Module 2 Review

The Simple View of Reading tells us students need which two critical skills in order to comprehend written text?

• Decoding and language comprehension

• Fluency and vocabulary

• Phonics and spelling

• Writing and listening

Which of the following best summarizes the statements by Anita Archer and Julie Washington about reading comprehension?

• Comprehension strategies can fully compensate for poor word reading skills.

• Reading comprehension requires both decoding words and extracting meaning from text.

• Students who can read words do not need to understand the text.

• Extracting meaning from text is not necessary to be considered a reader.

Strong word recognition skills are unnecessary to achieve comprehension as long as a student has strong language abilities. True or False? Why?

• True

• False

Fill in the complex set of skills that fall under the Simple View of Reading Formula.

• PRINT AWARENESS, PHONOLOGICAL / PHONEMIC AWARENESS, DECODING (PHONICS), SIGHT WORD RECOGNITION, VOCABULARY, BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE, LANGUAGE STRUCTURES, VERBAL REASONING, LITERACY KNOWLEDGE

• PRINT AWARENESS, HANDWRITING, SPELLING, MATH FLUENCY, SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE

• DECODING (PHONICS), SIGHT WORD RECOGNITION, ART APPRECIATION, MUSIC THEORY, PHYSICAL EDUCATION

• VOCABULARY, BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE, LANGUAGE STRUCTURES, COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, SOCIAL STUDIES

Fill in the blank: Most students require more emphasis on ________ in the early grades to firmly secure their foundational reading skills. Although ________ is important in all phases of reading, it tends to be most crucial in the later grades when the comprehension demands of the academic curriculum dramatically increase.

• WORD RECOGNITION, LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION

• LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION, WORD RECOGNITION

• VOCABULARY, PHONICS

• FLUENCY, SPELLING

What is the role of phonics and phonemic awareness in developing word recognition skills?

• Phonics teaches the relationship between sounds and letters and decoding. Phonemic awareness helps recognize and work with word sounds.

• Phonics focuses on memorizing whole words, while phonemic awareness is about learning grammar rules.

• Phonics and phonemic awareness are only important for advanced readers, not beginners.

• Phonics and phonemic awareness are unrelated to reading and word recognition.

The students’ level of engagement during instruction is:

• High

• Moderate

• Low

• Varied

Major take-aways from the YouTube Video: “A Matter of Talk: Nonie Lesauz’s ‘8 for 8’” include:

• The importance of effective communication and active listening.

• The history of YouTube as a platform.

• Techniques for video editing and production.

• The impact of social media on global politics.

Which of the following is an example of how you will incorporate this information in your lesson plans in the future?

• By including interactive activities related to the information

• By ignoring the information in future lessons

• By removing all related content from the curriculum

• By discouraging students from using the information

1. 1. A fourth 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 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?

• 1. Is reading a text at his instructional level

• 1. Needs work on improving his word identification strategies

• 1. Is reading a text at his independent level

• 1. Needs to work on developing evaluative comprehension skills