Why is reading directions a slow, precise process?
a. Students need to reread and apply the directions.
b. Students need to memorize vocabulary.
c. Students need to learn speed reading.
d. None of these is true.
[Ques. 2] Why do students in career and technical areas today face more complex literacy demands than they did in the past?
a. Todays students have to take an upgraded core of academic courses.
b. Students in the past often had fewer requirements of courses comparable to those taken by college prep students.
c. Todays students have to comprehend complex, layered messages from combinations of audio, video, and digital and paper-based print information.
d. All of the above
[Ques. 3] Why do students in career-oriented and performance-based classes need to communicate using technology?
a. So they can update their social networking pages
b. So they can update their knowledge of technology
c. So they can tell others what to do
d. None of the above
[Ques. 4] What types of instruction are most useful for ELLs in career and technical subjects?
a. Vocabulary instruction
c. Narrow reading
b. Communication-based instruction
d. All of these
[Ques. 5] Why do struggling readers in career and technical studies lack the content exposure that they need?
a. They are not interested in career and technical studies.
b. They have been assigned to developmental studies which limited the instruction in the content areas.
c. They lack the decoding skills for reading.
d. None of these answers
[Ques. 6] Why does music instruction require a high level of reading ability?
a. Students must read notes and symbols.
c. Students must read text.
b. Students must read technical language.
d. All of the above
[Ques. 7] Which career and occupational fields require technical literacy?
a. Family and consumer sciences
b. Agriculture
c. Business education and physical education
d. All of the above
[Ques. 8] The three major goals of career and technical reading materials are to
a. entertain, to be read quickly, and to impart information.
b. impart content to students who are unable to read, to provide activities that do not require reading, and to avoid technical vocabulary.
c. impart information, to provide directions, and to give solutions to problems.
d. teach students to prepare graphics, to teach students to apply phonics skills, and to help students learn decoding skills.
[Ques. 9] Art students find it necessary to read
a. to find information, to follow directions, to interpret charts and diagrams, and to read reference manuals.
b. to read artistic novels.
c. to read captions on foreign films.
d. for none of the above reasons.
[Ques. 10] Although textbooks are rarely used in the subject, physical education students need reading skills
a. so they can read books, magazines, and other resources about improving performance in sports.
b. so they can speed read.
c. so that they can find game locations.
d. for all of the above reasons.
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