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A first-grade teacher uses the video/recording feature of iPads to record her students retelling stories. After the student retells the story, the student and teacher listen to the retelling and discuss the content. Which of the following best describes this practice?
The teacher was using technology to develop oral communication skills.
Phonemic awareness is a predictor for success in reading. Which of the following is NOT a true statement about phonemic awareness skills?
Phonemic awareness involves the relationship between phonemes and graphemes in words.
A kindergarten teacher has several students who need to improve basic phonemic awareness skills. The teacher conferences with parents on ways to help these students at home. Which one of the following activities would the teacher most likely recommend?
Play rhyming and sound games.
Students in a kindergarten class are learning to blend word parts. Which of the following phonemic skills is most appropriate for the teacher to work on next?
Blending individual phonemes in words
Mrs. Smythe's kindergarten class is working on phonological awareness. Which of the following skills should she emphasize first with her students?
Recognizing and counting syllables in a word.
A kindergarten class is learning about the letter m. The teacher plans homework around this focus. Which of the following activities best reinforces student knowledge of the alphabetic principle?
The teacher has students cut out and label objects which begin with the letter m.
Several English language learners in Mrs. Night's 1st grade class are having a particular difficulty with sight words. Sight words are most likely difficult for these students because —
they are irregular words which are difficult to decode using graphophonemic knowledge.
A second-grade teacher points to the word 'grain' on the board, underlines the letters 'ai' in the middle of the word, and pronounces the word /grraaan/, emphasizing the long 'a' sound. She explains to the class that when two vowels appear between two consonants, readers should pronounce the long vowel sound in the first vowel. Then she repeats the steps with other similar words providing multiple opportunities for students to practice. Which of the following concepts is the teacher primarily addressing?
Alphabetic principle
The teacher then has the students name the letter and sound three times. Students say, "This is the letter 'n', it makes the /n/ sound". The students then stand up and write the letter with their finger as onto an invisible board in the air while saying the letter's name and sound. The students then sit at their desk and write the letter 3 more times while stating the name and sound.

The purpose of the writing step of the lesson described above is to:
Associate the letter name, sound and shape.
A teacher uses the "pie" analogy to teach her students about author's purpose. The acronym stands for the most common purposes -- the P stands for persuade, the I stands for inform, and the E stands for —
entertain
Which of the following text features is most appropriate for the classroom teacher to review prior to the writing assignment?
organization of procedural text
Click on evidence in the passage that best explains the idea of cause and effect.

Rub it on
Remember, if you're like most people, exposure to the sun will cause almost all of its damage to your skin before your 18th birthday.
Which of the following comments from the teacher best addresses the strengths and/or weaknesses of Jordan's writing?

Everyone should wear sunscreen to protect your skin from the sun. The reasons why are because sunburns hurt, the sun can damage your skin and make you look old, the sun can cause cancer.
You did a great job stating your opinion about sunscreen.
A fourth-grade teacher expects students to use a dictionary to complete part of the week's spelling homework. Which of the following answers would be the most appropriate assignment for learning the spelling words?
divide the word into syllables
Students in a first-grade class have been learning to analyze and spell phonetically regular words. They recently learned VC patterns. Which of the following is the most appropriate to teach next?
VCe syllable patterns
A second-grade student reads slowly and has trouble decoding words like also and over. The student most likely —
needs practice on sight words.
In a parent/teacher conference, a second-grade teacher discussed several ways fluency could be promoted at home. Which of the following strategies would best help build fluency at home?
A parent could encourage a child to read engaging, grade-level material multiple times.
A third-grade teacher works with a struggling reader. The child reads grade-level material at 35 words per minute and has trouble with sight words. Which of the following answers best describes the child? Select all that apply.
The student lacks reading fluency.

The student has weak decoding skills.
A second-grade teacher plans to increase reading fluency among a group of struggling readers. Which of the following would be least effective in improving fluency?
The teacher might have the students race each other to see who could read a passage the quickest.
A third-grade student struggles to comprehend text. The teacher notices the child devotes too much attention to decoding and not enough attention to the meaning of the text. The teacher could most likely help the student by —
Improving decoding skills with syntactic cues.
Mrs. Cassey encourages her students to make connections during the daily read aloud. While reading No, David, No! a student commented that the main character reminds her of her brother. Which of the following text connections did the student make?
text to self
Sixth-grade students are preparing to read a chapter about the digestive system. Which of the following activities is the best way to introduce the text to support reading comprehension?
Complete an anticipation guide
A reader gets to the end of a paragraph and realizes he/she has not understood the text. When the child rereads the paragraph, the child demonstrated —
metacognition
Mrs. Coronado teaches fifth-grade ESL at Reginald Elementary School. Her students have a wide array of English language proficiency but recently she discovered that most of her students were having difficulty understanding multisyllabic words with prefixes and suffixes. Mrs. Coronado would like to plan an activity that leads to the purposeful use of morphemic analysis as a word learning strategy. Which of the following activities is best suited to achieve this purpose?
Given a specific root, students work with a partner to create a list of words with the root then write definitions for the words on their list.
The teacher considers ways to use word relationships and the students' prior knowledge to expand vocabulary knowledge. Which of the following strategies would best enhance word recognition?
The use of synonyms would enhance word recognition.
The stimulus information below relates to the question that follows.



A sixth-grade teacher with students at the beginning and intermediate level of English language proficiency in listening and speaking plans a unit on poetry. In order to provide targeted instruction for all students, the teacher chooses content concepts appropriate for the age and educational background level of students, the teacher adapts content for all students, and the teacher plans meaningful activities to integrate lesson concepts.

As the teacher shares new terminology related to types of poetry, which of the following strategies will best support the English language learners' understanding of the new words?
Share examples of the types of poetry.
A teacher works with English language learners at various levels of language proficiency. Which of the following strategies provides language support for ELLs during classroom instruction? Select all that apply.
-Visuals which illustrate complex concepts
-Access to content word lists
-Cooperative learning activities
-Sentence stems
To best ensure student engagement during an open-ended research question for history, a sixth-grade teacher should focus on providing -
inquiry-based instruction
An elementary teacher uses an I-Chart to help students examine a topic by integrating prior knowledge on the topic with information found from a variety of sources. Which of the following tasks should the students do first when conducting research?
identify the topic
A fifth-grade teacher plans to supplement studies in the content areas with a research project. Which of the following answers might the teacher consider? Select ALL that apply.
-have students use multiple resources while researching
- encourage students to research and collaborate outside of the classroom
-review web literacy skills with students
Mr. Lathan's fourth-grade social studies students are engaged in the following activity:
Each student is assigned a reading buddy.
Each buddy reads a section from the social studies text aloud while the other listens.
After the reader finishes the listener asks questions focused on the reading which both then discuss.
After the discussion the listener briefly summarizes, out loud, what the section was about.

How would this activity tend to improve students' comprehension skills?
It would improve students' engagement with the text and increase their comprehension.
Mr. Lathan's fourth-grade social studies students are engaged in the following activity:
Each student is assigned a reading buddy.
Each buddy reads a section from the social studies text aloud while the other listens.
After the reader finishes the listener asks questions focused on the reading which both then discuss.
After the discussion the listener briefly summarizes, out loud, what the section was about.

In order to best improve his students' speaking ability Mr. Lathan should implement which additional activity?
Partners take turns describing to each other what they have learned from their reading and their discussion of the text.
Part of Speech
for - preposition
football - adjective
Monday - noun
yesterday - adverb
Part of Speech
indeed - conjunctive adverb
although - subordinating conjunction
intelligent - predicate adjective
anything - indefinite pronoun
spelling patterns
u for you - prephonetic
bik for bike - phonetic
mite for might - transitional
would - correct
a fifth-grade class has been researching and writing about a topic. Which of the following is most important for the teacher to include when instructing students how to cite sources?
The teacher should teach students to use quotations to support ideas and to document sources.
A third-grade student is struggling with writing and the parent would like ideas about how to help. Which of the following might the teacher recommend?
The parent and the student can write letters back and forth to each other for fun
A second-grade teacher is planning writing activities for her class. Which of the following activities would be least appropriate?
writing a persuasive essay
A classroom teacher wants to provide opportunities for students to enhance media literacy. Which of the following uses of technology might motivate students and families to work on communication skills outside of class time?
Students use technology to interact on a classroom blog or website.
A fourth-grade teacher would like her students to complete a book report using a variety of media tools. Which of the following activities would best promote the ways language, medium and presentation contribute to the message?
a book trailer with audio and visual effects.
Students in a first-grade class read Johnny Appleseed. After reading, the teacher has students sample various types of apples and vote on their favorite. Which of the following will best display the data from the votes?
bar graph
A teacher introduces new science vocabulary words to her students. The new words describe the various types of volcanoes. Which of the following activities would help students represent the various types of volcanoes?
The students illustrate the volcanoes using descriptions provided.
A first-grade teacher plans to collaborate with parents to develop student literacy development and monitor student progress in reading. To best promote literacy development at home, the teacher should encourage parents to —
read leveled books daily until the student reads them fluently.
Jordan is writing a composition for a class assignment. Read Jordan's composition and the questions that follow.

Mix the blueberries into your muffin batter be sure not to drip the blueberries onto the counter they stain. After the berries are mixed the batter is ready to pour into the pan.

Choose the correct way to edit the paragraph for punctuation. Select one answer.
Mix the blueberries into your muffin batter. Be sure not to drip the blueberries onto the counter because they stain. After the berries are mixed, the batter is ready to pour into the pan.
Mrs. Firebaugh, a second-grade teacher, notices that one of her students is reading well overall but still struggles with words such as "though" and "been". Which of the following instructional strategies would most benefit this student?
high-frequency words with irregular spellings
Mrs. Kelly conducts daily read-alouds in her first-grade classroom. She engages her students throughout a book by asking questions and discussing events. Which of the following teacher questions is least likely to promote oral language?
Do you like the story?
Mrs. Clarinton is working with her first-grade students on recognizing phonemes. She is presenting them with various words and asking them to count the phonemes in them. Of the following words, which one has four phonemes?
little
Mrs. Clarinton is working with her first-grade students on recognizing phonemes. She is presenting them with various words and asking them to count the phonemes in them.

Another activity Mrs. Clarinton has planned is to have students attempt to spell various words given to them orally and then to analyze the spelling results of each student. Which end-result will this activity most likely assist Mrs. Clarinton measure for her students?
phonics skills
A first-grade teacher has several students who are having difficulty applying the alphabetic principle. When assessed on letter knowledge, the students know the letter sounds, however; they still seem to have difficulty with blending the sounds together to pronounce words.

What further assessment would you suggest the teacher give to pinpoint the nature of the students' difficulties?
An informal assessment of the students' phonemic awareness
A first-grade teacher has several students who are having difficulty applying the alphabetic principle. When assessed on letter knowledge, the students know the letter sounds, however; they still seem to have difficulty with blending the sounds together to pronounce words.

Based on the scenario above, in which of the following areas would the students most likely benefit from explicit instruction?
Blending strategies
During a write-aloud activity, the teacher says, "Willie just told us he saw a tiger on our field trip to the zoo. I am going to write Willie's name before I write the name of the animal he saw at the zoo. I will make the "w" a capital letter because the first letter of everyone's name begins with a capital letter." Right after writing Willie's name the teacher writes the word tiger and proceeds with "I just wrote the word tiger. Should I begin the next word next to the "r" in tiger or should I leave a space before I begin the next word?" In this activity, to which of the following skills is the teacher contributing?
print awareness
Structural analysis would be an especially appropriate strategy for a student to use to determine the meaning of which of the following words?
impassable
A sixth-grade teacher plays a short report from a credible and safe news channel and has students orally provide the main idea of the news report. Which of the following answers best reflect why this strategy is effective for supporting oral language skills. Select ALL that apply.
The students evaluate spoken language of others and rephrase using their own language.

The students practice getting the gist of a story in a quick and engaging way.
Watch
3 phonemes
play
3 phoneme
see
2 phonemes
knight
3 phonemes
individual
5 syllables
crocodile
3 syllables
disturbances
4 syllables
correctness
3 syllables
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A first-grade teacher is trying to get her students to recognize the sound made by the letter /b/. Which of the following activities is most likely to accomplish that?
Have students clap once every time they hear the sound of the letter "b" in a story the teacher reads to them.
In planning an order of introduction of letter-sound correspondences, which of the following would a kindergarten teacher most likely introduce first?
Single consonants and short vowels
Being able to connect speech sounds with the printed letters they represent is a description of
Phonics
A first grade students is reading a story aloud. The student attempts to read the sentence, "Jill likes to play on a swing." Printed below is an excerpt from the students comments as he attempts to read the sentence.

Which of the following teacher responses to the students question would best address this goal?
Using graphophonic cues to help analyze and decode an unfamiliar word.
A first grade students is reading a story aloud. The student attempts to read the sentence, "Jill likes to play on a swing." Printed below is an excerpt from the students comments as he attempts to read the sentence.

Which of the following teacher prompts would most likely be effective in eliciting helpful information about the students use of word-identification strategies?
"Tell me how you figured out that the word was swing."
Which of the following is most likely to foster print awareness among preschoolers?
The teacher models one-to-one match by pointing words in the lyrics while singing a popular song that the entire class knows.
Students in Ms. Clay's class often attempts to read independently, sometimes relying on their memories, the illustrations, and their background experiences to reread the story. Which of the following is typically not learned during the emergent literacy stage?
recognition of an increasing number of sight words.
Jabberwocky
being familiar with common language structures can help a reader interpret text
Mrs. Swanson is attempting to help students select books that they can read on their own. As part of this process she must determine each student's independent reading level. In order to accomplish this task effectively, Mrs. Swanson should select books in which students-
have 5 or less word recognition errors per 100 words of text.
Mrs. Swanson is attempting to help students select books that they can read on their own. As part of this process she must determine each student's independent reading level Mrs. Swanson's best approach would be to
administer an informal reading inventory to each student.
A third-grade student is struggling in reading. The teacher notices the child devotes too much attention to decoding and not enough attention to the meaning of the text. The teacher could best help the student by
working on fluency skills
When you buy sunscreen...
Remember if you're like most people
A teacher wants to take advantage of students oral language strengths to promote their reading proficiency. She begins planning a variety of activities for this purpose. Which of the following steps would be most important for the teacher to take when introducing the activity described above?
Models for the class how to make predictions about a story based on its title and illustrations.
A teacher wants to take advantage of students oral language strengths to promote their reading proficiency. She begins planning a variety of activities for this purpose. Which of the following additions to the activity describes in the previous page would most effectively use oral language interactions to promote the students reading comprehension?
After reading their story, partners meet again to discuss the story and talk about how their predictions compare with the actual story.
archipelago
students learn information more readily when the information is presented graphically.

Students read the passage containing the target word.
Rub it on
By promoting word analysis through the use of context clues
A fourth grader who has been conducting research on the internet complains to the teacher that he finds great locations on the world wide web but often cant remember how to find them later. the teacher could best respond by
showing the student how to set bookmarks to enable him to return easily to useful locations.
A sixth-grade teacher is planning mini-lessons to help student locate information by navigating the internet. For each mini-lesson, the teacher will introduce a particular navigation strategy (e.g., using the hotkey Ctrl + F to search content), show students why it is useful, and then give students an opportunity to practice. The teacher could best promote student learning during the activity by
having students practice with a peer so they can share information about navigation strategies.
Brian write "hom" for the word home. when considering the developmental stages of spelling, Brian uses
phonetic spelling
During guided reading groups, a teacher points out the use of apostrophes in possessive nouns to a group of students. The teacher was
building a understanding of writing conventions through the use of literature.
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