STR PRACTICE #2

Students in a fifth-grade class are breaking the word invisible into its component parts. They identify the prefix in-, the root vis, and the suffix -ible, along with the meanings of each part. What type of activity is being demonstrated?

• Miscue analysis

• Structural analysis

• Syllabification

• Decoding

Children first begin their vocabulary development using which skill?

• Reading

• Writing

• Listening

• Speaking

Phone, they, church. The underlined letters in these words are examples of:

• Consonant blend

• Consonant shift

• Continental shift

• Consonant digraph

An ELL is having difficulties comprehending a science textbook because it contains many unknown vocabulary words with few accompanying visuals. Which instructional strategy would most likely assist the student with this difficulty?

• Reading the textbook aloud to him rather than asking him to read it independently

• Supplying him with an audio version of the textbook

• Providing him with a printed outline of each chapter’s main points

• Giving him access to a multimedia version of the textbook to view on his computer

As part of a poem she is writing, Isabella includes the following line: "The river danced across the prairie, twirling and swirling in its path." Which literary device is Isabella using in this line of her poem?

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

Cognates and realia are most useful for teaching which component of reading instruction to ELLs?

• Vocabulary

• Prosody

• Phonological awareness

• Phonemic awareness

Which is greater, the number of English phonemes or the number of letters in the alphabet?

• The number of letters in the alphabet, because they can be combined to create phonemes.

• The number of phonemes. A phoneme is the smallest measure of language sound.

• They are identical; each letter “owns” a correspondent sound.

• Neither. Phonemes and alphabet letters are completely unrelated.

Which of the following options would be the most effective way to modify a cloze reading passage for struggling readers to assist them with completing the task while still allowing them to practice the skill?

• Providing the first few letters of each answer

• Including a word bank

• Having students work in pairs

• Including no more than three omitted words

Word-recognition ability is:

• Equally important to all readers

• Used only by fluent readers

• Another term for “word attack”

• Especially important to English language learners and students with reading disabilities

Since, whether, and accordingly are examples of which type of signal words?

• Common, or basic, signal words

• Compare/contrast words

• Cause-effect words

• Temporal sequencing words