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Theory and Pedagogical Practices of Text Comprehension
1. According to the article, the national report card indicates that
A. kindergarteners are particularly at risk for reading failures in future grades.
B. reading scores for middle and high school students have shown little change over the last decade.
C. eighth-grade students show a trend toward increasingly poor reading achievement.
D. the No Child Left Behind Act has had a positive affect effect on reading scores for the last 3 years.
2. According to the construction integration (CI) model, the recommended basic unit of meaning measurement is
A. propositions.
B. schemas.
C. scripts.
D. networks.
3. Which of the following isnotan example of transactional instruction?
A. Teacher quizzes students to see if they recognize facts from a text.
B. Student describes the text she is reading to other students.
C. A small reading group makes predictions about a text they are reading.
D. A student evaluates what she does not understand in the text she is reading.
4. According to the CI model, to fully comprehend a text, readers must
A. summarize the text.
B. create a schema.
C. create a situation model.
D. be an expert.
5. The Situation model is constructed by which of the following?
A. world knowledge
B. feature analysis
C. textbase
D. text microstructure
Why Reading Comprehension Fails: Insights From Developmental Disorders
6. Which of the following statements about reading comprehension is true?
A. Poor readers can have faulty skills in deciphering words and understanding text content.
B. Studies by Nation et al. show that most children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) rarely have reading difficulty.
C. Children with specific language impairment (SLI) are generally able to read with significant accuracy.
D. Nonphonological skills are crucial to decoding text.
7. Studies show that good readers who exhibit poor comprehension suffer from difficulties associated with
A. making inferences.
B. decoding words.
C. phonemic awareness.
D. fluency.
8. According to this article, all of the following statements are true
A. speaking and reading share little or no cognitive processes.
B. poor comprehenders of text are often poor comprehenders of speech.
C. poor comprehenders exhibit below average semantic skills.
D. poor comprehenders may be poor decoders.
9. Nation's scheme of quadrants to describe different types of reading skills deficits is best used to understand
A. students with a particular disability such as ASD or SLI.
B. average expectations for groups of students.
C. diagnosis of individual student's reading skill problems.
D. when a student is ready to be promoted to the next level of instruction.
10. Using context to assist reading by students with cognitive impairments works best for students with
A. ASD.
B. SLI.
C. dyslexia.
D. language impairment.
The Assessment of Reading Comprehension: Cautions and Considerations
11. All of the following purposes for the use of reading assessment tests were mentioned in this article
A. evaluating state programs and curricula.
B. identifying children at risk for problems.
C. measuring the validity of intervention programs.
D. obtaining a differential diagnosis of children with reading problems.
12. Which statement doesnotconform to the No Child Left Behind Act?
A. Children will be able to read by third grade.
B. Schools will use reading practices that have been proven to work.
C. Schools must make adequate progress as measured annually.
D. Pre-school-age assessments are mandated to identify children at risk for reading problems.
13. The Colorado CSAP test is an example of
A. a standardized test.
B. evidence-based practice.
C. high-stakes assessment.
D. a test requiring a passing grade to graduate from high school.
14. According to this article, which statement is correct?
A. Reading comprehension assessments are highly standardized between states.
B.
