Teachers who believe that the use of behavioristic intervention plans is manipulative have likely failed to recognize that all but which of the following statements are true?
a. Behavioristic plans focus on understanding student behavior and involving students in altering their own behavior for their own benefit.
b. Behaviorism does not reflect a prescribed set of procedures for changing behavior; instead, it provides a rationale and a methodology for considering and changing behavior.
c. Students are often resistant to the use of these plans because the plans themselves are generally developed more for the benefit of the teacher than the student.
d. The implementation of a behavioristic plan is predicated on the classroom environment being positive and supportive.
c
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a. can be prevented if young readers are offered interventions relying solely on isolated phonics practice. b. describes reading difficulties are compounded at a young age to widen the gap between good and poor readers. c. are irreversible. d. all of the above
It is important for a reading teacher to know that
A. While improved word recognition boosts comprehension in a variety of ways, focus on word identification strategies does not. B. In a word identification program, work with affixes should include recognition of specific prefixes and suffixes as well as identification of words when these are added to root words. Attention to meanings of these affixes, however, is only considered a necessary part of these activities if meaning vocabulary instruction is a goal for the student's remedial program. C. Though sometimes a controversial procedure, research has confirmed the utility of teaching most of the more common phonic generalizations that are found in published programs, for example, "When two vowels are side by side, the first is long and the second is silent". D. Research has shown that giving students opportunities to practice, in real texts, words that contain the sounds and patterns they are learning facilitates learning. An example is using simple books like Dr. Seuss's Hop on Pop when practicing consonants and short vowel sounds.
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