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Title: How can secondary school teachers help struggling readers reading comprehension?
Post by: LMD on Feb 22, 2018
How can secondary school teachers help struggling readers reading comprehension?
 
  a. Exempt them from reading and tell them the things they need to learn.
  b. Provide systematic, explicit instruction in a variety of comprehension strategies.
  c. Assign popular television shows that will help the students learn content without resorting to reading.
  d. None of the above is correct.



[Ques. 2] How do English language learners develop the fluency needed for reading comprehension?
 
  a. By learning English vocabulary
  b. By learning English grammatical structure
  c. Through reading meaningful and interesting instructional materials
  d. Through all of the above



[Ques. 3] How do graphic or visual organizers help students comprehend?
 
  a. They help students visualize concepts.
  b. They help students organize their understanding.
  c. They make connections among ideas and concepts more concrete.
  d. All of the above are true.



[Ques. 4] What texts are the most useful for teaching content reading skills?
 
  a. Reading skills workbooks
  b. Actual texts and materials that students have to read
  c. Standardized tests for content area materials
  d. Flashcards



[Ques. 5] What types of schemata are foundations for reading comprehension?
 
  a. Content schemata
  c. Both of the above
  b. Textual schemata
  d. Neither of the above



[Ques. 6] How do readers use metacognitive abilities?
 
  a. To fix their comprehension of texts
  c. To become independent readers
  b. To assess their comprehension of texts
  d. All of the above are true.



[Ques. 7] What linguistic factors function in comprehension?
 
  a. Semantics
  c. Neither A nor B
  b. Syntax
  d. Both A and B



[Ques. 8] Why are literacy demands changing at such a rapid rate?
 
  a. Acquiring literacy is less difficult due to technology.
  b. Students can obtain needed information from non-print sources, instead of through reading.
  c. Students have to read a greater variety of texts for various purposes than they did in the past.
  d. None of the above is true.



[Ques. 9] What are cognitive strategies for comprehension?
 
  a. Decoding strategies that will help students memorize words
  b. Systematic plans to monitor and improve comprehension
  c. Incidental thinking activities that are unplanned
  d. Strategies for choosing the appropriate print size and ink to improve comprehension



[Ques. 10] Which of these comprehension tasks are essential to effective comprehension?
 
  a. Actively using background knowledge
  c. Understanding main ideas and details
  b. Applying metacognitive skills
  d. All of the above


Title: How can secondary school teachers help struggling readers reading comprehension?
Post by: peytonjl on Feb 22, 2018
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Title: How can secondary school teachers help struggling readers reading comprehension?
Post by: LMD on Feb 22, 2018
I know this sounds cliche, but I was thinking the same thing for each of these. Thanks for confirming :)


Title: How can secondary school teachers help struggling readers reading comprehension?
Post by: peytonjl on Feb 22, 2018
I'm sure ;) Thanks for your honesty