Question 1

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:
Answers:
played on basketball teams and had the background knowledge and vocabulary
were able to apply phonics generalizations as they read
did not have a genuine interest in the story
were able to discuss the novel with their parents

Question 2
1 out of 1 points
Many informal reading inventories (IRIs) have been published to help teachers assess literacy
progress. Most IRIs include:
Answers: cloze passages
phonemic awareness inventories
graded narrative and informational passages
motivation surveys

Question 3
1 out of 1 points
Research suggests that a student's motivation to read increases when:
Answers: he is punished if he doesn't read
the teacher selects the books for literature circles
the classroom has a competitive atmosphere
the classroom has a collaborative atmosphere

Question 4

1 out of 1 points
Teachers can best model comprehension strategies by:
Answers: encouraging students to read with a partner
inviting the principal to speak to the class
adding words to the classroom word wall
thinking aloud

Question 5
1 out of 1 points
Of the following, the instructional procedure which offers students the most opportunities to
make choices is:
Answers: the basal reading program
reading workshop
guided reading
the thematic unit

Question 6
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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:
Answers:
independent level
instructional level
frustration level
scaffold level

Question 7
1 out of 1 points

Teachers can help their students become more fluent readers by providing:
Answers: daily periods of round-robin reading
graphic organizers
seating at the front of the classroom
many opportunities for repeated readings

Question 8
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Comprehension depends on the two factors of:
Answers: word recognition and thought
phonics and background knowledge
the reader and the text
vision and cognition

Question 9
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When students reflect upon their thinking, they engage in a type of behavior known as:
Answers: semantics
scaffolding
metacognition
prosody

Question 10
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:

Answers: text factor

reader factor
miscue
semantic error

Question 11
1 out of 1 points
Effective literacy teachers encourage students to make predictions:
Answers: only when reading a narrative text
only when reading an informational text
when reading any type of text
to help them apply phonics generalizations

Question 12
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:
Answers: ask the students to select a different book
preteach key words to build background knowledge
provide minilessons on decoding strategies
ask the students to write reflections after they read each chapter

Question 13
1 out of 1 points
Questions arise as readers engage with a text. Research suggests that comprehension improves
most significantly when:
Answers: teachers ask questions and students listen

students learn to generate questions about a text

students write their responses to the teacher's questions
students keep lists of the teacher's questions

Question 14
1 out of 1 points
Comprehension is a complicated process which begins:
Answers:
during prereading as students activate background knowledge
during reading as students connect words and ideas
when teachers ask post-reading questions
when students discuss their reading with a peer

Question 15
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:
Answers: SSR
DRA
QAR
SQ3R

Question 16
1 out of 1 points
Of the following, the instructional material that would best help students summarize a text is
a(n):
Answers: Elkonin Box
word chain

graphic organizer
miscue analysis

Question 17
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New teacher Katrina Smith said that her students didn't seem to form inferences as they read.
Her principal correctly responded that:
Answers: students can't be taught to form inferences
teachers can use modeling to help students form inferences
struggling students should read only expository texts
struggling students should read only narrative texts

Question 18
1 out of 1 points
The best way to help students apply comprehension strategies is to provide time for them to:
Answers: view and discuss films with classmates
read expository texts in basal readers
read interesting books at their reading level
add interesting words to the word wall

Question 19
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Capable readers:
Answers: view reading as a decoding process
monitor their reading
are reluctant to use comprehension strategies

rely on teachers to select reading materials

Question 20
1 out of 1 points
Capable readers usually:
Answers:
create mental images as they read
focus upon decoding
prefer to read orally
read only books written at their independent level

Question 21
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:
Answers: engaging them in readers' theatre
engaging them in round-robin reading
helping them set a purpose for reading
assigning related homework

Question 22
1 out of 1 points
Fluent readers tend to have better comprehension primarily because they:
Answers: are more interested in books
have better speaking ability
don't have to stop reading to decode words
don't monitor their reading

Question 23

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):
Answers: informal reading inventory
cloze procedure
retelling
DRA

Question 24
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:
Answers:
text-to-self connection
text-to-text connection
text-to-world connection
text-to-word connection