Betty Hart and Tom Risley found in their ground-breaking 2003 research that:
a. children from low-income backgrounds had vocabularies that mirrored those of their parents.
b. books in the home have little relationship to children's language skills.
c. by the age of 3, children from low-income backgrounds had 100 fewer words in their vocabulary when compared to their more affluent peers.
d. parent education had little to do with child achievement.
a
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Currently, the United States has the highest child poverty rate the nation has experienced since ______________
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
It is important to consider the whole child when planning for learning because:
a. each child develops in an almost identical manner b. children's needs are complex and require us to look at the interplay among domains c. professionals need to understand every movement of the child d. none of the above
Preschool children think that you only need to feel guilty about something you do if someone else is there to see what happened.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which one of the following teaching practices is most likely to encourage students to elaborate as they study new material?
a. Help them locate Berlin on a map of Europe. b. Ask them, "Who remembers what the chief exports of Japan are?" c. Ask them how they might apply the principle that gas expands when heated. d. Say, "Yesterday we learned the safe way to hand a pair of sharp scissors to someone else. Who can show us what we learned to do?"