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?

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

Independent transfer to a novel text is the strongest evidence that a student has internalized a comprehension strategy, demonstrating strategic reading without teacher scaffolding.

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

Phonological awareness screening at kindergarten entry is used as a universal screener to identify children who lack prerequisite skills and may be at risk for reading difficulties.

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:

Accepted Answer

Use of context and syntactic knowledge to predict missing words

Answer

Cloze tasks require students to use surrounding context and their knowledge of language syntax and semantics to supply missing words, making them a measure of contextual reading ability.

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

The gradual release model (I Do, We Do, You Do) systematically transfers cognitive responsibility from teacher to student through modeling, shared practice, guided practice, and then independence.

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

When decoding and fluency are adequate but comprehension is poor, the intervention should directly target comprehension strategies, as the bottleneck is meaning-making, not word reading.

MTEL - Foundations of Reading Exam Practice Test

MTEL - Foundations of Reading Exam Practice Test

MTEL Assessment and Instructional Strategies 3