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Prof-Ed-Review-DEVELOPMENTAL READING
TEST I.
1. Mrs. Manuel believes in the power of environment print to develop the pupils' sight word recognition, print
orientation, and even comprehension in a meaningful way. Which of the following materials is NOT an
example of environmental print?
a. Old boxes of powdered milk
b. Chocolate bar wrappers
c. Car stickers
d. Big books

2. Ms. Custodio teaches preschool. She is preparing to employ a shared book experience activity for her
kindergartens. Which of the following materials should Ms. Custodio probably need?
a. Flash cards
b. Big books
c. Basal texts
d. Word lists

3. Ms. Adona asks her pupil to point to the first word that should be read in the big book. Then, she asks
the pupil to point to the last word to be read. Which of the following assessment measures does Ms. Adona
employ in this situation?
a. Assessment of Reading Comprehension
b. Assessment of Spelling Ability
c. Concepts about Print Test
d. Vocabulary Test

4. Ms. Padilla is a Grade 1 Teacher who is concerned with building letters into words and words into
sentences. She uses flashcards so the pupils can sound out syllables and words correctly. What reading
model is reflected in Ms. Padilla's instruction?
a. Bottom-up model
b. Top-Down model
c. Interactive model
d. Schema model
5. Ms. Torres believes that her pupils need direct sensory contact and physical manipulation in the
classroom so that they learn easily and recall input effortlessly. What is the grade level of Ms. Torres'
class?
a. Pre-school
b. Primary
c. Intermediate
d. High School

6. Mr. Morauda is a Grade 1 Teacher who plans reading instruction as part of the language block. He
provides varied reading experiences that involve children sitting quietly, silently reading library books or
making a book based on their own experiences. What theoretical model of reading does Mr. Morauda
show?
a. Bottom-up model
b. Top-Down model
c. Interactive model
d. Schema model

7. One Grade 3 teacher of English to multilingual learners has just finished reading a story aloud to the
class. Which of the following is the best post-reading activity for the learners?
a. Provide students with a guide for reader-text interactions.
b. Have students write about what they have read.
c. Give them comprehension questions
d. Let them rest for a while

8. Mr. German is a teacher handling English for a culturally-diverse class. He would regularly read aloud to
his pupils, would provide time for free silent reading, recreational reading, and would lend them magazines
and newspapers. What factor in reading does Mr. German want to cultivate among his pupils?
a. Emotional/social development
b. Physical development
c. Interest in reading
d. Intelligence

9. Mr. Arce is a new Grade 1 teacher who is unsure whether the pupils are ready for beginning reading
instruction. What must he observe before he begins his lessons?
a. The pupils are emotionally prepared for social interaction and competition.
b. The pupils have achieved unity of their capabilities with their interests.
c. The learners can respond to simple questions and instructions.
d. The learners show desire to learn in class.

10. Teacher Millicent knows well that the text or the print material is one factor that affects reading. So she
tries to match the text with the ease or difficulty of students' comprehension based on the style of writing.
What text factor does Teacher Millicent consider in the choice of reading materials for her class?
a. Organization
b. Format
c. Readability
d. Content

11. Ms. Morallos teaches her Grade 6 class how to write a summary of an expository text. In her
discussion, she explains what it is, models it through think aloud, and informs her pupils when and how this
skill learned in the classroom can be used even during their own free silent reading. She provides them
with guided and independent practice before she conducts an evaluation. What approach to teaching is
reflected in Ms. Morallos' practice?
a. Indirect instruction
b. Explicit instruction
c. Intrinsic instruction
d. Independent instruction
12. ReQuest is a strategy used to develop learners' ability in asking significant questions. The teacher
needs to model questioning skills and let the pupils practice the same until the learners are ready to use the
skill automatically. What is the best reason for teaching the learners this skill?
a. Learners become purposive when they set their own questions while reading.
b. Teachers become confused by the questions asked by the learners.
c. Teachers find time to review the questions of the learners.
d. Learners feel important when they make questions.

13. Mr. Gutierrez is planning to have a list of 200 words in Science for the school's vocabulary development
program. After going through all the books used by his fourth grade pupils, he is still in the dark as to what
words need to be included in his list. Which of the following criteria should NOT be the basis of Mr.
Gutierrez for word selection?
a. High frequency words
b. Content area words
c. High utility words
d. Difficult words

14. Mr. Malaya is teaching a 3rd year high school class in world history. The students need note taking,
outlining and study skills. If he wants to help the students learn these strategies, which of the following skills
should he model to them first?
a. Getting main idea
b. Sequencing events
c. Reciprocal teaching
d. Rhetorical patterns of expository texts

15. Which of the following beliefs is consistent with the bottom-up perspective in reading?
a. A reader could read a text when he/she uses his prior knowledge to make sense of the text.
b. A reader could read a text when he/she selects only the meaningful segments in the text
c. A reader could read a text when he/she relates the text to other texts previously read
d. A reader could read a text when he/she can translate the visual symbols to their aural equivalent

16. Which of the following reading skills or strategies utilizes a bottom-up procedure in dealing with
unfamiliar words?
a. Inferencing
b. Structural analysis
c. Predicting outcomes
d. Using contextual clues

17. Before a reader could read the WORD, he/she must learn to read the WORLD first. What does this
imply?
a. Students or readers must know the names of the letter first before they will know what the word means.
b. Readers must know the sounds of the letters first before they will know what the word means.
c. Words are only representations of the concepts that the child or reader knows before encountering the
print.
d. The text supplies the readers with the necessary knowledge they need to make sense of the print.
18. Mr. Velasquez explicitly teaches his students the rhetorical patterns of an informational text taken from
a science textbook. Which of the following does the teacher want to develop in the reader?
a. Print skill
b. Content schemata
c. Formal schemata
d. Vocabulary knowledge

19. Ms. Rebolledos uses the timeline as a graphic organizer to teach the readers to understand a given
expository text. Which of the following organizational structures might be the one used in the exposition of
the text's information?
a. Cause and effect
b. Comparison and contrast
c. Enumeration-description
d. Sequential or chronological

20. Which of the following is the BEST reason why regression is a good metacognitive reading technique?
a. Readers use it to search for keywords in a text
b. Readers use it to read a passage all over again
c. Readers use it to highlight important lines in the text for retrieval purposes.
d. Readers use it to monitor comprehension when text seems not to make sense

21. Edward is reading a book and he needs to know the meaning of the word "obliterate". However, the
passage does not give enough clues for him to figure out what the word means. He decided to use his
pocket dictionary so he would know what the word means. Which of the following strategies should he use
so that he would know the meaning of the unfamiliar word?
a. Scanning
b. Skimming
c. Close reading
d. Careful slow reading

22. Ms. Sigua entered the classroom and posted images that she has taken from the story she is about to
tell the students. Before she started telling the story to the class, she grouped the students and asked them
to make a story out of the pictures posted on the board. Which of the following approaches reflects the
practice of the teacher?
a. Explicit Phonics
b. Basal Approach
c. Embedded Phonics
d. Language Experience Approach

23. Mrs. Dizon entered the classroom and showed a list of word families like cat, mat, fat, rat, pat and bat.
What approach is described in this situation?
a. Whole-language approach
b. Language experience approach
c. Literature-based approach
d. Phonics approach
24. Mr. Palo distributed a K-W-L chart to his students so they could fill up the K and W columns. Which of
the following reasons DOES NOT justify such activity?
a. Setting a purpose for reading
b. Activating prior knowledge
c. Confirming, revising or rejecting an earlier assumption about a topic
d. Sharing assumptions related to the topic of the text to be read

25. Mr. Lilang wants to develop creative thinking in his students even before he asks his students to silently
read the short story for the day's reading lesson. Which of the following activities should he provide the
students so he could achieve his aim?
a. Unlocking of vocabulary words by finding their meaning in the dictionary
b. Asking the students to write story impressions out of the posted pictures of scenes taken from the story
to be read.
c. Pronouncing five unfamiliar vocabulary words that will be encountered in the story
d. Asking the students to list down certain experiences they had, which may be related to the main
character in the story to be read

TEST II.
1. Which of the following results of an IRI graded reading passages is used to predict a learner's functional
reading level?
a. Scores in a series of spelling tests
b. Number of words correctly pronounced per minute
c. Percentage of oral reading miscues and sight word recognition scores
d. Percentage of oral reading miscues and percentage of correct answers to comprehension questions.

2. Mrs. Sabate handles fourth grade English and is currently teaching simile and metaphor using short
stories for children. Which of the following reasons does she want to students to better understand?
a. Author's use of figurative language
b. Author's point of view
c. Use of text structure
d. Tone and mood

3. Mr. Salvador notices that his student, Robert cannot decode sight words that are supposed to be easy
for students of his age. Which of the following activities, then, should Mr. Salvador provide to Robert?
a. Constructing mental maps and graphic organizers
b. Answering comprehension questions using QAR
c. Phonemic awareness activities
d. Spelling drills and games

4. Among native speakers of English, students from Grade 7 and up are supposed to be ready for abstract
reading. What does this imply?
a. Learners on this stage are able to grasp informational texts.
b. Learners on this level can construct multiple hypotheses.
c. Readers on this stage can manipulate objects and ideas mentally.
d. Readers on this level judge affectively and personally than using standard.
5. All the three reading theories recognize the role of the reader and the text in the comprehension process.
However, only the interactive model accounts for the role of the reading situation in the meaning-making
process. What factor does the interactive model consider the reading process?
a. Outcome
b. Task
c. Context
d. Purpose

6. The four-Pronged Approach upholds the holistic and balanced instruction in beginning reading. Which of
the following principles characterizes the most important characteristic of this approach?
a. The inclusion of critical thinking skills after reading
b. The development of genuine love for reading
c. The integration of whole language, literature and explicit instruction
d. The heavy emphasis on grammar and oral language development

7. The reader's prior knowledge plays a vital role in negotiating meaning and transaction with the text. To
enhance the schemata of the learners, Teacher Arabella exposes her Grade 2 pupils to the pragmatic use
of language in their day to day life experiences so that they develop rich vocabulary. What belief does the
teacher manifest in this situation?
a. Word meanings aid textual understanding.
b. Word pronunciation builds comprehension
c. Word knowledge is learned best in isolation.
d. Word familiarity is gained in the classroom.

8. In one Grade 6 reading class in public school, Teacher Samantha conducts a regular 10 minute silent
reading of an expository text in Science. What is the best silent reading activity that Teacher Samantha can
give her students?
a. Invite resource person to discuss the content of the material.
b. Prepare reading road maps to guide reader-text interactions.
c. Instruct them to write reflection journals on their notebook.
d. Check understanding by asking post-reading questions.

9. Mr. Siruet is a Science Teacher in Ilocos. He strongly believes that devoting 10-15 minutes for real-time
reading in the classroom and guiding the pupils' interaction with Science materials before or after doing an
activity is better than just assigning them to read at home and make sense of the text on their own. What
could be the best explanation for Mr. Siruet's reading practice?
a. Science is one subject that calls for inquiry and discovery.
b. Science class does not require actual reading time in class.
c. Time can be spent in more meaningful hands-on activities.
d. Experience with print enriches vocabulary and understanding of Science concepts

10. Teacher Jeremiah is planning an integration lesson using Social Studies text for his Grade 5 English
class. Which of the following is the best thing to do to activate his pupils' background knowledge?
a. Ask several critical questions.
b. Make the pupils prepare an outline
c. Unlock difficult words by using the dictionary
d. Present advance organizer of the topic
11. Mrs. Yelena handles Grade 4 classes in Makabayan. Before conducting any discussion, she makes
sure that her pupils have read the text by allotting 7-10 minutes of silent reading in the classroom. Which of
the following should NOT be done by Ms. Yelena during the silent reading activity?
a. Insert questions in selected parts of the text as guide.
b. Make students fill in the blanks of the structured overview.
c. Let students fill in the L column of the KWL chart.
d. Leave students to do what they want in reading silently by themselves.

12. As a post-reading activity in any content-area reading class, which of the following should be avoided
by the teacher?
a. Have students talk about what they read.
b. Ask questions to score comprehension.
c. Have students prepare make up test on their reading.
d. Go back to the Anticipation Guide for some correction.

13. Reading in the content area aims to help students make sense of the text and negotiate meaning as
readers actively interact with the text. Which of the following activities will best achieve this goal?
a. Have the reading of the text be done at home
b. Make them read silently.
c. Allow students to ask questions.
d. Practice oral reading for fluency.

14. A student asked the teacher to tell him the meaning of the word "disetablishmentarianism", which is
found in the text that the student read. Instead of explicitly stating the meaning of the word, the teacher
asked the student to segment the word and look for its base word, prefix, and suffixes so that they may
construct the meaning of the word through these word parts. Which of the following vocabulary strategy did
the teacher use to help the students arrive at the meaning of unfamiliar word?
a. Semantic feature analysis
b. Semantic mapping
c. Structural analysis
d. Context clues

15. Ronald is about to buy a book. After taking a book from the display shelf, he looked at the title, opened
it and looked at the table of contents, then the summary found at the back cover. He realized that what he
took from the shelf is not what he needs. Which of the following strategies do you think did Ronald do to
decide why he does not need it?
a. Scanning
b. Skimming
c. Close reading
d. Careful slow reading

16. Which of the following words BEST lends itself to the teaching of structural analysis as a strategy to
unlock the meaning of an unfamiliar word?
a. Special
b. Preschool
c. Happiness
d. Undesirable

17. Bejinda is having a difficulty comprehending the novel, "Florante at Laura", because the author's
narration seems to be different than the actual order of events that have happened in the story. Which
strategy should the teacher model Belinda so she would be able to understand the text?
a. Making a Venn diagram
b. Construction a timeline
c. Rereading the text
d. Listing the events

18. Which of the following activities BEST develops creative reading?


a. Sounding out words while reading
b. Giving an alternative ending for a story read
c. Looking at the author's biography
d. Rejecting the premises of the author

19. Which of the following activities should be the last option for the metacognitive reader if he does not
make sense of the expository text he is reading?
a. Sounding out each word while reading the text
b. Questioning a detail that seems confusing
c. Rereading a part that suggest multiple meanings
d. Constructing a graphic organizer for the text

20. Mr. Javier has just ended the silent reading activity he provided for his students and he deems to
necessary to discuss the story. If he wants to model critical reading to his students, which question should
he likely ask himself?
a. Who are the characters of the story?
b. Why did the main character end up not to be successful?
c. Would it be unfair to close a fairy tale with a sad ending after the princess meets the prince? Why?
d. If I were to write another beginning of this selection, how would I start this story?

21. Mrs. Corazon wants her students to respond creatively to the story they have just read in the class.
Which of the following activities should be provided for the students so that she could achieve her aim?
a. Writing a summary of the story read
b. Writing a letter to a character in the story
c. Listing down the events that happened in the story
d. Answering comprehension questions about the story

22. Which of the following activities is NOT appropriate in helping readers develop organizational
comprehension of expository texts?
a. Outlining
b. Creating and using graphic organizers
c. Unlocking vocabulary words through context
d. Identifying the topic, main idea, and supporting details

23. When Brylle read the sentence, "The bankruptcy made a run on the bank", he thought the bankruptcy
literally ran on the bank. What explains this phenomenon?
a. The reader lacks auditory perception
b. The reader lacks sight word recognition
c. The reader has inadequate proficiency in listening and speaking.
d. There is a mismatch between the reader and writer's field of experiences.

24. Ms. Jazmin prepared controversial statements, which are taken from the social studies text that she is
about to teach to her students. After this, when she met her class, she made them agree or disagree to the
statements and made them explain their reasons before they finally read the text. What does the teacher
clearly demonstrate in this situation?
a. Reading through elaboration strategies
b. Reading through organizational strategies
c. Reading through preparational strategies
d. Reading through metacognitive strategies

25. Mr. Manantan's assessment of his students clearly reveals that they lack proficiency in identifying the
structure of different types of expository texts and they have a difficulty plotting the details of these texts
when asked to covert the ideas into graphical representations. What should Mr. Manantan teach and
model?
a. The use of elaboration strategies
b. The use of organizational strategies
c. The use of preparational strategies
d. The use of metacognitive strategies

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