Reading Instruction Flashcards
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Which instructional practice BEST supports English Language Learners in developing academic reading vocabulary?
Answer: Using cognate instruction to connect Spanish and English words
Cognate instruction explicitly connects Spanish-English word pairs (e.g., 'animal/animal'), leveraging students' L1 knowledge to accelerate academic vocabulary acquisition.
A fourth-grade student reads fluently but cannot identify the main idea of passages. The MOST targeted intervention would address:
Answer: Text structure and topic sentence identification
When fluency is strong but main idea identification fails, explicit instruction in text structure and how topic sentences signal main ideas is the appropriate focus.
Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of a Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DR-TA)?
Answer: To teach students to predict, read, and confirm or revise predictions
DR-TA engages students in an active predict-read-prove cycle, developing critical thinking and metacognitive comprehension skills.
Orthographic mapping refers to the process by which readers:
Answer: Bond phonemes to graphemes to store words in long-term memory as sight words
Orthographic mapping is the cognitive process of connecting a word's phonemes to its letters, allowing it to be permanently stored as a known sight word.
Which data source would MOST directly inform small-group flexible grouping decisions for reading instruction?
Answer: Curriculum-based reading assessments and running records
Current curriculum-based assessments and running records reflect students' present instructional level, making them the most actionable data for forming flexible groups.
A teacher reads aloud to students daily from rich literary and informational texts. This practice PRIMARILY supports:
Answer: Listening comprehension and vocabulary development above students' reading level
Read-alouds expose students to complex vocabulary and text structures at a level beyond their independent reading ability, building listening comprehension and oral language.
When a student self-corrects an error while reading aloud, this behavior BEST indicates:
Answer: Active comprehension monitoring and cross-checking of cue systems
Self-correction indicates the student is monitoring meaning and cross-checking multiple cue systems, a positive sign of developing metacognition.