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TEST 305 EXAM
The Illinois Learning Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy
include teaching students at the fourth-grade level how to use context,
Greek and Latin roots, and reference materials to promote vocabulary
acquisition. Which of the following statements best explains how these
strategies contribute to students' overall reading development and will
help them develop college and career readiness in vocabulary?
A. Students need to develop a variety of independent word-learning
strategies to deal with the volume of new words they will encounter in
wide reading.
B. Students need to develop an awareness of new words they may
encounter in their reading so that they will be able to retain them
effectively in the future.
C. Students need to develop an ability to spell and properly pronounce
words that they may need to apply in their future speaking and writing
endeavors.
D. Students need to develop knowledge of a ran - ANSWERS-A.
Students need to develop a variety of independent word-learning
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, ELEMENTARY LATEST
EDUCATION CONTENT
TEST 305 EXAM
strategies to deal with the volume of new words they will encounter in
wide reading.
A first-grade teacher is working with a small group of emergent readers
and would like to promote their ability to identify the final consonant
sound in spoken words. Which of the following student activities would
best promote achievement of this goal?
A. writing all the words they know that end in the same final sound and
reading the words aloud
B. circling the last letter of each word on a list of grade-level words and
saying the letter's name aloud
C. saying aloud the words depicted on picture cards and sorting the cards
by the last sound in each word
D. reading a simple grade-level poem aloud and segmenting the onsets
and rimes of the final word in each line - ANSWERS-C. saying aloud
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EDUCATION CONTENT
TEST 305 EXAM
The Illinois Learning Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy
include teaching students at the fourth-grade level how to use context,
Greek and Latin roots, and reference materials to promote vocabulary
acquisition. Which of the following statements best explains how these
strategies contribute to students' overall reading development and will
help them develop college and career readiness in vocabulary?
A. Students need to develop a variety of independent word-learning
strategies to deal with the volume of new words they will encounter in
wide reading.
B. Students need to develop an awareness of new words they may
encounter in their reading so that they will be able to retain them
effectively in the future.
C. Students need to develop an ability to spell and properly pronounce
words that they may need to apply in their future speaking and writing
endeavors.
D. Students need to develop knowledge of a ran - ANSWERS-A.
Students need to develop a variety of independent word-learning
END OF
PAGE
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, ELEMENTARY LATEST
EDUCATION CONTENT
TEST 305 EXAM
strategies to deal with the volume of new words they will encounter in
wide reading.
A first-grade teacher is working with a small group of emergent readers
and would like to promote their ability to identify the final consonant
sound in spoken words. Which of the following student activities would
best promote achievement of this goal?
A. writing all the words they know that end in the same final sound and
reading the words aloud
B. circling the last letter of each word on a list of grade-level words and
saying the letter's name aloud
C. saying aloud the words depicted on picture cards and sorting the cards
by the last sound in each word
D. reading a simple grade-level poem aloud and segmenting the onsets
and rimes of the final word in each line - ANSWERS-C. saying aloud
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