Reading Instruction Flashcards
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Which approach best supports students who struggle with reading fluency by providing a model of expressive, accurate reading?
Answer: Repeated reading with audio support
Repeated reading combined with audio models allows struggling readers to hear fluent reading and practice matching that model.
A teacher notices a student frequently substitutes visually similar words (e.g., 'house' for 'horse'). This suggests the student is over-relying on which cue system?
Answer: Graphophonic cues
Over-reliance on graphophonic (visual/sound) cues leads to substitutions of words that look alike rather than making sense in context.
The National Reading Panel identified which five components as essential to effective reading instruction?
Answer: Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
The National Reading Panel's five pillars are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.
Which strategy is MOST effective for helping students understand the internal structure of informational text?
Answer: Text feature walks
A text feature walk previews headings, subheadings, graphics, and captions, helping students understand how informational text is organized.
A student can decode words accurately but reads at 45 words correct per minute in grade-level text. The primary instructional priority should be:
Answer: Fluency-building practice such as timed repeated readings
When decoding is accurate but rate is low, fluency-building activities like timed repeated readings are the appropriate intervention.
Which type of question requires students to use information from the text AND their own background knowledge to answer?
Answer: Author and me questions
Author and me questions (from QAR) require students to combine textual information with prior knowledge to construct an answer.
Onset-rime instruction benefits early readers primarily because it:
Answer: Allows students to decode by analogy using familiar word families
Onset-rime instruction enables students to decode new words by analogy, using known rimes (e.g., -at) to read unfamiliar words (cat, bat, sat).