Retrieval practice from lit methods quizzes

Writing is a linear process

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Which of the following is an approach under theories of literacy development? (Select all that apply)

• Engaging in shared reading with big books

• Using authentic, high-quality children's literature

A teacher is selecting words to use to assess students' ability to segment the individual phonemes in spoken words. Which of the following words would require the highest level of skill with regard to orally segmenting phonemes?

• chase

• fudge

• catch

• stamp

stamp

At the beginning of the school year, a second-grade student is identified as at-risk on a universal screening of oral reading fluency with a grade-level passage. Which of the following steps would be most appropriate for the teacher to take next with this student?

• monitoring the student's oral reading fluency rate on a weekly basis and charting the student's progress

• conducting further assessments with the student in various subskills of fluent reading, such as word-reading accuracy

• engaging the student in activities designed to provide choral reading and echo reading practice on a regular basis

• referring the student to relevant specialists in the school for a comprehensive diagnostic battery for a specific learning disability

• conducting further assessments with the student in various subskills of fluent reading, such as word-reading accuracy

A first-grade teacher periodically administers spelling surveys to help assess students' phonics knowledge. The following tables show one student's performance on a spelling survey midway through the school year and again two months later.

The student's performance on the second administration of the spelling survey indicates that the student has progressed with respect to which of the following phonics elements? 

• silent e and r-controlled vowels

• long-vowel teams and dipthongs

• consonant digraphs and blends

• initial and final consonants

• silent e and r-controlled vowels

According to Graham and Harris, what is most important in designing and effective writing program?

• Assessing and monitoring student progress 

• Teaching handwriting, spelling, and typing

• Creating a supportive environment

• Providing specific feedback and praise for students

• Creating a supportive environment

A kindergarten teacher encourages beginning readers to "write" their own captions beneath their drawings. This practice is most likely to lead to which of the following outcomes?

 

• The children may become frustrated by the difficulty of the English spelling system and lose interest in writing.

• The children will tend to develop automatic word-recognition skills by engaging in spelling practice

• The children's grasp of the alphabetic principle will be reinforced as they apply phonetic spelling.

• Because of the reciprocity between decoding and encoding, the children's reading progress may be adversely affected by any uncorrected spelling errors

• The children's grasp of the alphabetic principle will be reinforced as they apply phonetic spelling.

What is guided reading? 

 

• When students read the same book aloud in unison.

• When students get together in small heterogeneous groups to discuss the literature they have read.

• When a teacher meets with a small homogenous group of students who have similar learning needs to read the same book with support from the teacher

• When students engage in a short lesson that provides either procedural instruction, instruction on strategies and skills, or instruction on literary analysis.

• When a teacher meets with a small homogenous group of students who have similar learning needs to read the same book with support from the teacher

In which line in the table is a word accurately matched to the number of phonemes the word contains?

• Line 2

• Line 3

• Line 4

• Line 1

line 1

What is a learning progression?

A learning progression outlines the stages or steps that theory suggests most students go through as they progress toward mastering important skills and concepts. It is a tool - one among many - that can be used to analyze student work to help guide your instruction.

Fourth-grade students silently read an assigned text for part of the English language arts block and then meet for a small-group discussion of the text in another part of the block. During the silent reading portion, the teacher instructs students to use stick-on notes to bookmark passages where they make predictions, ask or answer questions, or encounter an unfamiliar word. In addition to anchoring the group discussions in the text, this practice benefits students primarily by increasing their:

 

• silent reading fluency.

• ability to concentrate during reading.

• metacognitive awareness while reading.

• level of reading enjoyment.

• metacognitive awareness while reading.

Which of the following activities would be most effective for a teacher to use to promote students' strategic reading of literary texts?

 

• leading students in frequent small-group discussions and close readings focused on relevant strategies (e.g., skimming, rereading) to use for different academic tasks and purposes

• giving students bookmarks that list reading comprehension strategies with brief descriptions of their features and steps for their use

• reminding students to practice newly learned strategies (e.g., scanning for specific details) during independent reading and then enter the strategies they used in their reading logs

• pairing students with a classmate after a reading assignment and asking them to share which reading comprehension strategies they used

• leading students in frequent small-group discussions and close readings focused on relevant strategies (e.g., skimming, rereading) to use for different academic tasks and purposes