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Subtest 2

Total questions: 70

Worksheet time: 35mins

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Class
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1.

A sixth grade teacher creates a written assessment in which the teacher leaves a word out of the sentence and asks students in which of four nonsense words would be the most appropriate to use to complete the sentence. An example of this type of assessment is shown below.

George_____a prize at the fair yesterday

Twibly

Norfing

Lubbed

Vishes

Such a Procedure would be especially useful for assessing whether a student:

a)

Is familiar with common story structure

b)

Intuitively make use of grammar when reading

c)

Is able to analyze difficult sentence constructions

d)

Spontaneously chunks language into units when reading

2.

A fifth grade teacher provides her students with an easier science article with easier vocabulary about the topic of asteroid before reading from the actual science textbook. What is the teacher trying to achieve? It says pre reading lesson.

a)

Possible pre teaching/preloading information to familiarize students with content and vocabulary

b)

Word has meaning

c)

Grapheme maps

d)

Phonemes to smallest unit; something about language

3.

This is about Endothermic and Exothermic. It is a two part question. This passage is going to be about mammals being endothermic and reptiles are warm-blooded. Briefly describe the warm-blooded aspect of mammals and we'll also talk about snakes.

Part A: First question helps us understand that the child understands what exotherm is. He does not know what endotherm means. What would the teacher suggest or what would the teacher do to help assist the student?

a)

Context clues to recognize the meaning of words

b)

To scan or skim the text to find the answer

c)

Apply knowledge of suffixes (therm is a suffix)

d)

Use index and tables

4.

Part B: Third question: For this question you Have to know what Non-restrictive clauses are. It asked about the usage of nonrestrictive clauses and what part of the excerpt it pertains to. It says, "All mammals are endothermic, snakes can..., and some other answers. You are basically looking for the answer that you can remove, while still retaining meaning, If that makes sense. Think of what is stated as non-essential detail "Snakes like to bask on warm rocks."

a)

All mammals are endothermic

b)

Snakes are red

c)

Snakes are hot

d)

Snakes can run

5.

The teacher provides students a sentence frame and demonstrates how to fill the sentence frames. What is the teacher trying to demonstrate?

An (A) _____ castle was in _____

An ugly castle was in the forest

A beautiful castle was in a dark green forest?

a)

Syntax(the order of words in sentences) or grammar rules

b)

figurative language

c)

semantics

d)

I don't know

6.

There is a comprehension passage about a zoo animal where first grade students read about giraffes and why other animals did not like giraffes. This was a potential three part questions. Small group activity.

Part A: Which of the following discussion strategies about literature does the teacher demonstrate after reading the story, Gerard's New Home?

a)

Encouraging students to respond to each other's ideas and details from the text

b)

I'm not sure

c)

I don't know

d)

clueless

7.

Part B: The teacher asked the student why didn't the other animals like giraffes? One student said she disagreed with her peers because "the book stated..."

Which of the following comprehension strategies does Student 3 refer to the text?

a)

Enhancing knowledge from text

b)

using evidence to refer to the text. The students supported the answer with text evidence. The student was using evidence from the passage to clear up information

c)

I'm not sure

d)

clueless

8.

Part C: During the group discussion, how does the teacher increase comprehension? (not exact but very close)

a)

Encouraging students to use evidence from the text to support answers

b)

look at a book

c)

don't know

d)

Clueless

9.

A fourth grade teacher asked her students to break into groups and each student read a different passage from the same story in their respective group. The students are to discuss their passage in the group and then report the important elements back to the whole class. What is the primary reason or what is the teacher trying to achieve through this instructional technique?

a)

Don't know

b)

The students gain a deeper understanding of the passage and have an opportunity to clarify by discussing it with peers.

c)

clueless

d)

uhh

10.

A fourth grade teacher selected a core literature book for her students to read. After her students have completed reading the book, she asked them to go back to the text and find situations where the main character has experience that reminded the student of something in their own lives. The student uses a response log to record their ideas. The teacher might choose this strategy as a follow-up to reading the book because...

a)

I don't know

b)

the teacher understands that helping her students connect real life experiences to those of character will deepen their understanding of the above and she can analyze their responses to plan future appropriate instruction

c)

clueless

d)

Check comprehension

11.

A middle school teacher designs an instructional activity in which students combine several sentences to form a single sentence, as illustrated below:

Combine: Matthew stood and waited for the bus.

The sun was blazing hot.

Matthew fanned himself with the newspaper.

Single Sentence: Waiting for the bus, Matthew stood in the blazing sun, fanning himself with the newspaper.

This activity is likely to be most effective in helping students...

a)

Apply literal comprehension skills to identify and write main idea statements

b)

improve their inferential comprehension skills

c)

strengthen their ability to comprehend and write complex sentences

d)

use self-monitoring techniques to clarify the meaning of text

12.

A first grade teacher plans to assess a student's comprehension of a short story through oral retelling. After the student silently reads the story, the teacher will prompt the student's retelling by asking open-ended questions. To prepare for this assessment, the teacher reads the story carefully and composes the questions. Which of the following additional steps would be most helpful for the teacher to take before the retelling activity begins?

a)

prompt the student to recall similar tasks the student has previously performed

b)

Prepare a checklist of the key elements that an effective retelling of this story should include

c)

Review grades earned by the student on recent tests and quizzes in language arts

d)

Remind the student to concentrate on recalling as many details as possible.

13.

8th grade teacher having trouble with her class connecting literary text too and not referring to the text at all. What strategies could she use to fix the problem?

a)

The teacher needs to model for the student. The student needs to see examples of what is required. Paragraph frames are also appropriate

b)

A graphic organizer for the student to connect their answer to the text

c)

Another option included the teacher needs to give a set of questions the students have to discuss and answer

d)

Having the teacher ask questions about the book and telling the students to use examples from the book in their answers

14.

A middle school teacher and the students are reading a narrative text.

The students read it well, however, when they were asked questions, they were able to talk about it but would focus too much on their personal experiences and deviated from the theme of the book. What should the teacher do?

a)

Provide explicit direction

b)

Do an instructional lesson to help the students

c)

I don't remember the other options

d)

I don't remember

15.

Question about 6th graders having a hard time staying on topic when discussing a text in literature groups and how can the teacher help to keep them engaged and on topic.

a)

Explicitly teach them to stay on topic-different wording but I chose something along these lines.

b)

Ask them to pick their favorite passage, read to group and discuss

c)

Teach them to ask and answer questions

d)

Give them questions to share about why they think..something the teacher gives them to do and then discuss, I felt this would have them engage since they have to focus (3/30)

16.

EL student who can read fluently and can understand most of what she reads but she was struggling comprehending a chapter in social studies.

For this question, what made it tricky was that it said: What INITIAL strategy would be most effective? I feel like the first strategy we would use is find out background knowledge which also aids comprehension

a)

Teaching the student to read carefully and take notes/outline

b)

Have the students use headings, subtitles, and titles and write a summary for them

c)

Question student to find out background knowledge on the chapter/subject

d)

Provide student with a list of questions to answer as she reads

e)

Showing her how to do roman numerals

17.

Student made his own poem: Misha Masha Bisha Basha Boo. Teacher is going over poetry and one student in Kindergarten makes his own poem (ORALLY). Using this opportunity, what strategy should the teacher use to connect it to READING and language skills? To further the students' oral language skills and something else, the teacher should.. (It was not for students' oral language skills, but for understanding of poem/reading comprehension).

a)

Recite the students poem to him with the initial letter omitted

b)

Student mimics open

c)

Write the poem on a chart paper and read it aloud

d)

Ask the student to recite his poem many times

18.

What study guide would you use for high school students? It was Upper grade elementary

a)

Taking notes

b)

Work in small groups and quiz each other

c)

Work in small groups and read aloud and then silently

d)

Have the students look for main topic and titles and create questions to answer while reading

e)

Have them write questions to later answer during reading

19.

Advanced students who don't do as well on the Standardized Assessments, why could this be?

a)

Identify main idea and key details

b)

Important structural differences in narrative/literacy text and expository/informational text

c)

Educated guess

d)

Not able to understand the meaning of justify and evaluate in the assessment

20.

Second grade student said she was a "sweet-o-phile" and it asks what the student has learned based on that sentence, Sweet O question. or After a vocabulary lesson, a 6th grade teacher asks the students to make up new words based on their discussion. A student raised her hand and said, "I am a sweet-o-Phile, because I love sweets."

a)

Something about suffix and I remembered that's a part of morphology

b)

Morphemes have meaning (phile, being the sound that has a meaning)

c)

Phoneme...along with something else

d)

I don't know

21.

The teacher writes the following sentences with blank spaces and provides a list of 4 nonsense words for the students to fill in the blank(not exact example but same context). The cow___over again to the table, plasse, lanked, jizzle, pip). This activity identifies the student's ability to:

a)

Something about subconsciously using inferential grammar in reading. This one almost worded differently, but the nonsense words gave an impression of applying the right tense to the sentence given.

b)

To recognize story structure (basically the activity was seeing if the student can put the correct form of the tense in the blank. In this case the choice is ranked).

22.

Teacher asking 8th grade students to take notes about a literary story. Students copy word for word from the book. The teacher asks the students open ended questions. How can the teacher help the student write better notes?

a)

Something about writing in numerical order

b)

Have students write a topic and then write a sentence in regards to the word

c)

Model to the student how to write notes outline style(roman numerals, letters, and subcategories)

d)

Provide guiding questions(I think this could be correct if it says that the student answered the questions)

e)

Teach the student how to do notes double entry style. With key terms/concepts on one side and a brief summary on the other side. I chose this one because it says BRIEF SUMMARY and the student could not summarize things.

23.

5th grade teacher is using BINGO game with synonyms, used with academic vocabulary and a synonym bee where students give synonyms to the word the teacher says. Teacher calls out a word and students are to find a word that is a synonym of the word on their card. What is this type of activity helping students with?

a)

Contextual analysis of meaning of words

b)

Word morphology of meaning of words

c)

Meaning of different words

d)

Different words could have similar meanings

24.

The teacher asks students what the book they are going to read is about.

a)

Predicting stimulates students' interest in books, encourages thinking and creates opportunities to share background knowledge

b)

I don't know

25.

Teacher wrote a sentence about a girl waiting...in 3 different ways... The questions asked what the teacher is trying to teach.

(I don't remember exactly what it says but it is something like this type of writing)

Mary Stands waiting for the bus in the snow.

While in the snow, Mary waits for the bus.

Waiting for the bus, Mary stands in the snow.

a)

I don't know

b)

I chose something along the lines of teaching students different ways of writing... Introducing students to different writing styles.

26.

You will be given an image of a worksheet that focuses on prefixes (un-/pre-). The purpose of this worksheet is to focus on

a)

Morphology/Morphologic (answer will have "morphology" The other answers will not make sense.

b)

I don't know

27.

A 4th or 5th grade teacher is teaching a unit on using atlas, periodicals, and other physical paper sources so students can use it for research and she wanted to assess whether they knew what sources to use for research before moving on to the next unit. Showing the students a full set of encyclopedias. Then, the teacher would present some sample entries and ask students to identify the volume where the entry would be located.

I got a similar question, except the wording mentioned that the teacher wanted a way to informally assess the students to ensure that they had an understanding of how to use resources for specific things. Included almanacs, atlas, website, encyclopedia

a)

Students do a worksheet and match subjects/content to appropriate sources that you would need. (This one was so tricky!) (I answered this too)-Tiger

b)

The teacher should provide questions that need to be answered using multiple sources

c)

Teacher observations/ Anecdotal Records. I did not have this answer choice

d)

Students write an essay using each of the sources for information(not exact wording but it definitely had to do with writing an essay)

28.

The student is asked to read, retell, record his retelling, reread, listen to the retell recording, and discuss the retell with the teacher. A teacher is testing or assessing a student. The student reads a book or article. Then the teacher records the student, the student hears himself read as he reads the book again. Question was, What is the purpose of this strategy?

a)

Something about students being able to monitor their own reading comprehension

b)

clueless

29.

A 6th grade teacher gives a list of statements about plants before reading a science text and asks them to mark true or false before they read. Students then have to check for accuracy of the fact when reading the chapter about plants. How does this support comprehension or what is the purpose of this activity?

a)

To clarify main points; definitions and meanings and probe common misconceptions

b)

Because they have to monitor their own reading

c)

To read with intentions/to know the purpose for reading text

30.

The teacher displays idioms:

Hot/Sweating bullets

Tired/Worn out

Sad/Feeling blue

The question included something like: How can you help EL's comprehend figurative language?

The answer is the one that has illustration and drawing.

The example used was "sweating bullets"

a)

Answer included words like: Working with idioms/illustrations, EL's will draw picture for the idiom/figurative language, as well as the regular vocabulary word to represent both meanings

b)

don't know

31.

Which of the following activities promote an 8th grade students with evaluative comprehension skills?

a)

Gathering evidence from additional resources about two separate articles written by different authors.

-Two authors because evaluative comprehension involves analyzing and weighing an event or an author's intent, opinion, language and style of presentation

b)

I chose something like the authors are biased

c)

One answer mentioned the Civil War, but the other wording in it did not apply to the question

d)

Analyze the author's point of view--I chose this one as well

32.

A student scanning how/when would it be beneficial? Something like that

a)

It was worded more like looking for information from a resource for a research project

b)

Looking for keywords and elements in a text (Answer if the question asked about skimming)

c)

Something like taking notes while reading

d)

Something like to gain a deeper understanding of the text

33.

A girl wrote a poem and used the word "softly" in every line but used in different ways:

The wind was blowing softly

My mom asked me to do something softly

My cat did something softly

a)

I chose that the student understands that words have different meanings

b)

not a clue

34.

Something will be reading an evaluative text, and will have about the students are doing an activity about a literature based discussion. Which activity will help them with oral language?

a)

Questioning the Author(RICA pg. 115). Sam question and answer as 28

b)

No clue!

35.

There was a question about fourth grade students disagreeing about the main idea of the passage. The teacher then decided to make groups to discuss the differences of the text and what the author may have meant. (my question was not a disagreement, but said the students had trouble beginning and keeping the conversations going in their group(it used technical terms, but I can't remember them))

a)

grouping the students and have them discuss the exposition conflict and resolution or something like that

b)

One answer said the teacher needs to teach them...

c)

Basic elements of the plot that support conflict, crisis, and resolution

36.

The teacher support reading logs and meetings with students. The teacher meets with the students to help them pick books that are between their instructional level and independent level.

a)

Ensures that students are introduced to unfamiliar words at their reading level

b)

So students are appropriately challenged with unfamiliar words at their reading level (or something along those lines)

c)

One of the other options stated so students pick challenging books when they're not at school or something like that

37.

An 8th grade student was struggling with note taking by summarizing and paraphrasing. She was writing everything down verbatim and it asked what would be the best way the teacher could help?

a)

Cornell notes: double entry, something with the requirement. Write definition on the right and short explanation on the left side

b)

Write down new key vocab and definition and then summarize sections briefly. I chose this because her struggle was in paraphrasing

c)

Teacher Modeling- teacher provides a list of questions that needs to be answered (from what I remember)

38.

Students are reading about a girl who wants to be a pilot. I think it was reading on struggles and challenges to fly planes and stuff like that. This question referred to something along the lines of having the students create an ending or something. ABCD were options of things that could help with their comprehension. I didn't feel that letting the student create an ending was right. That was one of the answers options, they were asking like what is best to do before reading the story. I think the answer (I can't recall it well) is something about predicting or inferring.

What obstacles the girls will face...something like that.

a)

Build on their background knowledge, "research" is in answer, "background knowledge" is not.

b)

Students being introduced to the challenges and discussing obstacles female pilots face. (Prior knowledge) or build on their knowledge

c)

Make the students create or write an ending to the story

d)

Predicting/inferring

e)

Have the students do research about pilots and making predictions about the challenges of becoming pilot

39.

A fifth grade teacher has students write three sentences on the board. Such as, "She is happy/She is floating on air." What is this an example of? Idioms - "He is tired/He is worn out" is another example written on the question.

a)

figurative language

b)

Morphology

c)

I cannot remember

d)

Figurative analogy

40.

A fourth grade teacher wants to test a student's English oral and conversational understanding. How can the teacher assess the student?

"What types of questions a teacher needs to ask for literal comprehension and analysis? Teacher has the student read a literary narrative. Students are using their journals."

As teachers analyze oral and written responses, they should see their students do each of the following:

Incorporate Literary Elements

Make Connections

Provide evidence from text

There is insufficient answer choices :(

a)

Have the students write an essay that assess a topic and students write an essay for the teacher to see their oral and conversation skills.

b)

I picked a different answer I cannot remember but something that has discussion on it

c)

Open-ended questions answered by the text evidence... Not sure of answer

41.

A fifth grade teacher provides her students with an easier science article with easier vocabulary... different wording than the MC #2

a)

Word has meaning(longer wording of this but has key words "word has meaning")

b)

Grapheme maps

c)

"Something about language

d)

Phonemes to smallest unit (along those lines)

e)

Students being exposed to similar language to familiarize

42.

5th grade lesson on "signal words" "therefore, since, because." How does it promote comprehension and memory?

a)

I chose to learn common text structure

b)

Morphemes

c)

New vocabulary

43.

Students are working in groups, what is the best strategy for them to take notes:

a)

Look at titles and subtitles to help write notes

b)

I answered something along the lines of write down content terms/definitions and write a summary at the end. The choice was to write down terms/content in one column and definition of it in the other column.

c)

Slowly read the text and take thorough notes throughout the reading.

d)

Have students take turn reading.

e)

Teacher will give them an outline

44.

A group of 4th graders are reading a book. They are overheard arguing about what the conflict in the story is. The teacher suggests that they meet together once a week to talk about the book. The teacher has suggested this because...

a)

to help them review plot and elements

b)

To help them advance their oral skills they are discussing

c)

Students not understanding the author's point

d)

Identify conflict and resolution

e)

Basic elements of the plot that support conflict, crisis, and resolution

45.

7th graders learning about medieval society. They are introduced to words with similar meaning terms like lords, vassals, and serfs. ..showing they already have in-depth knowledge about medieval society. What is the teacher trying to teach her students?

Another tester said that the students were having a hard time comprehending the reading passage even though they had been studying about the same content.

a)

To help students understand that different words similar words have similar different meanings. I chose this answer because the question includes that the teacher introduces words with similar meaning.

b)

the excerpt of the passage was more complex sentences

c)

The teacher provide the vocabulary in multiple texts in the content area.

d)

the excerpt of the passage was more complex sentences with complex vocabulary than the discussions they had been having- I chose the complex choice

e)

the teacher provided the vocabulary in multiple texts in the content area

46.

A question about teacher grouping students in small groups for content and language-English Learners and flexible grouping and its benefits on their development of academic language

a)

I chose the option that was along the lines of:

It exposes the ELs to more oral academic language

b)

Don't know

47.

A teacher does a multiple part lesson on 3 different types of lessons throughout the week to incorporate the word responsibility. The 1st was something about seeing the word, 2nd was writing about the word, and the 3rd was writing an essay about the word.

What was the purpose of this?

a)

A purposely way to integrate the word into their vocabulary with repeated and thoughtful exposure. Making the word and definition easy to remember since it is connected to their real life experiences or repeated experiences and would be meaningful or something like that.

b)

A way for the word integration through repeated and thoughtful exposure

c)

Multiple exposure of the vocabulary word through cross curriculum or different content. The main que for this is multiple exposure of the word.

48.

Which is an essential component to promote a vocabulary program for elementary and middle school students?

a)

I chose the option that stated to expose students to different unfamiliar words in the classroom.

b)

I put one that said something along the lines of explicit instruction in generalizable word learning strategies. Zarillo pg. 83

c)

Mine included content area vocabulary

d)

Explicit instruction or oral... don't recall the rest.

49.

Question showed a worksheet for 5th graders that had the students add suffixes to words (ly, ed, etc)

a)

I think the answer was about Morphology. *Key word is morphology in answer

b)

clueless

50.

An 8th grade History teacher is teaching about the U.S Constitution. The English Learner has been in the U.S for two years. Students are able to read fluently and comprehend any other text. However, students are struggling with this reading/content. What should the teacher do next?

a)

Teacher should talk and ask students about background knowledge for this content

b)

Don't know

51.

A 4th grade teacher reads aloud "Town century" (centi, centennial, etc..don't recall the exact words) Teacher says something like centi means 100 years...

What instructional strategy do they use for the vocab?

a)

Something about words have meanings

b)

Something about understanding morphemes and morphology in text/ morphological strategies --Morphological

52.

Having an understanding of the different tier vocabulary words can help a teacher determine? What a teacher should with different tiers of vocabulary

a)

I can't remember this answer, besides that the answer has the word "determine" in it.

b)

Greek or Latin words this was an option as well on test choices

c)

Whether the student is meeting grade level vocabulary knowledge this was an option on test

d)

Which words from a text to teach (growing the students' academic language)

53.

4th grade teacher is going to start reading a passage and ask students to make predictions about the text to activate prior knowledge. What should be the next step?

a)

Write responses on the board and erase and see what they remember

b)

Write response on board and ask students to write sentences

c)

Put the responses into categories

d)

Don't remember

54.

A third grader is taking a reading assessment and makes one mistake. They pause and self correct their mistakes. The sentence was "Tea, is sweeter (sweet) than honey" or it was "Honey is sweet than jam" after reading she corrects herself and reads it correctly, "Honey is sweeter than jam" This shows that the student has an understanding of..?

a)

Multiple meaning words

b)

Phonemic Awareness

c)

English grammatical syntax use (answer similar, but if you remember this you will recognize it)

55.

Which of the following would be most effective for students to recall the text that they read in a chapter of a book?

a)

Reading the text slowly and carefully and taking detailed notes as they read

b)

Working in small groups, students quizzing each other

c)

Working in small groups, reading aloud, reading silently

56.

Teacher gives her students a chart after reading a chapter from a book. The chart looks something like this... 3 horizontal rectangles...

First column title: Summary

Second Column: Thoughts on the chapter

Third Column: What do you think will happen next?

The question states something like: Based on the chart, what is the teaching looking for?

a)

Allows for the student to comprehend his understanding of the reading something

b)

Provide evidence from a literary text

c)

Describe and analyze story elements

d)

Comprehend and make connections

57.

How can teachers help students identify graphs?

a)

Have students cut out newspaper graphs and put them on the walls as reference

b)

I don't remember

c)

Help students create graphs using their favorite things like toys, candy, hobbies and so on(has the word hobby in answer)

d)

Has students work in groups to create graphs on their own

58.

What type of question a teacher needs to ask to check for literal comprehension and analysis?

a)

Needing to help students to make connections and promote making inferences

b)

Need to be open ended questions to be answered by text evidence/open ended questions phrased in a way that doesn't shape the student's response

c)

Questions to keep students focused on the task . Something like that. Students asking questions but waiting for students to respond.

59.

The teacher wrote on the board "The dog barked" then I wrote another sentence, "The dog barked" Then wrote "The ugly dog barked___" Students filled in loudly. How does this support ELL's?

a)

How to write complex sentences by moving around parts.

b)

Helps them strengthen understanding of English sentence structure.

60.

There was a question about reading medieval stories and giving students 2 words that are related(vassals and serfs, maybe). They have to write one sentence that uses both words in a meaningful way.

Same as question #52

a)

Assessing their conceptual understanding of the vocabulary words.

b)

Different words have similar meanings.

61.

A fifth grade teacher is writing questions for a literary comprehension assessment. What types of questions should they consider when creating questions?

a)

Address different levels of comprehension (e.g., literal and inferential)

b)

I don't know

62.

A 2nd grade class is reading a new book. Which strategy will help strengthen the oral language of ELL students to enhance comprehension and something?

a)

Students discuss their predictions with a partner using the title and illustrations

b)

The students look up vocabulary words that will appear in text

c)

The teacher gives students a worksheet with questions they should consider when reading

d)

Students are encourage to read aloud to the class their favorite part of the story

63.

What mainly leads to the acquisition of vocabulary for students from grades 4th to 8th in that four year span?

or

Research states that Vocabulary development in grades 4-8 is primarily developed by:

a)

Explicit classroom vocabulary instruction

b)

Content area specific vocabulary instruction

c)

Everyday knowledge from developed cognition

d)

Explicit with oral language

64.

A sixth grade teacher begins a science unit on plants by handing out a list of statements about plants and asking students to write down next to each statement whether they think it is true or false. The teacher then asks students to check the accuracy of their prediction about each statement as they read the chapter on plants in their science textbook. These activities are of the chapter on plants by:

a)

Establishing a definite purpose for reading the chapter(verbatim)

b)

Don't know

65.

6th grade research skills, what would be an informal assessment?

a)

Worksheet that has student match skill to content

b)

Writing an essay about what they learned

66.

Lately, when choosing a book to read, a third grader who reads at grade level always selects books from a series that is written in a very formulaic style that does little to extend his conceptual or language development. The teacher's best response to this behavior would be to :

a)

Avoid interfering with the student's selection of books as long as he finds his choices enjoyable

b)

Provide the student with books with similar themes or on similar topics that are more challenging for him.

c)

Point out to the student some of the major limitations of the books he is choosing to read and ask him not to read those books at school.

d)

Advise the student that he should choose books that will prepare him for the more difficult reading he will encounter in fourth grade.

67.

A second-grade student has limited vocabulary knowledge, which hinders the student's word recognition and reading comprehension. The student's oral reading is slow and labored, and the student typically spends the majority of independent reading time browsing through books, making little effort to read the actual words on the page. Research has shown that which of the following is most likely to happen if this student receives no instructional intervention?

a)

The student will always be behind average-performing peers but will achieve an adequate reading level to be academically successful.

b)

The student will naturally begin to show more interest and proficiency in reading as the student matures and will catch up with average-performing peers in third grade.

c)

The student will remain approximately at a second-grade reading level and will not be able to progress beyond this level.

d)

The student will begin to fall behind peers in reading development and will continue to fall further behind in later grades as texts include increasingly difficult vocabulary.

68.

EL Student can read fluently and can understand most of what she reads but struggle with comprehending

a)

Provide student with a list of questions to answer as she reads

b)

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69.

4th grade break into groups each student read different passage from same story

a)

I said students gain a deeper understanding of the passage and have an opportunity to clarify by discussing it with peers.

b)

context clues

70.

The next sentence was about "While out on a bike ride, Jill saw a rainbow"

The teacher asked the students how to combine each sentence into one sentence. For the first one, the students said to take out the "comma" and add a "word"(it was easy to combine). The second sentence, took out the "comma" and the students stated more words were needed in order for the sentence to make sense. What is the teacher trying to teach?

Need more clarification.

a)

Something about commas and periods.

b)

Answer included something about nouns

c)

Something about restrictive or independent clauses

d)

How punctuation changes meaning of the sentence was on my test and that is the answer I selected.