What are four things the teacher can do to help students use textbooks more effectively?

What will be an ideal response?


Answers will vary, but should be similar to the following. When asking students to use their textbooks, direct students' attention to important concepts, provide accurate feedback to students, construct alternative representations of textbook explanations, and select activities from the text that create conceptual conflict and encourage conceptual understanding.

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Cool down time and sitting apart are different terms for the same technique

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Word calling, when a teacher asks a student to read aloud while classmates follow,

a. is the chief skill new readers need to acquire. b. does not necessarily lead to comprehension. c. has been determined, in recent studies, to be of little value. d. None of these

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When support is offered to second language learners in inclusive classrooms

a. Social interactions are more successful b. Verbal interchanges increase c. Greater amounts of sensory input are processed d. Both a. and b.

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