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41. Illustrated below is a set of word cards that a first grade…

41. Illustrated below is a set of word cards that a first grade teacher is using with a small group of beginning readers

I           we           the

Is          see         cat

Fat        dog        rat 
(Dog and rat have pictures of a dog and a rat)

The cards without pictures display words that students can already recognize. When showing the students the illustrated cards of the dog and the rat, the teacher makes sure that students understand that the captions refer to the pictures. Next the teacher says a sentence such as “The rat is fat” and models for students how to form the sentence with the word cards. The teacher then says another sentence, such as “I see the rat” and the students use the cards to form the sentences themselves. This reading activity is most likely to rain for students understanding that
A. Writing carries meaning in a different way than pictures do
B. Every sentence needs to include both a subject and a predicate 
C. Individual words are made up of separate sounds
D. A sentence consists of several words arranged in a particular order

 

 

42. Which of the following divisions of the word strong correctly distinguishes the word’s onset and rime?
A. st/rong
B. stro/ng
D. str/ong

 

43.  A first grade teacher considers ways  to help a new student who is a beginning English learner develop skills and phonemic awareness and knowledge of English sounds. Which of the following steps will be most important for the teacher to take first?
A. collecting a set of simple rhyming poems in English to practice reading with the student
B. preparing a list of simple English words with different vowel sounds for the student to study
C. Gaining some basic familiarity with the sound system of the students primary language
D. making a study tape for the student by recording an oral reading of high frequency English words

 

 

44. Following as one activity to build the literacy skills of a student who has a reading disability. The teacher will use small, colored blocks to represent sounds and ask the student to arrange the blocks from left to right as a teacher says a sequence of sounds. Such an activity will be most useful for promoting the students
A. Reading fluency
B. understanding of word boundaries
C. Phonemic awareness
D. recognition of letter names

45. Reading rate can be used as a reliable indicator of an elementary students reading fluency, provided that rate is considered in relation to which of the following measures?

A. Level of syntactic development
B. Decoding accuracy
C. Level of engagement while reading
D. Vocabulary knowledge