B. Fry’s List D.

Sight Word List

10. Which of the following categories of the cognitive process

dimension is the teacher assessing in his question “How is Malaysia
similar to Indonesia?”
A. knowledge C. synthesis
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION B. analysis D. evaluation
DEVELOPMENTAL READING
A REVIEWER FOR LICENSURE EXAMINATION FOR TEACHERS Questions 11-12 are based on the following paragraph.

Directions: Each of the questions or statements below is followed by A teacher asked her students to read a short story. Some
four suggested answers or completions. Encircle the letter of the of her students had trouble with the word “glistened.” When the story
choice that is best in each case. was completed, she asked the students to describe how the dew on
the leaves looked.
1. The following statements are true descriptions of bottom-up theory
or model of the reading process EXCEPT: 11. By asking the question at the end, the teacher helped her
A. Even though a reader does not recognize each word, he may be students to use the word-attack strategy of _____ in Goddle’s
able to comprehend a selection. Reading Skills Ladder.
B. The meaning exists in the printed page and is interpreted by the A. phonic clues C. context clues
reader. B. morphemic clues D. sight-word clues
C. The meaning of the text is expected to come naturally as the
code is broken based on the reader’s prior knowledge of words. 12. What is a limitation of the word-attack strategy that the teacher is
D. The reader matches letters with sounds in a defined sequence. using?
A. This strategy is only useful when reading narratives or stories,
2. What theory or model of the reading process is closely related to not other literature forms.
top-down processing? B. The strategy ca only be used when a text is written below the
A. Bottom-Up Theory C. Schema Theory student’s reading level.
B. Interactive Theory D. Transactional Theory C. The text may not contain the necessary information to supply
the definition being sought.
3. Mario, who is reading a short story, encounters the word “biology”. D. There are irregular pronunciations of consonant blends.
He analyzes it by looking at the part bio (which means life), and logos
(which means the study of). Taken together, he knows that biology, 13. The type of context clue for tortuous in this statement “The
in its simplest meaning, is a study of life. Which reading theory or mountain pass was a tortuous road, winding and twisting like a snake
model of the reading process does Mario utilize? around the trees of the mountainside” is _____.
A. appositive C. example
A. Bottom-Up Theory C. Interactive Theory B. synonym D. cause-effect
B. Top-Down Theory D. Transactional theory
14. What is the synonym for the underlined word as it is used in this
4. The following are good activities for schema activation EXCEPT: sentence “His diffidence caused him to miss many opportunities”?
A. constructing graphic organizer A. ignorance C. timidity
B. previewing a passage B. laziness D. arrogance
C. brainstorming ideas
D. evaluating or assessing ideas 15. The following statements contain dichotomy between ideas
EXCEPT:
5. The following are concerns of teaching reading EXCEPT: A. A person’s ideas about a subject involve two polarizing aspects.
A. vocabulary development B. One group of teachers believes phonics is the best method of
B. comprehension development teaching; another group believes whole language is the better
C. output development method.
D. application C. A word has two different meanings, with each representing a
nuance.
6. Who among the following readers is expected to understand the D. Some children in a teacher’s classroom become good readers and
alphabet and words (concepts of prints)? others continue to be nonreaders.
A. emergent reader C. transitional reader
B. beginning reader D. intermediate reader 16. Many teachers teach vocabulary by having students write a word,
look it up in the dictionary, and copy its definition, and use the word
7. Which is the correct order of reading skills in Goddle’s Reading in a sentence. Research has found that this is _____.
Skills ladder? A. ineffective for developing a student’s vocabulary
I. finding the main idea IV. using contextual clues B. a good practice because of its effectiveness
II. basic sight words V. using structural analysis C. a good way to teach vocabulary
III. vocabulary building VI. using phonetic analysis D. effective in preparing students to take admission exams

A. II,V,IV,I,III,VI C. II,I,IV,III,V,VI 17. The following statements about figurative language are true
B. II,VI,V,IV,III,I D. II,III,VI,IV,V,I EXCEPT:
A. For some students, it is a barrier to understanding.
8. The teacher is aware that he cannot teach reading in a flash. B. It is found in abundance in poetry.
Following the Goddle’s Reading Skills Ladder, what step will he focus C. It needs to be taught to children.
on for beginners? D. It can be learned because of its surface and deep meaning.
A. structural analysis C. contextual clues
B. phonetic analysis D. basic sight words 18. An oxymoron is _____.
A. an attribution of human traits to inanimate object or idea
9. This is a recognized list of 220 common terms used as a resource B. an extreme exaggeration or overstatement
to teach sight words. C. a statement that expresses opposite ideas, but that may be true
A. SRA C. Dolch list D. a combination of words that have opposite meanings

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19. A teacher’s knowledge of literary genres is essential for
establishing a literacy-based curriculum. Which of the following is 28. Which of the following questions is best for activating students’
NOT recognized as a category/type of poetry? prior knowledge to feel that they somehow connected to the topic
A. Lyric C. Dramatic “snakes” being studied?
B. Narrative D. Metrical A. What do you know about snakes that are common in your area?
B. What according to the selection are the types of snakes?
20. Pourquoi tales are _____. C. What did the writer suggest to the person who was bitten by
A. always humorous or entertaining snakes to do?
B. exaggerations of real-life events and characters D. What is the importance of animals such as snakes in ecosystem?
C. stories that explain “why”
D. examples of myths that explain the origin of the universe 29. Mrs. Torres wants to find out her students’ schema about storm
surge. On the board she writes the words “storm surge” and encircles
21. An example of vicarious experience is _____. them. She, then, asks her students what they know about storm
A. watching a video C. making a class book surge, and helps them cluster the information. What technique does
B. taking a field trip D. making vegetable soup Mrs. Torres use?
A. clustering C. semantic mapping
22. Skimming is likely to be the most effective strategy for B. word mapping D. deductive reasoning
accomplishing which of the following reading tasks?
A. reading quickly to evaluate the validity of information 30. Each person’s vocabulary is a continuum. On the one end of the
B. previewing a chapter in a content-area textbook continuum are words the person knows very well, and for which he
C. synthesizing information from various sources for a research has a full understanding of their various meanings. On the other end
D. studying specific facts for a content-area material of the continuum are _____.
A. words he can recognize and enjoy using regularly
23. A strong topic sentence will ______. B. new words that he has learned both the spelling and meaning
A. be phrased as a question C. words he doesn’t recognize
B. always be the first sentence in a paragraph D. words he can figure out the meaning based on context
C. both A and B
D. neither A nor B 31. A third-grade teacher wishes to do an appropriate pre-reading
activity that will encourage the students to want to read the story.
24. The following statements are true about “main idea” EXCEPT: Which of the following pre-reading activities would be most likely to
A. It is the particular point the author is trying to convey. accomplish that?
B. It can be stated in one sentence. A. Telling the students about the author and the period in which
C. It can be classified as stated and unstated. the story was written.
D. It develops, explains, and proves the major idea. B. Giving the students a list of literary devices they will find
employed in the story.
25. What is the main idea of the following paragraph? C. Telling the children that there is a surprise ending, and that they
A. tracing the development of the brain will be required to draw a picture showing that ending.
B. describing a scientific study that measures response to pain D. Telling the children the main plot of the story.
C. proving that two people have the same reaction to pain
D. analyzing people’s responses to taste and sound 32. Which of the following is an example of Vygotsky’s Zone of
Proximal Development (ZPD)?
(1) It’s commonly known fact that two people can have A. A child knows the short vowel sounds, so he is able to learn the
different responses to the same thing in regard to food or a piece of long vowel sounds.
music. (2) One person’s favorite dish might make another’s stomach B. A class “reads” the words under a picture as the teacher guides
turn. (3) A song that makes one person covers his ears has someone them while she points and says the word.
else snapping her fingers and singing along. (4) The same is true of C. Children read in groups based on their abilities or interests.
an individual’s response to pain. (5) In one study, a hot object was D. A teacher pairs students with other students of unlike ability and
applied to the skin of two volunteers. (6) Not only did they give vastly has them do their worksheets together.
different ratings for the pain on a scale of one to ten for the exact
same temperature, but an MRI showed that the brain of each person 33. Which of the following is the best description of traditional
lighting up in different regions. (7) In general, the higher a person phonics instruction?
rated the pain, the more areas lit up in his or her brain. (8) So if A. Students study lists of high-frequency words in order to increase
someone says your pain is all in your mind, she may be scientifically reading speed and comprehension.
right, but it doesn’t make it hurt any less. B. Students are taught individual letter-sounds and the rules of
combining the sounds together to make words
26. The following are principles for designing effective and interesting C. Students are immersed in written language, and is encourage to
reading lessons EXCEPT: decode entire words using context clues.
A. For reading lessons to be interesting and motivating they must D. Students analyze patterns of organization and syntax as a way
focus on simple themes. of learning to recognize common structures.
B. Instructional activities have a teaching rather than a testing focus.
C. Lessons should be divided into pre-reading, during reading, and 34. A major distinction between the terms phonics and phonemic
post-reading. awareness is that _____.
D. The major activity of the reading lesson is students reading texts. A. phonemics awareness involves the activities done in student
practice books (workbooks), but phonics does not
27. Content-Based Instruction (CBI) is based on the common B. phonics involves the written word, and phonemic awareness
underlying principle that successful language learning occurs when does not necessarily
students are presented with target language material in a meaningful, C. phonemic awareness includes reading, but phonics does not
contextualized form, with the primary focus on _____. D. neither involves reading for meaning
A. understanding the lessons
B. acquiring information and knowledge 35. If a teacher uses only basal readers for teachings her students to
read, she most likely believes in _____.
C. making connections between what they learn at school and what
they learn outside the school A. Primarily a whole language approach
D. making meaning from what they learn B. Primarily a phonics approach
C. A mixture of a whole language and phonics
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 D. Individualized reading instruction B. guided both by teacher in-charge and family in reading for him to
achieve reading proficiency
36. Which of the following instructional activities in which students C. under a comprehensive reading program that lets him goes
become the teacher in small group reading session, and teacher through stages
models group discussions using strategies such as summarizing, D. taught reading skills and strategies and is given daily practice in
question generating, clarifying, and predicting? reading
A. concentric circles C. book pass
B. K-W-L chart D. reciprocal teaching Questions 46-47 are based on the following passage.

37. Which of the following sets of reading activities are incorporated A teacher pulls a passage out of a book, and writes it out
and practiced in a KWL strategy? on a worksheet with some of the words replaced with blanks. Then
A. recording information, reading text, and predicting outcomes she has the students individually figure out what words they think
B. learning content-area vocabulary and structural word analysis might go in the blanks. Next, the students get in groups and discuss
skills their suggestions. Each group, then comes to a consensus about
C. surveying, questioning, reading, reciting, and reviewing new text what words should go in the blanks. Later, she reads the paragraph
D. activating prior knowledge, generating questions, and recording from the book to them.
newly learned information
46. The main reason for doing the above activity with the children
38. All of the following activities are best to conclude a reading before reading a book is for the purpose of providing a/an _____.
lesson EXCEPT: A. familiarity and identification of the characters in the book for
A. constructing graphic organizer comprehension
B. valuing B. setting for the book to serve for the students to want to read the
C. appreciating book
D. relating lessons to own life C. anticipatory set that will make the children be curious enough to
want to read the book
Tough Coughs As He Ploughs The Dough D. worksheet to grade that shows the students’ vocabulary
39. What reading approach is appropriate to use with a particular development
problem demonstrated in the above example?
A. Phonics-based approach 47. When writing the passage with the blanks, the teacher should
B. Whole-language approach _____.
C. Literature-based approach A. leave the first and the last sentence intact
D. Guided reading approach B. allow the student to make up the first and last sentences
C. spell words wrong to see if the students can catch them
40. Which of the following is NOT a type of literature-based reading D. always use the first paragraph of the book
program?
A. a whole-class reading a core book 48. In terms of rereading books in the classroom, the teacher _____.
B. an individualized reading approach A. should never allow that because it will bore the children
C. thematic-literature units B. should never allow that because the students will not progress if
D. skill-development focused not using new books every day
C. may allow books to be reread because it allows the students to
41. If a child is simply sounding out the words in a book using recognize their progress from when they first read the book
phonics he has learned but does not comprehend what the words are D. may allow books to be reread but only by children who have not
expressing, he is _____. read them the first time
A. reading, but below grade level
B. doing meaningless decoding 49. Once children have been exposed to a new word, they will then
C. pretending to read _____.
D. well on his way to becoming literate A. never use it again, unless they need to
B. try to use it again in a safe environment
42. Reflection journal in which students are encouraged to write their C. use it everywhere they can
feelings about a particular literary work and their perceptions of how D. need to write it in a sentence in order for it to become a true
the work applies to their belief system primarily address assessment part of their vocabulary
in which domain?
A. cognitive C. psychomotor 50. The main reason for doing “affix study” with students is to _____.
B. social D. affective A. fix reading problems they are experiencing as they will learn to
correctly suffix and prefix words
43. The reason teachers use “Guided Reading” in the classrooms is B. expand students’ vocabulary by adding prefixes and suffixes with
to give students _____. meaning to root words they already know
A. the chance to apply reading strategies with support from the C. show the influence and the usefulness of foreign affixes such as
teacher Latin on present-day English
B. books they can take home and read with guidance from family D. prepare students to diagram sentences
members who are knowledgeable
C. the chance to show the whole class they can read aloud 51. The following are true statements about “suffix” EXCEPT:
D. the chance to read aloud in unison A. may change the part of speech of the root word
B. may change the meaning of the root word
44. Which of the following is the most important component of C. may change only the classification of word
“Guided Reading” process? D. may change only the meaning of word
A. observing the children as they actually read
B. providing powerful examples of harder words 52. Which of the following is true about prefixes and suffixes?
C. having the students write book reports on the books they’ve read A. They are usually not accented.
D. giving support to readers B. They usually form separate syllables.
C. both A and B
45. Developmental reading indicates that a reader is _____. D. neither A and B
A. placed in an individualized reading program and his progress is
monitored closely using standardized reading assessment
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53. A science teacher asks the school reading specialist for 60. A teacher wants to incorporate a metacognitive strategy before
strategies to help students to acquire content-area vocabulary and reading. Which of the following teacher actions will best help
improve their reading comprehension of the science textbook. Which students apply metacognitive strategies to their reading?
of the following strategies is most appropriate for the reading A. prompting students to journal in the form of personal narrative
specialist to recommend for this goal? B. asking students to read the first paragraph and summarize its
A. introduce vocabulary terms in context before reading the text meaning
B. select words from the text and having students write down the C. formulating text-dependent questions for the students to answer
definitions from the glossary D. having students list questions they may want answered by reading
C. pretest students on the vocabulary terms from the textbook
D. compare the dictionary definitions of the vocabulary terms with the 61. Which of the following questions is NOT likely to be answered by
definitions found in the textbook glossary a metacognitive reader who aims to self-regulate and monitor his
comprehension?
54. Research indicates that a relationship exists between reading A. What are the unfamiliar words?
and writing. Which of the following statements supports that finding? B. Are there ideas that are not clearly explained?
A. Reading is a constructive process, and writing is a recursive C. Are there inappropriate or contradictory ideas?
one. D. What is my position on the issue?
B. Reading emphasizes syllabication, and writing emphasizes
semantics. 62. A teacher who relates Vygotsky’s theories to teaching reading is
C. Reading and writing share similar processes and require using most likely to design instruction that _____.
the same kinds of knowledge. A. occurs consistently within a student’s zone of proximal
D. Readers and writers proceed through the same five stages and development
in the same order B. provide scaffolding and extensive practice before mastery is
declared
great sound C. begins only when a student has mastered needed cognitive
It was a green day for a walk along the beach. The soon structures
shore D. organizes cooperative group work so that every member of
of the waves breaking along the store, the smell of the space, and the group has specific responsibilities
saltwater
the sight of the sun rising space, and the sight of the sun rising on
63. The most important reason for students to have a story schema
relaxed
is so they can better _____.
the horizon made me feel so related.
A. evaluate different literary genres
B. understand and recall story events
55. Mr. Torres administers the running record above to one of his
C. identify the author’s viewpoint
students. Based on the results of the assessment, the student most
D. construct a diagram of the plot
frequently makes miscues in which of the following cuing systems?
A. syntactic C. semantic
64. All of the following are major structures in Mandler and Johnson’s
B. graphophonic D. pragmatic
story grammar EXCEPT:
A. setting C. reaction
56. Language Experience Approach can be used to benefit students’
B. summary D. attempt
early literacy development by _____.
A. providing an authentic way to demonstrate word awareness in a
meaningful context
Word Text Teacher’s Recording of Student Responses (written
B. giving students opportunities to build alphabet-recognition skills
phonetically)
C. demonstrating how to write in various genres using meaningful
bigger bī j∂r
context
even ĕv ĕn
D. providing a model of correct grammatical structures in written
recess rĕk ēs
expression
inside ĭns ĭd
57. Students in elementary school classes often represent a wide
65. A third-grade student makes the errors listed in the chart above
range of reading abilities. Which of the following approaches would
while orally reading a passage in a reading anthology. Based on the
best meet the needs of all students?
information, on which of the following word-analysis skills should the
A. establishing three ability groups for each subject
teacher focus instruction to best meet the student’s needs?
B. using the same text for all students but modifying assignments
A. consonant blends C. syllabication
C. asking the reading specialist to work with the lowest reading
B. long and short vowels D. r-controlled vowels
group
D. using flexible grouping and a variety of materials
66. When a student who is reading aloud substitutes a word of
similar meaning for a word that appears in print, the teacher’s most
58. A reading specialist is collecting data on the student’s knowledge
appropriate response should be to _____.
of phonemic awareness skills. The reading specialist asks the
A. immediately ask the student to reread the word correctly
student, “Which word does not belong: plant, play, rain, please?”
B. quietly and quickly correct the miscue by pronouncing the correct
Which of the following phonemic-awareness skill is the teacher
word aloud as soon as the student makes the mistake
assessing?
C. stop the student immediately, write both words down, and have
A. deletion C. substitution
the student identify and read the word as it appears in the text
B. categorization D. segmentation
D. allow the student to continue reading.
59. The major goal of methods such as SQ3R is to enhance which of
67. The teacher asks the children to read with expression. She also
the following?
reminds them that they don't need to stop between each word, and
A. identifying correct sequence of events in a narrative work
they should read as quickly as they comfortably can. She cautions
B. assessing or evaluating literary elements
them, however, not to read so quickly that they leave out or misread
C. integrating new knowledge and prior knowledge
a word. The teacher knows the components of reading fluency are:
D. learning information from content-area materials
A. Speed, drama, and comprehension
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 C. Understanding, rate, and prosody relationships. As soon as a child understands enough letters and
D. Rate, accuracy, and prosody their correspondent sounds to read a few words, decoding should
be introduced
68. Using brain imaging, researchers have discovered that dyslexic
readers use the _____ side(s) of their brains, while non-dyslexic 77. A reading teacher is assessing an eighth grader to determine her
readers use the _____ side(s) of their brains. reading level. Timed at a minute, the student reads with 93%
A. Left; right C. Right and left; left accuracy. She misreads an average of seven out of 100 words. What
B. Right; left D. Right; left and right. is her reading level?
A. Frustration level C. Instructional level
69. A teacher is teaching students “analogizing”. She is teaching B. Excellence level D. Independent level
them to _____.
A. Identify similarities that are found in words. 78. If a standardized test is said to “lack reliability”, the test _____.
B. Identify words that are synonymous or antonymous. A. is not measuring what it is supposed to measure.
C. Identify groups of letters that occur in a word family. B. has not proven to be useful as an instructional intervention.
D. Identify relationship with words or concepts.
C. gives fluctuating scores in different administrations.
70. Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) is a teaching technique D. has poor predictive value relative to students' classroom
that depends on two teaching practices. These practices are: performance.
A. Cooperative learning and reading comprehension.
B. Cooperative reading and metacognition. 79. One of the most important purposes of a standardized “Informal
C. Reading comprehension and metacognition. Reading Inventory” (IRI) is _____.
D. Cooperative learning and inquiry learning A. to establish how prior knowledge and text organization influence a
student's reading comprehension.
71. To make a prediction a reader must _____. B. to determine how a student uses semantic, syntactic, and other
A. Use text clues to evaluate the text at an inferential level text clues to deduce a word's meaning.
B. Find a line of reasoning on which to rely C. to analyze how a student's silent reading comprehension is
C. Make a decision based on an observation influenced by oral reading fluency.
D. Use prior knowledge and apply it to the current situation D. to establish a student's independent, instructional, and frustration
reading levels.
72. All of the following are true about schemata EXCEPT:
A. Used as a basis for literary response 80. All of the following are characteristics of an “Individualized
B. Structures that represent concepts stored in our memories Reading Approach” EXCEPT:
C. A generalization that may be proven with facts A. pupil-teacher conferences
D. Used together with prior knowledge for effective reading B. self-pacing
comprehension C. three-static achievement groups
D. self-selection
73. Which of the following is NOT an effective strategy of teaching
reading comprehension? 81. Students participating in an “Individualized Reading Approach” do
A. Summarization the following EXCEPT:
B. Utilizing graphic organizers A. periodically meet individually with the teacher
C. Having students list down unfamiliar words and find their B. keep records of the books they read
meanings in the dictionary C. do a lot of independent work at their seats
D. Having students generate questions D. do oral reading and participate in the group work activities

74. The most effective strategy for decoding sight words is _____. 82. Interpretive reading is _____.
a. Segmenting sight words into syllables. Beginning readers are A. reading beyond the lines
understandably nervous when encountering a long word that isn’t B. reading between the lines
familiar. Blocking off all but a single syllable at a time renders a C. reading for stated details
word manageable and allows the reader a sense of control over D. reading below the lines
the act of reading
b. Word families. By grouping the sight word with similar words, 83. Questions that ask information that has been implied are called
patterns emerge _____.
c. A phonemic approach. When students understand the connection A. inference questions C. vocabulary questions
between individual words and their sounds, they will be able to B. detail questions D. main-idea questions
sound out any sight word they encounter
d. None; sight words cannot be decoded. Readers must learn to
84. Based on the following passage, you can infer that the carronade
recognize these words as wholes on sight
____.
A. would be of particular use to smaller ships
75. “Decoding” is also called ______.
B. represented the height of maritime technology
A. Remediation C. Alphabetic principle
C. employed a flintlock firing mechanism
B. Deciphering D. Deconstruction
D. was more accurate than long-range cannons of the time
76. When should students learn how to decode?
Although there were no revolutionary advances in maritime
A. Decoding is the most basic and essential strategy to becoming a
war technology between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, there
successful reader. It should be introduced to kindergartners during
was a steady improvement of existing hardware. In terms of basic
the first two weeks of school
structural design, the bronze guns used by ships were largely
B. Decoding is not a teachable skill. It is an unconscious act and is
unchanged after the seventeenth century. Innovations instead
natural to all learners
focused on making the weapons more accurate and making the
C. Decoding should be taught only after children have mastered
ammunition used by the weapons more effective. Two eighteenth-
every letter–sound relationship as well as every consonant digraph
century advances addressed these needs. The first was carronade, a
and consonant blend. They should also be able to recognize and
short-range cannon that fired a large-caliber shot. This new type of
say the 40 phonemes common to English words and be able to
weapon had tremendous piercing power, making even small ships
recognize at least a dozen of the most common sight words
D. Decoding depends on an understanding of letter–sound
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formidable opponents. The second was the flintlock firing 97. What is the type of reference book from which the reader may
mechanism, which greatly increased accuracy. find an alphabetical list of names of places with their exact locations
indicating whether they are towns, rivers, lakes, etc.?
85. Literal comprehension involves _____. A. atlas C. encyclopedia
A. evaluating information C. making inferences B. gazetteer D. almanac
B. reading beyond the lines D. none of these
98. Children are likely to develop positive attitudes toward reading
86. Critical reading involves _____. EXCEPT:
A. elaborating on or modifying what is read A. when their peers view reading in a positive way
B. paraphrasing the material for understanding B. when parents read in the home
C. identifying the accuracy of the information C. when parents provide them with reading materials
D. interpreting the ideas in the text D. when parents are formally educated and can afford to provide
children reading materials
87. The following are descriptions of critical readers EXCEPT:
A. think while they are reading 99. To read maps, students must understand that _____.
B. read with a questioning attitude A. The legend of a map is the story of the people in the area.
C. can distinguish between fact and opinion B. Most maps in books show areas greatly reduced in size.
D. can identify explicitly stated information C. Scale is unimportant.
D. Maps are pictures not only the flat surface of the whole.
88. Teachers can first foster critical thinking in _____.
A. fourth grade C. sixth grade 100. Which of the following types of assessments would best provide
B. kindergarten D. seventh grade information about the comparative reading proficiency of students?
A. a test of vocabulary development
89. Creative reading is _____.
A. reading beyond the lines B. a norm-referenced survey test
B. reading for evaluation C. a reading miscue inventory
C. acquiring ideas that are directly stated D. a diagnostic portfolio
D. assessing the clarity and precision of ideas

90. The propaganda approach that utilizes people’s wanting to do

what others are doing is called _____. ---------------------------------------END---------------------------------------------
A. transfer techniques C. name calling “The only thing that stands between you and your dream
B. bandwagon technique D. glittering generalities is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.”
-Joel Brown
91. Homographs are words that are _____.
I. spelled alike
II. pronounced differently
III. pronounced alike
IV. spelled differently

A. I only C. I and III only

B. I and II only D. II and IV only

92. When does the letter “y” have the characteristics of a vowel?
A. in the initial position in a word or syllable
B. in the final position in a word or syllable
C. in the middle position in a word
D. in the initial and final position in a word

93. The term for two or more adjacent consonants in the same
syllable, with each individual sound retaining its identity, is _____.
A. consonant blend C. diphthong
B. rhyme D. digraph

94. The schwa sound is ordinarily found in _____.

A. unaccented words C. one-syllable words
B. accented words D. two-syllable words

95. Hypermedia applications in computer software can include the

following EXCEPT:
A. sound effects C. graphics
B. text D. key board

96. Electronic reading books are advantageous for beginning or

struggling readers primarily because this type of computer software:
A. scaffolds learning by providing a high level of interactivity.
B. helps students develop familiarity with reading from a computer
screen.
C. provides students with models of good reading practices and
habits.
D. minimizes the focus on written text by using sound effects and
voices to convey meaning.

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