FTCE Reading Instruction 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which approach best supports students who struggle with reading fluency by providing a model of expressive, accurate reading?
- Round-robin reading
- Repeated reading with audio support (Correct answer)
- Silent sustained reading
- Independent reading logs
Correct answer: Repeated reading with audio support
Repeated reading combined with audio models allows struggling readers to hear fluent reading and practice matching that model.
Question 2: A teacher notices a student frequently substitutes visually similar words (e.g., 'house' for 'horse'). This suggests the student is over-relying on which cue system?
- Semantic cues
- Syntactic cues
- Graphophonic cues (Correct answer)
- Pragmatic cues
Correct answer: Graphophonic cues
Over-reliance on graphophonic (visual/sound) cues leads to substitutions of words that look alike rather than making sense in context.
Question 3: The National Reading Panel identified which five components as essential to effective reading instruction?
- Phonics, vocabulary, fluency, writing, and grammar
- Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension (Correct answer)
- Decoding, encoding, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
- Alphabetics, word study, fluency, motivation, and assessment
Correct answer: Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
The National Reading Panel's five pillars are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.
Question 4: Which strategy is MOST effective for helping students understand the internal structure of informational text?
- Story mapping
- Text feature walks (Correct answer)
- Reader's theater
- Literature circles
Correct answer: Text feature walks
A text feature walk previews headings, subheadings, graphics, and captions, helping students understand how informational text is organized.
Question 5: A student can decode words accurately but reads at 45 words correct per minute in grade-level text. The primary instructional priority should be:
- Additional phonemic awareness activities
- Fluency-building practice such as timed repeated readings (Correct answer)
- Advanced comprehension strategy instruction
- Vocabulary enrichment using tier-three words
Correct answer: Fluency-building practice such as timed repeated readings
When decoding is accurate but rate is low, fluency-building activities like timed repeated readings are the appropriate intervention.
Question 6: Which type of question requires students to use information from the text AND their own background knowledge to answer?
- Right there questions
- Think and search questions
- Author and me questions (Correct answer)
- On my own questions
Correct answer: Author and me questions
Author and me questions (from QAR) require students to combine textual information with prior knowledge to construct an answer.
Question 7: Onset-rime instruction benefits early readers primarily because it:
- Teaches the alphabetic principle through letter names
- Allows students to decode by analogy using familiar word families (Correct answer)
- Develops sight word recognition through repetition
- Improves reading rate by reducing sounding-out time
Correct answer: Allows students to decode by analogy using familiar word families
Onset-rime instruction enables students to decode new words by analogy, using known rimes (e.g., -at) to read unfamiliar words (cat, bat, sat).
FTCE Reading Instruction 2
Which approach best supports students who struggle with reading fluency by providing a model of expressive, accurate reading?