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A fourth-grade student asked the teacher to help with a passage that he was reading and not understanding. After the teacher went over the paragraph with him, the student was confident that he could continue on his own. This indicates that the text is
Instructional level (needed teacher assistance)
Intermediate level
Frustration level
Effective instructional delivery of content needs to be
Planned and standardized
Direct and explicit
Approved and relatable
Fun and engaging
How can a teacher best ensure reading practices gets done at home?
Teach the students how to search for free books on the internet
Encourage children to check out books from their local library
Allow children to take home books from their classroom library
Remind parents about the independence of at-home reading
When creating lesson plans to promote specific reading skills, a teacher should make sure that
Each planned activity for students is designed to straiten tow or more specific reading skills
The targeted reading skills relate to an appropriate instructional progression and reflect students needs
Each planned activity connects students reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills
The targeted skills are grade-appropriate and taught to all students using the same instructional methods
An early elementary teacher could most effectively support at home reading by
Sending parents/guardians a regular newsletter describing classroom reading activities
Sharing with parents/guardians important articles from professional reading journals
Recommending books that parents/guardians would likely enjoy reading with their children
Providing parents/guardians with periodic reports on their children's progress in reading
A sixth-grade teacher wants to ensure that the classroom reading environment supports content-area learning for English Learners in the class. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in addressing this objective?
Replacing classroom content-area books with simpler texts on the same subjects that the English Learner can understand more readily
Providing English Learners with grade-level, English-only content-area books to promote academic language
Making available in the classroom content-area texts at various levels that supplement and reinforce the information presented in student's textbooks
Setting up an area in the classroom where students can go to reread the content-area textbook quietly and independently
A fourth-grade class includes two students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). When planning classroom entry-level and progress-monitoring assessments for these students, the teacher should
Make arrangements for the students to be tested in an environment that is quiet and free from distractions
Consult the reading/language arts framework for California Public Schools to determine appropriate assessments for students with IEPs
Recognize that these students may require additional time to complete their work on these assessments
Consult each student's IEP to determine any specific testing accommodations required for that student
Of the following questions, which would be most important for a teacher to consider when interpreting the results of a reading assessment for a particular student?
How did the student's performance on this assessment compare with that of the student's classmates?
Are these findings sufficient to assign a grade to the student's performance?
How do these findings relate to the student's performance on other recently administered reading assessments?
Do these findings provide information about the students ranking in regard to national norms of reading achievement?
What does it mean if a standardized test has reliability?
A test has reliability if it has been approved by the California State Commission for teachers
A test has reliability if the results yield consistent scores across administrations
A test has reliability if 85% or more students receive a passing rank
A test has reliability if at least 60% or more students receive a passing mark
What grouping should a teacher use for intervention after whole-class instruction
Homogeneous group according to the severity of their needs
Homogeneous group according to their writing skills
Homogenous group according to their reading interest
What is the purpose and use of an Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)?
An IRI is an individualized portfolio of assessments collected over the lifetime of the student at school to show an individual student's reading growth
An IRI is an individualized portfolio of assessments collected over the year to show an individual student's reading level
An IRI is an individualized portfolio gathered by the student to showcase to the students parent of the work the student is most proud of
An IRI is a list kept by the student of all the books they have reading starting from the beginning of the year
Which strategy should a teacher use with a small group of learners who have not yet met the standard of a particular reading skill?
A teacher can use the monitored oral reading strategy
A teacher can use independent practice
A teacher can use flexible grouping
A teacher can use the peer-pair strategy
How can a teacher create a support system to promote reading for severely struggling readers?
Facilitate a conference with the student, the student's parents, the reading coach/learning specialist, and the principle to create reading goals
Create a reading partner and schedule 20 minters of partner reading each day
Read with the student one-to-one each morning for 10 minutes
Provide the student with audiobooks to listen to while they follow along in their book
Midway through the year, a second-grade teacher convenes a student success team to plan additional support who is performing somewhat below grade-level standards in reading. Other members of the team include the student and her parents, and another teacher who works closely with the student, which of the following pieces of information would be most important for the teacher to communicate to the success team?
A comparison of the student's reading skills with those of her peers who are performing at grade level
A list of each of the formal and informal reading assessments that the student has taken so far during this school year
A list of appropriate formal reading assessments that could be used for the students summative evaluations
A description of the student's assessed strengths and weaknesses could serve as a foundation for addressing her needs
13 year old student with a disability and needs help in organizational skills and planning. What school the teacher do to help?
Give students grade-level content area texts and provide differentiated instruction such as graphic organizers
Break the project into smaller, more manageable tasks
Give as many tasks as possible
What is the goal of standards-based reading instruction?
Every student will meet the content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education
At least 95% of students will meet the content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education
At least 90% of students will meet the content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education
At least 80% of students will meet the content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education
A middle school teacher is preparing for the class to take the sixth-grade California Standards Test (CST) in English-Language Arts. The teacher believes that a student in the class with a section 504 plan would perform significantly better on the assessment if she were allowed to have frequent supervised breaks within sections of the test. Which of the following guidelines would be most important for the teacher to follow to ensure that arrangements for this student during the test are appropriate?
Providing the student with this testing accommodation only if it is specified in her section 504 plan
Using good teacher judgment to determine if such accommodation is warranted
Following whatever accommodations are generally recommended for students with Section 504 plans
Requesting testing accommodations for the student in writing at least eight weeks before the test is given
For an upper elementary ELD student who is proficient in English, something to be aligned with other subjects for long-term curriculum goals.
Feedback from formal and informal assessments
Formal and informal reading assessments
Pre-phonetic spelling
Phonological awareness
When developing an improvement plan for a student, a teacher will often reach out to people, such as the principal, student support specialist, and the parents of the student. When organizing a time to meet, which of the following would be most important for the teacher to prepare prior to meeting?
A report comparing this student's performance to another performance at the same grade level
There's no need to prepare physical papers because the meeting at this time is simply a discussion
The records of the student's recent reading assessments
A report showcasing the student's social and academic strengths and weaknesses
According to the RICA Content Specifications, the two aspects that all reading and language arts programs need to include are?
Comprehensive instruction and standardized instruction
Individualized instruction and comprehensive instruction
Balanced instruction and individualized instruction
Balanced instruction and comprehensive instruction
The teacher selects a mystery novel at most of her students' independent and instructional reading levels. She reads a bit of it off the text to the class, stopping at one point. The students ask her to read more of the text, but she declines. She tells them to predict what will happen next. She says that if they want to continue reading, they can borrow the book from her in the classroom library. Why did teachers do that?
Encourage students to read more advanced texts
Encourage students to read a variety of genres
Encourage students to read sing-along songs
A teacher is conferring with a 4th-grade student. He helps the student create a writing checklist of things that she does well and what she could improve on. What is the purpose of the checklist?
Rely on peer editing
Meets with teacher one-on-one
Something about grading
Motivate students to use a checklist to revise independently
Which of the following is the most accurate definition for differentiated instruction?
Facilitating a lesson that caters to different personalities and learning styles to achieve academic and social development
Providing different materials to different students to give differentiated instruction
Meeting the needs of all learners, including making adjustments to meet the needs of individual learners
Facilitating differentiated lessons for the kids to receive instruction by experts
A sixth grader who is advanced in most areas of reading has difficulty completing assigned reading selections. He appears motivated when he begins reading, but he has difficulty keeping his attention on the task at hand. Which of the following would be his teacher's best initial strategy for addressing this difficulty?
adapting the student's reading assignments to reduce their complexity and level of cognitive challenge
telling the student that his grades will be. based in part on his ability to improve his concentration when he works on reading assignments
managing the student's reading assignments so that he generally has only one work on at any given time
breaking down the student's reading assignments into small steps and helping him learn to monitor his own attention and progress
The student is able to concentrate when reading at school, not at home. What should the teacher suggest parents do?
have student set weekly reading goals and have parents monitor progress
the teacher can give the student an interest survey to find out what kind of books they would be more interested in reading at home
it's "elicits assessments about the students' interest reading material at home"
In higher elementary grades, how would you plan for long-term instruction?
doing weekly assessments
according to the language arts standards
whole-class strategies
About the topic of reading inventory: The question stated about a young boy writing something about a butterfly and his mom instead of writing the butterfly is going to the zoo
literal comprehension
student log records
independent level
weekly assessments
What kind of accommodations should you offer a student with an IEP during standardized testing? Whatever accommodations are provided during class instruction?
sick to the IEP
planned and standardized
instructional level
EL's family and teacher were in a meeting. The EL family doesn't speak any English, what advice should the teacher give to the parents about helping the student become a fluent reader?
frustration level
parents read to children books in their native language/send home books in their native language
reading skills relate to progression and reflect the student's needs
allowing children to take books from the classroom home
A student reads a book independently, after he answers 10 comprehension question and gets 5 correct. What is his reading level?
instructional
frustration
progressive
What is an independent reading level?
student can read aloud 95% or more of the words correctly and answers 90% or more if the comprehension questions correctly
student can read aloud 90% or more of the words correctly and answers 85% or more if the comprehension questions correctly
student can read aloud 95% or more of the words correctly and answers 70% or more if the comprehension questions correctly
student can read aloud 70% or more of the words correctly and answers 65% or more if the comprehension questions correctly
The teacher adds books in her classroom library with a variety of genes and reading levels. What is her next step?
organize the books so that students can easily assess books at their independent reading level
organize by AR points
encourage children to pick higher books
Reading teachers have a conference. What should they discuss?
discuss and analyze events that occurred during small groups
discuss and analyze significant reading events that occurred in the classroom
discuss and analyze the events that are distracting students
the amount of time they have during a free period
A teacher is helping a student find books at the student's independent reading level at the school library. What strategy should the teacher suggest for the students?
teach student how to read a few paragraphs of the book (indicates that a book might be too different for them if they can't read the excerpt)
creating a reading partner chart and schedule 20 minutes of partner reading each day
read with the student one-to-one each morning for 10 minutes
provide the student with audiobooks to listen to while they follow along in their book
When should students be in special education class for reading?
some along the line of consulting with the special ed teacher
when all other interventions in the classroom from the teacher don't work
break the project into smaller, more manageable tasks
If a student scores 68% on their reading assessment, then it dictates that?
85% of students receive a passing mark
60% or more students receive a passing mark
homogeneous group according to their reading interest
the students scored higher than the rest of his classmates/peers
Question about how to interest a student in reading?
remember its what the students would be more interested in, not the teacher
take suggestions on what they would like to do
go to the library and pick a book on their favorite subject
the teacher will pick what is appropriate for that student
The question asked about standardized tests regarding the validity
assess what it meant to assess or more
claims to measure the standards
the higher the scores, the lower the validity
The assessment is valid if it measures what it claims to measure is?
standards
validity
instructional strategies
phonological awareness
There was one about standardized testing and a student who has a disability and that he may not be able to participate in the STAR test and score like his grade-level peers.
petition for an accommodation to be set
check if his IEP allows him to participate in the STAR alternative test
balance the instructional strategy to suit him
give this student individualized instruction
There is a question with a chart. The chart has scores and the question asks how many students are reading at the independent level
1 student
2 students
3 students
no students scored at the independent level
What is homogenous grouping?
students with the same instructional reading level
students with different reading levels
students with the same age
students that are in different grades
What is heterogeneous grouping?
students with the same instructional reading level
students with the same age
students that are in different grades
composed of students with different reading abilities
Question about frustration reading level
a student cannot correctly read aloud at least 90% of the words and cannot answer at least 60% of the comprehension questions
a student can correctly read aloud at least 90% of the words and can answer at least 60% of the comprehension questions
a student cannot correctly read aloud at least 10% of the words and cannot answer at least 20% of the comprehension questions
a student can correctly read aloud at least 70% of the words and can answer at least 30% of the comprehension questions
Standardized test, what are they and or what is the purpose of these tests?
able to assess data on a large scale of students
data on a small scale of students
data on subjects that are students are struggling in
able to assess data on a small scale of students
When should a teacher begin immediate intervention?
decoding multisyllabic words
pre-phonetic spelling
phonological awareness
A kindergarten student who hasn't mastered a skill by the end of the year?
(pulled from study guide)
phonological awareness
multisyllabic words
pre-phonetic spelling
informal reading assessments
How should teacher test English language learners in class?
use both formal and informal reading assessments
use only formal reading assessments
use only informal reading assessments
Question about a middle school teacher: what should she do to ensure reading instruction for the whole class?
teach the whole class strategies and instruction on reading
a list of appropriate formal reading assessments
description of students' strengths and weaknesses
a list of appropriate informal reading assessments
For an upper elementary ELD student who is proficient in English, something to be aligned with other subjects for long-term curriculum goals
feedback from formal and informal assessments
feedback from informal assessments
feedback from formal assessments
feedback from end of the year assessments
A question about the CCSS literacy framework..
reading which is taught throughout the different subjects
student log records
literal comprehension
students objectives would be similar to this
Teacher looks at last year's standards before assigning entry-level assessments to students. What should the teacher know before planning instruction on specific skills?
what prerequisite skills the students need
what prerequisite skills the teachers need
A new teacher sets up her classroom for reading, book reading shelves varied, what should she do next to motivate and promote reading from the books on the shelf? (not exact wording)
student log records
AR point chart
based on the student's interest
Which would require prompt intervention?
transitional spelling at the end of first grade
a first grader who can’t decode multisyllabic words
a kindergarten student who performs poorly in phonemic awareness at the end of the year
Which assessment at the end of the year would be concerning if not passed yet?
at the end of kindergarten not having phonemic awareness mastered
at the end of kindergarten not having social skills
at the end of kindergarten not having multisyllabic words mastered
Table of data (reading performance assessment) was given, and the question was something like which would be most important for the teacher to consider when interpreting the results of a reading assessment for a student who joined the class at the end of january?
how the findings relate to the student’s weekly work assessments
how the findings relate to the student’s weekly comprehension assessments
how the findings relate to the student’s weekly reading assessments
The question had the teacher create a reading corner…
books organized in a way that students can easily choose based on their interest
based on the amount of points gained from AR reading
books organized based on their difficulty
5th grade teacher doing buddy reading with 1st grade - what should the teacher do FIRST?
the teacher would begin by discussing goals and purpose
the teacher would begin by discussing the activity
the teacher would begin by discussing likes and dislikes
