Every syllable must have at least one:
a. Consonant
b. Vowel
c. Affix
d. Digraph
b. Vowel
Many older struggling readers are unfamiliar with word identification strategies. Teachers can help students overcome this obstacle by doing all of the following except
a. providing more time for teaching and writing practice
b. teaching word-identificati
c. encouraging them to guess at unknown words based on the first letter
The ability to read silently for increasingly longer periods of time is known as reading:
a. Fluency
b. Stamina
c. Prosody
d. Automaticity
b. Stamina
Students must develop a large stock of words that they recognize automatically because it is impossible for them to analyze every word that they encounter while reading. These recognizable words are known as:
a. predictable text
b. decodable text
c. funct
d. sight words
Words such as to, the, and could which occur frequently but carry little meaning are known as:
a. environmental text
b. decodable text
c. readability words
d. function words
d. function words
Reading fluency involves the 3 components known as:
a. reading speed, reading accuracy, and comprehension
b. reading speed, reading accuracy, and prosody
c. reading stamina, automaticity, and comprehension
d. reading stamina, prosody, and articulation
b. reading speed, reading accuracy, and prosody
Teachers help older students overcome the obstacle of slow reading speed by:
a. assigning lots of homework
b. requiring the students to read aloud in front of the class
c. providing daily practice opportunities to develop students' reading speed and stami
a. assigning lots of homework
Of the following, the best way to improve students' reading speed is to use:
a. phonics drills
b. repeated readings
c. repetends
d. word walls
b. repeated readings
Of the following, the best way to assess students' reading fluency is to:
a. use a miscue analysis
b. use morphemic analysis
c. listen to them read aloud
d. engage in partner reading
c. listen to them read aloud
Most children should become fluent writers by:
a. the end of first grade
b. the end of third grade
c. the end of kindergarten
d. age 7
b. the end of third grade