Recommendations were made in the chapter for working with children who need extra help with reading comprehension. Describe three ideas that you plan to use in your classroom and why you selected these ideas
What will be an ideal response?
Responses might include, but are not limited to those that follow:
• ensure that students can read fluently so that they have the cognitive processing capacity for comprehension
• use dialogue, discussion, pictures, diagrams, charts, and graphics to supplement text and strategy applications
• use flexible, cooperative grouping so children can learn from and with each other
• focus on developing deep conceptual knowledge domains as well as a literary appreciation
• capitalize on students' interests and abilities
• make connections to students' background knowledge and experiences
• provide increased scaffolding and extended instructional time for struggling students
• help all readers to achieve self-regulation of comprehension, motivation, strategies, and knowledge through explicit instruction, modeling, selecting challenging but achievable tasks and texts, setting goals and performance standards, and engaging in self-evaluation
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A. They should foster group work, relational responsibility, and awareness of others. B. They should foster self-initiation, personal responsibility, and self-regulation. C. They should encourage family–child and child–teacher connections. D. They should foster discovery, exploration, and sensory awareness.
An advantage of the open-ended question format over closed questions in an interview is that the open-ended questions
a. generally take less time to complete. b. yield data that are easier to code and analyze. c. are more effective in focusing the subject's mind on the questions at hand. d. give subjects a chance to reveal the frame of reference for their responses.
The authors say that at-risk learners' lives are governed by fear, threat, and thinking
A) ?vacant B) ?negative C) ?positive D) ?lazy
When factor scores have a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1, which adjustment method has been used on factor scores?
A. Bartlett method B. Anderson–Rubin method C. Neither D. Both