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Reading Comprehension

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Reading comprehension is the active process of obtaining meaning from?

a)

spoken words

b)

written text

c)

pictures

d)

all of the above

2.

Which one of these is a fix-up strategy?

a)

sounding out unknown word

b)

looking up words or names in the dictionary, encyclopedia, glossary, Google, Wikipedia

c)

reflecting on what the author is trying to say in the passage

d)

all of the above

3.

Which of the following best describes strategy instruction?

a)

interventions that modify content for the student to make it more accessible

b)

providing students with tools to decode text themselves

c)

teaching coping mechanisms to help with problematic behavior

d)

a subset of pre-service teaching education in college

4.

As students move from elementary to middle school, they are expected to...

a)

read to learn

b)

learn to read

5.

"Who, what, when, where, and why" are considered to be question words.

a)

true

b)

false

6.

What is critical word factor?

a)

defined text difficulty in terms of number of words at the given curriculum level

b)

critically examining the words and pulling out the prefix and suffix is to help with comprehension

c)

organizational structure of a word

d)

how to determine tax cohesion

7.

Findings have indicated that direct instruction plus self monitoring strategies are more effective than direct instruction only.

a)

true

b)

false

8.

According to Morgan et al (2013), the three main deficits readers struggle in are (check all that apply):

a)

vocabulary

b)

word identification

c)

comprehension

d)

compare/contrast

e)

sequencing

9.

The two broadest organizational categories of genre is narrative text (fictional) and expository text (nonfiction).

a)

true

b)

false

10.

Which strategy has more of an impact of comprehension than an instructional modification?

a)

main idea generalization

b)

summarization

c)

identifying the underlying structure of the text

d)

all of the above

11.

Appropriate technology use can increase academic achievement and student motivation to learn.

a)

true

b)

false

12.

Kim et al (2012) suggest that teachers:

a)

Make preferential use of instructional modifications instead of strategy instruction

b)

Make preferential use of strategy instruction instead of instructional modifications

c)

Use a more group-collaborative style to teaching over traditional direct instruction

d)

Only use direct instruction with certain learning tasks and groups of students

13.

What skills are needed for comprehension?

a)

oral fluency

b)

oral language

c)

background knowledge

d)

all of the above

14.

Which of the following is not a benefit of using graphic organizers as a part of reading comprehension instruction?

a)

helps students identify where they are in the reading process

b)

helps students identify essential ideas

c)

helps students with blending and segmenting difficult words

d)

helps students connect story to other information learned

15.

To achieve reading comprehension, students do not need to be proficient in word decoding and fluency.

a)

true

b)

false

16.

What does an evaluative question ask the reader to do?

a)

determine if they agree or disagree with the author based off of extensive research and group discussions

b)

determine if they agree or disagree with the author based off of their prior knowledge and experiences

c)

find the answer in the text

d)

provide the single, correct answer

17.

Which of the following is not a reason for which struggling readers have difficulty gaining access to information presented in textbooks?

a)

textbooks are often written with a structure and coherence that does not make sense to struggling readers

b)

textbooks focus more on the abstract than they do the concrete or representational

c)

textbooks are often written at a grade level that is within the students’ frustration level

d)

textbooks often contain pictures and graphics that are distracting from the content

18.

How can teachers effectively prepare to use technology as part of reading instruction?

a)

connect technology to learning standards and objectives of content area

b)

ensure that students will learn essential information in using the technology

c)

use technology to meet the needs of struggling readers in the classroom

d)

all of the above

19.

Comprehension in one kind of reading matter automatically transfers to comprehension in others.

a)

true

b)

false

20.

What factor affecting reading comprehension is missing from the diagram?

(a)  

21.

Which of the following are examples of research-based comprehension instruction? (Check all that apply.)

a)

structure of both narrative and expository text are taught directly

b)

subskills such as main idea/theme are taught/applied

c)

instruction dominated by choral reading, shared reading, and guided reading

d)

teacher modeling (thinking aloud) with little scaffolding reduction

e)

strategies are overtly modeled practiced in a planned progression

22.

There is no significant difference between which types of instruction?

a)

one-to-one and whole group

b)

one-to-one and small group

c)

small group and whole group

d)

none of the above

23.

In helping students who are at-risk build background knowledge and avoid the "fourth-grade slump," what percentage of the classroom library should have nonfiction books?

a)

25%

b)

50%

c)

75%

d)

100%

24.

What forms the "bridge" between the skills of decoding and comprehension?

a)

phonemic awareness

b)

phonics

c)

fluency

d)

vocabulary

25.

What characteristic(s) of the text influence whether a reader comprehends the text?

a)

text readability

b)

text structure

c)

text organization

d)

all of the above

26.

At what reading level should comprehension strategies be the emphasis of reading instruction?

a)

2nd/3rd grade

b)

4th/5th grade

c)

6th/7th grade

d)

none of the above