MTEL Foundations of Reading

Category - Foundations of Reading

A fifth-grade teacher gives students a "reading planner" for an informational text that they will be reading independently. The reading planner contains various activities, including prompting students to summarize certain passages, to explain relationships between concepts according to specific information in the text, and to determine the meaning of domain-specific words based on appositives or appositive phrases embedded in the text. This reading planner is likely to be most effective for achieving which of the following instructional purposes?
  1. Developing students' ability to read the text evaluatively.
  2. Supporting students' development of prosodic reading skills.
  3. Encouraging students to read and interact closely with the text.
  4. Teaching students to adjust their reading rate based on text complexity.
Explanation
Correct Response: C. Reading planners such as the one described compel students to reread a complex academic text multiple times so that they can complete the activities in the planner, which are specifically designed to prompt the students to interact with the content and language of the text. Option A is incorrect because the activities do not focus on developing students' evaluative comprehension skills. Option B is incorrect because using a reading planner as described would not promote development of prosodic reading, since it is a silent reading activity that does not involve explicit or implicit teacher modeling of or instruction in prosodic reading. A text-based reading planner would not teach students how to adjust their reading rate based on text difficulty (D) because it focuses on just one specific text.
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