STR PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
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A first-grade class has recently attended a play at a local
concert hall. After seeing the play, the students read a
book that tells the story to the students using grade-level
appropriate vocabulary. Because students already know
the basic plot of the story, the teacher is able to pause
often and have students practice reading and saying
decodable words. Then, the teacher forms small table
groups and gives students sentence strips. She asks the
groups to write a short summary of the story by writing
one sentence per paper strip. While walking around, the
students ask the teacher how to spell several decodable
words from the text. The teacher tells the students to
sound out the words as they spell them. By asking the
students to sound out the words, the teacher is:
A.) encouraging students to use what they know about
letter/sound correspondence in their writing.
B.) encouraging students to think about content vocabu -
correct answer- A
,A first-grade class has recently finished reading the story
The Three Little Pigs. After reading, the teacher asks
students to complete the organizer below with their table
partners (Somebody, wanted, but, so, then, complete
sentence).After completing the organizer, the teacher
asks several students to share the sentence they wrote.
One student shares the following sentence: "The pigs
wanted to build houses but the wolf wanted to blow them
down."
The teacher then says, "So, then what happened?"
By asking this follow-up question, the teacher is furthering
the student's oral language development by:
A.)requiring the student to use the specific conjunctions
"so" and "then" in a verbal response.
B.) prompting the student to support an opinion with
textual evidence.
C.) asking the student to verbally articulate a concise
summary of the story.
D.) showing the student how to form a more
grammatically complex sentence. - correct answer-
c
,A first-grade teacher calls each student to her desk
individually, gives them a word, such as mop, and asks
them to replace the first sound with a new sound, such
as /h/. Students are then assessed on their ability to make
the new word out of the given word and new sound, in
this case, hop. Which of the following developing reading
skills is the teacher evaluating by administering this
assessment?
A.) vocabulary development
B.)fluency skills
C.) phonemic awareness
D.) print awareness - correct answer- C
A first-grade teacher is forming reading intervention
groups. All of the following assessments would be useful
for this teacher to utilize except:
A.) a story retelling assessment.
B.) a reading interest inventory
, C.) an oral reading fluency skills test.
D.) a phonics skills assessment - correct answer-
B
A first-grade teacher is planning a series of phonics
lessons. Before beginning the lessons, the teacher
administers a pre-test to each student on the skills that
will be covered. After the lessons, the teacher administers
a post-test to each student. The following is an example of
one student's assessment.
Pre-Test Word List
Student Reads
Post-Test Word List
Student Reads
shop
hop
thin
tin
100% CORRECT (FULLY SOLVED)
A first-grade class has recently attended a play at a local
concert hall. After seeing the play, the students read a
book that tells the story to the students using grade-level
appropriate vocabulary. Because students already know
the basic plot of the story, the teacher is able to pause
often and have students practice reading and saying
decodable words. Then, the teacher forms small table
groups and gives students sentence strips. She asks the
groups to write a short summary of the story by writing
one sentence per paper strip. While walking around, the
students ask the teacher how to spell several decodable
words from the text. The teacher tells the students to
sound out the words as they spell them. By asking the
students to sound out the words, the teacher is:
A.) encouraging students to use what they know about
letter/sound correspondence in their writing.
B.) encouraging students to think about content vocabu -
correct answer- A
,A first-grade class has recently finished reading the story
The Three Little Pigs. After reading, the teacher asks
students to complete the organizer below with their table
partners (Somebody, wanted, but, so, then, complete
sentence).After completing the organizer, the teacher
asks several students to share the sentence they wrote.
One student shares the following sentence: "The pigs
wanted to build houses but the wolf wanted to blow them
down."
The teacher then says, "So, then what happened?"
By asking this follow-up question, the teacher is furthering
the student's oral language development by:
A.)requiring the student to use the specific conjunctions
"so" and "then" in a verbal response.
B.) prompting the student to support an opinion with
textual evidence.
C.) asking the student to verbally articulate a concise
summary of the story.
D.) showing the student how to form a more
grammatically complex sentence. - correct answer-
c
,A first-grade teacher calls each student to her desk
individually, gives them a word, such as mop, and asks
them to replace the first sound with a new sound, such
as /h/. Students are then assessed on their ability to make
the new word out of the given word and new sound, in
this case, hop. Which of the following developing reading
skills is the teacher evaluating by administering this
assessment?
A.) vocabulary development
B.)fluency skills
C.) phonemic awareness
D.) print awareness - correct answer- C
A first-grade teacher is forming reading intervention
groups. All of the following assessments would be useful
for this teacher to utilize except:
A.) a story retelling assessment.
B.) a reading interest inventory
, C.) an oral reading fluency skills test.
D.) a phonics skills assessment - correct answer-
B
A first-grade teacher is planning a series of phonics
lessons. Before beginning the lessons, the teacher
administers a pre-test to each student on the skills that
will be covered. After the lessons, the teacher administers
a post-test to each student. The following is an example of
one student's assessment.
Pre-Test Word List
Student Reads
Post-Test Word List
Student Reads
shop
hop
thin
tin
