STR Study Quiz

A kindergarten teacher reads a decodable text about cats with a small group of students and incorporates the content into an interactive writing lesson. The teacher pauses to prompt students to listen to the sounds of the word and use their knowledge of letter-sound correspondences. This scenario best demonstrates the teacher's awareness of which concept related to students' development of beginning reading skills?

• The role of basic print concepts in writing development

• The importance of fostering students' motivation to read and write

• The role of accurate, automatic decoding in fluent writing

• The importance of applying newly taught phonics elements to writing

A second-grade student scores well above the 50th percentile benchmark for fluency but reads text word-by-word in a choppy manner and struggles with comprehension questions. Which strategy would be most important for the teacher to include in an intervention?

• Engaging in a systematic review of phonics elements

• Engaging in silent wide-reading of books at the student's independent reading level

• Engaging in oral reading following teacher modeling using texts that are phrase-cued to approximate speech

• Engaging in buddy reading and choral reading with another student who reads at the same level

Before assigning a new science or social studies text, a third-grade teacher introduces important Tier Three terms and leads students in applying morphemic analysis skills. The teacher's actions best reflect an understanding of which factor that can disrupt reading fluency and affect comprehension?

• Lack of automaticity in decoding grade-level words

• Unfamiliarity with a text's content

• Unfamiliarity with complex grammatical structures

• Limited phonics knowledge or skills

What is the primary focus of a teacher when they pause to prompt students to listen to the sounds of a word and use their knowledge of letter-sound correspondences?

• Enhancing students' vocabulary

• Developing students' phonemic awareness

• Improving students' comprehension skills

• Encouraging students' creative writing

Which of the following is a key strategy for improving reading fluency in students who read in a choppy, disjointed manner?

• Silent reading of complex texts

• Systematic phonics review

• Oral reading with phrase-cued texts

• Independent reading of higher-level books