Question 1 1 out of 1 points Capable readers usually: Answer Selected Answer: create mental images as they read Correct

Answer: create mental images as they read Question 2 1 out of 1 points Questions arise as readers engage with a text. Research suggests that comprehension improves most significantly when: Answer Selected Answer: students learn to generate questions about a text Correct Answer: students learn to generate questions about a text Question 3 1 out of 1 points A teacher wants to help his students categorize questions and ask higher-level questions. To achieve this goal, the teacher should introduce the strategy known as: Answer Selected Answer:

QAR Correct Answer: QAR Question 4 1 out of 1 points Comprehension is a complicated process which begins: Answer Selected Answer: during prereading as students activate background knowledge Correct Answer: during prereading as students activate background knowledge Question 5 1 out of 1 points Research suggests that a student's motivation to read increases when: Answer Selected Answer: the classroom has a collaborative atmosphere Correct Answer: the classroom has a collaborative atmosphere Question 6 1 out of 1 points Of the following, the instructional procedure which offers students the most opportunities to

make choices is: Answer Selected Answer: reading workshop Correct Answer: reading workshop Question 7 1 out of 1 points Teachers can best model comprehension strategies by: Answer Selected Answer: thinking aloud Correct Answer: thinking aloud Question 8 1 out of 1 points Teachers can help their students become more fluent readers by providing: Answer Selected Answer: many opportunities for repeated readings Correct Answer: many opportunities for repeated readings Question 9

1 out of 1 points When students reflect upon their thinking, they engage in a type of behavior known as: Answer Selected Answer: metacognition Correct Answer: metacognition Question 10 1 out of 1 points As she was reading the novel Charlotte's Web, Helen thought about the farm on which she lived and the baby pig she received on her birthday. In this situation, Helen made a: Answer Selected Answer: text-to-self connection Correct Answer: text-to-self connection Question 11 1 out of 1 points Capable readers: Answer Selected Answer: monitor their reading

Correct Answer: monitor their reading Question 12 1 out of 1 points Many informal reading inventories (IRIs) have been published to help teachers assess literacy progress. Most IRIs include: Answer Selected Answer: graded narrative and informational passages Correct Answer: graded narrative and informational passages Question 13 1 out of 1 points Before they read a new text, fourth grade teacher Harry Clifton helps his students focus their attention and remember important details by: Answer Selected Answer: helping them set a purpose for reading Correct Answer: helping them set a purpose for reading Question 14 1 out of 1 points When Mai, an English Language Learner, read the sentence, "Blow out your birthday candles", she became confused because she had never had a birthday cake. A lack of background

knowledge that affects comprehension can be categorized as a: Answer Selected Answer: reader factor Correct Answer: reader factor Question 15 1 out of 1 points To monitor comprehension, a teacher asked his students to supply missing words in the following passage: Today is Kyle's birthday. His father will bake a ________. Kyle's friends will come to his ________. That type of assessment is known as a(n): Answer Selected Answer: cloze procedure Correct Answer: cloze procedure Question 16 1 out of 1 points Of the following, the instructional material that would best help students summarize a text is a(n): Answer Selected Answer: graphic organizer

Correct Answer: graphic organizer Question 17 1 out of 1 points A group of fifth grade students in Alaska wanted to read the novel Hoot which is set in the Florida. Because their teacher suspected that they didn't have the background knowledge necessary for comprehension, she correctly decided to: Answer Selected Answer: preteach key words to build background knowledge Correct Answer: preteach key words to build background knowledge Question 18 1 out of 1 points New teacher Katrina Smith said that her students didn't seem to form inferences as they read. Her principal correctly responded that: Answer Selected Answer: teachers can use modeling to help students form inferences Correct Answer: teachers can use modeling to help students form inferences Question 19 1 out of 1 points

Fluent readers tend to have better comprehension primarily because they: Answer Selected Answer: don't have to stop reading to decode words Correct Answer: don't have to stop reading to decode words Question 20 1 out of 1 points A group of athletic sixth grade students read and discussed the novel, Travel Team, a story about neighborhood basketball teams. Their teacher correctly realized that her students almost seemed to comprehend the novel better than she did primarily because they: Answer Selected Answer:

played on basketball teams and had the background knowledge and vocabulary

Correct Answer: played on basketball teams and had the background knowledge and vocabulary Question 21 1 out of 1 points The best way to help students apply comprehension strategies is to provide time for them to: Answer Selected Answer: read interesting books at their reading level

Correct Answer: read interesting books at their reading level Question 22 1 out of 1 points Before her vacation, ten year old Gloria will visit the local library to select books for leisure reading. For this purpose, Gloria should select books written at her: Answer Selected Answer: independent level Correct Answer: independent level Question 23 1 out of 1 points Comprehension depends on the two factors of: Answer Selected Answer: the reader and the text Correct Answer: the reader and the text Question 24 1 out of 1 points Effective literacy teachers encourage students to make predictions: Answer

Selected Answer: when reading any type of text Correct Answer: when reading any type of text