The benefits of teaching phonics explicitly and systematically to young students include all of the following, EXCEPT:
a. they can form and decode words more fluently.
b. they are better able to predict an unknown word they encounter.
c. they are better able to link sounds to letter symbols.
d. they are better able to make inferences about what they have read.
[Ques. 2] Activities such as reading books aloud together, singing songs, and chanting rhymes are critical early literacy activities used in developing:
a. fluency.
b. word recognition.
c. phonemic awareness.
d. phonics.
[Ques. 3] When first teaching a child to read, research strongly supports the use of phonemic awareness which focuses on:
a. linking sounds to letters and patterns.
b. hearing and using sounds.
c. the alphabetic principle.
d. word recognition.
[Ques. 4] Regardless of the type of instruction used, many children learn to read by ________, however many other students need direct instruction to progress.
a. pre-school
b. kindergarten
c. first grade
d. second grade
[Ques. 5] Schools with high poverty, minority, and special education populations have seen literacy improvements when all of the following are in place, EXCEPT:
a. teachers use differentiated instruction to teach the same content and objectives to all students.
b. doctors prescribe medications to help students focus.
c. collaborative partnerships are formed with reading specialists and special educators.
d. collaborative partnerships are formed with peers and family members.
[Ques. 6] Learned helplessness means:
a. struggling readers depend on support and instruction for the development of skills in reading.
b. students become passive learners who rely on others to structure tasks for them so they can just get by.
c. struggling readers become dependent on the use of books on tape and other multimedia devices for the acquisition of information.
d. struggling readers learn how to avoid reading tasks by exhibiting behavior problems.
[Ques. 7] Early intervention for students with reading difficulties is critical for all the following reasons, EXCEPT:
a. as students get older the focus shifts from learning to read to reading to learn.
b. as students get older, curricular demands and other factors make it increasingly
c. if reading skills are not developed in the early elementary level, most students cannot make progress with reading ability in later years.
d. as struggling readers get older, they may lose motivation and develop behavior problems.
[Ques. 8] A student who has exceptionally high creativity and critical thinking skills but struggles with below average reading and or/spelling skills:
a. will be unable to perform at grade level in core academic subjects.
b. is likely to demonstrate language delays.
c. is twice exceptional.
d. demonstrates underachievement due to an emotional or behavioral disorder.
[Ques. 9] Some students with disabilities may be able to decode text and gain some information from the reading, but have difficulties finding main ideas or in tasks such as sequencing and paraphrasing because they lack the ______________ skills required to organize these processes.
a. syntax
b. metacognitive
c. fine motor
d. receptive language
[Ques. 10] Very powerful adaptations that result in a dramatic difference in student performance can sometimes be very simple to implement.
a. True
b. False
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