CALT Reading Comprehension 5

Question 1

Which instructional strategy best supports students who struggle to monitor their own understanding while reading?

Accepted Answer

Think-alouds and metacognitive self-questioning

Answer

Think-alouds and self-questioning teach students to actively monitor comprehension and notice when meaning breaks down.

Question 2

A student can answer literal questions but fails when asked 'Why did the character feel that way?' This gap reflects difficulty with which comprehension skill?

Accepted Answer

Perspective-taking and inferencing about mental states

Answer

Questions about character feelings require theory of mind and inferencing skills that go beyond literal text recall.

Question 3

Which evidence-based intervention framework emphasizes explicit instruction in reading comprehension strategies such as predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing?

Accepted Answer

Reciprocal Teaching

Answer

Reciprocal Teaching (Palincsar & Brown, 1984) teaches four specific comprehension strategies through dialogue between teacher and students.

Question 4

When assessing reading comprehension, a CALT notes that a student performs significantly better on oral comprehension than on reading comprehension. This pattern most directly points to a deficit in:

Accepted Answer

Decoding and word recognition

Answer

Better oral than reading comprehension indicates that language processing is intact and the bottleneck is at the word-reading (decoding) level.

Question 5

Which text feature primarily helps readers understand the organizational structure and hierarchy of information in expository text?

Accepted Answer

Headings and subheadings

Answer

Headings and subheadings signal how ideas are organized and allow readers to anticipate and chunk informational content.

CALT - Certified Academic Language Therapist Practice Test

CALT - Certified Academic Language Therapist Practice Test

CALT Reading Comprehension 5