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An ESL teacher is designing a cloze assessment to help measure the academic reading skills of a group of fourth-grade, bridging-level English language learners. The teacher selects a 250- word passage and omits every fifth word from the passage. Students will complete the assessment by supplying a word for each omitted word in the passage.

The ESL teacher could best use the cloze assessment to obtain information about students' reading proficiency in which of the following areas?
  1. Word recognition skills and reading fluency.
  2. Knowledge of syntax and vocabulary.
  3. Decoding and spelling skills.
  4. Metacognitive reading strategies.
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77.
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An ESL teacher is designing a cloze assessment to help measure the academic reading skills of a group of fourth-grade, bridging-level English language learners. The teacher selects a 250- word passage and omits every fifth word from the passage. Students will complete the assessment by supplying a word for each omitted word in the passage.

Which of the following reading passages would be most appropriate for the ESL teacher to use for the cloze assessment with these students?
  1. A portion of an Internet news article on an interesting topic.
  2. A selection of song lyrics from a popular song.
  3. An excerpt from a children's storybook.
  4. A section of a grade-level content-area text.
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78.
An ESL teacher has developing-level English language learners engage in daily freewriting, in which students write as much as they can about a familiar topic without paying attention to grammar or spelling. This practice supports the English language learners' writing development primarily by:
  1. Familiarizing them with patterns of written discourse in English.
  2. Promoting their writing fluency in English.
  3. Prompting them to use sentence variety in their English writing.
  4. Enhancing their written English vocabulary.
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79.
An ESL teacher uses a writer's workshop approach in which small groups of English language learners regularly work together to brainstorm ideas for writing, conference about each other's writing, and prepare their writing for publication. Which of the following statements best describes the most important benefit of this approach for English language learners' writing development?
  1. The collaborative nature of writer's workshop promotes students' understanding of writing as a collective process.
  2. Writer's workshop boosts students' self-confidence in their writing ability and reduces their writing-related anxiety.
  3. The interactive nature of writer's workshop supports students' progress through the various stages of the writing process.
  4. Writer's workshop helps the teacher maximize the amount of class time students spend on writing-related tasks.
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Which of the following should be the primary focus of instruction for English language learners in the prewriting stage of the writing process?
  1. Helping students generate the vocabulary and language structures they need to express their ideas.
  2. Promoting students' use of Standard English grammar conventions.
  3. Providing students with clear guidelines regarding assignment expectations and grading criteria.
  4. Justifying for students the value of and purposes for writing.
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