Explain how using ‘sponges' increases academic learning time, and include four examples to illustrate your response
What will be an ideal response?
Sponges are activities that fit into brief periods of time and give students practice or review on skills and content you have already covered in class. Examples include: count to 100 by 2s, say the days of the week, early dismissal reward for the first student with a correct flash card response, and list the states. Various additional examples listed in the textbook are acceptable.
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a. continue until no more material can be found. b. determine if there is an appropriate proportion of information from both journal and book sources. c. examine the foundation laid by the review for one's question. d. observe the number of sources retrieved.
For which of the following learning tasks is distributed practice likely to be most effective?
a. Learn the names of 35 students. b. Memorize Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. c. Rehearse for the production of a play. d. Learn your new phone number.
The father of the Massachusetts School system and normal schools was:
a) Horace Mann b) James G. Carter c) Samuel Hall d) Edward Sheldon
What stages do children move through as they become proficient readers and writers?
What will be an ideal response?