Assessment and Instructional Strategies Flashcards
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A teacher wants to determine a student's independent reading level at the beginning of the school year. Which assessment type is MOST appropriate for this purpose?
Answer: An informal reading inventory (IRI)
An informal reading inventory (IRI) uses graded passages and comprehension questions to identify a student's independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels.
Which of the following BEST describes formative assessment in reading instruction?
Answer: Ongoing assessment during instruction used to adjust teaching in real time
Formative assessment is ongoing and embedded in instruction, allowing teachers to adjust their teaching based on student responses during the learning process.
A teacher notices that several students consistently misread multisyllabic words by skipping unstressed syllables. Which instructional strategy would BEST address this pattern?
Answer: Explicit instruction in syllable types and syllabication strategies
Explicit instruction in syllable types and syllabication strategies directly addresses the skill of breaking multisyllabic words into manageable parts for accurate decoding.
Which assessment practice is MOST consistent with a Response to Intervention (RTI) framework?
Answer: Using universal screening data to identify students at risk and provide tiered support
RTI relies on universal screening to identify students at risk early, then provides tiered, increasingly intensive instruction based on student response to that instruction.
A student reads aloud with adequate speed but makes many decoding errors and shows poor comprehension. Which intervention approach is MOST appropriate?
Answer: Systematic phonics instruction targeting decoding accuracy
When a student reads quickly but inaccurately with poor comprehension, the root cause is likely weak decoding; systematic phonics instruction rebuilds that foundation.
A running record is PRIMARILY used to:
Answer: Capture a student's oral reading behaviors to analyze error patterns
A running record is a tool teachers use to record and analyze a student's oral reading behaviors, including miscues, self-corrections, and error patterns.
Which of the following BEST illustrates the use of diagnostic assessment in reading?
Answer: Giving a student a battery of targeted tests to identify the specific source of a decoding deficit
Diagnostic assessment involves in-depth, targeted evaluation to pinpoint the specific nature and source of a student's reading difficulty, going beyond screening data.