Which one of the following teachers is definitely keeping in mind Piaget's idea that assimilation and accommodation are both necessary for learning and cognitive development to occur?
a. Mr. Ames presents brand new topics every day, expecting the continual novelty to keep students interested and motivated.
b. Mr. Baretta shows students how a new topic is similar to the things they already know, but also different in certain ways.
c. Ms. Chang makes sure that students have learned one topic very, very well before moving on to another.
d. Ms. Doherty uses a lot of drill and practice exercises, encouraging students to work faster every time.
b
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a. wide reading and writing, text with controlled vocabulary, families that promote literacy b. wide reading and writing, independent strategies for learning vocabulary, text with controlled vocabulary c. awareness of words, independent strategies for learning vocabulary, direct teaching d. awareness of words, wide reading and writing, independent strategies for learning vocabulary
A disengaged or inactive reader as a category of adolescent readers typically show all of the following characteristics except:
a. adequate to advanced knowledge base. b. lack of motivation to connect with school. c. problems with word recognition. d. doesn't make the time for reading.
For most children, language acquisition and development proceed rapidly between the ages of __________
A. birth and 2 B. 2 and 6 C. 5 and 8 D. 6 and 14
A task that requires the patient to produce the name of an object in a rapid manner is known as which of the following'?
a. Rapid naming b. Rapid nomia c. Confrontational naming d. A and sometimes C e. All of the above