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Objectives and Test Items

Nuong Nguyen

California State University, Monterey Bay

Cohort MIST XII

IST 522 Instructional Design

Dr. Jeanne Farrington

Fall 2017
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Objectives and Test Items

Objectives

From memory, first-grade students will be able to:

 Match the animals associated with the reading strategies with 80% accuracy.

 List five reading strategies with 80% accuracy.

Given an example or reading selection, first-grade students will be able to:

 Identify which strategy is being used with 80% accuracy.

 Apply one to two reading strategies while reading with 100% accuracy.

Test Items

Question 1 and 2 are testing the students’ knowledge of the different reading strategies.

Question 3 through 6 are checking students’ comprehension as they specify which strategies are

being used. In question 7 the students are applying what they learned while reading a selection

from the Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA).

1) Match the animal name with the reading strategy.

1. Chunky Monkey a. look at the pictures
2. Flippy Dolphin b. make each phoneme sound
3. Eagle Eye c. stretch out the sound
4. Lips the Fish d. change the vowel sounds
5. Trying Lion e. break up the words into chunks
6. Stretchy Snake f. reread the sentence
7. Skippy Frog g. use context clues to figure out the words
Answers: 1e, 2d, 3a, 4b, 5f, 6c, 7g
2) List five reading strategies.
(Answers: Look at the pictures, make each phoneme sound, stretch out the sound, change the
vowel sounds, break up the words into chunks, reread the sentence, use context clues.)
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3) While struggling to read, the student does this /cccc/---/aaaaa/----/tttt/. Which reading
strategy is the student using?
a. looking at the picture
b. breaking the words into chunks
c. using context clues
d. stretching out the sound (correct answer)

4) While struggling to read, the students does this /c/ /at/. Which reading strategy is the
student using?
a. looking at the picture
b. breaking the words into chunks (correct answer)
c. using context clues
d. stretching out the sound

5) While struggling to read, the students sees a drawing of a cat and is able to read the word
cat. Which reading strategy is the student using?
a. looking at the picture (correct answer)
b. breaking the words into chunks
c. using context clues
d. stretching out the sound

6) While struggling to read the word “cat,” the student looks at the surrounding words. Which
reading strategy is the student using?
a. looking at the picture
b. breaking the words into chunks
c. using context clues (correct answer)
d. stretching out the sound

Answers: 3d, 4b, 5a, 6c

7) While reading the selection, which strategy did you use to decode a difficult word?
(Answer: list at least 1 or 2 reading strategies)
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References

Jones, K (2016). Guided reading. Retrieved from

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Guided-Reading-1st-GRADE-BUNDLE-

Levels-F-J-2416868

National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School

Officers. (2017). Common core state standards for English language arts reading:

Foundational skills, first grade. Retrieved from http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-

Literacy/RF/1/