What are some potential drawbacks of using incentive programs to motivate independent reading?
What will be an ideal response?
Teachers need to consider carefully the potential benefits and risks of incentive programs before employing them as a regular practice in their classrooms. External rewards have been shown to hinder internal motivation in some cases. Goals focus on compliance and competition—although the amount of reading may skyrocket momentarily, it usually dwindles in the long term, doing little to encourage lifelong reading.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which of the following is NOT a tenet of an interactive model of reading?
A) For students to become proficient in comprehension, they must first be fluent and efficient in decoding. B) Neither the bottom-up model nor the top-down model alone can sufficiently explain the reading process. C) Information is derived from both kinds of processing and combined to determine the most likely interpretation of print. D) Readers may use top-down processing with familiar material; however, they may switch to bottom-up processing when difficulty is encountered.
What does the mean length of utterance (MLU) assess?
a. prosodic factors in oral language b. length of oral statements c. rime and onset d. oral vocabulary knowledge
The availability on district and school websites of archival records, e-newsletters, online surveys as well as a repository of other school-related documents emphasize that:
a. Schools have always depended on the Internet since its inception during the 1960s. b. Schools have markedly increased their dependence on Internet communication to external publics since 1990. c. Schools have not changed their dependence on Internet communication to external publics during the past fifty years. d. No evidence can be used to make a determination of a school's dependence on Internet communication.