Why use decodable texts? What is limiting about them?
What will be an ideal response?
Decodable texts provide repeated exposure to phonics elements and advance phonics and word recognition skills. They are useful in word study, and can accelerate some readers' early success in reading. They have a limited vocabulary, and many sound syntactically unnatural.
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a. increase the number of problems you assign him b. decrease the number of problems you assign him c. let him work with a partner initially d. sit with him during supervised practice
Which of the following conclusions about children's political learning is NOT correct?
A. Basic attachments and identifications are among the first political concepts acquired. B. Children view political authority figures as benevolent and personal. C. Not until late childhood can children distinguish between political roles. D. Basic knowledge is acquired before affection and feelings develop.
John Dewey's philosophy is most closely associated with:
a) Progressivism b) Idealism c) Realism d) Perennialism
The Doctrine of Discovery did NOT
A. Originate in Europe during the Crusades. B. Become a justification for the conquest of “non-Christian” peoples. C. Create understanding among Europeans that the country that “discovered” a foreign land had the sole right to purchase it. D. Continue to be used by European settlers as a justification for obtaining Native lands. E. Lose its influence in treaty and land disputes between U.S. American Indians and the federal government today.