What is the purpose of having students mark statements about plants as true or false before reading a science text?

establishing a definite purpose reading the chapter

What strategy for effective discussion does the teacher demonstrate as the students talk about Gerard’s New Home? Options: Introducing new vocabulary in a context that clarifies the meaning of the words, Promoting the students to relate stories to their personal experiences, Using the repetition to reinforce the students understanding of key concepts, Encouraging the students to respond to another's idea and details from text.

Encouraging the students to respond to another's idea and details from text

A fourth grader participates in a reading activity: 1. The student silently reads a story. 2. The teacher asks the student to retell the story aloud and record his retelling. 3. After recording his retelling, the student silently rereads the story. 4. The student then listens to the recording of his retelling. 5. The student discusses with the teacher any differences he noticed between the original story and his retelling of it. What is this activity likely to promote?

Motivating the student to monitor his own comprehension and clarify the meaning of the text as he reads

What does the girl's use of the word "softly" in different ways in her poem show?

understands that words have different meanings

Which activity is most effective in promoting 8th grade students’ evaluative comprehension skills?

Students use reference materials to verify the evidence presented by two authors who wrote opposing articles about controversial issues.

When creating lesson plans to promote specific reading skills, a teacher should?

Target reading skills related to an appropriate instructional progression and reflect on the students' needs.

Comprehension strategy demonstrated by Student 3 during the group discussion of Gerard’s New Home.

Referring to the text to clarify meaning

During the group discussion of Gerard’s New Home, which strategy does the teacher use? Options: Encouraging students to provide evidence from the text to support their interpretations, Prompting students to analyze the use of figurative language in the text, Prompting students to make personal connections to events described in the text, Encouraging students to recognize how establishes the mood.

Encouraging students to provide evidence from the text to support their interpretations

Why might a teacher ask students to connect real-life experiences to a character's experiences in a book?

Deepen their understanding of the text and help the teacher analyze their responses to plan future appropriate instruction.

What is the primary reason for the teacher's instructional technique of having students read different passages and discuss them in groups?

The students gain deeper understanding of the passage and have an opportunity to clarify by discussing it with peers.

How can a fourth grade teacher assess a student's English oral and conversation understanding?

Place students in a group to discuss

An eighth grade teacher is pleased that students are drawing on personal experience in their responses to literary texts but is concerned that some students tend to become so preoccupied with their own experience that their literary interpretations have little to no relation to the original text. Which of the following strategies would be the most appropriate and effective way for the teacher to address their concern? Options: Caution students about literary interpretations that are unrelated to the text and too reliant on personal experiences., Give students a prereading summary of the plot and theme of the assigned literary text to help guide student responses, Plan instructional activities in which students support their itinerary responses with examples drawn from the text., Provide students with biographical information about the authors of an assigned literary text to help students interpret the text.

Plan instructional activities in which students support their itinerary responses with examples drawn from the text.

At the beginning of the school year, a fourth grade teacher decides to assess students' knowledge of how to use basic English conventions. Which of the following initial strategies would be most appropriate for this purpose? Options: students read a passage from a text that includes complex sentences and respond to comprehension questions., The teacher asks students to write a paragraph on a subject of their choice and evaluate their use of language, students complete a teacher made worksheet that requires them to match various grammatical terms with the..., the teacher leads a class discussion about English language conventions and informally assess students.

The teacher asks students to write a paragraph on a subject of their choice and evaluate their use of language

Why would the teacher suggest meeting once every week to discuss each chapter?

basic elements of the plot that support conflict, crisis, and resolution

Early in the school year a 5th grade teacher presents a lesson on signal words (e.g. therefore, because, since) that students are likely to see in their reading. This lesson is most likely to promote reading comprehension and memory by helping students?

Recognize common text structures

Instructional strategy to help sixth grade literature Response Group engage in productive discussions about a text.

Providing the students with explicit instruction in an activity such as questioning the author to help structure their discussion.

Which of the following should the teacher suggest to provide a vivid and descriptive language in his writing? Options: Promoting to identify where he needs to change, Asking the student to orally share more details about his weekend to incorporate into his writing, asking the student to retell a similar experience and incorporate that into his writing, the teacher points out areas where he needs to add more detail.

Asking the student to orally share more details about his weekend to incorporate into his writing

What does the student's passage about his weekend indicate about his writing skills?

The student was not following a logical sequence

Advantage of using related word pairs in vocabulary assessment?

Allows students to demonstrate their understanding the words often have multiple meanings

A 4th grade teacher does a multiple part lesson on 3 different types of lessons throughout the week involving the word responsibility. Activities include: writing the word and its definition, discussing related words, reading a narrative essay, and writing a descriptive essay. What approach to vocabulary instruction does this best demonstrate? Options: promoting students' genuine interest in vocabulary, teaching independent strategies for building word knowledge, promoting integration of word knowledge through repeating and purposeful exposure, encouraging wide reading of texts.

promoting integration of word knowledge through repeating and purposeful exposure

What strategy should a teacher use to connect a student's oral poem to reading and language skills? Options: Recite the student's poem with the initial letter omitted, Student mimics poems and rhymes the last four lines, Write the poem on chart paper and read it aloud, Ask the student to recite and memorize the poem.

Write the poem on chart paper and read it aloud

Essential component of an effective vocabulary program for elementary and middle school students?

explicit instruction in generalizable word learning strategies

What study skill would you use for upper grade elementary?

Work in small groups and quiz each other

Why do strong readers often perform poorly on standardized reading tests?

Important academic terms such as justify and evaluate that commonly appear in assessment questions

What instructional practice is demonstrated when a teacher analyzes the word 'centennial' using related words like 'cent', 'century', and 'annual'?

Promotes development of morphological strategies as an essential component of the curriculum

An 8th grade English Learner moved to the United States two years ago. This student reads English fluently and comprehends most texts but is having difficulty understanding a chapter on US History in her social studies textbook. What should the teacher do? Options: advise the student to read the chapter more slowly and to look up unfamiliar terms in the glossary, provide the student with a list of questions to answer as she reads the chapter, encourage the student to create an outline of the chapter.

Talk with the student to determine the extent of her background knowledge about the topic.

What instructional strategy is most effective for improving note-taking skills to enhance comprehension? Options: Teaching the student to use double entry format for notes, entering the key terms and concepts from a section of text in one column, and a brief summary of the section in the other column; Encouraging the students to use a highlighter to mark useful information in the text before taking notes; Modeling for the student how to take notes in outline form using a system of Roman numerals, letters, and numbers to distinguish information; Suggesting that the student attach blank self-stick notes to pages in a text that contain information she would like to remember.

Teaching the student to use double entry format for notes, entering the key terms and concepts from a section of text in one column, and a brief summary of the section in the other column.

Having an understanding of the different tiers of vocabulary would best help a teacher determine:

which vocabulary words from a reading passage to teach

A 5th grade teacher regularly engages students in activities such as synonym bingo in which students complete bingo cards by matching academic vocabulary words called out by the teacher to synonyms printed on their cards and synonym terms in which students orally provide for given grade level vocabulary words. This practice best demonstrates the teacher’s awareness that an effective vocabulary program should be activities that:

Develop and extend students understanding that words can have multiple meanings

What is the teacher trying to teach by writing a sentence about a girl waiting in 3 different ways? 1. Mary stands waiting for the bus in the snow. 2. While in the snow, Mary waits for the bus. 3. Waiting for the bus, Mary stands in the snow.

Giving students practice in manipulating sentence structures to vary writing style.

Fourth grade teacher is going to start reading a passage and ask students to make predictions about the text to activate prior knowledge. What should be the next step? Options: write responses on board and ease and see what they remember, write responses on board and ask students to write sentences, Put the responses into categories (have students put ideas into categories) It was written in a longer way), students skims the passage to see what stands out

Put the responses into categories (have students put ideas into categories) It was written in a longer way)

When introducing students to expository text such as an article from a periodical, a middle school teacher often begins by having students read information about the author(s) that is provided in the preface or other parts of the text. The teacher then leads a brief discussion about… and credentials of the author(s). This exercise is most likely to strengthen students' reading skills in which of the following ways?

Enhancing students evaluative comprehensions by raising their awareness that text reflect authors’ experiences and point of view

What does a third grader's ability to self-correct the sentence "Honey is sweet than jam" to "Honey is sweeter than jam" demonstrate?

common English grammatical convention use

Instructional reading plans for a 6th grade teacher's lesson plans in reading, math, and science.

Is the context vocabulary incorporated into daily instruction/across area related// Is instruction in reading skills clearly differentiated from reading-related instruction in other academic subjects?

Which study skill is most effective for comprehending and recalling textbook information?

Working in small groups, students quiz one another on the definitions of keywords in the chapter after reading it.

Based on the chart with columns titled 'summary', 'Thoughts on the chapter', and 'What do you think will happen next?', what is the teacher looking for?

comprehend and make connections

What is the teacher trying to teach when students combine sentences by removing commas and adding words?

Removing comma and adding punctuation can change the meaning of a sentence

How can teachers help students identify graphs?

Help students create graphs using their favorite things like candy, food, pets, hobbies and so on.

Which journal writing assignment is most effective for assessing student comprehension and analysis towards text? Options: students asked to free write about their reactions to and feelings about a text immediately after they read it, the teacher poses one or more open-ended questions about a text and students must include evidence from the text, students are prompted to relate in their journals a personal experience that came to mind as they were reading a given text, the teacher provides a short list of factual questions about events and characters in the text and students respond in their journals.

the teacher poses one or more open-ended questions about a text and students must include evidence from the text

What is the instructional activity likely to promote comprehension primarily by? Options: Enhancing students' ability to analyze how punctuation affects the meaning of a text, Helping students recognize the difference between nouns and verbs, Enhancing students' ability to use semantic and syntactic clues to identify unfamiliar words, Helping students recognize and interpret sentences containing dependent clauses or phrases.

Helping students recognize and interpret sentences containing dependent clauses or phrases.

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A sixth-grade teacher creates a written assessment where students choose a nonsense word to complete a sentence. Example: George___________ a prize at the fair yesterday. Options: Twibly, Norfing, Lubbed, Vishes. What skill does this test?

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Intuitively make use of grammar when reading

FLASHCARD QUESTION

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What is the teacher trying to achieve by providing an easier science article about asteroids before reading from the actual science textbook?

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Pre-teaching/pre-reading to familiarize students with content and vocabulary (build on background/prior knowledge).

FLASHCARD QUESTION

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Understanding how punctuation is used to set off nonrestrictive elements would enable students to gain which piece of information from this passage? Options: Reptiles need outside sources of heat to keep them warm, Snakes are often found basking on warm rocks, Reptiles are known as exotherms, All mammals are endotherms.

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All mammals are endotherms

FLASHCARD QUESTION

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What opportunity does the passage provide for the teacher to help the student understand the term 'endotherm'? Options: Learn to use standard textural guides such as table of contents, Apply knowledge of suffixes to gain meaning from unfamiliar word, Apply skimming and scanning strategies to organize information from a text, Recognize that an unfamiliar word's context information to define it.

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Apply knowledge of suffixes to gain meaning from unfamiliar word

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The worksheet is most likely to...

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Use knowledge of morphology to determine the meaning of words independently.

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What were the strategies that the teacher used to develop students’ responses to literature?

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Use specific techniques that reinforce literal comprehension

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Activity: Teacher writes a sentence with blanks for students to fill in descriptive words. What does this help English Learners learn? Options: Words can have different meanings, Sentence structure in the English language, Figurative language, Structure of English Language.

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Sentence structure in the English language

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