have students practice identifying the word “sat” in a variety of connected contexts.

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

• Say the words set, pet, then ask the child which one sounds different.

• Say the sounds /s/, /e/, and /t/ separately, then ask the child to say them as one word.

• Say the word 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 informal assessments would be most appropriate to use to assess an individual student’s phonemic awareness?

• Asking student to identify the sound at the beginning of, medial, or final of a spoken words (what sound do you hear at the end of step?)

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

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

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

What strategy is best used to teach phonemic awareness?

• Saying the alphabet aloud

• Sing “old Mcdonald”

• Break apart words from a list

• Say the individual sounds of a word

A student who joins a first-grade classroom in late October performs poorly on a phonemic-awareness activity. To address this student 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 individualized education program.

• 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 student fluency

A third-grade teacher develops 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 relates to spelling patterns

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

A first-grade teacher provides students with explicit, systematic phonics instruction to promote their reading development. When designing activities to teach their 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

Prosody has which of these Characteristics? A good strategy is choral reading.

• Reading with excitement and correct intonation like teachers do.

• Variation in pitch and intonation (f. sounding of natural speech)

• Pronunciation of phonemes

• Reading at a rapid rate

• Coarticulation of word boundaries