A kindergarten teacher prefaces reading to the class by pointing out the title, author, illustrator, and title page. Which skill is this teacher most likely developing with his students?

What is the most effective method for teaching beginning 1st-grade students, who have had very little experience with print, to read?

Which of the following is the best definition of oral reading fluency?

A classroom teacher working with low-ability students uses the repeated reading strategy for the purpose of

Repeated reading is most effective when accompanied by a(an)

The following exercise provides practice of which vocabulary skill?

"The knight will bow before the king."

What does bow mean?

• using a weapon with arrows

  • awarding a ribbon

  • bending at the waist to show homage

  • Feasting to celebrate victory

A teacher is having his students rewrite their favorite fairy tale. As part of the assignment, the students must use a thesaurus. What processing skill is the teacher requiring his students to use?

Identify the word recognition method that could most effectively aid the pronunciation of the following words.

present, content, record, read

Which instructional method would help students categorize the following words? shred, flake, crumble, bake, broil, fry, stir, toss, fold, broiler, mixer, blender

For 1st-grade students, the best strategy to encourage vocabulary development through writing is to have students

Before students learn about reading a time zone map, the teacher presents slides of her trip to Greenwich, England, where the meridian time line was established by the British. The teacher then encourages discussion of the reasons for time zones and how they affect us. Which set of reading comprehension factors is demonstrated by this lesson?

Jeff is having difficulty remembering details from the story he has just read. What strategy would help him focus on details?

Which of the following tasks is the best for representing a sequence of events in a 2nd-grade language arts lesson?

A teacher is having his students locate who, where, when, why, and how in a newspaper story. This activity will help the students develop which of the following reading skills?

Willa is a potentially at-risk emergent learner who lacks exposure to literature. The most effective activity for her to engage in is

Phonological awareness includes levels of the English language sound structure which may be manipulated in phonological awareness tasks. Which of the following levels develops after the onset-rime level?

When working with a small group, the teacher says each syllable of a word and instructs the students to say the whole word. The teacher says win-ter and asks aloud, “What word is win-ter?” The teacher then says winter and gives them

another word to practice. The teacher says pea-nut, and asks, “What word is pea-nut?” The students respond together peanut.

This is an example of instruction in which of the following skills?

A teacher presents a student with several pictures. The teacher asks the student to choose one picture, name the picture, and say each sound they hear. The student chooses a cat and says, "Cat. /c/ /a/ /t/." This is an example instruction in which of the following?

Which of the following terms accurately describes the smaller unit of sound at the beginning of a word?

Which of the following terms accurately describes the phonemic awareness activity in which students mark the phonemes of two- or three-phoneme words?

A teacher says 'Can you tell me the two word parts in "open"?' This is an example of which type of phonological awareness?

Which literary device is being used when inanimate objects or abstract concepts are seemingly endowed with human characteristics?

Directions for characters is an example of an element frequently found in

Last summer, a student read a fact-based book about the life of Rosa Parks. The literary genre of this book is

By definition, poetry should contain

Which of the following instructional strategies would be a good way to introduce a variety of genres to a class in order to compare and contrast information about a subject?

After students read a detective story in their basal reader, a teacher asks them to make a judgment about the guilt or innocence of the main character. What type of thinking is the teacher encouraging?

What organizational pattern does the author of the following passage use to present the information?

A drought has a number of consequences for ranchers. Grass ceases to grow and, in some cases,

dies. Cattle become lean, and thus bring less cash at market. Calves born in a drought have a higher

mortality rate.

A 3rd-grade teacher reads an informational, nonfictional text about frogs, and a fictional narrative text about frogs. He wants his students to write an expository piece using facts and details to compare and contrast the two texts. Which of the following graphic organizers would be best to compare and contrast the two texts?

Which of the following describes what happens in the graphophonic component of writing?

Which of the following modes of writing is intended to provide information and includes facts and data?

Which developmental stage of writing does Amy exhibit when she writes a string of standard letters from left to right on her paper?

Which of the following skills should be the teacher's primary focus when conferencing with the student about the writing?

Which of the following best represents a student's writing sample in the emergent writing stage?

A kindergarten teacher is reviewing students' journals. She notices one student's writing is not legible and the marks do not correspond to letters of the alphabet. Which stage of emergent writing is the student demonstrating?

To be most productive during the revising process, students should

Recent studies of the stages of the writing process indicate that drafting is

A 6th-grade teacher has asked students to write a selection of prose in which they analyze the positive and negative aspects of a recent field trip. The best mode of writing for students to use for this assignment would be

Many members of a 2nd-grade class have difficulty remembering which words are spelled with the letters i-e and which are spelled with e-i. Which of the following instructional methods would best help them overcome this problem?

A 3rd-grade teacher asks the students to partner-read a literary selection. The teacher walks around the room and stops to question each pair of students about the story. Which type of assessment is the teacher using?

A 6th-grade language arts teacher is looking for an assessment tool to use with his students' performance products this year. He would like a tool that has scoring standards composed of model answers to score the tasks. The best tool for this purpose is:

A 5th-grade teacher is preparing to teach map skills to her social studies class. She should

Which of the following information about student assessment data can be shared with the public?

Students are assigned a complex project to include research, a visual aid, and a presentation. To provide the criteria for the assignment, the teacher should use a(an)

Teachers must make informed decisions about the appropriateness of modifications needed when using assessment instruments with special populations. In deciding how to address this issue in a class that includes several ELLs, which would be the best choice?

Students need a collection of maps to complete an assignment. The best resource for students to use would be a(an)