At the beginning of the school year, a first grade teacher assesses the students to determine their understanding of print, This will best be demonstrated by the students....
showing where to start reading the text
Mr.s Rivera's kindergarten class asked her to write their favorite poem. She writes each phrase or sentence the child dictates. She directs their attention to the beginning and ending of each line as she writes and then orderly repeats the dictation to reinforce...
Left to right writing knowlege
When students dictate stories reread their stories and practice the words on flashcards, the teacher is using...
Language experience approach
A teacher wants to enlist the assistance of their students' reading performance. The most effective way to involve the parents is to...
Parent-child pair reading
A teacher read numerous word plat book to and with her students. This activity primarily promote the development of...
Phonological awareness
Which word recognition method would be most effective for teaching the following words? Mail man, fire place, anchor woman...
Sight Words
It is very difficult for student to accommodate new information that conflicts the previous information of belief. Which of the following explains this phenomenon?
Metacognitive Process
Which of the following illustrates a directed reading approach sequence?
The teacher prepares student for reading with vocabulary in background information, conduct oral reading, and provide for silent reading.
Mr. Sutton is beginning a new unit in his social studies book. He instructs the class to read the title; read the introduction, summary and question; read the heading and sub headings read the print; study visual materials such as pictures, maps and diagram. Which of the following study skill is he demonstrating?
Previewing
Textual factors that affect comprehension include...
Word identification, background, and visual displays
Following a student incorrect response, a teacher rephrases the question again. This activity is appropriate...
Appropriate because it helps the student focus on the question
Will thought he was a poor writer because he misspelled so many words even though his teacher found the story he wrote exciting. The best method to help Will with his spelling ability is to have him...
Use a word wall to look up his words
Mr. Mixon develops a set of word cards emphasizing the AT sound. Each of Mr. Mixon's word has the AT sound that has a different beginning. He asks the student to read each word. If a student cannot read a word then Mr. Mixon points out the letter difference and how it is pronounced. Mr. Mixon is asking the students to do what?
Graphophonemic cues
When reading a paragraph in her social studies textbook, Mary has difficulty distinguishing a main idea from supportive points and details. An appropriate activity that will help her will be to...
Skim an entire reading selection rapidly
A teacher is helping his student locate who, what, when and why in reading. This activity will help student develop which of the following reading skills?
Critical Reading Skills
The study of acronyms would help students understand the meaning of which of the following words?
scuba, sonar, zip
Which instructional methods will help students recognize the following words? Shred, flake, crumble, broil, fried, stir, toss, fold, mixture, and blend....
Paraphrasing
Knowledge of vocabulary or word meaning correlates strongly with
Word recognition
Mr. Cury's 4th grade class will do a unit on Florida's early history. Students will read about the major events from this period. Which graphic organizer will help facilitate student's understandings of this unit?
Time line
One of the best ways to help students learn to read a graph is to...
Ask student to record their reading rate on a graph
The local newspaper contains two articles on an editorial on the same object. The two articles could be used in the language arts to teach...
Facts and opinions
Mrs. Thomas wants to teach critical thinking skills to her third grade class. What would be the most effective strategy in doing this?
Provide open-end reading problems to solve in groups
After his student read a detective story from a basal reader, Mr. Voran ask them to make a judgement about the guilt or innocent of the main character. What type of thinking is Mr. Voran promoting.
Divergent
Directions for characters is an example of element most frequently found in...
Drama
Which genre of literature describes deeds of heroes or heroine who are swift, moving rate, magic and with happy endings....
Fairy tales
Identify the literary device used in the following example; "his nose is as red as a rose."
Similie
A media specialist selected mostly award winning classified literature for the media center. This selection process was..
Appropriate because the selection represents the best writing models
Students are working on several groups around the classroom after becoming familiar with the textbook Williams Staige. Some are constructing murals. Others are dramatizing the story. The rest of the students are constructing the story a large paper Marche model. Which grouping style is used in this situation?
Interest
According to reader responses theory, what activity would be most appropriate to be used in advance 6th grade class who are reading demuapassant's "The Necklace"?
Elicit students' experiences relevant to the story; assign readings followed by discussions
A student in the beginning state of writing development will be most likely to...
Develop sentence writing
A 6th grade course guide requires students to revise all parts of writing process- prewriting, drafting, revising and editing. What will be the best approach at the beginning of the school year?
Explain all phases of the writing process, provide visual stimuli, and brainstorm ideas on the topic to be assigned.
A 1st grade teacher shares a poem about mice and nice and says , "I think mice are nice!" each child is asked something about mice. This exercise represents which type of writing process?
prewriting
Choose the sentence that contains no errors
My brother-in-law, in my opinion, is a "stuffed shirt."
Choose the sentence that contains no errors
Geneses Laboratory is ready for production as its cancer detection compound gets approved for clinical trials
Miss Bankraft wants her students to write an essay that would cause them to consider ways that they have acquired and currently use language. What kind of piece would be most effective for this purpose?
Literacy autobiography
In her writing tasks Mrs. Charles has asked her students to write a selection that will include characters, action relative to problem and solutions. This is an example of what writing mode?
Expository
Which mode of writing is best characterized as using metaphor, similes, and details to create a picture?
Descriptive
What writing format is used when writing a friend or relative?
letter
A first grader has completed a unit on nature and science and syllabication in reading. When the class creates these words as interdisciplinary project, what type of writing is appropriate?
Journal
An effective way to determine students' ability to recall information is...
Summarazing
Tad is a 3rd grade students working on a 2.5 instructional reading level. He enjoys reading but has difficulty in comprehension. He is having difficulties in pronouncing words. What would the first appropriate test for the teacher to administer?
Phonics Test
Simon scored at the 80th percentile on a standardized reading achievement test. This indicates that Simon is...
Scored as well or better than 80% of the norming group
Rubric is used for a student...
Writing an essay
The FCAT writing test is graded on a scale of...
1-6
Mr. Howard words with a big red book in his kindergarten class, he reads the title and the authors name, emphasizing and explaining the words title and author to stress.
Parts of a book
Which vocabulary skill would a student use to do the exercise presented below? The boy hit the TALL BALL BAT with a bat...
Use of context clues
What is the largest vocabulary for a 2nd grade child?
Speaking
Jerry a bright 6th grade student did not read a short passage and subsequently could not answer the teacher's questions. Which corrective strategy would be most appropriate?
Direct him to read the key portion of the text silently
Using letter/sound connection is an example of what type of cueing system?
Semantic
Which strategy will be most useful for increasing a students understanding of main idea?
Categorizing phrases in the lesson to a central idea
Identify the instructional methods that will help students recognize the relationship among the following words: ALLIGATORS, FROGS, CROCODILES, TOADS, SALAMANDERS
Semantic feature analysis
The study of acronyms would help students understand the meaning of which of the following words?
Radar, laser, sonar, scanner
The following excerpt appears in 5th grade social studies textbook : " the trouble was getting worse. People in many of the small towns were getting ready for war. Men and teenage boys were being trained to fight. They were called minuteman because they were ready to fight a moments notice." Which question would be most effective in directing students' attention to the cause effect relationship?
Why were men and teenage boys trained to fight
Students in a 6th grade class are encouraged to read the newspaper for a part of the class period 3 days a week. The teacher should suggest to the student that the best approach for reading a newspaper is to...
Skim the entire newspaper, then read closely the important and interested articles
To help her 6th grade students apply critical thinking skills Mrs. Flores wants her students to identify propaganda techniques. The most effective instructional practice would be to have the students...
Create a dictionary of biased or loaded words and phrases
A selection in a 5th grade textbook about the first woman astronaut Sally Ride exemplifies the genre of....
Biography
Mrs. Green realizes her classroom need a wider selection of multicultural books. To help her choose good books she would refer to...
The media center's collection
Which 6th grade activity represents a student-centered approach for responding to the Theodore Taylor novel, THE SNIPER?
Following reading, students participate in teacher led discussions
3rd graders have listened to the teacher read the humorous part of the book just for you. They each have written an original sentence after the book, the teacher intends to collect their work in a book loaned out in the media center. The students are now in the process of illustrating their own sentences. For which of the following are the children preparing.
Publishing
choose a sentence that contains no errors
An effective way to teach a large group of students in grades three, four, and five is through the use of flexible groups
A student is writing a cause and effect paper and asks for assistance with transitions. Which group of transitions would be the best choice?
To begin, next, finally
The mode of writing that includes many details and often uses adjectives and verbs to evoke images in a readers mins is called...
Descriptive
After a unit on book report the teacher receives the following responses from the writing assignment. "I grew up in a citrus in central Florida. One of my duties was to help pick the oranges." This is an example of what type of writing?
Reflection
At the beginning of the year a teacher wanted to determine her student independent and instructional levels. Which assessment instrument is most appropriate?
Informal reading inventory
The following information has been recorded about Gonzalez, a 2nd grader
Running record note 1: Read words accurately but slowly
Anecodtal note 2: resist reading silently
Running record 2: Read words accurately but slowly
Performance on informal silent reading test 1: poor comprehension
What instructional strategies would probably be most beneficial for Gonzalez?
Provide a software program that includes short passages, and feed back on performance