WorksheetsSUBTEST 3
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 30mins
A 4th grade student asks the teacher for help in understanding the content of a passage he has been reading. After discussing it with the teacher, the student demonstrates a good understanding of the passage and confidence in his ability to continue reading. This interaction between the student and the teacher suggests that the student?
Is reading a text at his instructional level
Needs work on improving his word identification strategies
Needs to work on developing evaluative comprehension skills
Effective instructional delivery of content needs to be ?
Planned and standardized
Direct and explicit
Approved and relatable
Fun and engaging
Which of the following guidelines Is essential for classroom teachers to follow with regard to summative assessment accommodations for students in the class who have IEPs?
The teacher should implement the same accommodations or variations for students during testing that were used throughout instruction in accordance with the IEPs.
Students with IEPs should be allowed to take summative classroom tests in preferred locations, such as an educational resource room or the school library
Classroom assessment should be administrated under the most stringent conditions to provide a reliable measure of student skills
Testing accommodations or variations implemented for students with IEPs should be made generally available to any student in the class who requests them
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?
Telling the student that his grades will be based in part on his ability to improve his concentration when he works on reading assignments
Adapting the student’s reading assignments to reduce their complexity and level of cognitive challenge.
Breaking down the student's reading assignments into small steps and helping him learn to monitor his own attention and progress.
Managing the students reading assignments so that he generally has only one to work on at given time
A 1st grade teacher meets with a student's parents. Neither the student nor the parents speak any English. Through an interpreter, the parent asks what they can do to help foster their child’s reading and language development. The teacher can respond most appropriately by encouraging the parents to?
Limit the students home library to books written in English
Learn enough English to begin speaking English to the student at home
Read or tell stories to the student in the primary language
How can a reading teacher best ensure reading practice gets done at home ?
Teach the students how to search free books on the internet
Encourage children to check out books from their local library
Allow children to take home books from the classroom library
A student who reads a book independently, after he answers 10 comprehension questions, he gets 5 correct. What is his reading level?
Frustration level
Instructional level
Independent level
An elementary teacher should adhere to which of the following guidelines related to planning reading instruction?
Adapt lesson plan as needed based on ongoing monitoring of student progress
Conduct formal assessments daily to judge students' current strengths and needs.
Rely on ability-based reading groups to foster students' reading development.
Reading teachers have a conference. What should they discuss?
Not focusing on their own interest
Identify and analyze significant reading events that occurred in the classroom during reading activities/discuss and analyze what happened during the activity.
Discussing whole group and small group strategies not individual students
As part of an assessment to determine students' independent reading levels, a teacher asks individual students to read aloud from selected passages. If a passage is at a students independent reading level, the student should correctly read a least?
95% of the words
90% of the words
85% of the words
80% of the words in the passage
An early elementary teacher could most effectively support at-home reading by:
Recommending books that parents/guardians would likely enjoy reading with their children
Sharing with parents/guardians important articles from professional reading journals
Sending parents/guardians a regular newsletter describing the classroom.
There is a question with a chart. The chart has scores and the question asks how many students are reading at the instructional level?
68%
1 student
2 student
A 6th grade teacher wants to ensure that the classroom reading environment supports content-area learning for the English Learners in the class. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in addressing this objective?
Making available in the classroom content area texts at various levels that supplement and reinforce the information presented in the student's textbooks.
Providing English Learners with grade-level, English-only content area books to promote academic language
Replacing content area books with simpler texts on the same subjects that the English Learners can understand more readily.
Homogeneous grouping for reading instruction is most appropriate for which of the following purposes?
Customizing skills instruction for students who have similar assessed reading needs in a particular area
Promoting students written language skills through collaboration writing activities
Motivating reluctant reader to increase their independent and their engagement in reading
Which of the following strategies would be most effective to use when grouping students for interventions addressing a specific area of difficulty in grade level reading curriculum?
Grouping students heterogeneously to ensure that all students receive the same exposure to the content.
Grouping students homogeneously according to the severity of their difficulty
Grouping students heterogeneously to ensure that every reading group includes one or more skilled readers
Entry level assessment results in a particular area of reading indicate that several students need differentiated instruction in specific skills. Which of the following questions would be most important for their teacher to consider first when planning differentiated instruction for these students?
What prerequisite skills do the students need to have to benefit from instruction and achieve content standards with respect to the specific skills?
How can content area instruction be integrated with this area of reading to reinforce the development of specific skills?
How should the grade level content standards in other areas of reading be taught over the course of the year to compensate for the student's lack of specific skills?
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? Or Content areas
Understand how to interpret the results percentile scores and grade equivalent scores. The actual question states if a student scores 68% on their reading assessment, then it dictates that:
The student scored higher than the rest of his classmates/peers
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How to interest a student in reading?
A. Remember it's what the students would be more interested in, not the teacher.
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A standardized test is considered to have high content validity if the test?
Is normed using a homogeneous group of examines
Addresses a small, discrete set of knowledge and skills
Assess the knowledge and skills it purports to assess
What is the purpose and use of an IRA?
An IRI is the individualized portfolio gathered by the student to showcase the student's parent of the work that the student is most proud of.
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 of assessments collected over the lifetime of the student at school to show an individual student's reading growth.
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 flexible grouping
A teacher can use independent practice
A teacher can use the monitored oral reading strategy
How can a teacher create a support system to promote reading for severely struggling readers?
Read with the student one-on-one each morning for 10 min
Create a reading partner chart and schedule 20 min of partner reading each day
Facilitate a conference with the students, the student's parents, the reading coach/learning specialist, and the principal to create reading goals
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 student?
Teacher students to read paragraphs and open the book at random and have the student read one or two paragraphs
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Midway through the year, a 2nd grade teacher convenes a student success team to plan additional support for a student who is performing somewhat below grade-level standards in reading. Other members of the team include the student and her parents, another teacher who works closely with the student, and a school administrator. In the context of developing an improvement plan for the student, which of the following pieces of information would be most important for the teacher to communicate to the success team?
A description of the students assessed strengths and weaknesses that could serve as a foundation for addressing her needs
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A 1st grader enjoys reading in class. However, during a parent-teacher conference, the student's parents says that the student seems to tire quickly and become distracted when reading aloud at home. The teacher can best respond to this situation by taking which of the following steps first?
Suggest that the parent read aloud to the student until the student gains more self confidence in reading
Elicit information to assess the difficulty and interest level of the students at home reading materials.
Recommend that the parent use a simple reward system to motivate the student to read aloud for a predetermined amount of time each day
Which of the following is most likely to indicate that a 3rd grade student may need service in addition to what the classroom teacher can be expected to provide?
Numerous reading interventions implemented by the student's classroom teacher have proven ineffective
The student has been unmotivated by individualized reading instruction offered to him/her by the classroom teacher
The students' performance in reading is at a level below his/her performance in other academic areas
13 year old student with a disability and needs help in organizational skills and planning. What should the teacher do to help?
Something along the lines of consulting with the special ed teacher for assigning standard/simple graphic organizers to assist with language arts lesson
Break the project into smaller, more manageable tasks
Give students grade-level content area texts and provide differentiated instruction such as graphic organizers
What is the goal of standards-based reading instruction?
Every student will meet the content standards adopted by the California state board of education.
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A middle school teacher is preparing for the class to take the 6th grade 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?
Following whatever accommodations are generally recommended for students with Section 504 plans
Using good teacher judgment to determine if such accommodation is warranted
Providing the student with this testing accommodation only if it specified in her Section 504 plan
A question about the CCSS literacy framework: According to California State documents, an upper elementary teacher can best promote reading development through planning and organizing instruction of?
Reading taught through explicit and different academic subjects
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A second-grade teacher has created a comfortable reading corner in the classroom that includes reading materials representing a variety of genres, topics, and difficulty levels. Which of the following additional steps is likely to be most effective in supporting and motivating students reading?
Playing soft, relaxing music for students to listen to while they are reading in the reading corner
Organizing the materials in the reading corner in a way that helps students easily locate books that they can read successfully
Displaying in the reading corner an ongoing record of how many books each student has read
A second grade teacher uses a published reading inventory to help assess the reading proficiency of a new student in her class who moved into the school district with his family at the end of January. The inventory consists of the following four components:
After the teacher interprets the students scores on the published reading inventory, it would be most important for her to?
A. Verify the findings of the inventory by having the students take a teacher made test that assesses a broader set of reading skills
A. Compare the students scores on the inventory to the scores of other students in the class who took the same assessment
A. Supplement the findings with information gained from other assessments and observations of the students daily reading work
In higher elementary grade, how would you plan for a long term reading instruction?
A. By explicitly teaching strategies and incorporating them in other subject areas or content areas.
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1. For an upper elementary ELD student who is proficient in English, something to be aligned with other subjects for long term curriculum goals ?
A. Feedback from formal and informal assessments
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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 time to meet, which of the following would be most important for the teacher to prepare prior to the meeting?
A report showcasing the students social and academic strengths and weaknesses
The records of the students recent reading assessments
Theres no need to prepare physical papers because the meeting at this time is simply a discussion
A report comparing this students performance to another students performance at the same grade level
How should a teacher test English Language learners in the class?
Use both formal and informal reading assessments
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Which of the following situations suggests the need for prompt instructional intervention?
At the beginning of second grade, a student is unable to demonstrate evaluative comprehension
At the end of 1st grade, a student has just begun to use transitional spelling.
At the beginning of 1st grade, a students is unable to decode many two-syllable words
At the end of kindergarten, a student shows little phonemic awareness
Toward the end of the school year, a 1st grade teacher should plan an intervention for a student who ?
Lacks the ability to identify the subject and verb of a sentence
Is unable to use prefixes and suffixes in word identification
Demonstrates only prephonetic spelling and writing
Has difficulty decoding multisyllabic words
A teacher selects a mystery novel at most of her students' independent and instructional reading levels. She reads a bit of it 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 the teacher do that?
Stimulate students interest in a variety of genes (Broadening students on different genres)
Encourage students to read more advanced texts
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 across subject areas.
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Which of the following is the most accurate definition for differentiated instruction?
Facilitating differentiated lessons for the kids to receive instruction by experts
Meeting the needs of all learning, including making adjustments to meet the needs of individual learners
Providing different materials to different students to give differentiated instruction
Facilitating a lesson that caters to different personalities and learning styles to achieve academic and social development
A 4th grade teacher confers regularly with students as they edit written compositions related to their reading. During the editing process, the teacher helps each student develop an editing checklist that lists writing skills the students consistently applies correctly as well as skills that need development. One important advantage of this method of assessing students' written language development is that it?
Helps students student he importance of minimizing errors in the 1st draft of a composition
Motivates students to take responsibility for identifying and achieving writing goals
Allows students to concentrate more on content than from when they write
A 5th grade teacher is working with a 1st grade teacher to plan a reading buddy program, in which interested 5th graders will visit the 1st grade classroom once a week to read aloud to individual students. To ensure that the program is effective in engaging the participants in reading and motivating them to progress in their reading development, which of the following steps is most likely for the 5th grade teacher to take 1st?
Having students discuss the goals of the buddy program and providing them with explicit strategies for successfully achieving the goals.
Establishing some guidelines for the behavior of the 5th graders who will be participating in the program
Having students visit the 1st grade classroom to meet and talk with the children who will be participating in the reading buddy program
Arranging for students to meet with the 1st grade teacher to discuss the younger children reading curriculum
A 3rd grade teacher creates a form to use to record assessment data for each student in a particular area of reading (eg. Phonics, spelling, comprehension, vocab) An example of the form is shown below. It will be used to record information about a student's phonics assessments
Which of the following statements describes the primary benefit of using this form to record assessment data?
The form makes it easier for the teacher to plan integrated instruction for the class that addresses multiple reading needs
The design of the form highlights the reading skills that are most important for students in the class to master
The layout of the form facilitates comparative analysis of the reading performance of different students in the class
The format facilitates the teacher's ability to track a student's ongoing progress in mastering specific reading skills
At the beginning of the school year, a 3rd grade teacher consults the 2nd grade standards in the Reading/Language Arts Framework for California Public Schools when conducting entry-level assessments of students' reading skills. In the context, the state standards are likely to be most useful in helping the teacher?
Select appropriate reading materials for instructing students individually and in groups
Determine students independent, instructional, and frustration levels of reading
Identify appropriate methods for documenting students development in specific areas of reading
Determine any differences between students current reading skills and grade level expectations
At the beginning of the school year, a new 4th grade teacher assesses students reading skills. Which of the following would be the most important step for the teacher to take next to help set long term reading goals for the class?
Consult professional reading journals for descriptions of new reading strategies and activites that have proven effective with 4th graders.
Select a trade book and other materials that are likely to be useful in modeling and reinforcing the reading skill in which students performed most poorly.
Consult state and district standards to determine guidelines for expected student outcomes at the 4th grade level
Describe an informal assessment strategy that would best help an elementary teacher determine how factors such as attention and motivation in a students reading level?
Observe the student in a variety of classroom reading situations on a regular basis
Administer an IRI to the student at regular intervals throughout the year
Compare the students oral reading rates on familiar and unfamiliar passages
Ask the students comprehension questions about various types of written materials
Which of the following questions would be most important for a teacher to consider when reviewing the entries in a students independent reading log ?
Is the student selecting books that relate in meaningful ways to class discussions?
Is the student selecting increasingly challenging texts from a variety of genres ?
Is the student selecting books with clear connections to content-area
A middle school reading teacher is likely to contribute most toward the goal of developing all students reading competence by?
Relying primarily on whole class instruction to promote the development of students reading skills and strategies
Conducting forma assessments to measure student learning after every reading activity
Maximizing the amount of time students are actively involved in appropriately challenging reading tasks
Midway through the year, a 1st grade teacher notices that two students are beginning to lag behind their peers in their reading development. The teachers best initial response would be to?
Begin collecting more diagnostic information on these students and providing them with targeted reading instruction
Avoid initiation of any special reading intervention until I becomes clear that there is a real problem
Advise the students parents to begin intensive reading skill-building activites with their children at home
When choosing a reading assessment for a group of 3rd grade students, the teacher should make sure that the selected assessment?
Is consistent with the goals and purpose of reading instruction for this group of students
Contains text that is relevant to content area topics students are currently studying
Includes questions with widely varying levels of difficulty
When organizing and managing reading instruction, which of the following general guidelines would be most important for an elementary teacher to follow?
Ensure that every student has mastered a particular reading skill before introducing the next skill to the class.
Provide continuity for reading instruction by allowing students to meet in the same reading groups throughout the school year
Ensure that students are motivated to read by assigning children literature for the class to read and study together
A middle school teacher uses anecdotal records to describe and analyze a student's reading performance. This method of informal assessment is likely to be effective if the teacher follows which of the following guidelines?
Focus primarily on comparing each students reading performance to that of other students in the class
Review the records on a weekly basis to identify any patterns relating to students reading strengths and needs
Focus primarily on each student's area of weakness related to reading performance
13 years old with a disability in GE class and is having difficulty with Language Arts. What should the teacher do to help the student?
A. Assure student that you can provide differentiated instruction, scaffolding, graphic organizer
Ask sped teacher to give student a graphic organizer
A 3rd grader is underperforming and took an assessment. What should the teacher do next?
Use content area that has been taught already.
Be sure the purpose of the assessment is aligned with the reading goal/curriculum
Explain the reading research to family and get details of how reading is done in the household
A 2nd grade teacher is planning various in class interventions to assist a student who has been experiencing reading difficulties. Which of the following guidelines would be most important for the teacher to follow when implementing these interventions?
Make sure that each intervention focuses on improving a single reading skill
Compare the students progress after each reading intervention with the progress of other students in the class
Rely primarily on standardized test results to evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions
Maintain written documentation on the relative success of each intervention to help guide further instruction
3rd grader is performing below grade level and the teacher is meeting with parents to talk about the students reading performance. How should the teacher explain these results to the parents?
Explain the results and let the parents know that you will eventually help the child.
Explain the results of the assessment to the parents and give detailed steps on how the teacher is making improvements
Give parents detailed step to help the student at home
Question about a student with a disability taking the STAR test who tests below Grade level
Teacher petitions for an accommodation
Teacher checks to see if the students IEP allows the student to take the test
A. Teacher petitions for student to take grade level test of students ability
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1. Question about a balanced reading program and adhering to state standards…..
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