Reading Instruction Flashcards
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A teacher notices a student reads 'house' as 'horse.' Which phonemic awareness skill should the teacher target first?
Answer: Phoneme substitution
Phoneme substitution directly addresses the student's error of replacing the /h-ou-s/ medial vowel sound with a different phoneme.
Which instructional approach best supports students transitioning from decoding individual words to reading connected text fluently?
Answer: Repeated reading of decodable texts
Repeated reading of decodable texts builds automaticity with phonics patterns while providing practice in connected text.
A second-grade student has strong decoding skills but struggles to answer comprehension questions. The MOST likely explanation is a deficit in:
Answer: Language comprehension
According to the Simple View of Reading, comprehension requires both decoding and language comprehension; strong decoding with poor comprehension points to a language comprehension deficit.
Which text structure signal word would BEST help students identify a compare-and-contrast organizational pattern?
Answer: However
'However' signals contrast between ideas, a key marker of compare-and-contrast text structure.
A teacher uses think-alouds while reading to students. The PRIMARY purpose of this strategy is to:
Answer: Model metacognitive reading strategies
Think-alouds make the teacher's invisible thought processes visible, modeling metacognitive strategies students can internalize.
Which assessment would MOST directly measure a student's orthographic knowledge?
Answer: Developmental spelling inventory
A developmental spelling inventory reveals how students represent sounds in writing, directly reflecting their orthographic knowledge stage.
When teaching students to identify the main idea of an informational passage, a teacher should emphasize that the main idea:
Answer: Must be inferred from details when not explicitly stated
Main ideas are sometimes implicit and must be inferred by synthesizing key details when no explicit topic sentence is present.