FREE NBPTS Middle Childhood Generalist Questions and Answers

Question 1

Which student most likely requires an examination, specialized training, or intervention from a reading specialist?

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Barrett: a 3rd grader who often confuses the sounds of certain letters, such as /b/ and /d/ or /v/ and /u/

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Over a week or two, watch the child. Engage her in conversation to see if she has a restricted vocabulary, has emotional difficulties, or if there is another reason for her reluctance. Please take note of the child's interactions with their classmates. Is she ever the one to start a conversation? Does she react if another child initiates?

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Children should be grouped to read and modify a short play. While the rest of the class serves as an audience, each group will stage and perform their sport. The artists will get the audience members' brief written comments about what they have seen.

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Letter-sound correspondence

Question 2

How can teachers effectively teach their kids to write?

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Related to listening, reading and speaking

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4 or more authors

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Speech pathologist

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Rate, accuracy, and prosody

Question 3

Third-graders typically receive their spelling word lists every Monday to prepare for the test on Friday. Although the children's teacher is happy that they usually obtain excellent marks on spelling tests, she notices that the exact words are misspelled when the pupils write in diaries or complete classwork. What changes to this teacher's lesson plan are necessary?

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Integrate spelling words into writing, reading, grammar, phonics, and other activities to help students learn the words in a variety of contexts.

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Organizing ideas for writing a cohesive and persuasive essay or research paper that asserts supported arguments with valid supporting evidence.

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Show students how to create words out of movable alphabet tiles or magnetic letters, building (encoding) words as they sound them out

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Strategies to increase comprehension and to build vocabulary

Question 4

Which three-word recognition cueing systems in the Three Cueing Systems model best describe how words are combined to form expressive language?

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The Syntactic cueing system

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Media to inform many people

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Rate, Accuracy, and prosody

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Comprehension

Question 5

Which test will reveal whether a student can distinguish between initial, medial, blended, final, segmented, and manipulated units?

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Phonological awareness assessment

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Comprehension quick-check

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Running record

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Context

Question 6

What would be the ideal final-year comprehensive project for a fourth-grade class?

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Assign children to a group in which they will read and adapt a short play. Each group will perform its play with costumes and staging while the rest of the class will serve as audience members. Audience members will write short responses to what they have seen, which will be shared with the performers.

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Letter-sound correspondence

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A portfolio that includes a record of the books or stories the student has read, their reading fluency scores, writing samples, original projects, spelling, grammar, and comprehension tests, as well as other materials

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Barrett: a 3rd grader who often confuses the sounds of certain letters, such as /b/ and /d/ or /v/ and /u/

Question 7

A teacher works with a group of third graders at the same reading level. She wants to increase her reading fluency. She requests each youngster read a page from a book about young mammals. She expressly requests that the kids read. She also reminds them that they don't have to pause after every word and can read as quickly as they feel comfortable doing so. However, she warns them to refrain from reading so quickly that they omit or misunderstand a word. The teacher is aware of the following elements of reading fluency:

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Rate, accuracy, and prosody

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Understanding, rate, and prosody

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Cohesion, rate, and prosody

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Context