Imagine that you are a high school teacher. Which one of the following assumptions should you make about your students' reading abilities?
a. Many will continue to need guidance about how to read effectively.
b. The great majority have mastered the process of reading, but perhaps 10%–15% of them will need your assistance in reading tasks.
c. Those students who have ineffective reading strategies will be obvious to you within the first two or three weeks of the school year.
d. Those students who struggle to understand their textbooks probably need intensive interaction by a reading specialist.
A
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a. Integrate various families into your language and every day play (two moms, two dads, adoption, step dad). b. Learning to speak a second and third language. c. Learn what children call family. d. Use natural classroom situations to talk about different families and all differences.
Which of the following characteristics of effective communication refers to the teacher talk that eliminates vague terms from explanations and responses to students' questions?
a. Transition signals b. Connected discourse c. Emphasis d. Precise language
Why is student choice important in independent reading?
What will be an ideal response?
William created an item for a questionnaire. It was: “Don’t you believe that teachers should earn more money?” What is the problem with this question?
a. It is a leading question b. It is an open-ended question c. It is a double-barreled question d. It is too long