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Test Bank For Teaching Reading in the 21 st

Century Motivating All Learners Sixth Edition Peter Dewitz Michael F. Graves Bonnie B. Graves Connie Juel Prepared

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Chapter 1 Reading and Learning to Read

Multiple Choice Questions

• Over the past four decades the reading ability of American students has
• declined significantly for all students
• increased steadily except for African American students
• Stayed about the same but there is room for concern
• new challenges especially reading digital text

• High stakes state assessments of reading have led to
• more negative outcomes than positive.
• more positive outcomes than negative.
• an rigid curriculum in many schools.
• significant reforms in American education.

• The nature of literacy in the today’s and tomorrow world is changing because
• in the contemporary world people will read less.
• of the demands of the Internet and the digital world.
• critical skills are more vital than ever before.
• fewer people have the desire to read.

• The cognitive-constructivist view of reading supports that
• reading is an active process
• there is only one true meaning of a text
• all readers follow the same process in constructing meaning
• reading is a sequential process

• Constructivism is a social construct because
• social interaction is a condition for learning
• social people tend to learn better
• all meaning from text is subjective
• the social world influences the meaning we construct

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• Effective comprehension is the result of the interaction of the following elements:
• the reader and the worksheet
• the reader, the text, and the activity
• the text, the reader, and the author
• the reader and the text

• In order to develop automaticity in reading, students need to
• practice with word lists.
• increase their attention capacity.
• frequently read text at or below their reading level
• respond to many questions

• A strong vocabulary program requires all of the follow except
• regular vocabulary assessments
• engaging discussions with a text read aloud
• teaching students to use word learning strategies.
• Extensive independent reading

9. The construction-integration model of reading and schema theory:

• are competing models that explain how we comprehend
• both emphasize the importance of prior knowledge
• are sequential aspects of understanding a text
• both theories of that explain automaticity

• Student’s schema about the sun can help her learn about other stars because she
• uses her previous knowledge to make sense of the new information.
• makes inferences about other stars based on what she already knows about the sun.
• predicts what might be in a passage about stars based on what she already knows about

the sun.

• all of the above.

• Reader use cognitive strategies
• to improve fluency
• for specific purposes
• to solve comprehension problems
• when skills break down

• A metacognitive reader is able to
• employ strategies when comprehension become difficult
• read every word accurately
• know the meaning of each word on the page
• decode word automatically
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• Reader response theory suggests that
• all readers will arrive at the same meaning for what they read.
• different readers will have somewhat different interpretations of what they read.
• different readers will have completely different interpretations of what they read.
• it is the teacher who should decide just which answer is correct.

• The Common Core State Standards
• are unrelated to the constructivism
• stress the teaching of specific skills
• set the goals for our reading curriculums
• embody a philosophy of reader response

• The following is not a component of an effective literacy curriculum
• worksheets
• phonics
• independent reading and reading response
• vocabulary

• For the effective development and implementation of literacy curriculum, teachers need
• workshops in curriculum design
• a teacher’s manual
• NAEP scores
• to make instructional decisions

Short Answer Questions

• Is literacy achievement in crisis in American Schools?

• Describe the demands of a 21

st century reader.

• Describe the three phases of the construction-integration process and why each are essential

to meaning construction.

• Define metacognition as it applies to reading.

• Describe the components of a literacy program that will help students achieve successful

levels of literacy in the 21 st century. Why might motivation be the key component?

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