At the end, the class reads the text they have created together. What is the LEAST likely purpose of this activity?
To teach a predetermined list of
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When selecting which words, or parts of words, a student might write, Mr. Sherwin draws upon his knowledge of his students' reading and writing. Which of the following guidelines should Mr. Sherwin follow?
Words that are at the student's zone of proximal development in reading and writing
While the class is telling their "News of the Day", one of Mr. Sherwin's students, Tania, wants to write, "My friend is coming to my house to play." To help students with concepts of both reading and writing, which of the following skills is the LEAST likely one for Mr. Sherwin to focus on if most of his students are at the level of emergent reader and writer?
the "i before e" rule in the word friend
Between which ages do children typically show rapid growth in literacy, as they experiment with writing by forming scribbles, random strings of letters, and letter-like forms?
3-4
Read the following characteristics of one of the programs and then select which one it pertains to:
Half of the class is proficient in a foreign language, while the other half is proficient in English. Students of opposing languages are encouraged to work together in learning each other's language.
Dual language immersion/two-way
Read the following example of a lesson taught by a teacher, and then select from the answers what this type of lesson focuses on improving.
Mr. Reed assigns the class to look at a bunch of pictures of food items and then instructs them to match the food items to their corresponding words.
Vocabulary Definition
A teacher works with English learners at various levels of language proficiency. Which of the following strategies provides language support for ELs during classroom instruction? Select all that apply.
Visuals which illustrate complex concepts.
Access to content word lists.
Cooperative learning activities.
An effective way to teach syllables is to break them down into a tree or structure. What are the two main categories that all syllables can be broken down into?
Onset.
Rime.
After participating in this activity, all of the students review the chapter in their science text about volcanoes.
Which of the following best describes one important way in which this activity is likely to benefit English learners?
Discussing and writing about a content-area topic supports English learners' reading of related texts by reinforcing key vocabulary, language structures, and schemata
After participating in this activity, all of the students review the chapter in their science text about volcanoes.
The paragraph-building activity designed by Mr. Batista is likely to promote English learners' reading development primarily by helping them
Transfer skills from oral language to written language
Mrs. Show is teaching a unit on biographies. Which of the following assignments is most likely to reflect cultural diversity and deepen students' knowledge of how literature can develop an understanding of people's lives as they relate to the culture and environment in which they live?
Have students select two biographies to read that are about individuals from two different cultures. Have students compare the subjects of the biographies with a special emphasis on how their lives were shaped by their surroundings.
A second grade teacher wants to assess students' ability to apply knowledge of phonics to spell words correctly. Which of the following assessment strategies would be most effective for this purpose?
The teacher dictates a set of words for the students to write, and then the teacher analyzes how the students encode different sounds
Which of the following is the LEAST beneficial for helping English learners prepare to take a standardized test?
Spend the majority of class time on practice tests.
Miss Charles is reviewing the standardized reading test results for her students. Which of the following statements best reflects what she should consider as she reviews the results for her English learners?
Standardized tests in English often do not reflect the true content knowledge of English Learners
A second grade student reads slowly and has trouble decoding words like also and over. The student most likely
needs practice sight words
Ongoing assessments are critical to help a teacher plan instruction, especially for English learners. Which of the following is the LEAST important step for a teacher to take after gathering assessment data?
Provide a grade for each assessment
Which of the teacher prompts is a weak response?
That's right - toys!
In her response to "It was funny," the teacher used the word amusing to
purposefully model an alternative word that the child is not accustomed to using
A first grade teacher uses sentence stems to assist English learners' reading and writing skills. This activity might also promote students' writing development by
helping students build an understanding of syntactic structure
Mr. Chavez is a second grade teacher who has several English learners in his class. He is planning the next lesson in his fraction unit, which will focus on halves, fourths, and eighths. To meet the content, language, and literacy needs of all students, which of the following lesson activities should Mr. Chavez implement?
Mr. Chavez places each student with a partner. Working together, each pair of students draw three different shapes with shading that represents examples showing halves, fourths, or eighths. When students finish, each pair shares their drawings with the class
Miss Bolton has planned a reading response assignment that corresponds with the novel her sixth grade students are reading. The English learners in her class, all in the intermediate language proficiency level of speaking and writing, have enjoyed the novel and participated well with class discussion and comprehension checks. She knows they may have difficulty, though, knowing how to approach this assignment. Which of the following strategies is the most helpful to support their understanding of the assignment?
Provide a sample of what a completed project might look like.
During guided reading groups, a teacher points out the use of apostrophes in possessive nouns to a group of students. The teacher was
building an understanding of writing conventions through the use of literature
Mrs. Gomez just welcomed two new students who are English learners into her first grade classroom. Both students are at the Beginning level of English language proficiency in listening and speaking. To support their oral language development in English, which of the following activities would best help these two English learner begin to make cross-language connections?
activities that introduce these students to sounds that are common and uncommon in their native language and English
In the activity, students will move one counter for each sound heard in CVC words that the teacher presents orally. The intent of the above activity is most likely:
to make the segmenting of words into phonemes less abstract.
Mr. Kano uses the Picture Word Inductive Model in his second grade class to help his students develop content vocabulary. He posts a large picture related to a subject the class is studying. As the class discusses the picture, Mr. Kano labels elements of the picture the students know. Which of the following language skills is LEAST likely to be developed during this activity?
blending sounds in words
A kindergarten teacher has several students who need to improve their 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 most likely recommend?
Play rhyming and sound games
A first grade teacher is trying to get her students to recognize the sound made by the letter b. Which of the following activities is most likely to accomplish that?
Have students clap once every time they hear the sound of the letter b in a story the teacher reads to them.
Which of the following phonemic awareness skills is usually developed last and often after the age of six?
Sound deletion
A beginning first grade teacher confers with a reading specialist teacher in school about the difficulties several English learners are having with orally segmenting three- and-four-phoneme words. Based on a convergence of research evidence, which of the following piece of advice should the reading teacher give?
Continue with oral phoneme segmentation activities but begin linking sounds to letters and print as soon as possible.
A kindergarten teacher wants to plan instructional activities to enhance her students' ability to blend and segment onset and rime. Which of the following instructional activities is least likely to help accomplish this goal?
The teacher says, "cow" and "boy", the student says, "cowboy"
A new kindergarten teacher has asked for help in determining an appropriate way to assess a student's ability to produce rhymes. Which of the following informal assessment techniques is most likely to give the kindergarten teacher the information she seeks?
The teacher gives the student three rhyming words, the student is asked to give another word that follows the pattern (e.g. the teacher says, "sip, dip, flip, What is another word that rhymes with sip, dip, and flip?" The student says, "rip")
The teacher uses this activity in small groups on a regular basis, adding or changing letter cards as new letter sound correspondences are learned and mastered. This making-words activity is likely to promote students word recognition by:
helping students read regular words
Mrs. Hefner recently administered a print concepts assessment among his kindergarten students. While analyzing each student's correct are incorrect responses, he noticed a small group of students appeared to struggle with directionality. Which of the following would be the most appropriate differentiation strategy that Mr. Hefner may incorporate into future instruction?
While reading text aloud, Mr. Hefner should model directional tracking by using finger pointing to physically demonstrate how letters words, and lines of text are read.
A kindergarten class is learning about the letter m. The teacher plans homework around this focus. Which of the following activities best reinforces student knowledge of the alphabetic principle ?
The teacher has students cut out and label objects which begin with the letter m.
The purpose of the writing step of the lesson describe above is to
associate their name, sound, and shape
Which of the following is the least accurate representation of how phonemic awareness connects to spelling development?
Phonemic awareness plays a significant role in students' ability to name letters, but it does not have an impact on students' spelling development
Which of the following is most likely to foster print awareness among preschoolers?
The teacher models one-to-one match by pointing words in the lyrics while singing a popular song that the entire class knows.
Which of the following statements best represents why the letter "Cc" may pose difficulties for English learners who have home languages that are more phonetically regular than English?
The letter "Cc" is phonologically similar to several other letters in the alphabet
Mandy, a student in Mrs. Brimwell's first grade class, frequently mixes up the letter "b" and the letter "d" in both reading and writing. Which of the following describes the best approach for Mrs. Brimwell should take to address this?
Help Mandy establish a reference point for one or both letters. For example, Mandy could use her name and the name tag on her desk to check how a "d" is written.
A first grade teacher has several students who are having difficulty applying the alphabetic principle. When assessed on letter knowledge, the students know the letter sounds; however, they still seem to have difficulty with blending the sounds together to pronounce words. What further assessment would you suggest the teacher give the pinpoint the nature of the students' difficulties?
an informal assessment of the students' phonemic awareness
A first grade teacher has several students who are having difficulty applying the alphabetic principle. When assessed on letter knowledge, the students know the letter sounds; however, they still seem to have difficulty with blending the sounds together to pronounce words. Based on the scenario above, in which of the following areas would the students most likely benefit from explicit instruction?
blending strategies
Mr. Cochran is a second grade teacher. He is creating his lessons plans for the upcoming week and wants to incorporate explicit spelling instruction each day. Mr. Cochran determined that the focus for the week would be on multisyllabic words with r-controlled vowels. Which of the following would be an ideal teaching strategy for Mr. Cochran to include in his lesson plans?
Mr. Cochran gives each student a sentence strip that has a two-syllable word with "ar" in the first syllable.
Starla is a first grade student who is developing her skill at decoding words by she sometimes gets stuck after making just the initial sound or initial segment of a word. Which of the following strategies provides the most support for helping Starla read through parts of the word?
The teacher writes the word one segment at a time on a dry erase board.
Which of the following high-frequency words is also an example of an irregular word?
of
Which of the following words ends in a stop consonant sound?
mop
Being able to connect speech sounds with the printed letters they represent is a description of
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