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MTEL Foundations of Reading - Question List

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16.
A second-grade teacher regularly reviews spelling patterns previously taught. The teacher also provides students with multiple opportunities to read and write connected text that features words containing the spelling patterns and to engage in word sorts comparing new and previously taught spelling patterns. These types of instructional activities are likely to promote students' reading skills primarily by developing their:
  1. Skill in identifying and categorizing common word families by their rimes.
  2. Accuracy and automaticity reading words that follow the target phonics patterns.
  3. Automatic recognition of and fluency reading texts containing high-frequency words.
  4. Knowledge of the meaning and usage of common, grade-level vocabulary words.
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17.
A third-grade teacher is planning differentiated reading instruction for an entering-level English learner who has grade-level reading skills in a language that uses the Roman alphabet. The teacher could best accelerate the student's progress in reading English by using which of the following approaches?
  1. Providing instruction to promote the student's development of the alphabetic principle by drawing explicit connections between oral and written language.
  2. Supporting the student in identifying consonant sounds that both languages have in common while systematically teaching common English syllable types to introduce English vowel patterns and pronunciations.
  3. Introducing systematic, explicit phonics skills to the student by showing the student how to sound out and blend the letter-sounds in simple English words.
  4. Modeling how to use textual and graphic context clues to decode unfamiliar words in texts while providing the student with predictable, illustrated texts to use in practicing context as a word-identification strategy.
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18.
According to basic principles of evidence-based, systematic phonics instruction, which of the following common English letter combinations would be most appropriate for a first- grade teacher to introduce first?
  1. ir
  2. kn
  3. th
  4. oi
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19.
Which of the following principles is best illustrated by the words watched, wanted, and 
warned?
  1. Spelling is often the best predictor of the pronunciation of a suffix.
  2. Open syllables are usually pronounced with a long vowel sound.
  3. The spelling of a suffix is often more reliable than its pronunciation.
  4. The second letter of a consonant blend is usually pronounced as the onset of the following syllable.
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20.
Which of the following sets of words would be most effective to use when introducing students to the concept of structural/morphemic analysis?
  1. Late, Great, Wait, Eight
  2. Afraid, Obtain, Explain, Remain
  3. Swim, Swims, Swam, Swum
  4. Pretest, Retest, Tested, Testing
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