ELAR Foundations of Reading Instruction 2

Question 1

A teacher notices a student reads 'ship' as 'chip'. Which phonological skill is the student struggling with?

Accepted Answer

Phoneme substitution

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Phoneme segmentation

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Phoneme blending

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Phoneme isolation

Question 2

Which assessment best measures a student's orthographic knowledge?

Accepted Answer

Spelling inventory or word sort task

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Rapid automatized naming (RAN)

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Phoneme segmentation fluency

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Oral reading fluency passage

Question 3

According to the Simple View of Reading, reading comprehension is the product of:

Accepted Answer

Language comprehension and decoding

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Decoding and fluency

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Vocabulary and background knowledge

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Phonemic awareness and syntax

Question 4

A student can blend and segment phonemes but still struggles to read words. What is the most likely next instructional focus?

Accepted Answer

Teaching phoneme-grapheme correspondences

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Increasing sight word memorization

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Practicing oral language retelling

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Building background knowledge

Question 5

Which type of text structure would a teacher address when teaching students to identify cause-and-effect relationships in expository text?

Accepted Answer

Causal structure

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Narrative structure

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Description structure

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Sequence structure

Question 6

What does 'morphological awareness' primarily involve?

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Recognizing and manipulating meaningful word parts

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Understanding how sounds map to letters

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Reading words accurately at an automatic rate

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Comprehending figurative language in text

Question 7

A teacher groups students by similar spelling errors for targeted word study. This practice is best described as:

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Differentiated phonics instruction based on assessment data

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Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

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Tier 1 whole-class fluency practice

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Guided reading level grouping