ABCTE Alphabetics and Fluency Quiz 19 Questions with Verified Answers
Which of the following sets of concepts represents elements of the alphabetic
... [Show More] principle? - CORRECT ANSWER Grapheme-phoneme correspondence, letter names, spelling patterns
Gerry, a child in Ms. Moro's first-grade class, stops reading aloud every time he encounters a word with a "d" in it. He seems to read well otherwise. What would you do, if you were Ms. Moro? - CORRECT ANSWER Assess Gerry's letter knowledge, especially of "b" and "d," "p" and "q" and "g," and the sounds associated with them.
Giovanni read from a leveled text for one minute. Ms. Folger recorded his mistakes by marking slashes over the words he misread. How can Ms. Folger determine Giovanni's fluency score? - CORRECT ANSWER Subtract the number of mistakes from the total number of words read in one minute to get his fluency score in "words correct per minute."
Which of the following strategies will help kindergarten students associate a letter with its sound? - CORRECT ANSWER Letter Days, on which every activity is about a letter that begins a classmate's name
A kindergarten teacher uses large letter cards to illustrate a phonemic awareness lesson in which the initial /r/ in "rat" is replaced with /s/. He and the students read the old word, "rat," before he removes the r. They read the remaining "at," and then, when the teacher adds the s, they read the new word, "sat." What is being accomplished in this lesson? - CORRECT ANSWER The relationships of letters to sounds are being established while being used in a practical phonemic awareness exercise.
Which of the following is the explicit phonics method in which the teacher presents a spoken word and the students write or assemble the letters for that word? - CORRECT ANSWER Phonics through spelling
Sanjay is regarded by his second-grade classmates to be the best reader because he reads aloud very quickly. Why might you need to provide corrective feedback to Speedy Sanjay? - CORRECT ANSWER Fluency is as much about inflection as it is about speed. You might need to encourage Sanjay to slow down some and think about how meaning should affect his inflection.
How does fluency relate to comprehension, and therefore to extracting information from text? - CORRECT ANSWER Fluency is reading with inflection, which reflects the student's comprehension.
Ms. Lyons teaches her students to pluralize words like hurry, fairy, puppy, and baby by dropping the y and adding the suffix "-ies," pointing out that the y and the i trade places, but make the same sound. She illustrates this interchangeability by referring the students to words like boy, boil, say, sail, pay, pail, tray, and trail. Then she asks students why fly becomes flies, but tray becomes trays. Ms. Lyons is using ___________ to reinforce and extend phonics. - CORRECT ANSWER Spelling
Which of the following phonological awareness skills is being addressed when students change the /u/ in "stump" to /a/ to form "stamp?" - CORRECT ANSWER Phonemic awareness
Will Kassandra's fluency level be different, depending on whether a text is at her independent reading level, her instructional reading level, or her frustration reading level? - CORRECT ANSWER Yes. A student's fluency level is inversely proportional to the difficulty of the text.
Which of the following statements accurately represents the relationships among phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, and comprehension? - CORRECT ANSWER Phonemic awareness facilitates decoding. Decoding facilitates fluency. Fluency facilitates comprehension. Comprehension enhances a student's fluency.
There are two months left in the school year, and nearly all of Ms. Lim's kindergarten students have mastered segmenting and blending phonemes. What should Ms. Lim do for the remainder of the year? - CORRECT ANSWER Move into phonics instruction and introduce simple sight words. Address phonemic awareness objectives in small groups with the students who need it.
Elana, a student in Mr. Dolejs's second-grade class, is reluctant to read independently either at home or during silent reading times at school. Which of the following steps should Mr. Dolejs consider next to encourage Elana to read? - CORRECT ANSWER Interview Elana about her interests and hobbies.
Which set of elements makes up a complete reading program? - CORRECT ANSWER Phonemic awareness/phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary
Which of the following phonological awareness skills is a dependable strategy for decoding unfamiliar words? - CORRECT ANSWER Segmenting and blending phonemes: Helps students to decode a word like treat, based upon prior knowledge of the word eat, to which initial phonemes /t/ and/r/ are added
In which of the following words does the phoneme /p/ appear twice? - CORRECT ANSWER Parapet
Which of the following would be an appropriate way to determine whether a text is at a student's independent reading level? - CORRECT ANSWER Ask the student to read aloud from the text for one minute while you follow along on your copy. Mark each word on which the student makes a mistake. If the student misses more than five percent of the words, then the text is above her independent reading level.
Which of the following statements is true about the word pantry? - CORRECT ANSWER It contains two syllables and six phonemes. [Show Less]