Many children with learning disabilities show a discrepancy between abilities or between potential and achievement
Which of the following best illustrates such a discrepancy?
a. An 8-year-old with a below-average IQ score has mastered only first-grade vocabulary and reads 2 years below grade level.
b. An adolescent scores in the below-average range on an IQ test and averages 2.5 years below grade level in academic achievement.
c. A fifth grader reads at the fourth grade level and scored on the above average range on an IQ test. d. A child has difficulty remembering what is presented visually or orally.
ANSWER: c
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What social changes seem to occur as children go from the preschool stage to the kindergarten years?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following refers to how effectively the child navigates interactions and relationships?
a. Emotional development b. Social development c. Social-emotional adjustment d. Interpersonal development
Explain how you would deal with a student question, the answer for which is easily found in the student's textbook
What will be an ideal response?
As the social studies learning cycle begins, students should be engaged in:
A. taking a pretest that will enable the teacher to find out just what they know about the lesson's topic. B. a task that involves them in applying their prior knowledge to a task that reveals to the students that they need different knowledge to solve the task. C. listening to the reading of a book on the lesson's topic that will be of interest to them and will affirm the ideas they have. D. writing down a list of everything they know about the topic.