Question 1

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:
Correct Answer:
sight words

Question 2
1 out of 1 points
A teacher read a passage. The students repeated each phrase or sentence after the teacher read
it. This class was participating in:
Correct Answer:
echo reading

Question 3
The ability to orally read sentences expressively, with appropriate phrasing and intonation, is
known as:
Correct Answer:
prosody

Question 4
Of the following, the best way to improve students' reading speed is to use:
Correct Answer:
repeated readings

Question 5
Of the following, the best way to assess students' reading fluency is to:
Correct Answer:
listen to them read aloud

Question 6
To help students develop prosody in reading, teachers can:

Correct
Answer:

model expressive reading when they read aloud and think aloud about their
performance

Question 7
The most important recommendation for students who struggle with fluency is to:
Correct Answer:
dramatically increase the amount of reading and writing they do every day

Question 8
The ability to read silently for increasingly longer periods of time is known as reading:
Correct Answer:
stamina

Question 9
Teachers help older students overcome the obstacle of slow reading speed by:
Correct
Answer:
providing daily practice opportunities to develop students' reading speed
and stamina

Question 10
Reading fluency involves the 3 components known as:
Correct Answer:
reading speed, reading accuracy, and prosody

Question 11
Word Walls are appropriate:
Correct Answer:
at any grade level

Question 12

Words such as to, the, and could which occur frequently but carry little meaning are known
as:
Correct Answer:
function words

Question 13
Of the following, the best way to help students develop reading fluency is to use:
Correct Answer:
readers theatre

Question 14
Every syllable must have at least one:
Correct Answer:
vowel

Question 15
A first grade teacher introduced the word cat on Monday. On Tuesday, the teacher could help
her students read the words bat, flat, and rat. This teacher was helping her students learn to
decode words by:
Correct Answer:
analogy

Question 16
To help struggling readers and writers develop automaticity, teachers should do all of the
following except
Correct Answer:
decode every word they encounter while reading

Question 17
Many older struggling readers are unfamiliar with word identification strategies. Teachers can
help students overcome this obstacle by doing all of the following except
Correct Answer:
encouraging them to guess at unknown words based on the first letter

Question 18
Six year old Bill said he could read the word will because it looked like his name. Bill used
the strategy of:
Correct Answer:
analogies

Question 19
To become a fluent reader, a student must:
Correct Answer:
automatically recognize high-frequency words