STR Exam 90 Questions And Answers With Complete Study Tests
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STR Exam 90 Questions And Answers With Complete Study Tests
01. According to findings in the Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth which of the following curricular adjustments would most effectively support the literacy development of English learners with ...
STR Exam 90 Questions And Answers With Complete
Study Tests
01. According to findings in the Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and
Youth which of the following curricular adjustments would most effectively support the literacy development
of English learners with respect to text comprehension? ANS integrating comprehensive oral language
instruction with literacy instruction
02. Which of the following actions by elementary school teachers in the early grades would best demonstrate
understanding that decoding and encoding are reciprocal skills that develop synchronously during the early
stages of reading development? ANS creating regular opportunities for students to apply new syllable
patterns in their daily writings that have been explicitly taught during phonics instruction.
03. A teacher would like to help students identify their literacy skills and strengths as part of an assets-based
approach to literacy instruction. Which of the following teacher actions is consistent with this type of
approach? ANS Providing students with explicit feedback about what they already know and are able to do
well and helping them use this information to establish realistic yet challenging learning goals.
04. A school district in Texas has adopted the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) model of instruction in
their K-3 literacy program which includes a core reading program (Tier 1) supplemental instruction (Tier 2)
and intensive instruction (Tier 3) Instructional grouping in Tier 2 is restricted to five or fewer students. This
limitation enhances the effectiveness of literacy instruction for the students primarily by: ANS Providing
students with increased opportunities to practice developing skills with teacher feedback.
05. A second-grade student has been identified with dysgraphia but does not have difficulty with decoding or
encoding. Which of the following approaches to instruction would be most effective in promoting the student's
development with respect to the identified area of need? ANS Providing the student with explicit
instruction in letter formation and frequent, short, guided-practice sessions to build the student's handwriting
fluency and automaticity in letter memory and formation.
06. In which line in the table below is the underlined portion of the example word accurately matched to the
phonics term that is used to describe that phonics element?
Line Phonics Term Example word
1 blend they
2 digraph factor
3 diphthong power
,4 trigraph scrap ANS Line 3
07. Use the information below to answer the two questions that follow. Students in a third-grade class have
been studying ways in which Earth's surface is always changing. As the culminating project students choose a
topic that they would like to learn more about (e.g. volcanic eruptions earthquakes landslides floods) and
establish a research group focused on that topic. The students in each group generate questions to focus their
research read a variety of texts to gather information related to their questions and engage in focused
discussions of the texts based on their questions. The teacher's role is to support the groups by helping them
gather a range of print and digital informational texts related to their chosen topic modeling norms for
equitable discussions and monitoring each group's task progress to ensure group members stay focused.
In which of the following ways can the teacher best foster the students ANS by providing students' with a
rubric with which they can self-evaluate their text analysis
08. Several research groups include students with a diverse range of reading skills. The teacher wants to
differentiate instruction for students in a way that will also strengthen their capacity for reading more complex
text. Which of the following approaches best aligns with research-based best practices to accomplish this
purpose? ANS providing a set of texts representing a range of text-complexity levels and interactive
formats, and allowing student to work collaboratively to read the texts.
09. A kindergarten teacher regularly has students write and draw in their journals in response to an open-ended
prompt. During these writing sessions the teacher circulates among students asks them to read aloud what they
have written and documents their performance with anecdotal notes in a teacher record.
This type of informal assessment strategy would be most appropriate to use for which of the following
instructional purposes? ANS observing individual student's development in various dimensions of literacy
over time.
10. Which of the following writing samples provides evidence that the student is beginning to develop
understanding of the alphabetic principle?
KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
ABCDEF
"Those are letters"
, MIA
"I write my name!"
T Lo LE O
"The dog went home" ANS KLD
"Casey loves Dancing"
11. When planning assessments to measure students' comprehension of literary texts an elementary school
teacher selects a variety of passages from a range of cultures including those that reflect the diverse cultural
experiences of the students. The teacher also considers students' familiarity with cultural content when
evaluating students' responses to texts. The teacher's actions best demonstrate the importance of taking which
of the following factors into consideration when selecting texts for assessments? ANS A reader's cultural
background knowledge can be an important factor affecting their comprehension of a literary text.
12. Which of the following statements identifies a characteristic of criterion-referenced tests that in general
makes them unsuitable for use as a formative assessment of foundational reading skills? ANS While
criterion referenced assessment can measure students mastery of target skills, they provide little information
about the extent of students skill development toward mastery.
13. A second-grade student demonstrates grade-level oral reading fluency but is reluctant to participate in post-
reading discussions and frequently exhibits comprehension difficulty when answering questions about assigned
literary texts. The teacher would like to better understand the student's process of constructing meaning from
text.
Which of the following assessment procedures administered individually would be most effective for the
teacher to use? ANS having the student read aloud a short narrative text and then retell the story in the
student's own words
14. How could a teacher best determine if a particular text is written at an appropriate level for a student to
read independently (i.e. with little or no teacher support) ANS by having the students read aloud a section
of the text and answers questions about and then determining if the students accuracy is at least 95 percent and
comprehension is at least 90
15. A third-grade teacher meets regularly with individual students to discuss their reading. At the beginning of
one student's conference the student enthusiastically shows the teacher an illustrated children's book about the
Apollo space program that the student selected for independent reading. The student points out favorite
photographs and graphics in the text. When the teacher asks the student to read aloud a paragraph the student
encounters difficulty understanding some longer technical words in the text. Which of the following
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