[Past Question]: Literacy Across The Curriculum

1. Literacy means …………………………
   a. Competency in a domain
   b. Competency in writing
   c. Competency in listening
   d. Competency in reading and speaking
2. Learning literacy skills while learning the content of subjects in an educational institution is known as,
   a. Literacy
   b. Functional literacy
   c. Literacy across the curriculum
   d. Literacy from the curriculum
3. Academic content awareness plus academic language should map on to………..
   a. Language in the curriculum
   b. Language across the curriculum
   c. Literacy across the curriculum
   d. Literacy of the curriculum
4. Which of the following is not a misconception of Language Across the Curriculum?
   a. Literacy is the same for all discipline
   b. It is not possible to teach literacy in other disciplines
   c. Developing fluency instruction
   d. Literacy must be concern of only language tutors
5. POE in Language Across the curriculum stands for…………….
   a. Predict-observe-explain
   b. Observe-oppose -expect
   c. Preserve-oppose- explain
   d. Push-out-expect
6. To organize Language Across the Curriculum effectively, there should be a strong link between the school and the home.
   TRUE/FALSE
7. The following are all types of registers except ………………..
   a. Formal registers
   b. Consultative registers
   c. Casual registers
   d. Normal registers
8. The contextual usage of words is referred to as
   a. Language
   b. Literacy
   c. Register
   d. Communication
9. The following are ways of integrating subject specific literacy into the curriculum except
   a. Engaging students in listening and speaking
   b. Using writing to organize information
   c. Using reading to locate information
   d. Using music to develop creativity
10. To develop writing across the curriculum, teachers should
    a. Be writing for pupils
    b. Emphasis coherent and organized writing
    c. Summarise content and ideas for students
    d. Use technical and specialized vocabulary
11. In explaining their writing in groups, students are developing their……skills across the curriculum.
    a. Listening and speaking
    b. Listening and writing
    c. Writing and reading
    d. Speaking and writing
12. How will students establish familiarity with technical and specialized vocabulary in a text
    a. By listening to the text
    b. By reading the text
    c. By knowing the text
    d. By writing the text
13. To develop the register of learners in a curriculum, the teacher should ………….
    a. Use big words
    b. Teach contextual meaning of words
    c. Use dictionary to teach
    d. Always explain meaning of words to students
14. The word “plant” has the same meaning across the curriculum
    TRUE/FALSE
15. The Early Grade Reading Assessment has the following skills except
    a. Letter-Sound Recognition (LSR)
    b. Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)
    c. Reading Comprehension (RC)
    d. Reading Oral Sounds (ROS)
16. All the experiences that learners have under the guidance of a school is referred to as
    a. Language
    b. Literacy
    c. Education
    d. Curriculum
17. The application of literacy skills while teaching the content of a subject is known as……..
    a. Cross Literacy Across the Curriculum
    b. Discipline Literacy Across the Curriculum
    c. Topic Literacy Across the Curriculum
    d. Skills Across the Curriculum
18. Scaffolding enables pupils develop……… in their literacy
    a. Reading
    b. Comprehension
    c. Confidence
    d. Listening
19. How many subtasks are entailed in Writing Assessment?
    a. 6
    b. 9
    c. 12
    d. 10
20. Which of these Language Across the Curriculum assessment types assess the phonological literacy?
    a. Comprehension Reading Test
    b. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing
    c. Early Grade Reading Test
    d. Levelled Literacy Intervention System

SECTION B
ANSWER ANY TWO OF THE QUESTIONS BELOW

1. State and explain 5 benefits of Literacy Across the Curriculum.
2. (a) Write and explain 3 misconceptions of Literacy Across the Curriculum.
   (b) Suggest any 2 ways of correcting 2 of the misconceptions mentioned above.
3. a. Mention and explain the 3 categories of literacy.
   b. State 2 ways one can use to assess the progress of literacy.
4. a. Mention 4 principles and practices of LAC.
   b. Define Early Grade Writing Assessment.

Another Set of Questions

1. What are the four major domains of literacy?
   A. Decoding, fluency, comprehension and writing
   B. Assessment, instruction, curriculum and communication
   C. Critical thinking, inference, analysis and presentation
   D. Speaking, listening, reading and writing
2. Which of the following strategies integrates speaking into your classroom?
   A. Formal assessment
   B. Reading for long periods of time
   C. Letting students tell stories
   D. Having students listen to audiobooks
3. In order for pupils to be literate leading to developing Literacy Across the Curriculum, the following are some of the skills and techniques a teacher is required employ during lessons EXCEPT:
   A. Scaffold in order to support pupils’ first attempts and build confidence.
   B. Provide standardized tests and assessments.
   C. Explore in order to encourage critical thinking.
   D. Investigate in order to encourage enquiry and self-help.
4. Which of the following underlying principles and practices supports effective literacy instruction?
   A. All teachers must be made to understand the intentions of implementing LAC fully and that they must be actively involved in the implementation of the program.
   B. There should be the provision of support (financial and human) to schools to help implement LAC effectively.
   C. Decision-making concerning LAC implementation should be more democratic.
   D. Developing teachers’ knowledge, analytical skills and abilities to orchestrate the many facets of language, literacy and learning.
5. Which of the following approaches will help literacy across the curriculum development in schools?
   A. Prioritize ‘disciplinary literacy’ across the curriculum.
   B. Connecting literacy instruction with the linguistic, cultural, and home backgrounds of the learner.
   C. Developing emergent literacy skills like behaviors and attitudes.
   D. Developing Phonemic awareness instruction.
6. A well-organized school Literacy Across the Curriculum according to Matt Bromley, (2017) should …..
   A. Involve language teachers and demonstrate how they should use language to promote learning in their subject areas.
   B. Identify the particular needs of all pupils in reading and writing.
   C. Make strong links between school and home.
   D. Plan for the short term, emphasizing the integral relationship between language for learning and effective teaching in all subjects.
7. Literacy Across the Curriculum Program learning in schools should encourage the following EXCEPT,
   A. It should be enjoyable, motivating and challenging.
   B. It should concentrate only on literacy skills.
   C. It should be actively engaging.
   D. It should activate prior learning, secure understanding and provide opportunities to apply skills.
8. According to May (1997), which of the following is a tenet of literacy across the curriculum?
   A. Language has a central role in learning
   B. It embeds a grasp of how different language choices and patterns represent and document ideas and views of the world through a range of genres
   C. It develops a sense of the way disciplinary knowledge is organized
   D. Content needs to be sacrificed
9. One of the challenges of implementing Literacy Across the Curriculum (LAC) includes,
   A. Government/Schools agrees on a language policy to use in schools to ensure the effective implementation of language policy to use to ensure effective Literacy Across the Curriculum implementation.
   B. School structures align with the inclusive intentions of developing Literacy Across the Curriculum among students; especially for struggling students.
   C. Decision-making concerning Literacy Across the Curriculum implementation is democratic.
   D. the inability to involve all teachers in the development of Literacy Across the Curriculum.
10. Which of the following can promote conceptual change among learners?
    A. Refutational teaching
    B. Predictory teaching
    C. Observational teaching
    D. Explanatory teaching
11. Pick the odd one out.
    A. All teachers are literacy teachers.
    B. Literacy Across the Curriculum helps teachers achieve more learning in the subjects/disciplines in a short time.
    C. Teachers should help learners revise their conceptual understanding.
    D. Literacy Across the Curriculum distracts attention from achieving objectives of the discipline
12. In order to successfully implement Literacy Across the Curriculum, there should be no proper articulation of the educational intentions of its implementing in schools to all teachers involved
    A. True
    B. False
13. Reading and writing is also known as
    A. Effective literacy
    B. Functional literacy
    C. Developmental literacy
    D. Conventional literacy
14. Which of the following is not a good reason for using language?
    A. To express emotions
    B. To keep information
    C. To establish relationship
    D. To give information
    15. According to Joos, there are ……types of language register.
        A. 2
        B. 3
        C. 4
        D. 5
15. An example of formal register in writing would be
    A. writing an academic essay
    B. writing a text message to your best friend
    C. talking to your sister
    D. singing in the shower
16. Which of the following is a feature of the new education curriculum.
    A. it contains teaching and learning activities
    B. it is objective based
    C. it is standard-based
    D. it contains scheme of work
17. Which of the following is a deficiency of the new education curriculum?
    A. Most of the contents in the standard-based curriculum do not require the efforts of parents, teachers and other stakeholders for their achievement.
    B. most of the resources that were suggested in the curriculum are not available in most schools.
    C. Teachers are not expected to consider how innovation would affect their classroom practices.
    D. the workshops organized for the primary school teachers was enough to adequately prepare them for the needs of the standard-based curriculum
18. In improving spelling across the curriculum, teachers must
    A. make activities sheets accessible
    B. provide support for reading
    C. use reciprocal teaching to explore texts
    D. encourage the use of glossaries
19. Which of the following is an effective way of teaching reading across the curriculum?
    A. students should be made to experience different ways of reading.
    B. students should be made to use subject-specific terminology.
    C. students should create open-ended questions for discussions.
    D. students should be given time to reflect on content.

Section B.
Answer any two questions from the options below

1. a. What is literacy across the curriculum? (2 mark)
   b. Discuss four (4) importance of literacy across the curriculum.
2. a. What is literacy across the curriculum? (2 mark) b. Discuss two (2) challenges of literacy across the curriculum and suggest two (2) ways of addressing them. (8 marks)
   3. a. What is language register? (2 marks)
      b. Discuss any two types of language register.( 4 marks)
      c. Mention two importance of the use of language register in the classroom. (4 marks)
   4. Mention four (4) deficiencies of the new basic school curriculum and suggest ways of addressing these deficiencies. (10 marks)