Why read informational texts aloud to children?
What will be an ideal response?
Informational texts are engaging, stimulate curiosity, help children make sense of the world, answer questions, explain natural phenomena, build background knowledge, contain different features than fiction, develop conceptual knowledge, and can be richly descriptive, thereby increasing vocabulary.
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Using the method of loci is an example of
a. elaborative rehearsal. b. maintenance rehearsal. c. the dual-code method. d. top-down processing.
The following four junior high school science teachers are teaching the concept molecule to their students. In each classroom, some of the students have acquired formal operational reasoning abilities, whereas others think in a concrete operational manner. In which classroom are the concrete operational students most likely to have difficulty understanding?
a. Mr. Armani lets students touch and manipulate concrete models of various molecules. b. Mr. Bendetti lets students look at the same concrete models that Mr. Armani has used. c. Mr. Carmen verbally describes how different elements are made up of different numbers of neutrons, protons, and electrons. d. Mr. Davidson has students role-play being neutrons, protons, and electrons. The "neutron" and "proton" students huddle together in the middle of the room, and the "electrons" move around them.
An example of a popular Web-based application is
a) Google Docs b) Thinkfree Online Office c) Zoho d) all of the above
The authors indicate that economic class and functional illiteracy are related. An important causal factor for this relationship suggested in the text is that
A. students from lower socioeconomic groups lack parental support for education. B. students from middle- and upper-class families value education more than do students from lower-class families. C. different socioeconomic groups have different degrees of access to educational resources. D. All these answers are correct.