Deck 9: Literacies and Numeracy

Question 1

When students have difficulty with understanding text, teachers should focus on:

A) Reading recovery
B) Comprehension and strategy instruction
C) Scaffolding
D) All of the options given here apply

Answer 1

B

Question 2

An inclusive, responsive classroom is one in which all learners have access to a planned curriculum and in which a range of teaching and assessment approaches and practices are used to meet the knowledge, skills, cultural and linguistic backgrounds of all students.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Dynamic assessment is used to determine:

A) How a student compares to other age-like peers
B) A students level of competence in a specific learning area
C) Whether a student has potential to learn
D) All of the options given here apply

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Teachers can rely on a single assessment tool to determine what they need to know about the achievement of their students.

Question 5

The following principles need to be considered when testing for literacy and numeracy. Assessment that:

A) Links to data, informs instruction, is part of teaching and learning, is continuous
B) Links to outcomes, informs instruction, is part of teaching and learning, is continuous
C) Informs instruction, is not part of teaching and learning, is continuous, links to outcomes
D) None of the options given here apply

Question 6

Describe the four roles taken by students when using the Four Resources Model (Luke and Freebody, 1999. A map of possible practices: Further notes on the Four Resources Model. Practically Primary, 4, 5-8).

Question 7

Curriculum based assessment (CBA) uses:

A) An outside organisation for testing
B) Samples of behaviour from the school curriculum in a specific area
C) Samples of students work
D) All of the options given here apply

Question 8

Assessment developed by the teacher can also be used to determine student's strengthens and weaknesses in literacy and numeracy.

Question 9

Literacy and numeracy assessments give information about individual student progress and inform teachers when pedagogical changes need to be made in their literacy and numeracy teaching.

Question 10

Numeracy refers to those aspects of mathematics that are related to functioning in society.

Question 11

If a teacher is planning her lessons according to the principles of Universal Design for Learning, then she shouldn't have to make any individual students accommodations for modifications.

Question 12

The term "literacies" refers both to being literate using various media of communication and being able to use literacies in various contexts.

Question 13

Differentiation is important when individualising instruction for students with reading and mathematics problems. Differentiation refers to:

A) Identifying which students to inform curriculum and teaching decisions and those who will not
B) Using knowledge of the students to inform curriculum and teaching decisions
C) The choice of assessment instruments that are appropriate for students with literacy or numeracy difficulties
D) Clearly identifying the student's literacy and numeracy difficulties

Question 14

According to the Four Resource Model, a student who is establishing a purpose for the text and thinking about other possible purposes, is acting in the role of the:

A) Text-user
B) Code-breaker
C) Text-participant
D) Text-analyst

Question 15

If a student is in the text-user role of literacy, she focuses on making meaning out of the text.

Question 16

"Decoding" refers to an ability to resolve mysteries in a text.

Question 17

Describe one form of testing that teachers employ to assess students' strengths and weaknesses in literacy and numeracy.

Question 18

When teachers use inclusive teaching, Universal Design for Learning and differentiated instruction, they create learning environments that have important features and use a range of pedagogies. List and explain some of these effective pedagogies and discuss how they can be used to increase literacy and numeracy.

Question 19

Concepts such as measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) fall under the content area of measurement in mathematics.

Question 20

A combination of accuracy and speed is important in:

A) Both literacy and mathematics
B) Mathematics
C) Neither literacy or mathematics
D) Literacy

Question 21

The Reading Recovery program involves:

A) Reading, writing, speaking and listening activities in which modelling plays a major role
B) Structured group work and whole-class teaching
C) Accelerated learning so that students can catch up with their peers who are average performers in their class
D) Activities undertaken with a teacher independently

Question 22

This program specifically targets Indigenous students:

A) National Accelerated Literacy Program
B) WriteIdeas
C) Latch-On
D) Working Out What Works

Question 23

This program uses interview-based assessment:

A) Mathematics Recovery
B) Reading Recovery
C) Working Out What Works
D) Count Me in Too

Question 24

WriteIdeas is not only employed for students with developmental disabilities.

Question 25

To increase student efficacy, teacher should use instructional tasks well within the student's zone of proximal development.

Question 26

Students with learning difficulties need a balanced approach in literacy and numeracy instruction that involves:

A) Modelling, thinking aloud and specific learning support with specialists
B) Peer tutoring, modelling, thinking aloud, collaborative learning and problem solving in everyday-type activities
C) Explicit teaching, hands-on activities and problem solving in everyday-type activities
D) Optimal acoustic environment and early identification of the acquisition of literacy

Question 27

The use of second and third-wave interventions cannot be reduced by merely improving the quality of the classroom program.