Question 1

Miyagi is about to teach his sixth-grade class a unit about earthquakes. What type of vocabulary words should he pre-teach?

Accepted Answer

Mr. Miyagi should pre-teach conceptually challenging words to his sixth-grade class before teaching the unit about earthquakes. Conceptually challenging words that are new to the class should be taught before they can actually learn the subject matter about earthquakes in the unit. Without understanding the new vocabulary, they cannot learn the subject matter.

Question 2

Miss Shields' third-grade class is about to read a short story about pets. She has a few English language learners in her class and needs to develop a strategy to promote their comprehension of the story. Which of the following strategies would work best?

Accepted Answer

In order for Miss Shields to help the English language learners with the story about pets, she can do a variety of activities. There are two answers that best answer this question: starting a discussion about pets in order to activate prior knowledge and providing visual aids to accompany new vocabulary. These strategies help the English language learners relate the new vocabulary to known vocabulary in their language.

Question 3

Shue has his seventh-grade class write in a response journal after every chapter in a novel they are reading. Which of the following journal prompts would most effectively help develop their literary response skills?

Accepted Answer

The journal prompt that would most effectively help Mr. Shue's class develop literary response skills is to relate certain events in the chapter to the theme of the novel. The process of relating particular events in the chapter to the overall theme of the novel helps them draw conclusions and make inferences based on what they have read. Connecting the most recent chapter to the overall theme of the book links everything in the book they have read thus far.

Question 4

Sparklenose is reading a Junie B. Jones book to her second-grade class. Since this is a trade book, she wants to incorporate a lesson plan to make it somewhat educational. Which of the following activities would work best in order to enhance the students' literary analysis skills?

Accepted Answer

The activity that would best help Mrs. Sparklenose enhance her students' literary analysis skills would be to make a concept map after reading the story. A concept map links together the important events in the story to show how it comes together as a whole. Visualizing how the parts of the story are related can help enhance comprehension skills as well as literary analysis skills.

Question 5

When Mrs. Sparklenose listens to Abby read aloud in her second-grade class, she notices that Abby lacks fluency, stopping often while reading. What is the very first thing that Mrs. Sparklenose should do in regard to Abby's fluency?

Accepted Answer

When Mrs. Sparklenose notices that Abby lacks fluency while reading, the very first thing she should do is assess whether Abby also has trouble with decoding. Decoding words is an important part of reading for new readers. If Abby cannot properly decode words, she will only continue to have difficulty with reading and even with comprehension.

Question 6

A sixth-grade class was asked to independently read an informational article. The next day, they were asked to take a quiz on the material read. Their teacher noticed from assessing the quiz that several students seemed to have trouble both comprehending the article and with vocabulary from the article. What should the teacher consider for the next time she has to teach an informational article?

Accepted Answer

In order to improve comprehension skills and promote an understanding of vocabulary, the sixth-grade teacher should spend some time discussing key vocabulary words in the article as well as discussing what to be looking for when reading. Understanding the vocabulary before reading will allow for reading that is more fluent. More fluent reading and an understanding of new vocabulary will also aid comprehension overall.

Question 7

Which of the following statements is the best example of a simile?

Accepted Answer

The statement that is the best example of a simile is"The moon looked like a flashlight in the night sky."A simile shows comparison, often using words such as like or as. This particular statement is comparing the brightness of the moon to the brightness of a flashlight.

Question 8

Which of the following statements is the best example of a metaphor?

Accepted Answer

The statement that is the best example of a metaphor is"The sun is a single rose setting in a garden of dusk."A metaphor is a way of describing something withoutthe use of like or as. Metaphors are a less literal and more figurative way of describing something. By saying that the sun is a single rose setting in a garden of dusk, the writer wants its readers to use their imagination and picture the sun as a rose color in a dark garden in order to understand that the sun looks red in the dark, late-afternoon sky.

Question 9

Which of the following statements is the best example of alliteration?

Accepted Answer

The statement that is the best example of alliteration is"We were wild with worry."Alliteration is the repetition of beginning sounds in neighboring words. In the statement"We were wild with worry,"the /w/ sound repeats itself at the beginning of each neighboring word.

Question 10

Patience has just read a story to his kindergarten class. Which of the following activities would best help him assess their literary response skills?

Accepted Answer

The activity that would best help Mr. Patience assess his students' literary response skills after reading a story to them would be to divide them into small groups and ask them to act out the story. Kindergarteners are too young to write about the story effectively, and simply telling their favorite part of the story does not as effectively demonstrate their analysis skills as reenacting the story does.

Question 11

What does the strategy skimmingrefer to?

Accepted Answer

Skimming refers to the act of previewing a unit in a textbook before reading it. By skimming a unit, students can grasp an idea of what will be covered in the unit. Skimming can also give students an idea of what they will be expected to learn in the unit when they start reading it.

Question 12

A seventh-grade class is doing a research paper for which they can only gather information from the internet. What can the teacher do to encourage effective use of the internet for their project?

Accepted Answer

In order to encourage effective internet use for their papers, the seventh-grade teacher should give the students a checklist of things to look for which will help them evaluate the validity and relevance of the information they find.

Question 13

Charlie is a sixth-grader doing a research project for which he has to use informational texts for his research. Which of the following parts of a book will be most useful to him when previewing books for his project?

Accepted Answer

When previewing informational texts for his research project, the table of contents will be most useful for Charlie. The table of contents lists the categories covered in the book and Charlie can decide by looking at it whether the book has the information that he is looking for. The rest of the answers do not categorize the information covered in the book.

Question 14

A fifth-grade teacher is introducing a chapter about the atmosphere. Which of the following activities would be a beneficial way to connect their background knowledge about the atmosphere to what they will be learning in the chapter?

Accepted Answer

A beneficial way for the teacher to connect his/her students' background knowledge to what they will be learning in the chapter is to create a KWL chart. A KWL chart will list what they Know about the atmosphere, what they Want to know about the atmosphere, and what they Learned about the atmosphere. The K and W columns can be created before reading the chapter and the Learned column can be created after they read the chapter. The information that they already know acts as a building block for new information.

Question 15

When a first-grade teacher is reading a large-sized book to her class, she points to the ending letter of each word and emphasizes the sound it makes. What is the best answer to describe why she is doing this?

Accepted Answer

The first-grade teacher points to and emphasizes the last letter in a word to promote the idea that words are made of individual sounds. The same activity can be used with the beginning or middle of a word. This activity shows that the letters are there for a reason-to make the word sound a certain way.

Question 16

A fifth-grade class is reading about the Civil War. Which of the following graphic organizers would best help them learn the timing of the series of events involved in the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

The graphic organizer that would best help the fifth-graders learn the timing of events involved in the Civil War would be a timeline. With a topic such as a war, the dates are important. Timelines can help students visualize the events in the order that they happened.

Question 17

A seventh-grade teacher wants her students to analyze points of view in written arguments. She has them read persuasive essays with varying points of view on a social topic that people tend to disagree upon. What questions should she ask her students about each of the essays?

Accepted Answer

All of the above-mentioned questions can be asked by a teacher to analyze point of view in expository subject matter. The teacher's goal should be to promote the students' understanding that when reading a persuasive essay, the reader needs to be open-minded and look for supporting evidence. Creating an understanding of all points of view can help relate the students to the subject matter and the students can then evaluate all points of view.

Question 18

An English language learner in second-grade is writing a sentence about a picture with a boy giving a book to another boy. The English language learner writes"Him is giving the boy a book."This sentence would indicate that the child is having problems with which of the following components of language?

Accepted Answer

An English language learner who writes him instead of he is having problems with using the correct grammatical word structure. Using pronouns incorrectly is a sign that a child may need more time practicing correct grammar.

Question 19

A first-grader tells her teacher, "I slepted overnight at my friend's house." Which of the following would be the teacher's best response to address this incorrect use of tense?

Accepted Answer

When the first-grader tells her teacher that she slepted at her friend's house, the teacher should respond by modeling the correct verb usage. Simply stating that the word is incorrect does not teach the correct usage. By hearing the correct usage of the wordslept the student can make the correlation between right and wrong.

Question 20

A second-grader is writing in his journal about what he did over the weekend. When writing about a bike race between him and his brother, he writes"I beat my brother. Can I ride fast!" The fact that he meant to write"I can ride fast!" indicates that he may have trouble with which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A second-grader who puts the wordsI and can in the wrong order when describing how fast he can ride is having trouble with syntax. Syntax involves the use of word order to convey meaning. Changing the order can turn a declarative sentence into a question.

Quiz 45: Reading LA