Why should flexible grouping be used in the reading classroom? ✔✔Flexible grouping allows
teachers to tailor instruction to address students'
... [Show More] changing needs. When teachers use flexible
grouping they are considering the always-changing strengths and weaknesses of students and they
can group the students temporarily to best meet instructional needs.
What is the primary purpose of a norm-referenced test? ✔✔Indicating where a student performs
in comparison to a group of similar students. Norm-referenced tests allow a student's skills to be
compared with the skills of other students in a similar age group. These tests are developed by
administering a set of test items to a group of students; the performance of those in the norming
group is used as a basis for comparison.
A student at the conventional stage of writing development will primarily write... ✔✔Words that
are often correctly spelled and include storybook language such as "Once upon a time." Students
in the conventional stage of writing development have a basic grasp of writing words. At this stage
they are ready to write with a purpose, such as telling a story. Storybook language is often included
in their writing as they model their own stories after the stories they have read.
A second-grade teacher uses an assessment tool for coding, scoring, and analyzing a student's oral
reading behavior. What is the best technique to use for this process? ✔✔Running record
After administering a phonemic awareness test, what would be the most appropriate next step a
teacher would take with students who scored low on the assessment? ✔✔Teaching blending and
segmenting sounds
A teacher reads a series of graded passages to a student to assess the skill of creating meaning from
written language when decoding is not a factor. What would identify the highest level at which thestudent can comprehend 75 percent of the material? ✔✔Listening capacity. When a teacher reads
a series of graded texts to a student, the teacher is assessing the student's ability to comprehend
written language when the student doesn't have to attend to decoding issues which are present
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