What is one of the most important reasons to teach critical thinking skills in school?
(a) So students can apply them without prompting throughout life
(b) So students can apply them when called upon
(c) So students' achievement is higher in fields like literature and history
A
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The use of project work in early childhood classrooms is supported because:
A. The teacher has little work to do during the process. B. It stimulates children’s intellectual and social development. C. It relates to standardized testing. D. It is intrinsically motivating. E. Both B and D.
A child reads “John called his mom” instead of “John called his mother.” What does this tell us about the student’s miscue?
a. The child is focusing on phonics to decode words. b. The child is not reading for meaning. c. The miscue is not important; the child simply used a more familiar term. d. The child is using syntactic cues incorrectly.
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