CSR PRETEST

How many years old are you?

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student?

Undergraduate

Graduate

Select your gender.

Female

Male

NOT including this current class, how many previous courses have you taken that are specifically related to reading instruction?

Do you have previous experience as a classroom teacher who taught reading?

Yes

No

If you answered yes to the previous question (i.e., if you have previous experience as a classroom teacher of reading instruction), tell me (a) what grade level(s) you worked with, and

(b) for how many years you taught each grade level.

What is the biggest problem faced by struggling readers?

They do not engage in metacognition

They have poor reading vocabularies

They do not know how to answer questions about text

They have trouble understanding sentence structure

What is not a strategy that good readers use to ensure comprehension during reading?

Reread sections to ensure understanding

Try to figure out unknown words

Draw conclusions about the text

Make connections between concepts

Which is not an effective way to preview a text?

Make a guess about what the passage will be about

Look at headers and subheaders in the passage

Think about questions you have about the topic

Look up every unknown word in the passage

Before reading the text, it is most important to...

Understand how the title connects to the plot

Think about connections you might have to the text

Brainstorm what you already know about the topic

Make sure you know what every word means