One of the main purposes of an Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) is
A) to pair students with appropriate instructional materials.
B) to examine how a student's silent reading comprehension is influenced by fluency.
C) to determine how a student uses semantic, syntactic, and other text cues to figure out a word's meaning.
D) to establish how prior knowledge and text organization influence a student's reading comprehension.
Ques. 2Mr. Berg has his students involved in self-assessments, which are
A) process-driven. B) product-driven.
C) both product- and process-driven. D) neither product- nor process-driven.
Ques. 3Which of the following are often left out of standardized testing?
A) Children's prior experiences, interests, and vocabulary
B) Children's abilities, comprehension, and interests
C) Children's abilities, prior experiences, and interests
D) Children's interests, reading level, and rate
Ques. 4Through ________ you can discover what children are thinking and feeling and how they feel about language learning.
A) miscue analysis B) interviewing C) checklists D) observation
Ques. 5All of the following can be determined from information gathered from anecdotal notes EXCEPT
A) placement of students. B) predictions about students.
C) instructional strategies and procedures. D) classification of information.
Ques. 6All of the following entries should be included in a portfolio EXCEPT
A) work in progress, documenting changes and growth in literacy.
B) a list of books read, updated regularly.
C) test scores.
D) writing in several genres.
Ques. 7________ is good for collecting data about a child's reading during regular classroom activities.
A) A portfolio B) An assessment folder
C) A teacher folder D) A running record
Ques. 8Through miscue analysis teachers can determine the extent to which the reader uses and coordinates cueing information. Which of the following is NOT a cueing category?
A) Semantic B) Graphophonemic C) Pragmatic D) Syntactic
Ques. 9Which of the following reading levels has been called the potential level?
A) Instructional B) Listening capacity C) Independent D) Frustration
Ques. 10Which of the following reading levels has been called the teaching level?
A) Frustration B) Independent C) Listening capacity D) Instructional
Ques. 11An informal reading inventory (IRI) consists of a series of each of the following EXCEPT
A) listening stations. B) graded reading passages.
C) comprehension questions. D) graded word lists.
Ques. 12Which of the following is NOT an informal assessment?
A) Miscue analysis B) Running records
C) Reading inventories D) Criterion-referenced
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