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66.
An ESL teacher wants to support expanding-level English language learners' development of reading fluency and comprehension. Which of the following types of reading activities would be most appropriate and effective for this purpose?
  1. Language Experience Approach activities in which students dictate a story to the teacher and then they read the story together.
  2. Readers theatre activities in which students work together to practice reading and dramatizing a script of a folktale.
  3. Word sort activities in which students read target vocabulary words and then create a semantic map of the words.
  4. Choral reading activities in which students participate in a group reading of a pattern book or poem.
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67.
A high school emerging-level English language learner is just beginning to develop literacy skills in English. An ESL teacher could best promote this student's English reading development by first developing the student's:
  1. Decoding skills using meaningful texts that primarily contain phonetically regular words and sight words.
  2. Comprehension of academic language structures using audio recordings of a variety of texts.
  3. Background knowledge about high-priority concepts using grade-level content-area texts.
  4. Vocabulary knowledge and skills using lists of high-frequency Tier Two words.
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68.
An English language learner who is literate in a language that follows highly consistent letter- sound correspondence patterns is likely to have the most difficulty decoding which of the following English words?
  1. Begin.
  2. Declare.
  3. Someone.
  4. Explain.
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69.
Which of the following factors is likely to have the most significant impact on a bridging-level English language learner's ability to comprehend a chapter from a grade-level content-area textbook?
  1. The amount of prior knowledge the student has about the topic of the text.
  2. The extent to which the student applies cognitive strategies while reading the text.
  3. The degree to which the student attends to discourse markers in the text.
  4. The rate at which the student reads the text.
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70.
Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding English language learners' development of phonemic awareness in English?
  1. English language learners must have a high level of oral language proficiency in English before they can develop phonemic awareness.
  2. English language learners whose first language uses a phonetically regular, alphabetic script may have particular difficulty acquiring phonemic awareness in English.
  3. English language learners must have strong literacy skills in the first language in order to develop phonemic awareness in English.
  4. English language learners may have particular difficulty acquiring phonemic awareness of English phonemes that do not exist in their first language.
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