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  1. A student reads a passage about penguins and is asked, 'Why do penguins huddle together in winter?' What type of comprehension question is this?

    Answer: Cause-and-effect inference

    The question asks students to identify why something happens, which requires inferring a cause-and-effect relationship from the text.

  2. Which skill does aReading most directly assess when a student must choose the best title for an unlabeled passage?

    Answer: Main idea identification

    Choosing the best title requires a student to identify the central or main idea that the entire passage conveys.

  3. After reading a short story, a student is asked what the character 'probably felt' at the end. This question assesses the student's ability to:

    Answer: Make character inferences

    Predicting a character's feelings from text clues requires the reader to make inferences beyond what is explicitly stated.

  4. A passage describes events in the order Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. A comprehension question asks students to identify this pattern. What is being assessed?

    Answer: Chronological text structure

    Events presented in time order represent a chronological (sequence) text structure.

  5. In aReading, when a student must use context clues to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word, this skill is known as:

    Answer: Vocabulary in context

    Using surrounding words and sentences to figure out an unknown word's meaning is called vocabulary in context.

  6. A nonfiction passage ends with: 'Because of deforestation, many animals have lost their homes.' What does a reader need to understand to answer questions about this sentence?

    Answer: Cause-and-effect relationship

    The word 'because' signals a cause-and-effect relationship: deforestation (cause) leads to habitat loss (effect).

  7. Which of the following best describes what 'reading comprehension' means in the context of the FastBridge aReading assessment?

    Answer: A student's ability to understand and make meaning from text

    Comprehension refers to a reader's ability to understand, interpret, and construct meaning from what they read.