Exam 13: Creating Literacy Rich Environments for All Learners

When first teaching a child to read, research strongly supports the use of phonemic awareness which focuses on:​

Today's literacy instruction connects __________ from the start.​

Although the systematic instruction of phonemic awareness and the alphabetic principle have proven successful with children for whom English is their first language, it has not been shown to benefit English language learners.

If a teacher has used both formal and informal reading assessments and still is not clear as to why the student is struggling, a __________ assessment could help in identifying the problem.

When teachers model the _____________ strategy, the teacher purposefully speaks aloud as she thinks through the steps in identifying an unknown word, making meaning of a passage, or handling other trouble spots in reading.

When reading to learn is not an option for students, it becomes necessary to:​

Which of the following is NOT an informal reading assessment?​

Teachers can help students increase their reading fluency in all of the following ways, EXCEPT:

Students who struggle with text and other print material from which they are expected to gain information are not capable of the thought processes and learning expected in a typical general education classroom.

The benefits of teaching phonics explicitly and systematically to young students include all of the following, EXCEPT:

Academically gifted students can benefit from:​

Diverse learners, particularly those learning a second language, typically learn the academic vocabulary of a new language before the social vocabulary.

Explain how the Question-Answer-Response (QAR)strategy can be presented in different modes to benefit students with a variety of learning styles.

Which of the following is an example of a balanced literacy approach to adapting instructional resources to meet the needs of struggling readers?​

Reading Interest Inventories can accomplish all of the following, EXCEPT:

Learned helplessness means:​

Early intervention for students with reading difficulties is critical for all the following reasons, EXCEPT:

A _____________ allows the learner to analyze a word through its definition, synonyms, antonyms, mnemonics, and context.​

Most students need instruction in the writing process and benefit from the use of all of the following, EXCEPT:

For some students writing is actually easier than reading, because reading requires a more complex series of steps to decode language.