Reading and Language Arts Flashcards

Which instructional practice best supports English Language Learners in developing academic vocabulary?

Answer: Using cognates, visuals, gestures, and repeated exposure in context

ELL students benefit most from multimodal vocabulary instruction that connects new words to known concepts through visuals, gestures, cognates, and repeated meaningful exposure.

What is the primary purpose of a Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DR-TA)?

Answer: To engage students in making and verifying predictions while reading

A DR-TA guides students to make predictions before and during reading and then confirm or revise those predictions using text evidence, building active comprehension.

Which element is essential for a well-developed narrative written by an elementary student?

Answer: A clear problem, events that build tension, and a resolution

Strong elementary narratives include an identifiable problem, a sequence of events that develop the conflict, and a satisfying resolution.

A student consistently omits endings like -s, -ed, and -ing when reading aloud. Which area is most likely the source of this difficulty?

Answer: Morphological awareness

Morphological awareness involves recognizing and using word parts like prefixes, suffixes, and inflectional endings; difficulty with these endings suggests a morphological weakness.

Which reading model views comprehension as an interaction between the reader's background knowledge and the text?

Answer: Interactive model

The interactive model of reading posits that comprehension results from a dynamic interaction between text-based (bottom-up) and knowledge-based (top-down) processing.

A teacher has students keep a reading response journal. Which skill does this practice most directly support?

Answer: Text-to-self connections and written reflection

Reading response journals encourage students to make personal connections with texts and develop their thinking through written reflection on what they read.