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TEA Teacher Knowledge Skills Survey Form B

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Question 1

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What is the rule for using the "ck" in spelling?
Answer
  • when the vowel sound is a diphthong
  • when the vowel sound is short
  • when the vowel sound is long
  • all of the above

Question 2

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Decoding skills will benefit a student's understanding of text only if the word he or she decodes are what?
Answer
  • recognized at sight
  • encountered several times
  • included in the student's oral vocabulary
  • also defined by context clues

Question 3

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Which word contains a consonant digraph?
Answer
  • flop
  • bang
  • sink
  • box

Question 4

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Which is a distinguishing characteristic of phonemic awareness instruction?
Answer
  • uses printed letters
  • uses two cueing systems
  • does not use printed letters
  • links meaning to sound

Question 5

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Which strategy for building students' phonemic awareness is the least likely to support beginning reading skills?
Answer
  • teaching blending and segmenting of phonemes in words
  • beginning phonemic awareness instruction in preschool
  • teaching letter sounds in combination with phoneme manipulation
  • teaching 3 or more types of phoneme manipulations skills at a time

Question 6

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Mrs. Funke is teaching her students to identify multisyllable words. Which is an appropriate first step for her to do?
Answer
  • model analyzing words for familiar prefixes and suffixes
  • show students how to blend individual letter-sounds, left-to-right
  • model how to look for little words in a big word
  • demonstrate sequentially blending onsets and rimes

Question 7

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What is one reason that teaching students the meaning of a new word's parts (affixes and root words) is useful for vocabulary development?
Answer
  • help students learn alternate spelling for words
  • helps students use the new word to understand the sentence
  • helps students decode multisyllabic new words
  • helps students comprehend other new words

Question 8

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How many phonemes are in the word "box"?
Answer
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4

Question 9

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Which set of words is decodable?
Answer
  • bed, the, sit
  • side, some, roam
  • wash, boil, gave
  • chap, slew, soft

Question 10

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What would the words be if you say the word "ice" and then reverse the order of the sounds?
Answer
  • easy
  • sea
  • size
  • sigh

Question 11

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After reading a story, what should the discussion focus on in order to maximize comprehension?
Answer
  • sequencing the events of the story
  • the most important parts of the story
  • the details of the story
  • the characters in the story

Question 12

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If "tife" is a word, the letter "i" would probably sound like the "i" in which word?
Answer
  • if
  • beautiful
  • find
  • ceiling

Question 13

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Which of the following is the most effective instructional strategy for helping students simultaneously strengthen words recognition, fluency, and comprehension?
Answer
  • calling on students one at a time to read aloud from a story
  • having students read words from a word wall
  • having students select their own books and read them silently
  • having students "echo-read" paragraphs that the teacher has read aloud

Question 14

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Which word is an example of this spelling rule: double the final consonant of a closed syllable that ends in one consonant when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel?
Answer
  • ripple
  • accommodate
  • grassy
  • winning

Question 15

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Mrs. Newswander begins a writing lesson by creating with the students a web that contains the word, said, surrounded by words like shouted, sulked, and replied. She did this to teach students:
Answer
  • prewriting
  • drafting
  • revising
  • editing

Question 16

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Which of the following words has an example of a final stable syllable?
Answer
  • wave
  • bacon
  • paddle
  • napkin

Question 17

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What can sentence combing helps students learn to do?
Answer
  • question the text
  • correct grammatical errors
  • form complex sentence structures
  • analyze word structure

Question 18

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Which of the following is the best description of reading fluency?
Answer
  • reading fluency is the ability to read grade-appropriate text with good comprehension and a high degree of engagement
  • reading fluency is the ability to read grade-appropriate text with a high degree of accuracy and comprehension
  • reading fluency is the ability to read individual words, including both real words and nonsense words, with a high degree of accuracy
  • reading fluency is the ability to read grade-appropriate accurately, effortlessly, and with approproate intonation and expression

Question 19

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Which of the following is the most effective strategy for teaching new vocabulary words?
Answer
  • direct instruction in varied contexts or subjects, and indirect instruction through use of new words in conversation and topically-related texts
  • direct instruction in the contexts or subjects during which the words are most often used, and indirect instruction through the use of text with controlled vocabulary
  • direct instruction only; indirect vocabulary is ineffective
  • indirect instruction only; direct vocabulary instruction is ineffective

Question 20

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Why may students confuse the sounds /b/ and /p/ or /f/ and /v/?
Answer
  • students are visually scanning the letters in a way that letters are misperceived
  • the students can't remember the letter sounds so they are randomly guessing
  • the speech sounds within each pair are produced in the same place and in the same way, but one is voiced and the other is not
  • the speech sounds within each pair are both voiced and produced in the back of the mouth

Question 21

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What is the most important reason that oral segmentation and oral blending activities should be a part of reading instruction in the primary grades?
Answer
  • strengthen students' fluency development through oral practice
  • help students hear and identify short and long vowel sounds
  • allow students to hear the mistakes of other students
  • give students practice with skills they will use in silent reading

Question 22

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Mrs. Ellefsen is determined to increase her students' blending abilities. She has them sort words according to spelling patterns and they are doing well. What else could Mrs. Ellefsen do to increase her students' blending abilities?
Answer
  • have students read widely from easy texts
  • segment words orally for students to write the words spelling form dictation
  • model a word spelling strategy for students (e.g. see the word, spell the word, write the word)
  • explicitly teach students how to blend sounds to pronounce words

Question 23

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Which of the following is a noun phrase?
Answer
  • wrote the word
  • beside the stream
  • an ill-conceived idea
  • before entering the house

Question 24

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Which of these would be the final step a teacher would use in an instructional sequence designed to increase students' ability to make inferences about what they read independently?
Answer
  • teacher modeling
  • student guided practice
  • student application
  • teacher direct explanation

Question 25

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Mr. Kubota teaches his grade 3 students to decode unfamiliar words by breaking words into parts such as word roots, prefix, and/or suffix (e.g., un-imagine-able). Which skill is he teaching?
Answer
  • structural analysis
  • analyze the meaning of the word parts
  • syllabication
  • chunking the word

Question 26

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Mr. Willard is planning a repeated reading activity to strengthen his students' fluency skills. Which of the following reading materials would be most effective for the activity?
Answer
  • a list of words from the social studies textbook
  • a list of high-frequency words from a teaching manual
  • two paragraphs from a grade-level text
  • two paragraphs from a grade 4 level text

Question 27

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Which of the following words contains a schwa sounds?
Answer
  • cotton
  • phoneme
  • stopping
  • preview

Question 28

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If a student can read a list of words very rapidly and accurately without having to consciously decode, what is the student demonstrating?
Answer
  • comprehension
  • metacognition
  • automaticity
  • vocabulary skills

Question 29

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Fluency serves as a bridge between which two processes?
Answer
  • word recgonition and comprehension
  • comprehension and vocabulary
  • phonlogical awareness and comprehension
  • word recognition and vocabulary

Question 30

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Mrs. Jackson's students need to improve their fluency skills. Which of the following activities should she include in her lesson plans for the 90-minute reading period?
Answer
  • students will repeatedly read a text in pairs for 20 minutes
  • students will read a 20-word list repeatedly until they can read it in 10 second
  • students will repeatedly read a text silently for 50 minutes
  • students will read along with books on tape for the entire 90 minutes

Question 31

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What does automaticity in reading refer to?
Answer
  • process complex information with little effort or attention
  • understand the meaning of the word upon seeing it in text
  • use the next step in a series of steps that have been memorized
  • apply an effective comprehension strategy when needed
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