TExES Science of Teaching Reading (STR) (293) V3 Exam Questions and Answers

TExES Science of Teaching Reading (STR) (293) V3 Exam Questions and Answers A first-grade teacher teaches three sight words per week during the course of the fall semester. This includes reading books and playing games containing the words. At the end of six weeks of instruction, she has students take turns individually reading all the sight words taught over the six week period from the word wall. The teacher then records the percentage of words each student reads correctly as a grade in the grade book. Which of the following assessment types is this teacher utilizing? - Ans:- summative assessment A third-grade teacher administers a fluency benchmark halfway through the year and notices several students in the class are reading in the 80th percentile or above when it comes to Words Correct Per Minute (WCPM). However, when reading out loud, this same group of students reads without proper inflection or phrasing. Which of the following strategies should the teacher implement in order to help these students? - Ans:-have students participate in reader's theatre several times per week In a kindergarten class, several students have mastered the letter-sound relationships for the consonant letters g, d, and b. In addition, the students have mastered the short vowel sound for the letter o. This ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 2/18 group of students also consistently uses initial and final consonant sounds correctly when spelling words during writing time. In order to help this group of students develop along the continuum of knowledge and skills related to the alphabetic principle, the teacher should take which of the following steps? - Ans:-In a small group, read simple, decodable texts containing the letter sounds students have mastered, modeling how the letter sounds combine to form words. A second-grade teacher recently received a new student who has been diagnosed with dyslexia. Which of the following approaches should the teacher implement during reading instructional time? - Ans:- a multimodal curriculum with various literacy activities How many phonemes are in the word "spit"? - Ans:-4 A kindergarten teacher is planning to read the book Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins, by James Dean, to the class and ask some text-dependent questions. The teacher has several English Language Learners in the classroom and wants to ask developmentally appropriate questions. In the book, five pumpkins sit on a gate, fly in the air, and trick or treat, among other fall activities. The book talks about each pumpkin, from number one to number five, and each one's unique characteristics. At the end of the story, the pumpkins are shown walking away from the reader, ready to have fun. The teacher turns to the page in the book where the pumpkins are flying and says, "What are the pumpkins doing?" When calling on students, the teacher should expect a student with a beginning level of oral language proficiency to respond by: - Ans:-pointing to the flying pumpkin in the book while the teacher holds it open. ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 3/18 A kindergarten teacher is planning to read the book Pete the Cat: Five Little Pumpkins, by James Dean, to the class and ask some text-dependent questions. The teacher has several English Language Learners in the classroom and wants to ask developmentally appropriate questions. In the book, five pumpkins sit on a gate, fly in the air, and trick or treat, among other fall activities. The book talks about each pumpkin, from number one to number five, and each one's unique characteristics. At the end of the story, the pumpkins are shown walking away from the reader, ready to have fun. On one page of the text, the pumpkins are scared because the wind has blown out the candles. The picture in the book shows just the pumpkins' scared eyes and the lights out all around them. The teacher says, "All we can see are the pumpkins' eyes. How do you think they are feeling right now?" A student answers, "Sad. It dark." This response - Ans:-Intermediate A third-grade class contains students at various levels of English language proficiency. Some have been learning English for less than a year. This week, the teacher has been conducting read alouds featuring biographies as part of a unit on book genres. So far, the teacher has read from the following biographies: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and Harriet Tubman. However, next week, the teacher plans to incorporate excerpts from biographies on Caesar Chavez and Frida Kahlo. Then, the students will pick another person of interest, conduct research, and complete the organizer below: After the organizers are complete, the teacher tells students to take the information they have learned and form a paragraph summarizing the most important aspects of their research. At a later date, ©GRACEAMELIA 2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 4/18 students will revise and edit their paragraphs with a peer and then read them aloud individually to the class. The teacher notices some - Ans:-provide the students with sentence stems to guide their writing A third-grade class contains students at various levels of English language proficiency. Some have been learning English for less than a year. This week, the teacher has been conducting read alouds featuring biographies as part of a unit on book genres. So far, the teacher has read from the following biographies: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and Harriet Tubman. However, next week, the teacher plans to incorporate excerpts from biographies on Caesar Chavez and Frida Kahlo. Then, the students will pick another person of interest, conduct research, and complete the organizer below: After the organizers are complete, the teacher tells students to take the information they have learned and form a paragraph summarizing the most important aspects of their research. At a later date, students will revise and edit their paragraphs with a peer and then read them aloud individually to the class. By including biographies - Ans:-including culturally relevant texts in the curriculum. An elementary classroom contains several English Language Learners with different native language backgrounds. The teacher gives these students a series of word sort activities featuring various word endings (such as -ed, -ing, -er, and -est). This type of activity shows students how to: - Ans:-recognize and use inflectional word endings they are unfamiliar wi