Subtest 1 - Language Arts 4

A teacher wants to improve students' reading fluency. Which of the following strategies is most effective?

• repeated reading.

• choral reading.

• round-robin reading.

• readers theatre.

A kindergarten teacher prefaces reading to the class by pointing out the title, author, illustrator, and title page. Which skill is this teacher most likely developing with his students?

• generating questions

• expanding vocabulary

• concepts about books

• comprehension of text

What is the most effective method for teaching beginning 1st-grade students, who have had very little experience with print, to read?

• instruction in language experience

• instruction in context clues

• instruction in linguistics

• instruction in phonics

Which of the following is the best definition of oral reading fluency?

• accurate reading of grade-level text at a high rate with appropriate prosody

• accurate reading of connected text at a high rate with deep comprehension

• accurate reading of connected text at a conversational rate with appropriate prosody

• accurate reading of grade-level text with appropriate prosody and deep comprehension

A classroom teacher working with low-ability students uses the repeated reading strategy for the purpose of

• improving reading fluency.

• determining students' reading level.

• determining word recognition deficits.

• improving students' interest in reading.

Repeated reading is most effective when accompanied by a(an)

• peer providing complimentary feedback.

• adult providing corrective feedback.

• adult who listens to reading.

• peer who monitors reading.

The following exercise provides practice of which vocabulary skill?

"The knight will bow before the king."

What does bow mean?

• using a weapon with arrows

  • awarding a ribbon

  • bending at the waist to show homage

  • Feasting to celebrate victory

• homophones

• homographs

• antonyms

• synonyms

A teacher is having his students rewrite their favorite fairy tale. As part of the assignment, the students must use a thesaurus. What processing skill is the teacher requiring his students to use?

• graphophonemic

• morphemic

• semantic

• syntactic

Identify the word recognition method that could most effectively aid the pronunciation of the following words.

present, content, record, read

• sight word

• phonic analysis

• structural analysis

• contextual analysis

Which instructional method would help students categorize the following words? shred, flake, crumble, bake, broil, fry, stir, toss, fold, broiler, mixer, blender

• paraphrasing

• thesaurus usage

• semantic mapping

• feature analysis