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RICA Written Exam (Practice Test) 100% Verified A sixth grader who is advanced in most areas of reading has difficulty completing assigned reading selections. He appears motivated when he begins re... ading, but he has difficulty keeping his attention on the task at hand. Which of the following would be his teacher's best initial strategy for addressing this difficulty? ✔✔breaking down the student's reading assignments into small steps and helping him learn to monitor his own attention When creating lesson plans to promote specific reading skills, a teacher should make sure that: ✔✔the targeted reading skills relate to an appropiate instructional progression and reflect students' needs An early elementary teacher could most effectively support at-home reading by: ✔✔recommending books that parents/guardians would likely enjoy reading with their children A sixth-grade teacher wants to ensure that the classroom reading environment supports contentarea learning for the English Learners in the class. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in addressing this objective? ✔✔making available in the classroom contentarea texts at various levels that supplement and reinforce the information presented in students' textbooks Of the following questions, which would be most important for a teacher to consider when interpreting the results of a reading assessment for a particular student? a. How did the student's performance on this assessment compare with that of the student's classmates? b. Are these findings sufficient to assign a grade to the student's performance? c. How do these findings relate to the student's performance on other recently administered reading assessments? d. Do these findings provide information about the student's ranking in regard to national norms of reading achievement? ✔✔c. How do these findings relate to the student's performance on other recently administered reading assessments. A fourth-grade class includes two students with IEPs. When planning classroom entry-level and progress-monitoring assessments for these students, the teacher should: ✔✔consult each student's IEP to determine any specific testing accommodations required for that student. A middle school teacher is preparing for the class to take the 6th grade CST in ELA. The teacher believes that a student in the class with a Section 504 Plan would perform significantly better on the assessment if she were allowed to have frequent supervised breaks within sections of the test. Which of the following guidelines would be most important for the teacher to follow to ensure that arrangements for this student during the test are appropiate? ✔✔providing the student with this testing accommodation only if it is specified in her Section 504 Plan Midway through the year, a 2nd grade teacher convenes a SST to plan additional support for a student who is performing somewhat below grade-level standards in reading. Other members of the team include the student and her parents, another teacher who works closely with the student, a school admin. In the context of developing an improvement plan for the student, which of the following pieces of information woul dbe most important for the teacher to communicate to the SST. ✔✔a description of the student's assessed strengths and weaknesses that could serve as a foundation for addressing her needs. A kindergarten teacher plays the following game with students. The teacher says "Guess whose name I'm going to say now?" The teacher then says the initial sound of the student's name (/m/ for Mariko), and the children try to guess the name. This activity is likely to promote the reading development of students primarily by helping them: ✔✔recognize that a spoken word is made up of sounds Which of the following informal assessments would be most appropiate to use to assess an individual student's phonemic awareness? ✔✔asking the student to identify the sound at the beginning, middle, or end of spoken word (What do you hear at the end of step?) How many sounds do you hear? b/o/t ✔✔recognizing how many phonemes are contained in a word The use of rhyming texts for kindergarten read-alouds is likely to promote the reading development of kindergarten students primarily by: ✔✔fostering their phonological awareness Which of the following strategies would best help a Kindergarten student who is having difficulty visually distinguishing between the letters b and d? ✔✔helping the student focus on the directionality of each letter as the student traces it A 1st grader can identify the letters of the alphabet and decode a number of simple words. He becomes confused, however, when tracking print in consecutive lines of print. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in helping the student read a short paragraph of simple text? ✔✔Have him use his finger or a marker as he reads the text. Which of the following instructional strategies would be most effective in promoting kindergarten students' understanding of the alphabetic principle? ✔✔routinely saying the sounds in words when writing the words on the board An emergent reader frequently reverses some letters and numbers during writing tasks. Which of the following strategies would be most effective in helping this student develop more accurate letter formation skills? ✔✔having the students practice tracing the target letter shapes with a finger while saying aloud the sequence of steps to form each letter In the word chimpanzee, which of the following pairs of letters is a diagraph? ✔✔ch A kindergarten student has demonstrated the ability to write words phonetically, but she is reluctant to write because she is worried about mispelling words. The teacher could best promote the student's reading and writing development by: ✔✔reassuring her that is is okay for now to express herself in writing by spelling words as they sound During which of the following stages of spelling development do students typically begin to show an understanding of the correspondence between letters and sounds ✔✔semiphonetic Function words such as to, the, and of are most appropriately taught in the context of which of the following areas of reading instruction? ✔✔sight-word vocabulary A 1st grade teacher provides students with explicit, systematic phonics instruction to promote their reading development. When designing activities to teach letter-sound correspondences, the teacher should: ✔✔provide reading opportunities for students to practice sounds in context after studying the sounds in isolation Early in the school year, a 1st grade teacher wants to conduct an assessment of students' ability to read grade-appropiate words, including phonetically regular words and high-frequency irregular sight words. Which of the following informal assessment would be most appropiate and effective for this purpose? ✔✔The teacher prepares a list of grade-appropiate words, asks each student to try reading the words aloud, and records the results Several first graders have mastered sounding out and blending words that follow simple shortvowel phonics patterns. Their teacher would like to help them begin to develope whole-word reading of words that follow these patterns. Which of the following instructional approaches would be most effective for this purpose? ✔✔providing modeling and guided student practice sounding out simple, regular words subvocally and then reading them aloud normally When reading aloud texts, a second-grade English Learner often makes errors in pronunciation that are unrelated to her ability to accurately decode the words. The teacher's best response would be to: ✔✔analyze the student's pronunciation patterns and plan an intervention to address difficulties that may affect her reading comprehension. Which of the following approaches would be most effective in helping first grade students who have the prerequisite decoding skills learn to decode words that end in the inflectional morpheme -ing. ✔✔expicitly teaching the students to read the unit -ing in isolation before teaching them to decode familiar words that end in the inflection An 8th grade teacher wants to help students improve their spelling of scientific vocabulary, including the terms listed below. barometer, centimeter, dehydrate, hydrogen, microscope, telescope, thermal, thermometer ✔✔familiarizing students with the spelling and meaning of Greek morphemes in scientific terms A 6th grade teacher observes several students have misspelled the word pasteurize. After writing pasteurize and Louis Pasteur on the board, the teacher explains how Pasteur invented the process of pasteurization. Students then discuss how the word Pasteur relates to the word pasteurize. This instructional activity forsters students' reading and writing development primarily by: ✔✔helping them learn to use etymology to improve spelling and decoding of multisyllabic words A 3rd grade student who is an advanced learner has already demonstrated mastery of the derivational suffixes -ness and -ment, which will be the focus of an upcoming whole-class decoding and spelling lesson. Which of the following strategies for differentiating instruction for this lesson would be most appropiate for this student? ✔✔introducing the student to higher level derivational suffixes Which of the following word pairs are homophones? ✔✔sight and site A 2nd grade teacher would like to include independent silent reading as one of several approaches used to promote students' fluency development. When planning differentiated fluency instruction for individual students in the class, the teacher should keep in mind that using independent silent reading to promote fluency: ✔✔should be limited to students who have already acquired automatically A 4th grade student who reads grade-level narrative texts with fluency and excellent comprehension is struggling to read aloud a grade-level content-area passage about a topic with which the student is familiar. The student reads the passage hesitantly , frequently stopping to reread clauses or entire sentences. Afterward, the student demonstrates limited comprehension of what was read. Which of the following factors is most likely disrupting the student's fluent reading of this text? ✔✔ [Show More]

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