Foundations of reading quiz 9

A third-grade teacher has been conducting a series of ongoing assessments of a student's oral reading. Shown below isa sentence from a text, followed by a transcription of a typical example of the student's oral reading performance.

Text: Her boots crunched through the snow.

Student: Her boats crucked throw the snow

After reading the sentence, the student paused and then reread it without the teacher's prompting and self-corrected the errors. Based on this information,the teacher could best meet this student's needs by adjusting instruction in order to:

• enhance the student's oral vocabulary development

• develop the student's ability to self-monitor comprehension

• improve the student's decoding skills

• promote the student's ability to track print

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Which of the following types of assessments would best provide information about the comparative reading proficiency of students in an elementary school?

• a test of vocabulary development

• a norm-referenced survey test

• a reading miscue inventory

• a diagnostic portfolio

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Considerations of validity in test construction relate most closely to:

• how a particular examinee's test performance relates to a preestablished standard

• whether the test questions effectively measure their specified content

• how a particular examinee's test performance compares to the performance of other examinees

• whether the test results are likely to be repeatable with a similar examinee test group

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

If a standardized test is said to lack reliability, the test:

• is not measuring what it is supposed to measure

• has not proven to be useful as an instructional intervention

• gives fluctuating scores in different administrations

• has poor predictive value relative to students' classroom performance

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Which of the following informal assessment results provides the clearest indication that a kindergarten child has attained a beginning level of phonemic awareness?

• The student can clap the "beats" or syllables of familiar multisyllable words

• The student can delete the second "word" or syllable in compound words

• The student can identify the beginning sound of single-syllable words

• The student can substitute phonemes in the medial position of single- syllable words

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CCSS.L.1.2D

CCSS.RF.2.3E

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

CCSS.RF.K.3D

One of the most important purposes of a standardized Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) is:

• to establish how prior knowledge and text organization influence a student's reading comprehension

• to determine how a student uses semantic, syntactic, and other text clues to deduce a word's meaning

• to analyze how a student's silent reading comprehension is influenced by oral reading fluency

• to establish a student's independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

An advantage of using assessment tools such as portfolios and scoring rubrics is that they:

• provide more objective results than do multiple-choice tests

• promote student participation in self-assessment activities

• ensure consistency among different evaluators

• offer more reliable assessment data

Which of the following best describes the primary advantage of having a student read a passage silently and then provide a "retelling" as a means of assessing the student's comprehension, rather than having the student answer questions?

• A retelling is open-ended and requires the student to construct a description of the passage more independently of the examiner

• The results of a retelling are more objective and easier to quantify than the results of direct questioning

• The procedure involved in retelling tends to be more familiar to a wider range of students, including English Language Learners

• A retelling can provide information about the student's inferential comprehension skills, which questioning cannot provide

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Which of the following criteria would be most important to consider when selecting "leveled texts" for use in assessments and guided reading with beginning-level readers?

• The texts should use repeated words and natural oral language structures

• The texts should require readers to use problem-solving to connect text to illustrations

• The texts should emphasize use of literary language and dialogues

• The texts should feature a range of punctuation and context-specific vocabulary

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

In order to select a trade book that emphasizes predictability, a teacher should ensure that:

• the text includes some pictures or illustrations

• the concepts in the text are at an appropriate level of difficulty for the target student(s)

• a phrase, rhyme, or sentence is repeated throughout the text

• the length of the text is not likely to exceed the attention span of the target student(s)

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10