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Mr. Batista's sixth grade class has been studying volcanoes. He designs the
following activity for the class, which includes a number of English learners.
The paragraph-building activity designed by Mr. Batista is likely to promote
English learners' reading development primarily by helping them --
B. transfer skills from oral language to written language.
Mr. Batista's sixth grade class has been studying volcanoes. He designs the
following activity for the class, which includes a number of English learners.
Which of the following best describes one important way in which this activity is
likely to benefit English learners?
C. Discussing and writing about a content-area topic supports English learners' reading
of related texts by reinforcing key vocabulary, language structures, and schemata.
syllables?
individual- 5
crocodile- 3
disturbances- 4
correctness-3
phonemes?
fox-4
plan-4
sight-3
shin-3
bent-4
phonemes?
watch-3
play-3
see-2
knight-3
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?
C. 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.
Which end-result will this activity most likely assist Mrs. Clarinton to measure for
her students?
D. phonics skills
This assessment would be an appropriate way to test the student's ability to
perform which of the following phonemic awareness tasks?
, C. Recognizing how many phonemes are contained in a word
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 mist likely recommend
B. play rhyming and sound games.
Phonemic awareness is a predictor for success in reading. Which of the following
is NOT a true statement about phonemic awareness skills?
C. Phonemic awareness involves the relationship between phonemes and graphemes
in words.
A first grade teacher has several students who are having difficulty applying the
alphabetic principle.
What further assessment would you suggest the teacher give to pinpoint the
nature of the students' difficulties?
A. an informal assessment of the students' phonemic awareness
A first grade teacher has several students who are having difficulty applying the
alphabetic principle.
Based on the scenario above in which of the following areas would the students
most likely benefit from explicit instruction?
D. blending strategies
In planning an order of introduction of letter-sound correspondences, which of
the following would a kindergarten teacher most likely introduce first.
B. Single consonants and short vowels
A first grade teacher is delivering explicit instruction in letter sounds. The teacher
begins the lesson by writing the letter 'n' on the board and says, this is the letter
n. it makes the n sound.
The purpose of the writing step of the lesson described above is to
D. associate the letter name sound, and shape
The parents of a pre-kindergarten student say that their child is learning to
recognize a name letters of the alphabet but has not yet learned to write any of
the letters. The parents wonder whether they should encourage the child to try
writing the letters. The teacher could best respond by
C explaining that the letter writing can benefit the student by reinforcing his letter
recognition skills
A first grade Student is reading a story aloud. The student attempts to read the
sentence " Jill likes to play on the swing" Printed below is an excerpt from the
student comments as he attempts to read the sentence.
In the comments above the student most clearly demonstrates which of the
following reading skills
B. using graph of phonic cues to help analyze and the decode in unfamiliar word
A first grade Student is reading a story aloud. The student attempts to read the
sentence " Jill likes to play on the swing" Printed below is an excerpt from the
student comments as he attempts to read the sentence.