What are effective, explicit approaches to teaching vocabulary directly?
What will be an ideal response?
1. Provide purposeful exposure to new words; teachers should decide in advance to teach selected words to children, using high-utility root words.
2. Intentionally teach word meaning. Select words that are important for comprehension and useful in everyday interaction.
3. Teach word-learning strategies. In order for young children to develop the mental tools to infer word meanings from context, they need to be taught how. This is best accomplished when the teacher models through a think-aloud.
4. Offer opportunities to use newly learned words. Often, these targeted words are connected to other parts of the academic curriculum.
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If a research finding is found to be statistically significant it
a. confirms the research hypothesis. b. suggests the findings are significant contributions to the theory being tested. c. suggests that similar results would be found if another sample was tested. d. All of these are true.
The most important aspect to engaging parents and/or children in the classroom is
A) Making activities meaningful B) Offering rewards for participation C) Explaining the negative consequences for failure to participate D) Making activities fun
Which of the following is a good use of the dictionary?
a. Use it often as an instructional tool. b. Don't ever use it as an instructional tool. c. Have students stop reading if they come across a word they don't understand and look it up. d. If students can learn words without using a dictionary, they should be encouraged to do so. e. Dictionaries should only be used to check correct usage, not definitions.
What does a negative t-statistic suggest?
A. The stomach cancer mean was subtracted from the lung cancer mean. B. The lung cancer mean was subtracted from the stomach cancer mean. C. It is impossible to tell as SPSS randomly orders the numbers. D. None of the above.