Miss Hausler is teaching her first graders to read. She believes that reading should be meaningful from the very beginning of reading instruction, so she teaches her students not to try to sound out every word but to look for cues in the text, pictures,
and story language for ideas about unknown words as they work their way through an entire piece of text. This method of reading instruction is known as the __________ approach.
a) letter-sound
b) code-based
c) whole-language
d) balanced literacy
Answer: c
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a. alternative therapies. b. being aware of the unconscious. c. a public health model. d. a private health model.
Which of the following illustrates the holistic nature of development theme?
a. A child's early experiences direct the synaptic pruning that occurs in the first years of life. b. The timing of puberty depends on both your genetics and what sort of nutrition you have had. c. Babies remain the same length for days, and then grow several centimeters all in one day. d. Motor development in infants is related to the infant's cognitive and social goals.
A high n Ach person is likely to succeed in life because they
a. persist on difficult tasks. b. get low grades in school. c. avoid competition when possible. d. stay at the same level in his company for quite a while. e. prefer to be a follower, rather than a leader.
In a carefully controlled experiment, the only possible cause for any effect noted in the dependent variable is the
a. independent variable. b. extraneous variable. c. random assignment. d. random selection.