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Literacy Assessment Quiz

Test your knowledge and understanding of literacy assessment strategies with our engaging quiz! This quiz covers various scenarios and best practices in teaching reading and writing skills in educational settings.

Features of the quiz:

10 thought-provoking multiple-choice questions
Designed for educators and those interested in literacy development
Instant feedback on your answers

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by TeachingTree42

A school runs a daily independent reading program to help promote enjoyment of literature. A student who is a struggling reader has brought in a popular new novel which is at his frustration level. The best way for the teacher to respond would be to:

Explain that the book is too advanced and have the student instead read the novel they are currently studying in class.

Allow the student to read the book as free choice is an important element of instilling a love of reading.

Read the book with the student, stopping regularly to ensure he understands what is happening in the story.

Give the student a book of a similar genre or style which is at his independent reading level.

A kindergarten teacher assesses her student with a mid-year assessment and he is still unable to recognize all upper and lowercase letters, isolate sounds in CVC words, or produce rhyming words for targeted words. She has provided small group instruction, individual instruction, and has held a conference with the parents to provide additional support in the home. What is the next step the teacher should take to ensure the student can obtain progress in these areas?

Ask the principal to retain the student, due to lack of understanding grade level concepts

Meet with a school-based team, consisting of administrators, support personnel, select teachers, and reading coach to determine various strategies that can be used to support the student with mastering grade-appropriate skills

Transfer student to a different teacher that may have better strategies for teaching the student

Provide homework packets that the parents can use at home to reinforce learning because the teacher has done all that she can do

In order for administrators and/or reading coaches to determine the focus for professional development, they need to:

Summarize and analyze data.

analyze past agendas to see what has not been covered during the current year.

Send out a survey asking teachers to rank their favorite to least favorite professional developments.

Ask the school district.

The purpose of an entry-level assessment is to determine:

Ong term planning for the organization of small groups, as well as to determine the selection of appropriate instructional tools, create a comprehensive learning environment, and align student needs to California state standards.

If the students mastered all of the grade level standards in the previous year.

student retention of information over

Long term groupings for small group and individual instruction.

A teacher has recently begun a new unit on poetry techniques. She has just taught a lesson on similes and metaphors and wants to check her students’ understanding of these concepts. The best way to assess this would be to:

Give the students a 20-question quiz on similes and metaphors.

Create a volume of original poems written by class members that demonstrate the use of poetry techniques.

ask the students to independently label the similes and metaphors in a poem.

Assign a homework task where students find and bring in a poem featuring similes and metaphors.

Data from the previous year’s state assessment reveals that twenty-four students in a class have successfully met all fluency objectives for their grade level, while three have not. Based on this information, the teacher should:

Deliver a new reading assessment to identify the specific fluency skills which the three class members lack, then use whole-class instruction to reteach these skills until all students have achieved competency.

Adhere to the reading progression framework by moving on to teaching comprehension skills as the vast majority of students in the class are performing at benchmark level for fluency.

consult with the parents then meet with the learning support team to suggest that the students who did not meet grade-level objectives should be retained.

Conduct an entry-level reading assessment, then based on the results, progress to whole-class instruction in comprehension while using small groups and individual instruction to provide additional targeted support to the three students.

Standardized assessments can be best defined as:

Large-scale tests which are conducted annually and assess student performance over time.

Tests which are widely administered and establish academic standards that students are measured against.

tests which use a consistent question and grading style that allows large groups of students to be compared.

High-stakes assessments created by professional testing organizations that can be used to measure teacher performance.

In the beginning of the year, a fourth-grade teacher received the standardized test results for his class. The data displayed that 72% of his students scored below basic in the area of reading comprehension. The most effective step the teacher should take before implementing instruction is:

Have a meeting with the previous teachers of his students to determine what skills were taught and what problems they encountered when teaching their class.

Provide students with multiple assessments that focus on individual skills each week.

Provide students with an entry-level assessment in order to determine the strengths and weaknesses each student has in the area of reading.

Have students write a journal entry on why they have difficulties with understanding reading comprehension questions.

Which of the following assessments would elicit the least useful data for a classroom teacher to consider in their lesson planning?

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

English Language Proficiency Assessment for California

Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments for ELA/Literacy

District Periodic Assessments

Prior to administering a standardized test to a student with a learning disability, it is imperative that the teacher thoroughly reads the student’s IEP to determine:

if the wording of the test needs to be modified.

If the student is capable of taking the test.

If the student should take an assessment that is at their instructional level.

The accommodations and/or modifications that must be implemented during the testing period.

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