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English Language Arts and Reading & the Science of Teaching Reading (801): -
CORRECT ANSWER -
Competency 001—(Oral Language) - CORRECT ANSWER -
A teacher notices that some students in the class have trouble interacting with
peers during group assignments. Which of the following will best help students
learn more appropriate oral language skills to use in group interactions? - CORRECT
ANSWER -- Rehearsing positive group collaboration by using a script and having
students analyze productive conversations
Option B is correct because giving students a script provides them with a model of
appropriate interaction that they can imitate and recall during future group
assignments.
A fourth-grade teacher notices several students who are shy and reluctant to
speak in class. What strategy would be most effective in motivating students'
participation in class while enhancing their listening and speaking skills? - CORRECT
ANSWER --Giving students opportunities to share and listen to stories in a small-
group setting
Option B is correct because telling personal stories, listening to others' stories,
and providing feedback and questions help build students' linguistic fluency,
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,meaningful oral expression, confidence, receptive language skills, and listening
comprehension skills. In addition, being in a small-group setting will put the
students more at ease.
Competency 002—(Phonological and Phonemic Awareness) - CORRECT ANSWER -
Most students in a kindergarten class can identify two words that rhyme. Which
of the following phonemic skills is most appropriate for the teacher to address
next? - CORRECT ANSWER --Naming the beginning sounds in words
Option A is correct because this is the next phase in phonemic awareness
development. Option B is incorrect because students need to master single
phonemes before they can master blends.
A first-grade teacher has several students who lack phonological and phonemic
awareness skills. To best provide opportunities for the students to develop the
skills at home, the teacher should assign homework that includes which of the
following activities? - CORRECT ANSWER --Playing word and sound games with family
members
Option D is correct because word and sound games allow students to hear the
individual sounds in words.
To best assess a student's graphophonemic knowledge, a teacher should have the
student - CORRECT ANSWER --identify a word based on a sequence of letter-sound
correspondence
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,Option C is correct because identifying the letter-sound correspondence will allow
students to decode other words
A kindergarten teacher is creating a unit on apples to focus on the letter "A."
Which of the following activities best contributes to students' understanding of
the alphabetic principle? - CORRECT ANSWER --Cutting out pictures of objects that
begin with "A" and labeling them in a book
Option A is correct because it requires students to identify pictures of objects that
begin with "A" and to label them.
In a meeting with a teacher, a parent asks how to encourage reading and improve
reading skills for children at home. Which of the following is the most effective
recommendation for the teacher to make? - CORRECT ANSWER --Reading books
aloud with the child at home
Option A is correct because research shows that reading aloud with children is the
best way to promote childhood literacy.
Competency 005—(Word Analysis and Identification Skills): - CORRECT ANSWER -
Students in a kindergarten class are learning to analyze and spell phonetically
regular words. They have learned to identify individual phonemes and to blend
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, onsets and rimes. Which of the following is the most appropriate to teach next? -
CORRECT ANSWER --Short and long vowels
Option C is correct because once students have learned the individual sounds
made by letters and can blend the sounds at the beginnings and ends of words,
they must be able to analyze the vowels within the word and determine whether
the vowels are short or long so they can assign meaning to the word as a whole.
A third-grade teacher assigns homework that requires students to list ten
common words that can either stand alone or be combined with another word.
The assignment primarily promotes the students' understanding of which of the
following concepts? - CORRECT ANSWER --Making compound words
Option B is correct because compound words are words that can stand alone or
can be combined.
Which of the following silent reading practices provides the best conditions for
students' individual reading improvement? - CORRECT ANSWER --Participating in
scaffolded silent reading for 20 minutes every day while the teacher confers with
students individually about their reading
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