Emergent Literacy
Phonological Awareness
Alphabetic Principle/Phonics and Word
Comprehension and Fluency
Vocabulary
100
Which of the following is an effective instructional strategy for helping kindergarten students develop an understanding of concepts about print?
What is modeling how to track during shared reading?
100
Which of the following teacher prompts is most appropriate to assess a first-grade student’s ability to perform phoneme segmentation?
What is say to the student, "How many separate sounds are in the word 'bat'?"
100
A first-grade class sorts word cards into categories provided by the teacher. The chart below shows the results of the sort. CV CVC CVCE CVVC to bat make sail so sat like bait be got kite mail Which of the following skills does the chart best reinforce?
What is knowledge of vowel patterns?
100
The primary purpose of administering a miscue analysis assessment is to determine
What is the nature of a student’s oral reading difficulties?
100
Which of the following words is best for demonstrating how to use structural analysis to determine the meaning of a new or unknown word?
What is abnormal?
200
Which of the following descriptions most typically defines the oral-language developmental stage of a 5-year-old kindergarten student?
What is the student uses irregular noun and verb forms, talks in four- to eight-word sentences, tells longer stories, and recounts in sequence the day’s events?
200
A first-grade student shows evidence of phonological awareness but has difficulty segmenting words into phonemes. Which of the questions below is likely to be the most challenging for the student to answer?
What is listen to this word: “sad.” How many sounds do you hear?
200
A student has completed the following word sort: Flaps Table Cat Fail Mask Aim Slab Mats Which of the following did the student sort incorrectly?
What are mats?
200
A student at the conventional stage of writing development will primarily write
What is words that are often correctly spelled and include storybook language such as “Once upon a time?"
200
To best support high school students when they are reading science materials with specialized terms, a teacher should
What is use a graphic organizer to detail examples and nonexamples of terms?
300
Which of the following scenarios best demonstrates behavior of an emergent reader?
What is a student opens a familiar book and recalls enough of the language and plot to pretend to read it without actually identifying any of the words?
300
Teacher: What is the first sound in van? Student: The first sound in van is /v/. The teacher is assessing the student's ability to do which of the following phonemic awareness tasks?
What is phoneme isolation?
300
Mr. James, a kindergarten teacher, reads a story aloud to his students. As he reads, he asks the students to identify which sound is the same in the words “pig,” “pumpkin,” and “pail,” three words mentioned throughout the story. Which phonemic-awareness skill is he practicing with the students?
What is phoneme identity?
300
The best way to develop students’ metacognitive skills is for teachers to do which of the following?
What is advocate and model the use of self-questioning strategies during reading?
300
Which of the following sentences has the student written correctly?
What is the grocer created an inviting effect by placing a sole flower at the opening of each aisle?
400
A preschool teacher can explicitly connect oral language to reading by
What is acting a scribe to record students' retelling of a story?
400
In a one-on-one setting, a teacher asks a first-grade student to do the following. Listen to the word “man.” What sound does the word “man” start with? Change the first sound in “man” to /p/. What is the new word? Now change the last sound in “pan” to /t/. What is the new word? Question: The teacher is assessing which of the following?
What is phoneme substitution?
400
A teacher wants to describe to the class a rule associated with adding a silent “e” to the end of a consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) word. The best approach is to tell the students that when a silent “e” appears at the end of a CVC word, it cannot be heard but it will
What is tomake the other vowel have a long sound?
400
A language arts teacher requires students keep a reading response journal. The primary purpose of a reading response journal is to
What is facilitate student interactions with a text?
400
Which of the following is an example of an analogy based on antonyms?
What is noisy : quiet :: shallow : deep?
500
Which of the following is a charateristic of the language experience approach (LEA)?
What is focus on laguage as the bridge between the oral and written language?
500
A teacher asks a student to break a word into its individual sounds by tapping a marker while saying each sound. This is an example of which type of phonemic awareness task?
What is segmenting phonemes?
500
Which of the following strategies is appropriate for teaching students to automatically recognize high-frequency words?
What is presenting a word visually and asking students to say it?
500
Which of the following strategies is best to encourage high school students to actively participate during reading instruction?
What is incorporating students’ interests and reading abilities into present instruction?
500
Gerald is reading a story that has several new vocabulary words. He is using the events of the story and the text around the new vocabulary words to determine the meaning of the words. Which of the following strategies is Gerald using?
What are context clues?