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WorksheetsFTCE Reading K-12
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 3600secs
While on a trip to the capitol, a fourth-grade students take several pictures and later organize them in sequence. They work together to draft and revise a story about the field trip. Which of the following strategies is being described?
writing workshop
language experience approach
reciprocal teaching
think-alouds
Students with hearing impairments are MOST LIKELY to experience difficulties with which of the following components of oral language?
phonological component
semantic component
syntactic component
orthographic component
Which of the following literacy-based classroom activities will also aid students in social development?
choral reading
writing conferences
the Frayer Model
Elkonin boxes
A student who does not make progress in both Tier 2 and Tier 3 reading interventions may be
placed in a different classroom.
given Tier 1 interventions.
given texts at an independent reading level.
referred for evaluation for special education services.
When initially teaching letter sounds, teachers should do which of the following?
teach long vowel sounds first
avoid teaching vowel sounds
teach the most common sound the letter makes first
refrain from having students repeat the sounds orally
A phonics screener can MOST effectively aid teachers in
selecting texts at the students' instructional reading level.
targeting word analysis instruction for each student.
designing authentic phonics assessments.
planning oral language instruction.
An eighth-grade teacher wants to create a lesson on identifying logical fallacies. This lesson would MOST LIKELY be included in a unit on which of the following topics?
author's purpose
rhetoric
fiction
main idea
A reading specialist observes a third-grade teacher giving a high-quality lesson on homophones. However, the teacher has planned a traditional fill-in-the blank spelling test as the only assessment of student learning after the lesson. What should the reading specialist recommend to help students generalize knowledge?
Have students write a paragraph using several homophone pairs correctly.
Include homophones as part of a class-wide oral spelling bee to encourage students to further study the words.
Ask students to study a high-frequency homophone list for a few minutes each day at home.
Extend the lesson by having students examine the morphology of the homophones.
Which of the following is an essential characteristic of effective guided storybook reading?
students seated in a semicircle around the teacher with a specific place on a carpet
a story that is narrated in the first-person point of view from the perspective of the protagonist
. a follow-up activity in which students draw a picture based on the climax of the story
an interactive experience in which students are engaged in oral responses
Students who do not make progress during reading-focused interventions as part of an RTI framework are
referred for evaluation for special education services after the parents give their consent.
referred to a language proficiency assessment committee for further evaluation after the parents give their consent.
placed into a self-contained special education classroom for the next semester.
placed into a grade below the one they are currently in.
Which of the following activities BEST assesses knowledge of letter-sound correspondence for kindergarten students?
timing students as they recite the alphabet
timing students as they read from a sight word list
checking off known phonemes from a chart
checking off known letter names from a chart
What common pitfall should teachers consider when teaching stop sounds?
Students may confuse /m/ and /n/.
Students may overextend the sound.
Students may invert the sound.
Students may speak too loudly.
Which of the following reading comprehension strategies could also provide students with opportunities for socio-emotional learning (SEL)?
reciprocal teaching
cloze procedure
list-group-label
embedded phonics
A teacher hangs a poster in the classroom that says, “I before E except after C or when sounded like ay as in neighbor and weigh.” This poster gives an example of
a continuum of spelling.
a graphophonic cue.
a phonogram.
an orthographic pattern.
How many morphemes does the word “painted” have?
1
2
3
4
A reading specialist conducting a curriculum-based measurement (CBM) determines that a third-grade student is reading at a rate of 150 words correct per minute. What next step should the specialist take?
refer the student for evaluation for special education eligibility
recommend possible enrichment opportunities to the student's teacher
place the student in a cohort for Tier 2 interventions aimed at developing fluency
place the student in a cohort for Tier 3 interventions aimed at developing fluency
A high school teacher wants to help students understand themselves better and apply some of what they have learned about themselves to their overall learning goals and education. Which of the following assessment instruments would be MOST useful for the teacher to use?
an intelligence test such as the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales (SBS)
a norm-referenced test such as the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT-III)
a criterion-referenced test such as the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Career Assessment (PARCC)
a personality test such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
A fifth-grade teacher plans a lesson on digital dictionary skills. What type of vocabulary instruction is being provided?
incidental vocabulary learning
word-learning strategies
semantic impressions
semantic features analysis
A seventh-grade teacher wants to activate students' background knowledge before reading a nonfiction passage on space exploration. Which of the following activities BEST meets this goal?
asking students to freewrite a story set in outer space with extraterrestrial characters
having students construct a Milky Way galaxy out of construction paper and glitter
having students think about careers of the future that may be possible because of space exploration
asking students to write down three things they know about space exploration
A fourth-grade teacher asks a reading specialist for ideas to help students build oral fluency. Which of the following strategies is the specialist MOST LIKELY to recommend?
paired reading in heterogenous groups
reciprocal teaching in homogenous groups
think-alouds that promote metacognition
cloze exercises completed independently
Words selected for spelling lists should be at the student's
frustrational reading level.
instructional spelling level.
independent spelling level.
instructional reading level.
A reading specialist observing a sheltered ESOL seventh-grade classroom notes that one student who has just arrived in class from Taiwan is not participating in many activities. What should the specialist recommend?
intensive interventions aimed at phonological awareness
social skills training for the classroom teacher
making the student feel comfortable during the preproduction period
changing the classroom layout to ease student interaction
A preschool teacher observes that an infant knows that an object still exists even
when it is out of the child's view. This child is MOST LIKELY in which of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?
sensorimotor
preoperational
concrete operational
formal operational
A reading specialist is mentoring a first-year fifth-grade teacher on using assessment data effectively. After checking the results of a summative assessment on Greek and Latin roots, the specialist notes that fewer than 50 percent of students achieved mastery. What is the BEST action for the reading specialist to recommend to the teacher?
reconfigure ability-based reading groups based on assessment results
plan for reteaching and reinforcement of unit objectives
refer low-performing students for more intensive interventions
attend a professional development event on reaching reluctant learners
A third-grade student makes the following word reading errors: Word in Text Recorded Response (written phonetically) hair her dirt dip sure soar This student would benefit MOST from instruction in which of the following?
prosody
consonant blends
digraphs
r-controlled vowels
In teaching strategies for comprehension of nonfiction texts, students should be encouraged to
ask for teacher assistance any time they come to a work they don't know.
use various fix-up strategies such as using the glossary and text features.
read at a faster rate than they would use for reading fiction texts.
skim the text instead of reading it in its entirety.
A second-grade teacher wants to build student writing skills as well help them develop basic skills in summarization. Which of the following activities BEST meets her goals?
written retellings
neurological impress
shared writing
word experts
A reading specialist is asked to observe a first-year fourth-grade teacher and provide feedback on a lesson. The teacher is working on a unit on adjectives and descriptive writing. She asks students to first describe an object in the room with as many words as possible orally in small groups. Each group then decides on the adjectives they like best and writes a paragraph that describes the object in detail. What feedback might the reading specialist give this teacher?
Oral language and written expression should be taught in a distinct, separate unit.
Written language should always take precedence over oral language and be undertaken independently.
Helping students see the connection between oral and written communication is a well-thought out strategy.
Having students work together to produce written assignments will make grading challenging.
A reading specialist is working with a group of students with specific word-reading difficulties (SWD). Which type of instructional intervention is MOST useful for these students?
a focus on vocabulary knowledge and inferencing skills
practice with synthesis and summarization
explicit, systematic phonics instruction
instruction aimed at increasing reading rate and prosody
A reading specialist notes that the school has limited communication with parents regarding students' reading progress. Which of the following actions should the reading specialist take to improve the situation?
Make a plan to meet with each student's family at least once per grading period.
Create templates that teachers can use to quickly send home information to parents via email or in print.
Hold a professional development event for teachers that emphasizes the importance of communication with parents.
Meet with teachers who lack solid communication skills and plan a training that will give them techniques for active listening.
