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36. A fifth-grade class is studying the history of the United…
36. A fifth-grade class is studying the history of the United States during the colonial period. The teacher wants to help students spell unit-related vocabulary correctly when the engage in writing activities associated with the unit. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in improving students’ spelling of unit-related vocabulary?
A. Showing them copies of original documents from the colonial period, having them identify words that have since change spelling (e.g., waggon, shoppe) and then having them analyze these spelling changes.
B. Making sure that they understand that their research papers and other writing assignments for this unit will be graded on spelling as well as on content
C. Having them categorize and study new words by common features (e.g words with a common siffix such as taxation, revolution, words with a common root such as colony, colonial, colonizing)
D. Preparing a list of key words related to the unit and each week adding a few of the words from this list to the students regularly scheduled spelling test
37. A middle school teacher wants to help a student with a mild learning disability improve his accurate coding and spelling of words that have similar spellings but different meanings, such as Angel/angle and dessert/desert. Which of the following instructional activities will be most effective for this purpose?
A. Having the student list words that can be formed from the letters in each pair of words (e.g angel, angle, age, gel)
B. Having the student use a dictionary to look up the definition of the similarly spelled words and then write an original sentence with each of the words
C. Providing you were cheating on which the student must match each other similarly spell the words with the appropriate definition
D. Giving the student additional guided practice reading and writing the words in context, noting differences with a highlighter (e.g, angel, angle)
38. A third grade teacher develops a word list for a small group of students that includes words representing recently taught complex phonics patterns. After reviewing the list with the students the teacher conduct a dictation activity, in which the teacher says aloud a different set of words that follow the same pattern and the students write down the words. This activity demonstrates the teachers awareness of the importance of
A. Developing students recognition of common syllable patterns to support accurate reading and writing.
B. Helping students understand how the morphology of words relates spelling to patterns
C. Validating students use of invented spelling to reinforce their phonics skills and foster self-expression
D. Using writing activities to give students opportunities to apply phonics knowledge to new words.
39. Students in a first grade class have mastered decoding regular CVC words by sounding out and blending the individual sounds of the words. Decoding instruction for these students should focus on which of the following skills next?
A. sounding out and blending irregular sight words
B. teaching common, regular CVCe words
C. Sounding out both regular and irregular CVC words
D. teaching regular CCVC and CVCC words
40. Which of the following activities will be most effective in encouraging second grade students to use their developing phonics knowledge to promote their accurate spelling of regular single syllable words?
A. Having individual students sort a set of 20 words (e.g. boat, low, rope) into different groups of letters combinations that spell the same sound (e.g,. oa words, ow words, and oCe words that make long o)
B. Having pairs of students quiz each other on the spelling of words to follow recently taught complex phonics patterns
C. Having the whole class complete in various spelling games (e.g., spelling bee, spelling baseball) that focus on grade level words that follow complex spelling patterns (e.g., throw, right, thought)
D. Having small groups of students invent plausible phonetic spellings for a group of grade level irregular sight words
