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Reading for Virginia Educators (RVE): 0306/5306 Questions and Answers Already Passed To effectively promote family involvement in literacy activities, teachers can encourage parents to A) buy com ... ics and story books B) get their child a library card C) discuss stories and experiences at home D) volunteer in the school's media center ✔✔C) discuss stories and experiences at home This practice is recommended based upon research by Jim Trelease and the National Institute of Education's Commission on Reading. Discussing stories and experiences at home promotes family involvement and the increase of oral language and vocabulary development, both critical to achieving literacy success. Which of the following should be the primary focus when using a holistic rubric to score a writing assignment? A) The overall structure and quality B) The appropriate use of vocabulary C) The student's performance on a specific criterion D) The levels of performance for each criteria ✔✔A) The overall structure and quality Holistic rubrics assess the student's work as a whole, not just portions of the assessment. The overall structure and quality of the rubric is the primary focus and will help the teacher assess properly and with more accuracy.Which of the following strategies will be most beneficial for students during the revising stage of the writing process? A) Using a graphic organizer B) Brainstorming ideas as a class C) Holding peer conferences D) Typing their work on the computer ✔✔C) Holding peer conferences Holding peer conferences is a strategy you use during the revising stage of writing. Students in a sixth-grade class are preparing to give an oral report on a famous writer they have researched. Which of the following strategies would be most effective in helping the student prepare for speaking before an audience? A) Providing a copy of the report to all the students in the classroom B) Writing key words on note cards and referring to the cards during the presentation C) Memorizing the entire report before the presentation D) Creating a media based presentation to read the report directly from ✔✔B) Writing key words on note cards and referring to the cards during the presentation Writing key words on not cards and referring to them during the presentation can provide students with the necessary outline of ideas in case they forget any details. During a writing class, the teacher asks the students to identify the purpose of their wring, select an audience, and outline the main ideas of the topic. The students are most likely at which stage of writing? A) Publishing B) Editing C) Drafting D) Prewriting ✔✔D) PrewritingAll of these steps are actions taken by a teacher before students being writing. Which of the following activities involves structural analysis? A) Students identify the beginning, middle, and end sounds in words B) Students use individual sounds to blend the letters that make up a word C) Students identify the number of syllables that make up different words D) Students unlock the meaning of a word by considering the word parts ✔✔D) Students unlock the meaning of a word by considering the word parts Structural analysis deals with how the structure of words (including word parts) can help people identify the meaning. While observing a student reading, the teacher notices that the student does not match letters with their correct sounds. The student is most likely having problems with A) comprehension B) syntax C) graphophonic cues D) reading fluency ✔✔C) graphophonic cues Graph (means print) and phonic (means sounds) - meaning, letter/sound correspondence - the skill identified as troublesome for the student. Which of the following is the primary purpose of asking a student to retell a story? A) To measure the student's level of comprehension B) To measure the student's vocabulary development C) To determine the student's fluency rateD) To determine the student's oral reading progress ✔✔A) To measure the student's level of comprehension Retelling is an informal assessment of reading comprehension. - Sending classroom newsletters - Requesting classroom volunteers - Making regular phone calls - Establishing a book loan program All of the above mentioned practices how a teacher's support of A) lesson planning B) cooperative learning C) homework D) parental involvement ✔✔D) parental involvement Classroom newsletters, requesting classroom volunteers, making positive phone class home, and integrating a book loan program within your classroom all promote parental involvement with their child's learning. Which of the following terms describes the understanding that spoken words consist of a sequence of individual sounds? A) Morphology B) Phonemic awareness C) Graphophonic cues D) Syntax ✔✔B) Phonemic awareness The question (Understanding that spoken words consist of a sequence of individual sounds) is clearly defining phonemic awareness.Mr. Jones has a new student in his class and he would like to use assessment data to inform his instruction and his selection of instructional reading materials. He could best determine the student's independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels by: A) Administering a norm-referenced reading test. B) Having students complete a CLOZE assessment. C) Conducting an Informal Reading Inventory. D) Reviewing the previous year's SOL scores in reading. ✔✔C) Conducting an Informal Reading Inventory. Conducting an Informal Reading Inventory would be the best way to determine the student's independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels. This information would be helpful to a teacher both for instruction and selection of instructional reading materials. Which of the following processes can a teacher use before a reading activity, to activate the students' prior knowledge? A) Literacy circles B) Structural analysis C) Semantic mapping D) Word creation ✔✔C) Semantic mapping Semantic mapping is a visual strategy for vocabulary expansion and extension of knowledge by displaying in categories words related to one another. Semantic mapping is an adaptation of concept definition mapping but builds on student's prior knowledge or schema. A beneficial strategy for students during the revising stage of the writing process is A) using a graphic organizer B) brainstorming ideasC) peer conferences D) typing their work on the computer ✔✔C) peer conferences This strategy is used during the revising stage of writing. Both A and B are performed during the pre-writing stage. Having students type their work does not promote the revising stage of writing. Therefore, it is incorrect. A student pronounces the word <i>flat</i> as <i>fat</i>. Instruction in which of the following areas will most likely benefit the student? A) Consonant digraphs B) Graphemes C) Consonant blends D) Dipthongs ✔✔C) Consonant blends Consonant blends are a sequence of two or three consonants, each of which is heard with minimal change. A teacher asks a student to break a word into its individual sounds by moving a marker for each sound. This is an example of which type of phonemic awareness task? A) Deleting phonemes B) Adding phonemes C) Substituting phonemes D) Segmenting phonemes ✔✔D) Segmenting phonemes This is an example of segmenting phonemes. During a writing assignment, a beginning kindergarten student wrote "I lv m d", meaning "I love my dog". Which of the following stages of early writing development does the student's writing reflect?A) Phonetic B) Semi-phonetic C) Transitional D) Conventional ✔✔B) Semi-phonetic In the semi-phonetic stage, spelling is characterized by the letter sound correspondence, clearly visible with the way the student spelled his/her sentence. A fourth-grade teacher is developing a writing assignment, the goal of which is to help students persuade readers to agree with an opinion. Which of the following writing prompts is most appropriate in the situation? A) Describe your favorite television show. B) Write a new episode of your favorite television show. C) How are the television shows you watch different than the shows your parents watched when they were your age? D) Should a limit be placed on the amount of time children spend watching television? ✔✔D) Should a limit be placed on the amount of time children spend watching television? This prompt requires students to form a position and support it with reasons. Gerald is reading a story that has several new vocabulary words. He is using the events of the story and the text around the new vocabulary words to understand the meaning of the words. Which of the following strategies is Gerald using? A) Context clues B) Self monitoring C) Semantic mapping D) Morphology ✔✔A) Context cluesIt refers to people using words or sentences around an unfamiliar word to help clarify its meaning, clearly what Gerald did in this situation. A student is actively engaged in reading a book and makes judgments and decisions beyond what is stated in the text. Which of the following comprehension methods is the student using? A) Inferential B) Literal C) Vocabulary D) Internal ✔✔A) Inferential Inferential questions required students to go use their background knowledge and the clues within the story and answer questions based on that. This process is exactly what this student was actively engaged in. Many of Ms. Nucera's kindergarten students are beginning to use invented spelling when writing. From the writing sample below obtained during the second quarter of the school year, she can determine that: (See Page 49 in Chapter 7 of study guide for picture) HejKotB "She jumped up and caught the ball" A) the student has an emerging understanding of sound symbol relationships B) the student understands that letters go from left to right, but cannot yet match speech to print C) the student displays an emerging concept of word boundaries D) the student understands that each syllable must contain a vowel sound ✔✔A) the student has an emerging understanding of sound symbol relationshipsAnalysis of the writing sample indicates that the student has at least an emerging understanding of sound symbol relationships which is an indication of emerging phonemic awareness. Sounds symbol relationships include writing the initial sounds heard in the words: jumped, caught, and ball. The student also attempted the medial and ending sounds in caught. A student who reads with expression, appropriate phrasing, and good inflection is described as reading with A) generalizati [Show More]

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