MTEL MTEL Reading & Literacy Instruction 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: The National Reading Panel identified which five components as essential to effective reading instruction?
- Fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, spelling
- Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension (Correct answer)
- Decoding, encoding, fluency, grammar, writing
- Phonics, sight words, vocabulary, comprehension, motivation
Correct 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.
Question 2: Which instructional strategy best supports English Language Learners developing academic literacy in Massachusetts schools?
- Exclusive use of the home language
- Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) with content-area supports (Correct answer)
- Avoidance of oral language activities
- Solely vocabulary drills without context
Correct 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.
Question 3: A teacher assesses whether students can identify the main idea and supporting details. This targets which comprehension level?
- Literal comprehension (Correct answer)
- Inferential comprehension
- Evaluative comprehension
- Applied comprehension
Correct answer: Literal comprehension
Identifying explicitly stated main ideas and supporting details requires literal comprehension, the foundational level of reading understanding.
Question 4: Which assessment tool provides a quick measure of reading fluency by counting correct words read per minute?
- Running record
- Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) (Correct answer)
- Portfolio assessment
- Anecdotal observation
Correct 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.
Question 5: A student who reads accurately but without expression or appropriate phrasing likely struggles with:
- Phonemic awareness
- Decoding
- Prosodic fluency (Correct answer)
- Phonological processing
Correct answer: Prosodic fluency
Prosodic fluency refers to reading with appropriate expression, intonation, and phrasing that reflects comprehension of the text.
Question 6: When a teacher reads aloud to students while modeling think-alouds, the primary goal is to:
- Replace independent reading time
- Model expert comprehension strategies explicitly (Correct answer)
- Assess listening comprehension scores
- Build sight word vocabulary only
Correct answer: Model expert comprehension strategies explicitly
Read-alouds with think-alouds make the invisible thinking processes of skilled readers explicit and visible to students.
MTEL MTEL Reading & Literacy Instruction 2
The National Reading Panel identified which five components as essential to effective reading instruction?