Identify and discuss the five skill areas students must master to become good readers.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Response should include:
• Phonemic awareness—recognition that spoken language can be broken into smaller units, such as discrete sounds
• Phonics—the ability to match sounds to letters in order to read and write
• Fluency—the skill of reading accurately, at an appropriate rate, and with expression
• Vocabulary development—the knowledge and use of words that make up a language
• Text comprehension—the ability to understand and use information that is read
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What will be an ideal response?
Indicate whether the following hypotheses are necessarily ex post facto research or possible to perform with experimental research. Teaching hyperactive students how to monitor their diets increases the probability that these students will eat healthier meals
a. necessarily ex post facto research. b. possible to do with experimental research.
Traditional "weekly planning books" are unacceptable for beginning teachers to use as lesson plans
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which of the following procedures is least practical for a teacher to use as a way of improving the quality of assessment tasks?
a. Requesting a colleague in the same subject area to review the tasks. b. Trying out the tasks on a sample of current students before using them for evaluating the full group. c. Revising the tasks for use next year based on students' performance this year.