PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION “DEVELOPMENTAL READING” (TEST DRILLS )

1. All of the following statements are true descriptions of bottom-up theory or model of reading EXCEPT:

 

A. The reader rather than the text is at the heart of the reading process.

B. The meaning exists in the printed page and is interpreted by the reader.

C. The meaning of the text is expected to came naturally as the code is broken based on the reader's prior knowledge of words.

D. The learner matches letters with sounds in a defined sequence.

 

2. What model or theory of reading is closely related to top-down processing?

 

A. Bottom-up reading theory

B. Interactive reading theory

C. Schema theory

D. Transactional reading theory

 

3. Schema activation is important to make sense of new information in light of what students already know, and to make the necessary connection between the two. The following are good activities for schema activation EXCEPT

 

A. Constructing graphic organizer

B. Previewing a passage

C. Brainstorming ideas

D. Evaluating or assessing ideas

 

4. The following are concerns of teaching reading EXCEPT

 

A. Vocabulary development

B. Comprehension development

C. Output development

D. Application

 

5. The following are principles for designing effective and interesting reading lessons EXCEPT

 

A. For reading lessons to be interesting and motivating they must focus on simple themes.

B. Instructional activities have a teaching rather than a testing focus.

C. Lessons should be divided into pre-reading, during reading, and post- reading.

D. The major activity of the reading lesson is students reading texts.

 

6. Content-Based Instruction        (CBI) is based on the common underlying principle that successful language learning occurs when students are presented with target language material in a meaningful, contextualized form, with the primary focus on

 

A. Understanding the lessons

B. Acquiring information and knowledge

C. Making connections between what they learn at school and what they learn outside the school

D. Making meaning from what they learn

 

7. It is a vocabulary strategy which involves the process of breaking up of a word into its meaningful components: the root words, affixes, and suffixes.

 

A. Contextual clues    

B. Structural analysis       

C. Summarizing

D. Groupings

 

8. Which of the following questions is best for activating students' prior knowledge to feel that they somehow connected to the topic "snakes" being studied?

 

A. What do you know about snakes? What snakes are common in your area?

B. What according to the selection are the types of snakes?

C. What did the writer suggest to the person who was bitten by snakes to do?

D. What is the importance of animals such as snakes in ecosystem?

 

9. If the students think about the knowledge of their own thoughts and the

factors that influence their thinking, they are engaged in the process of

 

A. Artistic thinking

B. Metacognition

C. Higher-order thinking

D. Critical thinking

 

10. Mrs. Torres wants to find out her students' schema about storm surge. On the board she writes the words "storm surge" and encircles them. She, then, asks her students what they know about storm surge, and helps them cluster the information. What technique does Mrs. Torres use?

 

A. Demonstration       

B. Vocabulary building       

C. Semantic mapping

D. Deductive reasoning

 

11. Each person's vocabulary is a continuum. On the one end of the continuum are words the person knows very well and for which he has a full rich understanding of their various meanings. On the other end of the continuum are ____________.

 

A. Words he enjoys using regularly

B. New words that he has learned both the spelling and meaning

C. Words he doesn't recognize

D. Words he can recognize and figure out the meaning of based on context

 

12.  A third-grade teacher wishes to do an appropriate pre-reading activity that will encourage the students to want to read the story. Which of the following pre-reading activities would be most likely to accomplish that?

 

A. Telling the students about the author and the period in which the story was written.

B. Giving the students a list of literary devices they will find employed in the story.

C. Telling the children that there is a surprise ending and that they will be required to draw a picture showing that ending.

D. Telling the children the main plot of the story.

 

13. Which of the following is an example of Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)?

 

A. A child knows the short vowel sounds, so he is able to learn the long vowel sounds.

B. A class "reads" the words under a picture as the teacher guides them while she points and says the word.

C. Children read in groups based on their abilities.

D. A teacher pairs students with other students of unlike ability and has them do their worksheets together.

 

14. Which of the following is NOT an example of a dichotomy?

A. A person's ideas about a subject involve two polarizing aspects.

B. One group of teachers believes phonics is the best method of teaching; another group believes whole language is the better method.

C. A word has two different meanings, with each representing a nuance.

D. Some children in a teacher's classroom become good readers and others continue to be nonreaders.

 

15. Which of the following is the best description of traditional phonics instruction?

 

A. Students study lists of high-frequency words in order to increase reading speed and comprehension.

B. Students are taught individual letter sounds and the rules of combining the sounds together to make words

C. Students are immersed in written language, and is encouraged to decode entire words using context clues.

D. Students analyze patterns of organization and syntax as a way of learning to recognize common structures.

 

16. If a teacher uses only basal readers for teaching her students to read, she most likely believes in

 

A. Primarily a whole language approach

B. Primarily a phonics approach

C. A mixture of a whole language and phonics

D. Individualized reading instruction

 

17. Which of the following activities will best help a teacher collect data that will inform instruction to meet the individual needs of students?

A. Concentric circles

B. K-W-L chart

C. Book pass

D. Reciprocal teaching

 

18. All of the following activities are best to conclude a reading lesson EXCEPT:

 

A. Constructing graphic organizer

B. Valuing

C. Appreciating

D. Relating lessons to own life

 

Questions 19-20

A fourth-grade teacher has her students get into a reading circle three times a day to read short stories, or sections of stories, for 15 minutes each. While in the reading circle, the students take turns reading two paragraphs each. When difficult words are encountered, the more capable students help the other students with them. In one story, a student has trouble with the word "glistened." When the story is completed, the teacher asks the group to describe how the dew on the leaves looked.

 

19. By asking the question at the end, the teacher is helping her students to use the word-attack strategy of:

 

A. Phonic clues

B. Morphemic clues

C. Context clues

D. Sight-word clues

 

20. What is a limitation of the word-attack strategy the teacher is using?

 

A. This strategy is only useful when reading narratives or stories, not

other literature forms.

B. The strategy can only be used when a text is written below the student's reading level.

C. The text may not contain the necessary information to supply the definition being sought.

D. There are irregular pronunciations of consonant blends.


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