Locate your state's children's choices book award and read some of the current nominees or recent winners of the award. Evaluate their student appeal, literary quality, complexity, curricular value, and illustration quality.
What will be an ideal response?
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Lessons for young children often involve singing songs with specific repeating gestures that accompany key words. Lessons of this sort are based on the underlying assumption of contextual theories that:
a. the brain and body are interdependent. b. learning and cognition are situated in particular contexts. c. guidance from someone with more skill is necessary for learning. d. meaning should be constructed in collaborative groups.
Instead of depicting only the best about an individual, contemporary biographies for young adults:
a. focus on the "bad" because a historical figure's negative past is just as important as the good she or he did. b. portray all sides of a person and present a well-rounded, realistic character who adolescents can relate to or begin to understand. c. focus on the truth—the factual information that separates good biography from bad biography. d. tell a good story, first and foremost, that young adults enjoy.
How is a specific learning strategy assessed?
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Which of the following illustrates a boundary in family systems theory?
A. "Don't discuss this with anyone outside our family; it's family business only." B. "We are the Smith family; we are expected by everyone to hold our behavior to higher standards than other families." C. "Let's agree not to argue or fight in front of our children; we shouldn't involve them in matters that are our business." D. all of the above are correct E. the first and second choices only