MTEL Reading & Literacy Instruction Flashcards
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Which phonemic awareness skill involves identifying and manipulating individual sounds in spoken words?
Answer: Phoneme segmentation
Phoneme segmentation is the ability to break spoken words into their individual sounds, a foundational phonemic awareness skill.
According to the Simple View of Reading, reading comprehension is the product of which two components?
Answer: Decoding and language comprehension
The Simple View of Reading defines reading comprehension as the product of decoding ability multiplied by language comprehension.
A teacher uses repeated oral reading with feedback to improve student fluency. This practice is best described as:
Answer: Guided oral reading
Guided oral reading with corrective feedback is a research-supported method for developing reading fluency.
Which vocabulary instructional approach asks students to analyze prefixes, suffixes, and root words?
Answer: Morphemic analysis
Morphemic analysis teaches students to use knowledge of word parts (morphemes) to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
In the MTEL framework, Tier 2 vocabulary words are best described as:
Answer: High-frequency academic words found across content areas
Tier 2 words are high-utility academic vocabulary that appear across multiple content areas and are critical for reading comprehension.
A student reads 'the dog ran' as 'the dog run.' This error is best classified as which type of miscue?
Answer: Substitution
A substitution miscue occurs when a reader replaces one word in the text with a different word.