Teacher Workshop Quiz 1

What are the five reading components that help with fluency, vocabulary and comprehension?

• Phonemic Awareness

  Speed

  Sight Words

  Fluency

  Vocabulary

• Phonemic Awareness

  Phonics

  Fluency

  Comprehension

  Vocabulary

• Speed

  Sight Words

  Comprehension

  Phonics

  Vocabulary

• Sight Words

  Phonemic Awareness

  Phonics

  Fluency

  Speed

Which screening tools can be used to identify students in grades K–3 who are at risk for reading problems?

• Sight Words

• Accommodations

• Diagnostic Testing

• None of the above

Warning signs or symptoms of students who may be struggling with dyslexia, decoding difficulties, and poor reading comprehension?

• Poor fine motor coordination 

• Letter reversals as in d for b

• Difficulty decoding single words (readng single words in isolation)

• All of them

In regard to pencil and hand style, what do you often see with a child with dyslexia

  Accommodations do not change the content of instructions?

• True

• False

Accommodations:

• Changing the skills or knowledge that a test measures for a student with learning disabilities.

• Ensure equal access to the full school experience for a student with learning disabilities.

Name at least two strategies that parents can use to create a literacy-rich home environment.

Are there technology resources that are available to parents/caregivers to support their child’s reading development at home.

• Unite For Literacy's Free Digital Library

• National Center on Improving Literacy

• Parent Help Hotline

• A&B Only

• All of them

With intervention, the teacher must carefully ascertain the best method for the student and provide that intervention on a case by case basis for each student.

• Interventions should be done by the adminstration who has the student's records and knowledge.

• Most interventions are basically the same for a majority of learning disability students.

• True

• False

Interventions can be done by:

• One-to-one teaching

• Extra seatwork after a lesson has been taught to reinforce the lesson

• Extra homework after a lesson has been taught to reinforce the lesson

• Answering questions after a lesson from the entire class