AECTP Reading Instruction 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: A teacher notices a student reads 'house' as 'horse.' Which phonemic awareness skill should the teacher target first?
- Phoneme blending
- Phoneme segmentation
- Phoneme substitution (Correct answer)
- Phoneme deletion
Correct answer: Phoneme substitution
Phoneme substitution directly addresses the student's error of replacing the /h-ou-s/ medial vowel sound with a different phoneme.
Question 2: Which instructional approach best supports students transitioning from decoding individual words to reading connected text fluently?
- Repeated reading of decodable texts (Correct answer)
- Silent reading of leveled books
- Listening to audiobooks independently
- Copying sentences from the board
Correct answer: Repeated reading of decodable texts
Repeated reading of decodable texts builds automaticity with phonics patterns while providing practice in connected text.
Question 3: A second-grade student has strong decoding skills but struggles to answer comprehension questions. The MOST likely explanation is a deficit in:
- Phonological awareness
- Reading fluency
- Language comprehension (Correct answer)
- Print concepts
Correct answer: Language comprehension
According to the Simple View of Reading, comprehension requires both decoding and language comprehension; strong decoding with poor comprehension points to a language comprehension deficit.
Question 4: Which text structure signal word would BEST help students identify a compare-and-contrast organizational pattern?
- Therefore
- However (Correct answer)
- First
- As a result
Correct answer: However
'However' signals contrast between ideas, a key marker of compare-and-contrast text structure.
Question 5: A teacher uses think-alouds while reading to students. The PRIMARY purpose of this strategy is to:
- Assess student reading levels
- Model metacognitive reading strategies (Correct answer)
- Build sight word vocabulary
- Practice oral fluency
Correct answer: Model metacognitive reading strategies
Think-alouds make the teacher's invisible thought processes visible, modeling metacognitive strategies students can internalize.
Question 6: Which assessment would MOST directly measure a student's orthographic knowledge?
- Running record
- Developmental spelling inventory (Correct answer)
- Oral reading fluency probe
- Retelling rubric
Correct answer: Developmental spelling inventory
A developmental spelling inventory reveals how students represent sounds in writing, directly reflecting their orthographic knowledge stage.
Question 7: When teaching students to identify the main idea of an informational passage, a teacher should emphasize that the main idea:
- Is always stated in the first sentence
- Must be inferred from details when not explicitly stated (Correct answer)
- Is the same as the topic of the passage
- Appears only in the concluding paragraph
Correct answer: Must be inferred from details when not explicitly stated
Main ideas are sometimes implicit and must be inferred by synthesizing key details when no explicit topic sentence is present.
AECTP Reading Instruction 2
A teacher notices a student reads 'house' as 'horse.' Which phonemic awareness skill should the teacher target first?