MTEL Assessment and Instructional Strategies 3

Question 1

A teacher wants to assess whether students have internalized a comprehension strategy. Which task would provide the BEST evidence?

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Having students apply the strategy independently to a new, unfamiliar text

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Asking students to retell the steps of the strategy from memory

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Observing students use the strategy during guided reading with teacher prompts

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Giving students a multiple-choice quiz about what the strategy is called

Question 2

Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of a phonological awareness screening given at kindergarten entry?

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To identify students who may be at risk for reading difficulties before formal reading instruction begins

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To diagnose specific phonological processing disorders for special education placement

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To measure alphabet knowledge and print concepts in incoming students

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To determine the reading level at which kindergarteners should begin instruction

Question 3

A teacher provides a student with a cloze passage (words deleted at regular intervals) to complete. This task PRIMARILY assesses the student's:

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Use of context and syntactic knowledge to predict missing words

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Oral reading fluency and prosody

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Phoneme segmentation and blending ability

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Letter-sound correspondence knowledge

Question 4

Which of the following MOST accurately describes the gradual release of responsibility model in reading instruction?

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Responsibility for a skill is progressively shifted from the teacher to the student through modeling, guided practice, and independent work

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Students independently select their own reading materials and pacing

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Teachers gradually reduce the difficulty of assigned texts over the course of a unit

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Students are given increasing amounts of time for independent reading as the year progresses

Question 5

A second grader reads accurately and fluently but cannot answer literal or inferential questions after reading. The teacher should FIRST:

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Focus intervention on reading comprehension strategies such as identifying main idea and making inferences

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Increase the number of decodable texts the student reads to strengthen phonics

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Administer a phonological awareness assessment to identify underlying deficits

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Assign additional fluency passages to build reading speed

Question 6

Which of the following is an evidence-based Tier 1 instructional practice for developing early reading skills?

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Using systematic, explicit phonics instruction integrated with phonemic awareness and connected text reading

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Providing only leveled-reader libraries with no structured phonics sequence

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Allowing students to self-select all texts and reading activities without teacher guidance

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Focusing exclusively on sight word memorization before introducing phonics concepts

Question 7

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:

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Is actively monitoring for meaning and using multiple cueing systems effectively

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Has a severe fluency deficit requiring intensive intervention

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Relies too heavily on phonics at the expense of reading for comprehension

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Should be moved to a lower reading group immediately