Assessment and Instructional Strategies Flashcards
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A teacher wants to assess whether students have internalized a comprehension strategy. Which task would provide the BEST evidence?
Answer: Having students apply the strategy independently to a new, unfamiliar text
Independent transfer to a novel text is the strongest evidence that a student has internalized a comprehension strategy, demonstrating strategic reading without teacher scaffolding.
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of a phonological awareness screening given at kindergarten entry?
Answer: To identify students who may be at risk for reading difficulties before formal reading instruction begins
Phonological awareness screening at kindergarten entry is used as a universal screener to identify children who lack prerequisite skills and may be at risk for reading difficulties.
A teacher provides a student with a cloze passage (words deleted at regular intervals) to complete. This task PRIMARILY assesses the student's:
Answer: Use of context and syntactic knowledge to predict missing words
Cloze tasks require students to use surrounding context and their knowledge of language syntax and semantics to supply missing words, making them a measure of contextual reading ability.
Which of the following MOST accurately describes the gradual release of responsibility model in reading instruction?
Answer: Responsibility for a skill is progressively shifted from the teacher to the student through modeling, guided practice, and independent work
The gradual release model (I Do, We Do, You Do) systematically transfers cognitive responsibility from teacher to student through modeling, shared practice, guided practice, and then independence.
A second grader reads accurately and fluently but cannot answer literal or inferential questions after reading. The teacher should FIRST:
Answer: Focus intervention on reading comprehension strategies such as identifying main idea and making inferences
When decoding and fluency are adequate but comprehension is poor, the intervention should directly target comprehension strategies, as the bottleneck is meaning-making, not word reading.
Which of the following is an evidence-based Tier 1 instructional practice for developing early reading skills?
Answer: Using systematic, explicit phonics instruction integrated with phonemic awareness and connected text reading
Research consistently supports systematic, explicit phonics instruction combined with phonemic awareness and application in connected text as a Tier 1 best practice for early reading.
A teacher reviews assessment data showing that a student self-corrects more than 50% of oral reading errors. This pattern MOST likely indicates that the student:
Answer: Is actively monitoring for meaning and using multiple cueing systems effectively
A high self-correction rate indicates the student recognizes when something does not sound right or make sense and takes action to fix it, demonstrating active comprehension monitoring.