What is discourse?
What will be an ideal response?
Discourse involves units of language larger than individual sentences—in conversations, lectures, stories, essays, and even textbooks. Just as grammatical sentences are structured according to systematic syntactical rules, passages of discourse are structured systematically. By adulthood, most of us have a firm grasp of how sentences are sequenced into a greater whole (discourse structure). From our knowledge of discourse structure, we can derive meanings of sentence elements that are not apparent by looking at isolated sentences.
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Teachers can use observations like Anecdotal Recording to
a. diagnose a learning disability. b. plan appropriate curriculum. c. share with the family. d. plan appropriate curriculum and share with the family.
Children of this age enjoy sitting still and listening to stories, may defy parents when they are
under pressure, have definite, inflexible ideas of right and wrong, and have difficulty getting along with younger siblings. a. Preschool b. Kindergarten c. Early elementary d. Middle elementary
Teachers administering an IRI should administer the oral reading passage to the student
a. as soon as the studentreads with zero errors on the word list test. b. as soon as the studentmakes one error when reading a list. c. that is two grade levels below the student's grade level. d. at the highest grade level at which the student has few errors on the graded word list
Imagine that for a population of 200, the mean is 20.23 with a standard deviation of 5.12. What is the population standard error of the mean 
?
a. .003 b. .03 c. .36 d. .50