MTEL Reading & Literacy Instruction Flashcards

The National Reading Panel identified which five components as essential to effective reading instruction?

Answer: Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension

The National Reading Panel's five essential reading components are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension.

Which instructional strategy best supports English Language Learners developing academic literacy in Massachusetts schools?

Answer: Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) with content-area supports

Massachusetts requires Sheltered English Immersion, which integrates language and content instruction with scaffolded academic language supports.

A teacher assesses whether students can identify the main idea and supporting details. This targets which comprehension level?

Answer: Literal comprehension

Identifying explicitly stated main ideas and supporting details requires literal comprehension, the foundational level of reading understanding.

Which assessment tool provides a quick measure of reading fluency by counting correct words read per minute?

Answer: Curriculum-based measurement (CBM)

Curriculum-based measurement of oral reading fluency (CBM-R) measures the number of words read correctly per minute as an indicator of overall reading proficiency.

A student who reads accurately but without expression or appropriate phrasing likely struggles with:

Answer: Prosodic fluency

Prosodic fluency refers to reading with appropriate expression, intonation, and phrasing that reflects comprehension of the text.

When a teacher reads aloud to students while modeling think-alouds, the primary goal is to:

Answer: Model expert comprehension strategies explicitly

Read-alouds with think-alouds make the invisible thinking processes of skilled readers explicit and visible to students.