Praxis II: Special Education Exam Prep

Category - Foundations of Reading

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A third-grade class includes students with delays in foundational reading skills. Two students also have delays in language expression and comprehension. The teacher is considering ways to best support the students' reading development. The teacher would also like to provide appropriate supports for the students during the planned biweekly whole-class close-reading routine, in which the teacher will engage the students in reading and rereading a variety of complex literary and informational passages.

The teacher wants to support the students with literacy delays in developing self- confidence and self-efficacy as readers. Which of the following strategies would be most appropriate for this purpose?
  1. Instructing the students explicitly in how to use various word-reading and comprehension-repair strategies to solve reading challenge.
  2. Requiring the students to engage in more independent reading in the classroom and at home.
  3. Evaluating texts that will be used in reading instruction with the students for text complexity to ensure that the texts are always easily accessible.
  4. Balancing the students' exposure to authentic literary and informational texts in a diversity of genres.
Explanation
Correct Response: A. Providing the students with explicit instruction in the use of various word- reading skills and comprehension-repair strategies would allow them to access the more complex texts presented during whole-class reading routines. Options B and C are incorrect because they do not provide opportunities for the students to engage with complex grade-level texts. By using these strategies, the teacher would send the message that the teacher has low expectations regarding the students' capacity for growth in reading. This approach would not develop the students' feelings of self-efficacy and self-confidence as readers. It would more likely have the opposite effect. Option D is incorrect because simply exposing the students to different genres is not enough. The students in the scenario also need explicit instruction in skills and strategies for dealing with the challenges they will encounter in complex grade-level texts.
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