English Language Arts & Reading Flashcards

A teacher wants to help students make inferences. Which question stem best prompts inferential thinking?

Answer: 'What can you conclude about the character based on her actions in the story?'

Inferential questions ask students to go beyond literal text by drawing conclusions from evidence, making them higher-order comprehension questions.

Which is an example of a morpheme-based vocabulary strategy?

Answer: Breaking the word 'prehistoric' into 'pre-' (before) and 'historic' (related to history) to determine meaning

Analyzing meaningful word parts (prefixes, roots, suffixes) is a morpheme-based strategy that helps students decode and understand unfamiliar words.

Which best describes the difference between revising and editing in the writing process?

Answer: Revising focuses on improving content, organization, and clarity; editing addresses grammar, punctuation, and mechanics

Revising addresses higher-order concerns like ideas and structure, while editing focuses on surface-level conventions like spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

A teacher reads a picture book aloud, pausing to ask questions and make predictions. This is best described as a:

Answer: Interactive read-aloud

An interactive read-aloud is a structured oral reading event in which the teacher intentionally pauses to model thinking and engage students in discussion.

Which statement best describes phonological awareness?

Answer: The oral and auditory ability to hear and manipulate units of sound in spoken language

Phonological awareness is an umbrella term for the oral/auditory ability to recognize and manipulate sound units (words, syllables, onsets, rimes, phonemes) without print.

When teaching expository writing, a teacher asks students to state their position and support it with evidence. This type of writing is called:

Answer: Argumentative/persuasive writing

Argumentative writing requires students to take a stance and support it with logical evidence and reasoning, a key genre in ELA standards.

A 3rd-grade student reads grade-level text accurately but very slowly, which affects comprehension. The teacher should prioritize:

Answer: Fluency-building strategies such as repeated reading and reader's theater

When accuracy is strong but rate is slow and comprehension suffers, fluency-building strategies like repeated reading and reader's theater directly target reading rate and prosody.