Every other week, 2nd-grade teacher Ms. Bankleman administers a one-minute oral reading fluency assessment with her Tier 2 and 3 readers. She tracks their scores, helps them chart their scores so they can see their progress, and utilizes the results to inform her intervention planning.What type of assessment is Ms. Bankleman using?

Mr. Alvarez is teaching his second-grade class about a particular type of word. He uses words such as cupcake, snowman, pancake, and bluebird. What is Mr. Alvarez’ instructional focus?

In which row do all the words include the /ĕ/ sound?

Identify the word with the same initial phoneme as the initial phoneme in the word “out”:

Mr. Nobel helped his fourth-grade students write an original play about a group of children who traveled together by wagon train over the Oregon Trail. After writing the play, students practiced reading their lines alouD. Mr. Nobel had written longer pieces of narration that they also practiced reading with partners. Mr. Nobel coached his students how to read with expression, but they didn’t have to memorize the script. After a week of practice, they performed their Reader’s Theatre for the other fourth grade classes and their parents. Students made paper hats and name tags, but didn’t use any other props. What was Mr. Nobel’s main instructional focus?

The term epigenetic refers to the study of the effects of environmental forces on genetic expression.

Tori is in the 3rd grade and has difficulty reading fluently. According to diagnostic testing, Tori struggles with multisyllabic word accuracy and appropriate reading rate. What should the teacher do to improve Tori’s reading fluency?

The average North American newborn weighs _____ pounds at birth.

If you substitute the onset of the word “hand” with /s/, what is the new word?

A speech sound made by partial or complete closure of part of the vocal tract, which obstructs air flow is a: