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1) The ultimate goal of the Every Student Succeeds Act is to have all students
A) reach proficiency on national tests.
B) reach proficiency on state tests.
C) read to the best of their ability.
D) become college and career ready.
3) Which of the following teacher questions best incorporates a New Criticism approach?
A) Do you know anyone like the main character in the story?
B) How do you think the author’s early life influenced her writing?
C) What impact does the author’s word choice have on the poem?
D) If the author were writing today, what changes do you think he might make in his poem?
6) Which of the following practices would most likely lead to an aesthetic response?
A) asking students if anything in a story reminded them of something that happened to them
B) discussing why the author might have written a story
C) having students create a diagram of the story
D) discussing the techniques that the author used to create suspense
7) Which processor does this activity neglect? The teacher has the students read a series of pseudo
words: riz, bup, crine, wumle. She explains that this will give them good practice in using their
phonics skills, since they will not have seen these fake words anywhere.
A) orthographic
B) meaning
C) letter-sound
D) phonological
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8) What does the sentence “We eated our lunch” spoken by a young child indicate about learning
language?
A) learning language is an imitative process
B) learning language is a constructive process
C) learning language is a straightforward process
D) not all children follow the same developmental path when learning language
9) According to Todd Risley, the most important thing parents can do to develop their children’s verbal
intelligence is to
A) provide a good preschool experience.
B) spend quality time with them.
C) take care of their physical and emotional needs.
D) talk to them.
10) What is the main difference between Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s approach to learning?
A) Vygotsky neglected direct experience.
B) Vygotsky stressed the importance of guidance from more knowledgeable others.
C) Vygotsky placed more emphasis on gradual development of children’s cognitive ability.
D) Vygotsky questioned the importance of the learning environment for cognitive development .
11) Which of the following is the best example of a teaching technique that is functional and contextual?
A) teaching the /s/ sound of c after teaching the /k/ sound of c
B) demonstrating most of the consonant sounds before starting formal reading instruction
C) testing students to make sure they have mastered the consonant sounds
D) teaching the /s/ sound of c just before students read about Cindy who spends 50 cents in the city
12) How well are today’s elementary and middle school students reading?
A) about the same as in past years
B) worse than in past years
C) better than in past years
D) better than their grandparents but worse than their parents
13) According to research by Gambrell, Wilson, and Gantt (1981); Nation (2001); Schmitt, Jiang, and
Grabe (2011), students make the most progress when they are reading materials in which they know
________ percent of the words.
A) 99 to 100
B) 85 to 90
C) 95 to 98
D) 80 to 85
15) According to Pressley, Allington, Wharton-McDonald, Block, & Morrow, what is the most
outstanding characteristic of highly effective teachers?
A) They stress skills and systematic instruction.
B) The use a wide variety of materials.
C) They manage their classrooms and have virtually no discipline problems.
D) They believe their students can learn and act accordingly.
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1) What are some behavioral, cognitive, and cognitive behavioral practices that can be found in literacy
programs?
2) What is your approach to teaching literacy? Does it use elements of behavioral, cognitive, or
cognitive behavioral approaches? After describing it, explain how you might implement your
approach.
4) What impact is the Every Student Succeeds Act having upon literacy instruction?
7) What are the ten principles of teaching reading? Why is each important?
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