MTEL Assessment and Instructional Strategies 2

Question 1

A first-grade teacher uses DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency (DORF) probes three times per year to monitor all students. This BEST represents which type of assessment?

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Universal screening / benchmark assessment

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Diagnostic assessment

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Summative assessment

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Portfolio assessment

Question 2

Which instructional approach is MOST supported by research for teaching students with dyslexia to read?

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Structured literacy instruction using explicit, systematic, and sequential phonics

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Balanced literacy with an emphasis on leveled texts and cueing strategies

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Whole language immersion in rich literary environments

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Guided reading groups using books at each student's interest level

Question 3

A teacher calculates that a student's oral reading accuracy on a grade-level passage is 88%. According to standard IRI criteria, this passage is at the student's:

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Frustration reading level

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Independent reading level

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Instructional reading level

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Proficiency reading level

Question 4

Which of the following is an example of explicit reading instruction?

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Directly explaining a decoding strategy, modeling it, and guiding practice before releasing students to apply it independently

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Allowing students to discover phonics rules through wide reading of authentic texts

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Encouraging students to use picture cues and context to guess unknown words

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Providing a print-rich environment where students encounter words repeatedly

Question 5

Progress monitoring in a Tier 2 reading intervention PRIMARILY serves to:

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Determine whether the intervention is effective and whether adjustments are needed

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Document student achievement for end-of-year report cards

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Screen all students for reading difficulties at the start of the year

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Diagnose the specific type of reading disability a student has

Question 6

A teacher is analyzing a student's miscues during oral reading and notices the student frequently substitutes words that make syntactic sense but not semantic sense (e.g., reads 'run' for 'ran'). This analysis is MOST useful for identifying:

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The student's over-reliance on syntactic cueing with weak semantic monitoring

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The student's reading fluency rate

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The student's phoneme awareness deficits

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The student's sight word knowledge

Question 7

Which of the following practices reflects differentiated reading instruction?

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Grouping students flexibly based on assessed skills and adjusting texts and tasks accordingly

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Teaching the same lesson using the same materials to all students simultaneously

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Assigning all students the same independent reading book regardless of reading level

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Using a single whole-class novel study for all reading instruction throughout the year