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Total questions: 84

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1.

Teacher asked students to identify words in a sentence. Students were counting two syllables as two different words?

a)

Had the word boundaries in it

b)

Phonological awareness

c)

both

2.

Second grades and how they will motivate each other to practice words with irregular patterns?

a)

Sing a songs

b)

Quiz each other with new words or Whole class activities (Spelling Bee and Spelling Baseball)

c)

TpR Activities in a small groups

3.

Students' fluency was 98% and 39 words per minute. Student was like 51% below the norm.

a)

The student need to work on word automaticity

b)

The averange is wrong

c)

Student was like 80% below the norm.

4.

Teacher wanting students who were at atomicity level to read silently?

a)

teacher modeling reading silently by picking up a book

b)

It's a good strategy

c)

We can use an intevention program

5.

A student is adding E at the end of all words that he has spelled (lot-lote, put-pute, ball-balle).

a)

Overgeneralization of ‘e’ students needs instruction in phonics rules

b)

none of these

c)

use spelling strategies for to fix mistakes

6.

Teacher is trying to give words to a student moving from semi phonetic to phonetic spelling.

What kind of words should be given?

a)

Overgeneralization of ‘e’ students needs instruction in phonics rules.

b)

 Chow, shop

          To,too,two

          Fun, sit

7.

How should a teacher begin teaching an EL student phonemic rules?

a)

Use native language sounds to start

b)

Organize different strategies

c)

Work in a small groups

8.

Students who spelled wear to where, and forward to forward and to-too what type of instruction should the teacher provide students?

a)

Reading lessons

b)

 The students requires conventional spelling instruction with homophones

c)

Reading strategies

9.

Math lesson on triangles, polygons, pentagons.  What strategy should the teacher use to teach these words? She was also reading books about these words through other lessons.

a)

none of these

b)

She was pre-teaching vocabulary.

Greek, Latin roots Morphology of words

c)

Bridge lesson about the vocabulary

10.

Before teaching consonant blends, the student should Master what skill?

a)

Vowel digraphs = OA, EW, OO, AI, OW, EA Basically, before blending, a child must know the individual sound.

Example:

VC = it, at, on…

CVC = MAT

CVCC = LOCK

CCVC = THAT

CVVC = SOAP

CVCE = MATE

b)

Reading and writing

c)

Vocabulary Skills

11.

The teacher wants her first graders to write correct spellings.  What should the teacher do?

a)

Provide students with print in classroom, wall :

Concepts of print,t rich environmental print

Students should be Encouraged to write even though they make mistakes as this is part of developmental practices to improve the child’s spelling.

b)

Spelling differents sounds and differents combination of vowel

c)

none of these

12.

The teacher said the word basketball, then asked the student to delete the word basket and say the word.  The student replied “ball”, what is the teacher trying to check with the students?

a)

Word consciousness

b)

sound deletion with compound words

13.

 A first grader who demonstrates pre phonetic writing (just know what pre phonetic writing sample looks like you will have to choose one of the options given).

a)

represent sounds.

b)

14.

Kindergarten teacher reads a sentence, writes it on the board, then draws squares around each word.  What is the teacher trying to check for students’ understanding?

a)

Word boundaries

Note: if the teacher is boxing each word in a sentence it would be word boundaries (basically concept about print), where the child must understand how many words are in a sentence and where a sentence starts and ends.

b)

Structuring the primary school areas

c)

all are correct

15.

Identify the consonant blend

a)

Brave

b)

Ship

c)

Chin

d)

This

16.

The teacher gave students a paragraph to read then the teacher paired students with partners. The partners read the paragraph and wrote 3 questions underline the passage.  Then they exchanged their papers with their partners and answered the questions.  The teacher is trying to achieve what with this kind of activity?

a)

Cooperative Learning Activity creates Individual Accountability

In the cooperative classroom, students work together as a team to create and to learn, but ultimately every individual student is responsible for his or her own performance.

It is exactly to fulfill both positive interdependence and individual accountability that in every cooperative learning strategy students are given both the time to think/work alone and to interact with peers.

In this way students’ autonomy and cooperation are improved.

b)

teamwork

c)

none of these

17.

What are potential benefits for a struggling 3th grader if he is assigned to write a text for younger students who are in kindergarten?

a)

Student written text is a highly motivating technique because it provides a real life purpose for writing.

b)

You can get better opportunities to assesst the students

c)

none of these

18.

While listening to students read, a second grade teacher notices that students are struggling when approaching multisyllabic words. Which of the following is the teacher’s most effective response to help students transfer the knowledge of reading single-syllable words to reading words with multiple syllables?

a)

Provide direct instruction on syllabication, look for affixes as in words and use contact to confirm the pronunciation of multisyllabic words.

b)

The sound could help the student

c)

Both are correct

19.

A first grade teacher notices one of her students is struggling with reading.  He is in the lowest achieving group.  The teacher has tried some strategies to improve his reading but seems to make no progress.  The next step the teacher should take in working with the student is to?

a)

Assess his reading and target instruction to meet identified skills needs.

b)

Support him in a small groups

c)

Do extra work for him

20.

What is a consonant blend?

a)

jk

b)

Two  letters that hear both letters. Ex. bl, br. cl , cr. dr, fr. tr. fl, gl, gr. pl, pr, bl, bd.

c)

hg

21.

 Prosodic reading for the development of what?

a)

It means read a book with syllabic sounds

b)

It means to read with appropriate expression natural  It reflects the reader’s understanding of the structure of sentences, punctuation, and to a large extent, the author’s

c)

It means that the student doesn'te read very well

22.

Midway through the year, a second-grade teacher notices that a student is below grade level in their reading levels.  What should she do?

a)

To assess the student and plan instructions based on his need - yes 12/22 I thought the same assess and plan instructions based on her needs. Not B

b)

Consult with a more experienced teacher on different

c)

none of these

23.

a kindergarten teacher plays the following game with her students where she says a word (like a child’s name or simple CVC word) and the students try to guess the name or sounds. What is she trying to teach? Like if the letter was “M” she would pick a student name like “Jack” and say “Mack” instead.

a)

How to recognize that words are made up of sounds.

b)

She is teaching phomenes

c)

none of these

24.

There was a question about teaching a kinder class student about difficult sounds.

a)

  The answer had b and d in it.

b)

Teaching in small groups

c)

one on one instruction

25.

Early in the school year, a first grade teacher wants to conduct an assessment of students ability to read grade appropriate words, including phonetically regular words and high-frequency irregular sight words.  Which of the following informal assessments would be most appropriate and effective for this purpose?

a)

The teacher prepares a list of grade-appropriate words, asks each  student to try reading the words aloud and records the results.

b)

Teach in a small groups

c)

none

26.

  When reading texts aloud, a second-grade English learner often makes errors in pronunciation that are unrelated to their ability to accurately decode the word. The teacher’s best response would be to?

a)

Similar letters should be taught at different times, never together.  Use multisensory practice. e.g. Form letters from left to right, top to bottom. Thumbs up is a good b/d reminder. Playdoh. Having a visual cue is very important in teaching reverse letters.

b)

Analyze the student’s pronunciation patterns and plan an intervention to address difficulties that may affect her reading comprehension.

c)

Like if the letter was “M” she would pick a student name like “Jack” and say “Mack” instead.

27.

Which of the following instructional activities would best help upper elementary English Learners develop intonations and rhythms of the English language to support fluent reading?

a)

Giving an expressive oral reading of a short text, then having the students echo read the text as the teacher reads aloud again.

b)

Analyze the student’s pronunciation patterns and plan an intervention to address difficulties that may affect her reading comprehension.

c)

both of these

28.

A term used to classify literary works into categories such novels, mysteries, historical fiction, biography, short story, and poems.

a)

Place

b)

Genre

c)

characters

29.

What is the type of Genre?

a)

Essay

b)

novel

c)

Biography

30.

The teacher says the following words, pig, pt, doll and asks the student to choose the one that sounds odd.  The student says “doll”. The teacher says, cat, can, ball, and asks the student to again choose the word that sounds odd.  The student says, “ball” What does this activity demonstrate?

a)

A term used to classify literary works into categories such novels

b)

Phonemic awareness based on beginning sounds

c)

Sounds

31.

Teacher asks students to provide information about a topic of signs and writes the words students provided on the board creating a web graphic organizer, what is the next step?

a)

Organize the words into categories

b)

Phonemic awareness

c)

both

32.

 (instead of consonant blends, my test said Digraphs)  (just know the difference between blends and diagraphs)

a)

Essay

b)

Master CVC  Example, of consonant blends are pl in play and spr in spring, and bl in blend.

Consonant digraphs are two-letter combinations that make one sound. For example, ph in phone, sh in share, ch chair, ph in digraph.

c)

novel

33.

At the beginning of 2nd grade, a teacher notices that her students have letter sound recognition knowledge but copies words from texts to write. (What can the teacher do to promote word building or more writing.... something like this

a)

Provide students with 1st grade reading material until they master it.

b)

Display words on walls etc. this is the only option that seemed right to me from the list - is this the right answer

c)

both

34.

What are the rules for the sound of the consonant and consonant diagraph?

a)

Two letters conbinations

b)

Each consonant has it’s own sound. This is what I put . Depends on the vowel following the consonant. One sound

c)

both are correct

35.

a rule of consonant blends, which would make.........

a)

(a.) correct.

b)

sound

c)

Vowel

36.

why students with automaticity still need phonics instruction.

a)

*consonant digraphs are two-letter

b)

Academic language and vocabulary continue to be a struggle with students

All need continued guidance in phonics instruction

c)

both

37.

A third grade teacher is working with a small group of phonics issues.  They were working on a previous lesson.  The teacher is also working on a new one for the whole class.  What is the purpose of this?

a)

Academic language and vocabulary

b)

The answer is D as they are using writing strategies on top of the new phonics

c)

struggle with students

38.

A pre teaching lesson with -ight words like tonight, bright, height, etc...

a)

the better choice is to chunk the lesson for students to understand..

b)

Something similar

c)

Sounds and voice

39.

A student who knew their letter sounds but could not decode a word. The question asked you what strategy you would use to help the student decode.

a)

Sound segmentation and sound blending

b)

new phonics lesson

c)

Prosodic features

40.

changing the letter M from Mack to J and for Jack. The teacher would write this on the board and the students had to figure out the new word of the day. So the teacher deleted the initial sound and added a new consonant. What this activity is preparing the students for.

a)

sound deletion activity o Phoneme substitution

b)

sound segmentation

c)

sound segmentation

41.

Know the following terms: phonological awareness , phonemic awareness, phoneme, phonics, consonant digraphs, spelling stages, structural analysis, and morphology What are the 3 aspects of fluency?

a)

sound deletion activity,

b)

accuracy, rate, and prosody (or expression)- Word Analysis and Fluency

c)

new consonant.

42.

Know and understand the stages of spelling development.  A picture with letters

a)

Word Analysis and Fluency

b)

Pre Phonetic or Semi phonetic Stage (semiphonetic stage: letter-sound correspondence.

c)

 fluency

43.

Kindergarten student and his drawing. It had letters written under the drawing MSTVRWV. He said that it was a tiger. I believe it asked what stage the student is in?

a)

Each word contains a vowel letter names are different from letter sounds.

b)

purpose of prosodic reading

c)

about a triangle

44.

What is the purpose of prosodic reading?

a)

Reading for enjoyment

b)

letter sounds.

c)

none

45.

Long sound is .....

a)

CVCe

b)

hola

c)

chh

46.

A math/science question about a triangle.

a)

Reading for enjoyment

b)

Greek and latin roots..Morphology

c)

Long sound

47.

A kindergarten student wrote “ILVMIBBSISR” What stage is he not in? question had different wording.

a)

Writing consists of discrete words

b)

Work in small groups

c)

work in pairs

48.

Spelling assessments for higher grades something like A 5th grade teacher is studying the history of the United States during the colonial period the teacher wants students to calculate correctly when they engage in writing activities associated with b unit. Which strategy something is likely to be students spelling of unit related vocabulary

a)

Spelling assessments

b)

Preparing a list of key words on the unit and give the students a spelling test.For this one, I picked the one about learning the origin of the word. (I think i  picked this one as well) Etymology

c)

unit related vocabulary

49.

An oral language assessment in January where the teacher records a student’s performance on separate copy of a text noting the student’s writing time and they’re calculating a student’s oral reading fluency score. The teacher annotates the passage appears below based on the student’s results of reading performance during the assessment instruction for the student should focus primarily on.......

a)

Prephonetic

b)

 encouraging the student to use context strategies to improve decoding progress. - Something about patterns and errors regarding fluency… and in it had an assessment that the student does not recognize all scores automatically and needs to apply

c)

spelling development. 

50.

A teacher is helping students learn the orthographic generation for adding suffixes to words ending in “Y” in addition to promoting their spelling development thi type of lesson is likely to promote student’s reading development by enhancing?

a)

Developing vocabulary knowledge

b)

adding suffixes

c)

promote student’s reading

51.

There was one about new vocabulary for a science and what strategy would help students understand where they come from.

a)

teacher and students discuss the MORPHOLOGY of each word

b)

Developing vocabulary knowledge

c)

none

52.

A teacher writes a sentence on the board and draws a square around each word.  What is the teacher doing or showing?

a)

 the book says she is showing word boundaries.

b)

MORPHOLOGY of each word

c)

both

53.

The teacher is reading/teaching a few words like sight-site what skill is she teaching?

a)

Phonetic

b)

homophones

c)

consonants

54.

The student is writing/or reading a few words and he made mistakes with “ch” and “sh” which skill is the student needing help with

a)

consonant digraphs

b)

Sounds

c)

Vowels

55.

First grade teacher trying to teach her students decoding. Students know individual letter sounds but cannot blend. She started by writing the word SAT on the board and according to the reading. What is the next step she should take in the lesson?

a)

Teacher should show them to blend sounds continuously

b)

 the teacher says the sounds /s/ /a/ /t/ And the children do it to teach them blending words

c)

both

56.

Question on Automaticity helps/prepare students to (something along those lines)

a)

Phonic Instruction

b)

blending words

c)

none

57.

I also got a question on a characteristic of consonant blends/What is a characteristic of consonant blends. What is a characteristic of consonant blends: and I put that.......

a)

Characteristics

b)

 they retain their own sound

c)

sounds

58.

Automaticity in phonemic awareness is a skill required to obtain for what type of instruction?

a)

Phonic skills

b)

Consonants

c)

both

59.

What is a consonant blend?

a)

Two consonants blended to retain its original sound

b)

hgggf

c)

it a tipy of sound

60.

5th grade teacher helping a student in affix and syllable stages of spelling

a)

 Inflectional endings

b)

work in a small groups

c)

work in pairs

61.

what is an inflectional ending?

a)

Teacher arranges words in alphabetical order on the wall students put letters under the words. - see words on wall

b)

 helping a student in affix

c)

none

62.

 Based on the student’s reading performance on this assessment instruction to increase the  fluency should focus primarily on:

a)

Promoting the student’s automatic word recognition

b)

Enhancing the student’s contextual analysis skills.

c)

Improving the student’s academic-language skills.

63.

Early in the school year, a first-grade teacher wants to conduct an assessment of students’ ability to read grade-appropriate words, including phonetically regular words and high-frequency irregular sight words. Which of the following informal assessments would be most appropriate and effective for this purpose?

a)

The teacher prepares a list of grade-appropriate words asks each student to try reading the words aloud, and records the results.

b)

The teacher meets individually with students and asks each student to write a list of words the student knows how to read.

c)

The teacher allows each student to select a grade-appropriate text from the classroom library and asks each student to try reading the text aloud.

64.

Which of the following approaches would be most effective in helping first -grade students who have the prerequisite decoding skills learn to decode words that end in the inflectional morpheme -ing

a)

Using think-aloud during a guided reading to model how to use contextual analysis as a strategy for recognizing words ending in -ing

b)

Explicitly teaching the students to read the unit -ing in isolation before teaching them to decode familiar words that end in the inflection

c)

Having students practice reading word lists that include words ending in both the more familiar rime -ing as well as the inflection -ing

65.

In the word chimpanzee, which of the following pairs of letters is a diagraph?

a)

ch

b)

mp

c)

an

d)

ee

66.

A first-grade teacher provides students with explicit, systematic phonics instruction to promote their reading development.  When designing activities to teach letter-sound correspondences, the teacher should:

a)

Make certain that students have mastered vowel sounds before focusing on consonants.

b)

Provide reading opportunities for students to practice sounds in context after studying the sounds in isolation

c)

Ensure that students master the spelling of practice words using the target sound before teaching a new sound.

67.

A kindergarten teacher plays the following game with students. The teacher says, “Guess whose name I’m going to say now?” The teacher then says that initial sound of a student’s name 9e.g., /m/ for mariko), and the children try to guess the name. This activity is likely to promote the reading development of students primarily by helping them:

a)

Blend separate sounds in words.

b)

Recognize that a spoken word is made up of sounds

c)

Understand the principles of phonics

Learn how to spell their own names.

68.

Which of the following informal assessments would be most appropriate to use to assess an individual student’s phonemic awareness?

a)

Asking the student to identify the sound at the beginning, middle, or end of a spoken word (e.g., “what sound do you hear at the end of step? - answer said initial, medial, and final.

b)

Having the student listen to a tape-recorded story while looking at the book and then answer several simple questions about the story

c)

Having the student listen to the teacher read aloud a set of words with the same

beginning sound

69.

A question about a Kinder teacher playing a bingo game with students where the teacher says a word like Jack and deletes the first letter J. The word becomes ack, and replaces it with each student’s first letter name such as M and mack

a)

Substitution (?) phonemic awareness - How to recognize words are made up of sounds

b)

Jack and deletes the first letter

c)

M and mack

70.

teaching a lesson with endings with igh, such as sight, light, right, and what is the teacher using this lesson to support?

a)

words sounds

b)

ryming/alliteration

c)

phonemic awareness

71.

There was a question with Nursery Rhymes. It read something like “ One, Two, buckle my CHOO, and something else. It asked what are you teaching or trying to teach

a)

Letter word correspondence

b)

sounds

c)

none

72.

 There was a question about and ELD student and how you would help the student with Phonics.

a)

Tester choose “to learn about the students home language first and then plan lessons to help the student.”

b)

with songs and letters

c)

with movies

73.

 A question about a 2nd grade that came to the class in October and how struggling with Phonimic Awareness. What would you do?

a)

DO ASSESSMENTS and then plan

b)

Create a individual plan for her

c)

Talk to support team about your concerns

74.

The child uses symbols from the alphabet but shows no knowledge of letter-sound correspondences.

a)

Precommunicative stage

b)

Semiphonetic stage

c)

Phonetic stage

d)

Transitional stage

75.

Semiphonetic stage

a)

The child begins to understand letter-sound correspondence ? that sounds are assigned to letters.

b)

The child uses symbols from the alphabet but shows no knowledge of letter-sound correspondences.

c)

The child may also lack knowledge of the entire alphabet

76.

The child uses a letter or group of letters to represent every speech sound that they hear in a word.

a)

Semiphonetic stage

b)

Phonetic stage

c)

Correct stage

77.

Which of the following informal assessments would be most appropriate to use to assess an individual student's phonemic awareness?

a)

asking the student to identify the sound at the beginning, middle, or end of a spoken word (e.g., "What sound do you hear at the end of step?")

b)

having the student listen to a tape-recorded story while looking at the book and then answer several simple questions about the story

c)

having the student listen to the teacher read aloud a set of words with the same beginning sound (e.g., train, trap, trouble) and then repeat the words

78.

A kindergarten teacher is preparing a student for a phonemic awareness assessment.

Teacher: What is this a picture of? [The teacher displays a picture of a boat.]

Student: A boat?

Teacher: A boat, that's right. Now, let's say the word boat together very slowly: /b/.../ō/.../t/. [The student pronounces the word with the teacher.]

Teacher: How many sounds do you hear? /b/.../ō/.../t/ . . . [The teacher slowly repeats the word.]

Student: Three?

Teacher: That's right, three. Now, I'd like you to do this for some more words. This assessment would be an appropriate way to test the student's ability to perform which of the following phonemic awareness tasks?

a)

counting and blending the phonemes in a word

b)

identifying onsets and rimes

c)

recognizing how many phonemes are contained in a word

d)

relating phonemes to letters

79.

More sophisticated spelling, use of phonics knowledge; making vowels, chunks of letter patterns is ...... Example ( I see the sci)

a)

Transitional stage

b)

Phonetic Stage

c)

Precommunicative stage

80.

What is the best example of correct and automatic

a)

Conecction of each sound in word ( my nis dres)

b)

Child demostrates good grasp of basic spelling conventions like ( desk - door)

c)

Child writes random letter that do no match to sounds ( I j on A)

81.

Which of the following instructional activities would best help upper- elementary English Learners develop intonations and rhythms of the English language to support fluent reading?

a)

Leanding a class discussion on an age- appropriate topic, then having each student read aloud a section of a text tha is written about the same topic.

b)

Giving an expressive oral reading of a short text, then having the students echo read the text as the teacher reads it aloud again.

c)

encouraging the students to practice reading aloud a text in which stressed words and punctuation marks are highlighted.

82.

A 4th grade student who usually reads at grade level is struggling to comprehend one specific academic topic  in her science book. Which of the following reasons is most common?

a)

Multisyllabic words are tripping the student up

b)

The student's semiphonetic listening skills haven't developed yet

c)

The student's sight word skills need to improve

d)

The student lacks academic language understanding in the topic being covered

83.

All of the following words are considered technical academic vocabulary words except which?

a)

Acquisition

b)

Pivot

c)

Fulcrum

d)

Research

84.

As student who is currently in 5th grade loves reading. She frequently reads for enjoyment, and this love for reading has sprouted since she started school years ago. The more this student reads, the better she gets at reading. Which of the following best fits this student's story?

a)

Student's story map

b)

Assessment levels

c)

Progress summary

d)

Matthew's Effect