Foundations of Reading Practice

When a person is able to connect the way words look with the way that they sound it is called:

• sound awareness

• print awareness

• word-print awareness

• word awareness

Which of the following activities can help young children learn to write letters?

• All choices are correct

• Have students practice reading out loud

• Have students not practice writing letters at home with colored markers

• Have students form letters using modeling clay or Play-Doh

After reading a text aloud with her class, a 6th grade English teacher asks her students to briefly describe in their own words what they have just read. What is the fundamental purpose of this "retelling" activity?

• o develop their summarization skills

• To assess whether or not the students struggle with the text's vocabulary

• To help determine their reading level and comprehension

• To assess whether or not students can follow along when listening to someone else read aloud

Which of these assessments is designed to predict future ability to succeed in a particular content domain?

• Achievement assessment

• Scholastic Aptitude Assessment

• Specific Aptitude Assessment

• School-readiness assessment

Use the image to help answer the question. A teacher instructs students to read the following passage. After the students read the story, the teacher wants students to make connections. Which of the following questions should the teacher ask?

• ''What do you think happens after the girl is closed in the room to spin gold?''

• 'Why might the king have interest in having more gold?''

• ''What type of tone is being conveyed?''

• ''If the story took place in the modern day, what tool might be used to make gold instead of a spinning wheel? ''

A teacher is using a text evaluation scale to choose classroom reading materials for her third-grade students. The teacher chooses a set of chapter books that she has deemed to have a high level of friendliness. During the school year, the teacher realizes that her assessment of the books was accurate because

• the students understand the books because of the conciseness of the information therein.

• the books regularly challenge students to increase their reading levels.

• while the books are not the most popular among the students during independent reading time, students seem to not mind using the books during classroom instruction to learn reading skills.

• the students have shown an increase in grade-level vocabulary usage when they speak.

Which of the following is an example of intrinsic motivation?

• A student reads a book because they want to learn more about a topic

• A student reads a book to receive extra recess time

• A student reads a book because it is required for a grade

• A student reads a book because their parents will buy them an ice cream when they finish

Which is NOT an example of the whole language approach (WLA)?

• best guess spelling

• approximated spelling

• sight words

• phonics

Which of the following sentences does not contain a pair of homographs?

• The night was pitch black as the baseball player threw out the first pitch.

• After finding money on the river bank, he decided that he was going to go put it in his bank.

• Ever since my brother sustained a wound, I have been feeling really wound up.

• It has been a year since I visited the site of the natural disaster, but I have not been able to forget what a horrible sight it was.

Affixes are combined with words to change the meaning of the original word. What is the original word referred to as?

• basic

• root

• suffix

• prefix