Explain four benefits of integrating literature with disciplinary knowledge
What will be an ideal response?
Answer should include four of the following:
• Wide reading can increase students' vocabulary and conceptual range in the core disciplines.
• Trade books and periodicals are often more up-to-date than textbooks.
• Learning is more reader-friendly with trade books, which are generally more appealing and less didactic than textbooks.
• Good literature goes beyond the facts.
• Fictional characters and nonfiction reporting and analysis bring a human element to learning, so readers can experiences other times, places, and people with empathy.
• Good experiences with reading engender the motivation to continue seeking pleasurable reading experiences.
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A. reacted to the stimulus in a negative way than in a positive way. B. appeared to be ignoring the stimulus. C. reacted to the stimulus in a positive way than in a negative way. D. reacted in a neutral way to the stimulus.
When students have misconceptions about a concept, helping them acquire more scientifically acceptable understandings of that concept is difficult. It is most difficult when the student has:
a. Many minor misconceptions b. One major misconceptions c. A few well- engrained misconceptions d. Many few well- engrained misconceptions
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a. Explain the difference between these two types of scores. b. Describe a situation in which criterion-referenced scores would clearly be more appropriate, and why. c. Describe a situation in which norm-referenced scores would clearly be more appropriate, and why.
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