MTEL Reading Comprehension 2

Question 1

Reciprocal Teaching, a comprehension strategy referenced on the MTEL Foundations of Reading, incorporates which four strategies?

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Predict, clarify, question, summarize

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Visualize, connect, question, evaluate

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Skim, scan, read, review

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Activate, read, respond, reflect

Question 2

A teacher thinks aloud while reading a challenging passage, verbalizing confusion and the strategies used to resolve it. On the MTEL Foundations of Reading, this is called:

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A think-aloud

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Shared reading

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Guided reading

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Choral reading

Question 3

Which statement about the KWL strategy (Know, Want to know, Learned), used in comprehension instruction on the MTEL Foundations of Reading, is most accurate?

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KWL activates prior knowledge, sets a purpose for reading, and supports post-reading reflection on learning

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KWL is designed primarily for fiction texts and story grammar

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KWL should only be used with struggling readers as a remediation tool

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KWL replaces all other pre-reading strategies for informational text

Question 4

On the MTEL Foundations of Reading, which level of questioning requires students to synthesize information from multiple parts of a text?

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Inferential questions requiring text-to-text synthesis

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Literal (right there) questions

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Vocabulary questions about word meaning

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Questions about text layout and formatting

Question 5

According to the MTEL Foundations of Reading, which practice best supports students' ability to summarize informational text?

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Teaching students to identify main ideas and supporting details and to condense them in their own words

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Copying the first sentence of each paragraph as the summary

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Summarizing by listing all details mentioned in the passage

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Reading the passage multiple times until the student can recite it

Question 6

Comprehension monitoring, as emphasized on the MTEL Foundations of Reading, refers to a reader's ability to:

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Recognize when understanding has broken down and apply fix-up strategies to restore meaning

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Read at grade-level speed without stopping

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Decode all words in a passage without errors

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Identify all vocabulary words that require instruction before reading